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Gods and Goals: Spiritual Striving as Purposeful Action
Journal für Psychologie, 2008 Religion as a domain of human activity invests existence with meaning by establishing goals and value systems. These goals potentially pertain to all aspects of a persons' life.
Robert A. Emmons
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Le corps du saint dans l'hagiographie du Maghreb médiéval
Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 2006 This article attempts to think about the role given by medieval Maghreb hagiography to the body in the experience of sanctity and in the process of sanctification of a man or a woman. It focuses also on the body’s place in the recognition or consecration
Nelly Amri
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Held in a story: Relatability across plates and places
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.Abstract This piece explores the power and ambivalence of storytelling through a dinner with Jemimah, a counseling psychologist and a trained educator with a keen interest in using storytelling as pedagogy in Northeast India. As the evening unfolds in her dining room, stories and memories are exchanged, revealing how relatability is not inherent but ...
Anna Notsu
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The Superfluity of Purgatory [PDF]
, 2019 This article is a refutation of Jerry Walls\u27s model of Purgatory, based on God\u27s respect of our free will and the necessity of morally significant choices.
Healy, Israel-David J.J.
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Narrating Entanglement Without Dehumanisation in Contemporary Eco‐Fiction
Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.ABSTRACT This essay presents a comparative analysis of two contemporary works of eco‐fiction, Richard Powers's The Overstory (2018) and Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood (2023). Both novels use multiperspective narration in the service of entanglement narratives, forms of storytelling that emphasise the interconnection of human and nonhuman life.
Diana Rose Newby
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 269-292, March 2026.Hair is an integral part of the skin's interface and has sensory capacity. It actively contributes to processes of bodily materialization and facilitates transactional exchange with other social actors and environments, particularly regarding energies and vibrations that can be perceived as subtle matter.
Sinah Theres Kloß
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The reformed doctrine of irresistible sanctification
Acta Theologica, 2002 The Reformed confession of “Grace Alone” obviously involves the doctrines of faith, election, justification and perseverance. The conception of irresistible grace is comfortably applied to the same doctrines. However, sanctification is a special case in
C. Partee
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The British Journal of Sociology, Volume 77, Issue 2, Page 372-391, March 2026.ABSTRACT Class identity is a crucial sociological concept, but is only ever measured at the individual level. In this paper, we ask: do groups have class identities? And do those class identities correspond with material resources? To answer these questions, we examine data from 31 of the most prominent American religious denominations in the early ...
Tessa Huttenlocher, Melissa Wilde
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The Implications of ‘Religious Experience’ for Catholic-Pentecosotal Dialogue: A Catholic Perspective [PDF]
, 2010 Pentecostals consider the experience of the Holy Spirit to be at the heart of their movement. In dialogue with Pentecostals, Catholics are challenged to probe the resources of Christian experience for the theological enterprise. After examining different
Del Colle, Ralph
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