Deus Ex Machina: An Ethnographic Exploration of Technology, Death and Decision-Making in Respiratory Care. [PDF]
Wenzel D +4 more
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Multi‐Religiosity Among Asian Americans and Non‐Asian Americans
ABSTRACT This article reports key findings of a split‐sample experiment comparing conventional measures of single‐choice religion and new measures of multi‐religiosity. Although conventional measures implicitly assume congruence among religious affiliation, belief, and practice within a single religion, the new measures are designed to capture multi ...
Fenggang Yang, Joey Marshall
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Negotiating illness through faith: Religious narratives of cancer etiology among patients and caregivers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. [PDF]
Fikre K, Kassegne AB, Tadele G.
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Religious Participation After Covid‐19: Evidence From US Catholic Dioceses and Smartphone Data
ABSTRACT How do religious rules and regulations affect behavior? We examine this question using changes in Catholic regulations during the Covid‐19 pandemic combined with mobility data from 15 million smartphone users from 2019 to 2022. We first document overall trends: Total religious attendance declined sharply in March 2020 and thereafter recovered ...
Angela Cools +2 more
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The US Religious Public and Radical Human Enhancements
ABSTRACT A radical enhancement to the human body or brain is defined as giving human capabilities that no past or present human has possessed. These are being developed by scientists and bioengineers and backed by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. This article reports on the first study of the US religious public's views of radical enhancements using a ...
John H. Evans
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Exploring Lay Understandings and Help-Seeking Pathways for Psychosis in the Sikh Community: A Qualitative Study in the UK. [PDF]
Kular A, Tuomainen H, Majid M, Singh SP.
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That sinkin’ feeling: Environmentally induced distress on a disappearing island
Abstract Residents of Tangier Island, Virginia, a subsiding island in the Chesapeake Bay, embody psychosocial dimensions of environmental change. Analysis of ethnographic data shows islanders’ experiences and articulations of anxiety, panic, and despair as “that sinkin’ feeling,” resulting from the stress of living with the long‐term threat of imminent
Jonna Yarrington
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The Volapük Qur'an: language, scripture, and nineteenth-century German universalist provincialism. [PDF]
Pink J.
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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)
Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
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