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Elastic Rituals: A Multi-Religious Analysis of Adaptations to the COVID-19 Crisis

Religions, 2023
The COVID-19 crisis truly challenged social interaction, the use of space and objects, as well as our sense of purpose and meaning in life. In this context, religious communities faced sudden interruption of their usual activities, lack of access to ...
Monica Cornejo-Valle, Borja Martin-Andino   +1 more
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Some Peculiarities of Folk Religiosity in North India’s Rural Communities [PDF]

Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института, 2014
The article deals with special aspects of the rural population’s religious beliefs and practices in Haryana and Punjab states. Special attention is paid to the Kamboj caste’s religious tradition.
Maxim Demchenko
doaj  

Presence and Absence: Constructions of Gender in Dasam Granth Exegesis

Religions, 2019
Controversy has swirled round the writings attributed to Guru Gobind Singh in the Dasam Granth, for not all Sikhs agree that he composed the entire text. Disputes about the Dasam Granth and its status have addressed the fact that many of the text’s
Robin Rinehart
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Close encounters? The intersection of faith and ethnicity in mixed-faith families [PDF]

, 2010
The encounter and intersection between faiths, cultures, and ethnicities in families where parents have different faith backgrounds are areas of social interaction about which we know little, although the number of such families is growing in the UK and ...
Arweck, Elisabeth, Nesbitt, Eleanor
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Diabetes care: Inspiration from Sikhism

Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2017
Religion has been proposed as a means of enhancing patient and community acceptance of diabetes and cultural specific motivational strategies to improve diabetes care.
Gagan Priya, Sanjay Kalra, Inderpreet Kaur Dardi, Simarjeet Saini, Sameer Aggarwal, Ramanbir Singh, Harpreet Kaur, Gurinder Singh, Vipin Talwar, Parminder Singh, J S Saini, Sandeep Julka, Rajeev Chawla, Sarita Bajaj, Devinder Singh   +14 more
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Watch out for the Aunties! Young British Asians' accounts of identity and substance use [PDF]

, 2007
This paper considers how young people able to trace their origins from Pakistan or India (henceforth 'Asians'), discuss their use of, or abstention from, alcohol and tobacco in terms of religious and cultural tradition.
Amos, Balarajan, Barth, Baumann, Bhachu, Bradby, Bradby, Bradby, Bradby, Bradby, Brubaker, Dumont, Dunlop, Hall, Hall, Harding, Health Education Authority, Health Education Authority, Heaven, Hendry, Hershman, Hobsbawm, Jackson, Jeffrey, Karlsen, Karlsen, Karlsen, Kohli, Krieger, Manning, Marriott, McKeigue, Michell, Miller, Nazroo, Nazroo, Nazroo, Nazroo, Shaw, Shaw, Sheldon, Smaje, Srinivas, Turtle, Viner, Walker, Wearing, Werbner, Williams, Williams   +49 more
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“It’s Not Doctrine, This Is Just How It Is Happening!”: Religious Creativity in the Time of COVID-19

Religions, 2021
Drawing on thirty in-depth interviews with faith leaders in the UK (including Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, and Sikhism), we examine the diverse ways religious groups reorient religious life during COVID-19.
Lea Taragin-Zeller, Edward Kessler
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Law of the leading digits and the ideological struggle for numbers

, 2011
Benford's law states that the occurrence of significant digits in many data sets is not uniform but tends to follow a logarithmic distribution such that the smaller digits appear as first significant digits more frequently than the larger ones.
Abrams, Ausloos, Ausloos, Barlow, Beer, Benford, Berger, Brian, Burke, Dorogovtsev, Giles, Grim, Hernandez Caceres, Hill, Hill, Hill, Hsu, Johnson, Mebane, Newcomb, Nijrini, Nijrini, Nye, Orita, Pain, Picoli, Pietronero, Sambridge, Sandron, Schatte, Shao, Shao, T.A. Mir, Vitanov   +33 more
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Measuring attitude toward theistic faith : assessing the Astley-Francis Scale among Christian, Muslim and secular youth in England [PDF]

, 2013
Empirical research within the social scientific study of religion in general and within the psychology of religion in particular remains very conscious of the complex nature of its subject matter. Empirical research in this field needs to take cognisance
DeVellis R. F., Eek J., Evans T. E., Fowler J. W., Francis L. J., Francis L. J., Francis L. J., Francis L. J., Francis L. J., Francis L. J., Francis L. J., Francis L. J., Francis L. J., Francis L. J., Kay W. K., Lewis C. A., Lewis C. A., Lewis C. A., Lewis C. A., Lewis C. A., Lewis C. A., Likert R., Munayer S. J., Osgood C. E., Sahin A., Tiliopoulos N.   +25 more
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Caste as a Social Kind

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gender and race have received significant philosophical attention recently; they are the paradigm cases of social kinds in most philosophical accounts. I argue for the inclusion of caste as a social kind because it affects the lives of many people, and because it presents itself as an important test case for philosophers of social kinds.
Ajinkya Deshmukh
wiley   +1 more source