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Serendipitous ritualization: dynamics of lay connectivity in Chinese Buddhist temples and beyond Ritualisation fortuite : dynamique de la connectivité des laïques dans les temples bouddhistes chinois et au‐delà

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 390-411, June 2026.
This article contributes to rethinking the dichotomy between informal sociality and ritual formality by examining the occasional ritual encounters surrounding spirit‐tablet inscription in Chinese Buddhist temples. Rather than viewing rituals as enactments of established orders, it presents ritual engagement as a contingent process of relational ...
Yang Shen
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Strained encounters of the anthropogene: preservation and extinction in Tatsuaki Ishiguro's 'It is with the Deepest Sincerity that I Offer Prayers'. [PDF]

Med Humanit
Choksey L.
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What Do Lithics Tell Us About Cultural Evolution? Insights From the Central African Record

Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue S3, Page S40-S49, June 2026.
ABSTRACT While Western historical narratives often incorporate a biased vision of human evolution—driven by a progressive view tied to a progressively evolving state of culture—this paper proposes combining archaeological lithic data with epistemological reflections to critique the modern regime of historicity, where progress is assumed as rational ...
Isis Isabella Mesfin
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What homeostasis leaves out: Kinorhesis, a physiological principle of transformation. [PDF]

J Physiol
Horseman ND.
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The Ethics of Authoritarianism in Christian Perspective

Dialog, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 76-83, Summer 2026.
ABSTRACT We look here at the characteristics of authoritarian government in the context of constitutional democracies and argue that its operative ethical system in public policy is egoism, with its supporters constituting a collective ego complicit in the undemocratic and Machiavellian practices used to sustain power and the authority of leadership to
James M. Childs
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Natural history museum visitors' use of key concepts and misconceptions in written explanations of evolutionary scenarios. [PDF]

Public Underst Sci
Moormann A, Beniermann A, Fiedler D.
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Beyond Negated Identity: Mediating the World History Classroom through Adorno's Negative Dialectics

Educational Theory, Volume 76, Issue 3, Page 395-419, June 2026.
Abstract This article centers on Adorno's negative dialectics to account for experiences of alienation and marginalization within the world history classroom. It begins with the problem of how marginalization occurs in high school world history classrooms with predominantly Black and Latinx students.
Tadashi Dozono
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The psychoneuroimmuneendocrine system, epigenetics, and the integration of morphogenetic fields: a systematic review of their role in unconscious ontogenesis. [PDF]

Front Syst Neurosci
Mundo SR, Moreno CF, Saldaña RB.
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On Schopenhauer's Debt to Spinoza1

European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 656-672, June 2026.
Abstract Schopenhauer offers ‘nature is not divine but demonic’ as a direct rebuttal of Spinoza's pantheism, his identification of ‘nature’ with ‘God’. And so, one would think, he ought to have been immune to the ‘Spinozism’ that became, as Heine called it, ‘the unofficial religion’ of the age.
Julian Young
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Solones, Solo Reproduction and Vice. [PDF]

Asian Bioeth Rev
Muralidharan A, Savulescu J.
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