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Searching for the Soul in Shades of Grey
European Journal of Turkish Studies, 2022 The years between the 1870s and 1920s have been considered a transformative period for psychology, during which it prepared to leave the house of metaphysics, religious thought, and the moral sciences to join the team of the sciences.
Seyma Afacan
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Can a lizard ride on a housefly?: Navigating uncertainty and moral life in an Accra Zongo, Ghana
Ethos, Volume 54, Issue 2, June 2026.Abstract How can uncertainty become a resource for ethical life rather than a threat to it? Focusing on a Zongo community in Accra, Ghana—also known as a “traveler's camp” or “stranger's quarters”—this article examines how people use a creative form of communication called the practice of folding to sustain relationships shaped by conditions of ...
Emily A. Williamson
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Nurses' perceptions of spirituality and spiritual care
Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2013 Objective: The study was conducted to determine the perceptions of nurses regarding spirituality and spiritual care. Design: This descriptive-type study was carried out in three hospitals in a province in the west of Turkey. The study’s population was made up of 733 nurses working in these hospitals and the sample consisted of 289 nurses who agreed to
Çetinkaya, Bengü +2 more
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Bridging New Divides: Ethnic Linkages and Trade in Africa
South African Journal of Economics, Volume 94, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT This paper studies the effects of ethnic linkages on trade between countries within Africa. I construct a digitised and geo‐referenced dataset of historical ethnic territories for pre‐colonial Africa. The empirical strategy exploits the role of historical ethnic territories in shaping the current distribution of ethnic groups across countries ...
Conrad Copeland
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Spiritualism and spiritual surgeries
OBSERVATÓRIO DE LA ECONOMÍA LATINOAMERICANAIn this article we will present Spiritism as a religion and the work of “spiritual surgery” as a healing activity, forming a peculiar type of gift system. To do this, we will use bibliographical research and field analysis, showing the activities and experience of the healing medium João Berbel, resident in Franca – SP and who works in spiritual ...
James Washington Alves Dos Santos +2 more
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Arthur Conan Doyle’s Stories of Gothic Spiritualism and/as Feminist Counter-Narratives
HumanitiesArthur Conan Doyle’s most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes, is a determined rationalist, yet Doyle was himself a convert to spiritualism. Doyle’s interest in spiritualism informs four, somewhat neglected Gothic tales written during the last decades of ...
Adrian Tait
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Teaching New Religious Movements Historically: Distance, Empathy, and Cults in the Classroom
Teaching Theology &Religion, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 46-54, June 2026.ABSTRACT Resistance to understanding the beliefs of modern New Religious Movements (NRMs) is well‐known to those who teach in the area. This paper builds on Eugene Gallagher's repurposing of “methodological belief” for college classes on NRMs by suggesting that scholars and teachers in the field of religious studies engage methods and content drawn ...
Douglas FitzHenry Jones
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Vocalizing the Angels of Mons: Audio Dramas as Propaganda in the Great War of 1914 to 1918
Societies, 2014 Sound drama production prior to the onset of the “Radio Age” underwent a pioneering development during the Great War. This was achieved by the making, publication and distribution of short audio dramas acted with sound effects and music in front of early
Tim Crook
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Subsistence Through Disappearance: Theology of the Unseen in the Films of Michelangelo Antonioni
Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.ABSTRACT The present study contends that the theology of Michelangelo Antonioni's 1960s cinema is structured by a reductio ad absurdum logic, whereby the presence of certain qualities is proven by the portrayal of their absence. It is argued that Antonioni's intention to show what is by specifying what is not may have been rooted in a modernist ...
Vuk Uskoković
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Performing the Spirit: Theatre, the Occult, and the Ceremony of Isis
Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2014 Looking at two distinctly different approaches to the occult and performance, this article demonstrates that a range of late-Victorians turned to theatrical performance as an avenue to mystical communication.
Dennis Denisoff
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