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This article examines how emerging generative AI technologies in Europe and North America are being used to reanimate the dead, prompting users to define the ‘edges’ of self and personhood through coding practices. These technologies invite new engagements with fundamental questions of relatedness and the construction of the self, challenging and ...
Jennifer Cearns
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Spiritual relaxation to reduce dysmenorrhea: a quasy experimental
Background: The dysmenorrhea prevalence is still reported high in the world. Several previous studies discovered that deep breathing relaxation effectively reduced dysmenorrhea.
Qurota A'yun, Mukhoirotin Mukhoirotin
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Egalitarianism is often idealized, but many anthropologists have noted its potential for nightmare scenarios involving envy, mistrust, and violence. This introduction outlines a framework for understanding the negative emotions and violence associated with the forces of commensuration that are necessary to make people equal.
Natalia Buitron +2 more
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The McKinleys of Punch: Politics and the Press in Melbourne, 1870s to 1920s
This article re‐examines the Melbourne Punch (1855–1925; known simply as Punch from 1900) as a political weapon in the cut‐and‐thrust of Victorian, local, and national politics, in the hands of its longest‐serving, but least‐known proprietor, Alexander McKinley (1848–1927).
Richard Scully
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Spiritualist Writing Machines: Telegraphy, Typtology, Typewriting
This paper examines how religious concepts both reflected and informed the development of new technologies for encoding, transmitting, and printing written information.
Anthony Enns
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Medicine and the Spiritual Self: Reflections
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C. Trevor Modlin
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ABOUT HOLINESS AND PIETY IN MODERN ARABIC LITERATURE
These chapters are taken from monographies of N. Uspenskaya “East – West – Russia: the protheses of culture interaction”. In these chapters the author touches the themes of holiness and piety, faith and national conciseness, spirituality and intercourse ...
N. A. Uspenskaya
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Violence, Volition, and Volatility: The Embodied Subjectivity of Women in Cults
This paper explores the embodied experience of 25 women who are former cult members. By delving into the stories of three protagonists, we examine how these women engaged with and possibly redefined the cult's socially constructed notion of womanhood.
Shirly Bar‐Lev, Michal Morag
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ABSTRACT Psychedelics offer an intriguing novel method for changing minds, supposedly by destabilizing the neurobiology of the belief system. The resulting power to change minds raises ethical and epistemic concerns. This article examines the epistemic status of psychedelic experiences and suggests a skeptical attitude towards beliefs formed under ...
Jan Christoph Bublitz
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Painting as Communication with the Deceased and Other Non-Human Beings
The article examines painting as a practice of relating to the dead and other non-human beings in contemporary and historical contexts. Drawing on vernacular religion, it approaches these relationships not as fixed beliefs system but as experiences ...
Tomaž Simetinger
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