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Misconceptions About Obesity and Weight Stigma in Brazilian Healthcare Professionals [PDF]

open access: yesClin Obes
ABSTRACT People living with obesity (PLWO) frequently experience weight stigma (WS) in healthcare settings, leading to disparities in treatment. Although research shows that healthcare professionals (HCPs) often hold stigmatising views, this issue remains underexplored in Brazil.
Sozza P   +6 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Genealogies of Truth: Theology, Philosophy and History

open access: yesModern Theology, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 708-727, October 2023., 2023
Abstract Modern Christian theology still seeks to escape from the historical constitution of truth. This not only contradicts the Incarnation, but has its own genealogical origins in a dubious loss of Christian philosophy as an integral enterprise. In general, genealogy can be seen as negative or positive.
John Milbank
wiley   +1 more source

Book Review: Mother of the Universe: Visions of the Goddess and Tantric Hymns of Enlightenment [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
A review of Lex Hixon\u27s Mother of the Universe: Visions of the Goddess and Tantric Hymns of ...
Dand, Arti
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The Coherence of Buddhism: Relativism, Ethics, and Psychology

open access: yesJournal of Religious Ethics, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 321-341, June 2023., 2023
ABSTRACT This essay defends a Buddhist answer to the question of how a skeptical tradition might account for its moral position. Two domains in Buddhist thought and practice are often considered to be dissimilar, perhaps contradictory. On the one hand, there is an aspiration to nirvana and a philosophy that describes everything as “emptiness” and ...
Jonathan C. Gold
wiley   +1 more source

A Cognitive Approach to Tantric Language

open access: yesReligions, 2016
By applying the contemporary theories of schema, metonymy, metaphor, and conceptual blending, I argue in this paper that salient cognitive categories facilitate a deeper analysis of Tantric language.
Sthaneshwar Timalsina
doaj   +1 more source

Purity and impurity in nondualistic Śaiva Tantrism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Indian civilisation has been strongly characterised by the work of containment erected by the Brahmanical elite over the almost two thousand years of its grandiose attempt at culturally and so- cially dominating the Indian world as a whole.
Torella, Raffaele
core   +1 more source

Transmutations: Rejuvenation, Longevity, and Immortality Practices in South and Inner Asia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Introduction to Special Issue of Edited Journal - Transmutations: Rejuvenation, Longevity, and Immortality Practices in South and Inner Asia Wild and diverse outcomes are associated with transmutational practices: the prolongation of life, the ...
Barois, Christèle   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

When the Poison Is the Cure—Healing and Embodiment in Contemporary Śrīvidyā Tantra of the Lalitāmbikā Temple

open access: yesReligions, 2021
This paper discusses the healing practices of samayācāra Śrīvidyā, a Hindu Tantric tradition. This study is based on field research conducted in the Śrī Lalitāmbikā temple in Coimbatore, India.
Maciej Karasinski-Sroka
doaj   +1 more source

Tantric Buddhism in Nepal

open access: yesResearch Nepal Journal of Development Studies, 2021
Tantrism is the science of practical spiritualism. Tantrism is the practical way out of enlightenment. It is the perfect mix of theoretical and empirical knowledge of liberation. Although there are different arguments for and against tantric Buddhism. To
Gopal Nepal
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Invisibly Visible: Alan Glass’s Gnosopoetics

open access: yes, 2023
Religious Studies Review, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 505-513, December 2023.
Kristoffer Noheden
wiley   +1 more source

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