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Embodiment, empathy, rituals. What to do with the past after the end of history
Starting out from the assumptions that, in the first place, the academic discipline of “History” used to be grounded on the “historical world view”, as it had established itself around 1830 and that, secondly, it no longer prevails in the everyday of our
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
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Statistical Rituals: The Replication Delusion and How We Got There
The “replication crisis” has been attributed to misguided external incentives gamed by researchers (the strategic-game hypothesis). Here, I want to draw attention to a complementary internal factor, namely, researchers’ widespread faith in a statistical ...
G. Gigerenzer
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The loss of a loved one through death is usually followed by a funeral and engagement in various grief rituals. We examined the association between the evaluation of the funeral, the use of grief rituals and grief reactions. Bereaved individuals from the
Huibertha B. Mitima-Verloop +2 more
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Conflict frequently opposed the emirs of the Mamluk Sultanate, but the resolution of the fitna was not always settled by contest of arms. Just as much as fitna, settlement by mutual agreement (sulḥ) also played a key part in emiral habitus.
Clément Onimus
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Religion and Pandemic: Shifts of Interpretation, Popular Lore, and Practices. An Introduction
In this Introduction, the guest editors discuss the main themes of this special issue and relate them to the growing field of research on how the extraordinary social conditions of the Covid-19 pandemic affected the practices of religious individuals ...
Alexander Agadjanian, Konrad Siekierski
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The sky from the high terrace. study on the orientation of the Ziqqurat in Ancient Mesopotamia [PDF]
The ziqqurat is the symbol of the Mesopotamian sacred architecture in the western thought. This monument, standardized at the end of the III millennium BC by the kings of the Third Dynasty of Ur, has changed during the history of Mesopotamia its shape ...
NADALI, Davide, Polcaro, Andrea
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The Double-Movement Model of Forgiveness in Buddhist and Christian Rituals [PDF]
We offer a model of moral reform and regeneration that involves a wrong-doer making two movements: on the one hand, he identifies with himself as the one who did the act, while he also intentionally moves away from that self (or set of desires and ...
Reasoner, Paul, Taliaferro, Charles
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Death, Slavery, and Spiritual Justice on the Colombian Black Pacific (1837)
Quibdó, the frontier, majority-black capital of Chocó on the Pacific Coast of New Granada (present-day Colombia), was declared to be in a state of “general alarm” when a free black woman launched a street protest after her enslaved grandson, Justo, was ...
Yesenia Barragan
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Caveat Emptor:On Time, Death and History in Late Modernity [PDF]
This article focuses on 'revivalism' and 'resurrectionism'. While the former is a sociological label for contemporary rituals of dying and death, the latter is a label for contemporary practices of historiographical representation.
Palladino, Paolo
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The transformation due to climate change of the high Alpine mountains is intensifying. A real disruption in the perception of this milieu and in the ways of interacting with it is ongoing, as evidenced by recent funeral ceremonies organised for ...
Jean Chamel
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