Abstract The analysis of Lenin’s language and rhetoric undertaken by the leading representatives of Russian Formalism in the pages of the journal LEF in early 1924 represents more than a tactical attempt to align Formalism with the mainstream of Bolshevik culture‐building in the context of the Soviet 1920s.
Alastair Renfrew
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After we transgress God's values: relational spirituality as a paradigm for the Christian experience of reconciliation with God. [PDF]
Cook KV, Cowden RG.
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Emotions in Meaning‐Making: Toward a Sociological Theory of Cathexis
ABSTRACT The role of emotion in meaning‐making remains undertheorized in cultural sociology. This article argues that emotions and affect are intrinsic to meaning‐making and proposes cathexis—the attachment of emotions generated in social interaction to objects, symbols, and ideas—as the fundamental mechanism by which emotions co‐constitute cultural ...
Dmitry Kurakin
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Possession Syndrome in Rural Nepal: A Case Study Examining Cultural, Clinical and Forensic Implications. [PDF]
Atreya A +5 more
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Defending the Public Good and Traditional Society: Non-Scriptural Religious Objections to Same-Sex Marriage [PDF]
Hermann, Donald H. J.
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Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour
ABSTRACT This paper argues that Avicenna was both a necessitarian and a realist about contingency. The two aspects of his modal metaphysics are reconciled by arguing that Avicenna's modal metaphysics is founded on realism about essences: strictly speaking, an individual has no contingent properties, but a modal distinction can be made between the ...
Jari Kaukua
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Evidential Vulnerability of Religious Beliefs in the Context of Petitionary Prayers. [PDF]
Hong Z, Zhang C, Wang A.
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Alignment of the Starlings: Learning With Generative AI
ABSTRACT I will argue that answers to normative questions concerning the place of generative AI in learning rest on answers to ontological questions regarding (1) precisely what is happening when a human ‘interacts’ with generative AI and (2) What is distinctive about organic learning as opposed to currently existing ‘machine learning’ (3) What is the ...
Sean Watson
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"Am I a priest in the armed forces, or a soldier who is a priest?" Identity work among military chaplains in the Swedish armed forces. [PDF]
Grimell J.
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ABSTRACT This paper presents a close‐hearing analysis of Forest 404, a transmedial audio drama that was released to BBC Sounds in 2019. Despite the drama's eco‐dystopian critique of teleological ‘progress’ narratives (that enable and perpetuate the destruction of the natural world), I argue that the series ultimately propagates a sense of inevitability
Matilda Jones
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