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Transmutation of Spiritual Credence During COVID-19 Era in Cancer Patients: A Case Series

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Care, 2020
Background:COVID-19 pandemic has afflicted cancer patients on various fronts including spiritual domain. The case series tries to highlight the spiritual beliefs and challenges faced by cancer patients and the transformation which has occurred during ...
Seema Mishra, Raghav Gupta, Sachidanand Jee Bharati, Swagata Biswas   +3 more
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‘People Need to Understand That They Are Stealing From Their Neighbours’: A Critical Media Analysis of the Representations and Resistance Throughout the Robodebt Scheme

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Robodebt scheme issued thousand‐dollar debts to an estimated half a million people who had received social security. The debts were largely inaccurate and illegal, with the aim of improving the federal government's budget. The 2023 Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme found that the stigmatising political and public language about ...
Ella Kruger, Phillipa Evans
wiley   +1 more source

Socio Cultural Factors in the Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis: a Case of Pare-Pare Municipality South Sulawesi

Global Medical & Health Communication, 2014
Traditional healers still play an important part in the daily life of people in Pare-pare municipality. This study was to examine the cultural model for the implementation of tuberculosis control program.This study used qualitative research methods. Semi
Titik Respati, Aisyah Sufrie
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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
wiley   +1 more source

The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton, Tania Signal, Jenni A. Judd   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

"What is Bread?" The Anthropology of Belief [PDF]

, 2012
This is a postprint (accepted manuscript) version of the article published in Ethos 40(3):341-357 in September 2012. The final version of the article can be found at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.ezproxy.bu.edu/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1352.2012.01261.x ...
Asad, Asad, Barth, Barth, Berger, Durkheim, Durkheim, Durkheim, Freud, Geertz, Geertz, Greenfeld, Heidegger, Hume, James, Lindholm, Lindholm, Needham, Nussbaum, Robbins, Ruel, Schreber, Shils, Smith, Spiro, Stromberg, Tooker, Weber, Wierzbicka   +28 more
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Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi, Casianus Gemoh, Denise Chapman, Edmund Hypolite, Simon Angok, Melanie Baak, Joel Windle   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Religious and Spiritual Beliefs in Stroke Rehabilitation

Clinical and Experimental Hypertension, 2010
Faith could dampen Post-Stroke Depression (PSD), which may negatively influence recovery. The present pilot study is an initial examination of the role of religion and spirituality on the functional recovery after a recent stroke. Data were analyzed from 112 consecutive stroke inpatients, who underwent a 2-month standard rehabilitation program.
Salvatore, Giaquinto, Stefania, Sarno, Valentina, Dall'Armi, Cristiana, Spiridigliozzi   +3 more
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source

Multimodal Semiotics of Spiritual Experiences: Representing Beliefs, Metaphors, and Actions [PDF]

, 2008
Traditionally, spiritual experiences have been considered "ineffable," but metaphors pervade the representations of certain concepts of the transcendental in an attempt to talk about such abstract ideas.
Evola, Vito
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