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The Paradoxes of the Spiritual Self: Disidentification as a Marker of Identity

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how practitioners of self‐spirituality conceptualize their spiritual identity. On the basis of 62 in‐depth interviews with secular Jewish Israelis engaged in various spiritual practices, we find that spiritual identity is constructed through a distinctive cultural logic we term disidentification—a systematic resistance to ...
Nurit Zaidman, Michal Pagis
wiley   +1 more source

Ambiguous Boundaries of Religious Belief, Behavior, and Belonging in Japan: A Descriptive Analysis of Plural and Cultural Religiosity

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research note analyzes the ambiguous boundaries of religious identity, belief, and ritual behavior in Japan, drawing on data from a nationally representative postal survey conducted in 2024 (N = 3947). The findings reveal widespread participation in Buddhist and Shinto rituals even among individuals who identify as nonreligious or atheist,
Koki Shimizu, Yoshihide Sakurai
wiley   +1 more source

Do longer holidays worsen quality of care for patients with STEMI? A retrospective observational study using the nationwide China cardiovascular association database-chest pain centre registry. [PDF]

BMJ Open
Tao W, Zhang L, Li Y, Bai Y, Chen T, Wei W, Lin X, Chen M, Wen J.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

New England Fall Astronomy Festival Brings the Moon and the Stars to UNH Sept. 21 – 22 [PDF]

, 2012
Potier, Beth
core   +2 more sources

Zoonotic anxieties: The cultural politics of Nepal's quest for pandemic preparedness

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on fieldwork conducted in Nepal (2022–2024) and by paying attention to how local and transnational notions of epidemiological risk are deployed, this ethnography introduces the concept of “zoonotic anxieties” to make sense of the multi‐species relational ethos that contemporary global health regimes propose.
Max D. López Toledano, Hari Basnet, Anna Durrance‐Bagale, Natasha Howard   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Editorial - Festival greetings. [PDF]

Indian J Sex Transm Dis AIDS
Rajagopalan R.
europepmc   +1 more source

Dread in the Homeland: Symbolic Politics and Ethnonationalist Struggles for Self‐Determination in Nigeria

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The revival of Biafran separatism in contemporary Nigeria is often explained with three leading theoretical frameworks: relative deprivation, political economy and state repression. Whereas relative deprivation and political economy perspectives posit that the resurgent separatism derives from the perception and empirical reality of ...
Promise Frank Ejiofor
wiley   +1 more source

Rurality representation and changes in rural tourism destination. [PDF]

PLoS One
Hong X, Huang Z, Li X, Zhang Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

Education and Learning in Studies of Nationalism: Anderson and Weber in Focus

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars of nationalism have pointed to the importance of educational institutions for the dissemination of national identities and associated sentimental attachments, yet how nationalism is learned within these educational institutions has received little attention.
Lejla Voloder
wiley   +1 more source

Influencing pro-environmental behaviors through visual arts: a scoping review of research designs and state of knowledge. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Gbeve K, Francoeur V, Bernard S, Tanguay L.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source