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Thresholds: The metaphorical foundations of powerful knowledge

The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper advances a theoretical account of threshold concepts as metaphorical‐relational structures that reorganise meaning across contexts. Building on conceptual metaphor theory, we propose that threshold concepts can be understood as sites of schema‐level reorganisation: deep, embodied patterns of relational logic that scaffold abstract ...
Maria Karrol, Elizaveta Lyssova‐Golomzina   +1 more
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Geography of religion: a thematic proposition

GEOUSP: Espaço e Tempo, 2002
This research inserts itself in Geography of the Religion. To make it, we theoretically reconstructed the role of the sacred and profane in the spatial organisation of the place.
Zeny Rosendahl
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Keeping their powder dry: Purity, pollution, and handgun ownership among Jewish women in Israel

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the gendered practices through which Jewish women in Israel experience and negotiate personal handgun ownership in everyday life. Drawing on interviews, participant observation in gun‐related spaces, and analysis of women‐only online forums, we explore the expanding participation of Jewish women in civilian gun ownership,
Maya Maor, Nehemia Stern, Guy Nagar, Uzi Ben Shalom   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE SACRED SPACE IN LITERATURE FOR YOUTH: A COMPARISON

Travessias, 2007
This article objective to analyze the presence of the Sacred Space in Books for Young People. For this, the work is built in the concept of sacred, more specifically, in the function of the sacred space in the formation of the identity and its paper in ...
Cristiano Camilo Lopes
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Colonial and gendered peace: Decolonial perspectives on peace in Nagorno‐Karabakh

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article critically interrogates peace processes in the aftermath of the First Nagorno‐Karabakh War by centering the lived experiences and political voices of Armenian and Azerbaijani internally displaced and refugee women, based on ethnographic fieldwork and in‐depth interviews conducted in 2019.
Ramil Zamanov
wiley   +1 more source

Spiritual Cannibalism in HRD: How Workplace Spirituality Devours Sacred Traditions

Human Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper interrogates how the discourse of workplace spirituality in human resource development (HRD) operates as a tool of colonization. Through a systematic review of 48 articles published between 1997 and March 2025, the study uncovers recurring patterns of spiritual appropriation in which non‐Western traditions are detached from their ...
Shoaib Ul‐Haq
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Recent advances and clinical applications of 3D printing for female reproductive organ regeneration and gynecological disease

Interdisciplinary Medicine, EarlyView.
This comprehensive review highlights the transformative role of 3D printing and bioprinting technologies in the regeneration of female reproductive organs and the treatment of gynecological diseases. Unlike previous overviews that focus narrowly on isolated applications, this work provides an integrative analysis of recent clinical and preclinical ...
Chan Hum Park, In‐Sun Hong
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The sacred and secular: Design analysis on Chinese Culture Columbaria in this modern era

ARTEKS : Jurnal Teknik Arsitektur
This paper examines the interior architectural design of columbaria and its impact on spiritual development within contemporary Chinese society. In a secularized world where traditional cemeteries are often seen as unwelcoming, columbaria offer a modern ...
Elizabeth Kwoh, Hakimi Ahmad
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Protestant Theologies and the Problem of Sacred Space

Actas de Arquitectura Religiosa Contemporánea, 2017
The phrase sacred space, suggesting a spiritually evocative environment infused with divine or transcendent presence, is currently applied to almost all religious places, including almost all Christian churches and chapels.
Jeanne Halgren Kilde
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Lactation, Childrearing, and Gender Justice

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this article, I discuss the significance of early infant feeding choices for the goal of gender justice. Focusing on human lactation practices, I identify Exclusive Gestational Nursing (EGN) as the norm in advanced industrial societies, which creates the expectation and permission for gestators, and only gestators, to nurse children, and ...
Jenny Brown
wiley   +1 more source