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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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Caregiver beliefs and practices about communication disorders in early childhood development centres from Durban: A qualitative study. [PDF]

BMJ Public Health
Peter VZ, Pillay M, Saman Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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Religiosity of adults on the autism spectrum: a cognitive and empirical analysis. [PDF]

Front Psychiatry
Burnos AE, Kopacz G.
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‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
wiley   +1 more source

Making sense of the extraordinary - An investigation of the content and prevalence of appraisals of nonordinary experiences. [PDF]

PLoS One
Fortes P, Tavares L, Granjeiro G, Bortolini G, Maraldi E, Bortolini T, Hartle L, Lima M, Laport M, Moll J, Fischer R.   +10 more
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School Board Elections in England and Wales, 1870–1902: An Electoral Experiment?

History, EarlyView.
Abstract The 1870 Elementary Education Act enabled the creation of school boards in England and Wales. Members were directly elected by the cumulative vote. This method gave each individual voter as many votes as there were seats on a school board, in some cases up to fifteen.
ED GREEN
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Endocrinology and Supernatural Beliefs; A Review. [PDF]

Indian J Endocrinol Metab
Khare J, Pendharkar PS, Kalra S, Jindal S.   +3 more
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‘Sinister Indian‐like Half‐circle’: Tennis, Orientalism and the White Racial Frame in the Twentieth‐Century British Sporting Press

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining sport alongside race, media and imperial power opens a rich field for understanding how macro‐level ideologies are shaped and circulated through everyday cultural forms. In twentieth‐century Britain, mass media framed and distributed narratives that rendered the empire's political realities intelligible to a broad public.
SOUVIK NAHA
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Magical Thinking and Mystical Experience: An Exploration of Delusional Disorder in Schizophrenic Patients. [PDF]

Iran J Nurs Midwifery Res
Pratiwi A, Pujianto JS, Sukardi S, Herawati E, Muhlisin A, Farjatulla SM, Putra FM.   +6 more
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