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We are stardust: Dignity and right of non-human life on and beyond our planet

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023
Humankind is stardust, born of the evolution of life on Earth as part of the evolution of the universe. He is called to particular responsibility for all living beings and of creation itself. The article discusses whether and how, in the perspective of a
Traugott Jähnichen, Andreas Losch
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‘…It was my choice to see how I can acquire this Western world education… and I'm happy…’: Structuration and the dialectic nature of being a Nigerian university student in the UK

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines the experiences of Nigerian cross‐border students in UK higher education, focusing on how colonial legacies continue to shape the interplay between structure and agency. Three key themes emerged in the analysis of the data: First, the persistence of a ‘West is Best’ mentality reflects the internalisation of colonial ...
Jennifer Marshall, Jack Bryne Stothard
wiley   +1 more source

Defining Reconciliation Studies: Theoretical and Practical Dimensions

Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Reconciliation studies (RS) has become increasingly influential in understanding alternative views to ending conflict and dealing with the aftermath. As a discipline or field, however, it is not well defined. The actual usefulness of reconciliation (as a concept), or of RS (as a discipline), is debated, and due to its growing usage, it is ...
Colleen Alena O’Brien
wiley   +1 more source

Examining the function of neurobiology in Christian spiritual experiences and practice

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020
Before one can adequately deal with a biblical and neurobiological examination of spiritual experiences, one would need to define what they are. Here, one could offer that a spiritual experience could be an encounter with something or someone that is ...
Mark Pretorius
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Educating agents of change: Investigating curricula to foster sustainability competencies in university

The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study critically evaluates the implementation of sustainability competencies in the university‐wide curriculum reform at a Nordic research‐intensive multidisciplinary university. The focus is on assessing how sustainability competencies—especially the newly introduced systems thinking, strategic thinking and futures thinking—are ...
I. Södervik, T. Tuononen, R. Ratvio, T. Laisi, J. Pietikäinen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Human rationality in Vito Mancuso’s liberal Catholic theology augmenting the notions of Van Huyssteen’s ‘postfoundational transversality’ and McGrath’s ‘rational consilience’

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2021
The cue for this article is human rationality being the cornerstone in Wentzel van Huyssteen’s thinking, and Alister McGrath’s scepsis about the feasibility of a postfoundational transversality in particular. This article does not intend to juxtapose Van
Johan Buitendag, Corneliu C. Simut
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Spiritual Cannibalism in HRD: How Workplace Spirituality Devours Sacred Traditions

Human Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper interrogates how the discourse of workplace spirituality in human resource development (HRD) operates as a tool of colonization. Through a systematic review of 48 articles published between 1997 and March 2025, the study uncovers recurring patterns of spiritual appropriation in which non‐Western traditions are detached from their ...
Shoaib Ul‐Haq
wiley   +1 more source

A Pedagogy of Belonging: Strategies and Practices for Building Beloved Community in Counselor Education

The Journal of Humanistic Counseling, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With an increased need for counselors across the country, there is a corresponding need to recruit and retain quality graduate students in counseling programs. Using bell hooks’ framework of beloved community, this conceptual article explores how to develop a sense of belonging in counselor education among students of diverse identities inside
Ellise Nolan, Madeline Clark
wiley   +1 more source

Jewelled Byzantine and Medieval Reliquaries of the True Cross: Peridots and Other Gemstones in Material and Symbolic Perspective

Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, EarlyView.
An interdisciplinary in situ study of jewelled reliquaries of the True Cross integrates gemmology and portable analytical techniques, revealing new evidence on the identification and symbolic role of peridots and other gemstones. ABSTRACT Jewelled crosses containing relics of the True Cross occupy a central position in the devotional, artistic and ...
Stefania Martiniello, Stefano Legnaioli, Simona Raneri   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Theology of nature: Reflections on the dogmatic doctrine of creation

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021
The doctrine of creation and the knowledge of nature have come into tension in modernity. Against this background, the article discusses the basic problems of a theology of nature starting from a systematic theology of religious communication.
Christian Danz
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