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Violence, Volition, and Volatility: The Embodied Subjectivity of Women in Cults

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Rethinking identity theory in light of the in-Christ identity in the African context

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
In social identity theory, the in-Christ identity is understood as primarily a socially directed process in which people categorise themselves relative to other groups. Intergroup behaviour would cause them to discriminate against the so-called ‘outgroup’
Philip La G. Du Toit
doaj   +1 more source

The Meaning of Life in Attar Neishabouri’s Mossibat-Nameh [PDF]

ادبیات عرفانی, 2016
The meaning of life is one of the common issues between past and contemporary humans and each of them with their own attitudes viewed this category. Analysis of the type of the past human’s attitude in this regard-particularly, if it enjoys a mystical ...
Hamedi Mousavi Jervekan, Hosein Masjedi, Mostafa Gorji, Mahdi Zamani   +3 more
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Society beyond morality: mimesis, sovereignty, and being not‐human in the Nyau associations of Malawi La société par‐delà la moralité : mimèse, souveraineté et existence non humaine dans les sociétés Nyau du Malawi

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Nyau masked dancers embodying a variety of people, animals, and objects appear at many public events in Chewa areas of Malawi. Understood to be the physical manifestation of ancestral spirits, these entities are classified as ‘not human’ and transgress ordinary morality, mocking and threatening audiences.
Sam Farrell
wiley   +1 more source

THE BLURRED LINE BETWEEN THEISTIC EVOLUTION AND INTELLIGENT DESIGN

Zygon, 2019
It is often assumed that there is a hard line between theistic evolution (TE) and intelligent design (ID). Many theistic evolutionists subscribe to the idea that God only acts through natural processes, as opposed to the ID assertion that God, at ...
doaj   +2 more sources

Love! Valor! "Supernatural!"

Transformative Works and Cultures, 2010
Editorial for Transformative Works and Cultures, No. 4, special issue, "Saving People, Hunting Things."
openaire   +2 more sources

Uncanny Stories for Canny Readers: The Explained Supernatural, the Villainous Doctor and Reader Expectations in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Short Gothic Fiction [PDF]

, 2022
Helena Ifill
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Imagination as a Response to Naturalism: C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia in Light of the Anscombe Affair [PDF]

, 2016
In this paper I suggest The Chronicles of Narnia were occasioned by Elizabeth Anscombe’s critique of chapter three of Miracles. Instead of a retreat from debate, The Chronicles show that the Supernatural is not something to be contemplated, but instead ...
Reichenbach, Allison P
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The Savage Worlds of Henry Drummond (1851–1897): Science, Racism and Religion in the Work of a Popular Evolutionist

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract The savage was a familiar as well as deeply problematic figure in late‐Victorian literary and scientific imaginaries. Savages provided an unstable but capacious and flexible signifier to explore human development and human difference, most often in ways that followed a disturbing racial logic.
Diarmid A. Finnegan
wiley   +1 more source

ONE ENCHANTED BEING: NEUROEXISTENTIALISM AND MEANING

Zygon, 2009
The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World is my attempt to explain whether and how existential meaning is possible in a material world, and how such meaning is best conceived naturalistically.
doaj   +2 more sources