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How Theists Can Answer the “Why be Moral?” Question: An Indirect Reason‐Generation Account
ABSTRACT In this paper, I give a new type of theistic answer to the “Why be moral?” question. After briefly clarifying the version of the question I'm concerned with, as well as extant theistic answers to the question, I argue for a new kind of answer. Roughly, while on standard answers, future (post death) benefits directly generate present reason to ...
Justin Morton
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Political Fictionality: Vladislav Surkov and the Rise of the Authorial State
Abstract This article introduces the concept of political fictionality as a theoretical framework for analyzing the convergence of literary authorship and political power in Russia during the Putin era, using Vladislav Surkov—a longtime presidential advisor and ideologue as well as fiction writer under the pseudonym Natan Dubovitskii—as its principal ...
Ekaterina Vassilieva
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ABSTRACT This article expands the sociological scholarship on the development of academic programs in intellectual fields tied to social movements. After briefly reviewing this literature, which has especially focused on fields like ethnic studies and women's studies, it examines the development of the smaller field of peace and conflict studies.
Elise Wolff
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Re‐evaluating the Rise of Anglophone Malaysian Historical Fiction in the Twenty‐First Century
ABSTRACT Since the turn of the century, anglophone Malaysian historical fiction has gained significant global recognition, so much so that it has become the dominant genre. However, notwithstanding this enviable evolution in the country's English‐language literature, it is not without issues, due to the genre's somewhat orientalist representation of ...
Andrew Hock Soon Ng
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Waywardness as Method for Sustaining Black Community Life in the Global North
ABSTRACT This article offers examples of crowdfunded campaigns led by the Millennial Generation of Black (British) Feminist Creative Collectives (MBBFCCs) to suggest they are acts of ‘waywardness’ (Hartman 2019), which have produced spaces and tools for the sustainability of Black African‐ and Caribbean‐heritage communities in the global north.
Rita Gayle
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Short Abstract Climate change is leading to changing water availability and is likely to impact systems of supply and associated practices in the Global North. As a way of contending with these possibilities, this paper shows how migrant households from water‐scarce countries offer insights into specific practices, such as water reuse, minimising water
Louise Turner +2 more
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National Relics: Secular Sacrality, Museums, and Heritage‐Making in Nineteenth‐Century Chile
ABSTRACT This article examines how objects and bodily remains are transformed and ritualized into national relics through collecting and exhibiting practices in museums. Focusing on nineteenth‐century Chile, it draws on archival sources, material culture theory, and the anthropology of religion to argue that objects associated with Chile's nation‐state
Hugo Rueda Ramírez
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Lessons from the life [and death] of Francis and Clare: the resurrection of Christ in franciscan spirituality [PDF]
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The resurrection of the dead according to Origen and Philoponus is spiritual and not of the flesh. Their opinion, contrary to the official Christian view, was influenced by the neo-Platonic doctrine of "the subtle body of the soul" and based upon Aristotelian logic.
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