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Teaching New Religious Movements Historically: Distance, Empathy, and Cults in the Classroom

Teaching Theology &Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Resistance to understanding the beliefs of modern New Religious Movements (NRMs) is well‐known to those who teach in the area. This paper builds on Eugene Gallagher's repurposing of “methodological belief” for college classes on NRMs by suggesting that scholars and teachers in the field of religious studies engage methods and content drawn ...
Douglas FitzHenry Jones
wiley   +1 more source

Determining an Asset\u27s Tax Basis in the Absence of A Meaningful Transfer Tax Regime [PDF]

, 2018
Until recently, in those circumstances where there was a valuation range with respect to a particular asset, executors faced a choice: among estates subject to the estate tax, declaring a high value would increase the estate tax liability; however, due ...
Schmalbeck, Richard L., Soled, Jay A.
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Digital Disease Ecologies: Encounter, Datafication and the Digital Geographies of One Health

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Short Abstract Through the case of Snake Awareness Rescue Protection App (SARPA), a digital snake translocation and snakebite prevention mobile phone application in Kerala, India, this paper extends recent geographical ‘digital ecologies’ scholarship's concern for the digitisation of more‐than‐human worlds to digital health technology and disease ...
George Kirkham
wiley   +1 more source

Subterranean environments contribute to three‐quarters of classified ecosystem services

Biological Reviews, Volume 101, Issue 3, Page 1582-1605, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Beneath the Earth's surface lies a network of interconnected caves, voids, and systems of fissures forming in rocks of sedimentary, igneous, or metamorphic origin. Although largely inaccessible to humans, this hidden realm supports and regulates services critical to ecological health and human well‐being.
Stefano Mammola, David Brankovits, Tiziana Di Lorenzo, Isabel R. Amorim, Raluca Ioana Bancila, Adrià Bellvert, Enrico Bernard, Anna Blomberg, Paulo A.V. Borges, Martina Cappelletti, Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira, Rosalina Gabriel, Diana M. P. Galassi, Laura Garzoli, Vasilis Gerovasileiou, Grant C. Hose, Kathryn L. Korbel, Simone Martino, Ana Z Miller, Nataša Mori, Veronica Nanni, Giuseppe Nicolosi, Mattia Saccò, Troy S. Sakihara, Marconi Souza Silva, Anne E. Tamalavage, Maja Zagmajster, Efraín Chávez, Christian Griebler, Pedro Cardoso, Alejandro Martínez   +30 more
wiley   +1 more source

When Public Health Becomes the Weapon: Current and Prospective Consequences of the Genocide in Gaza

World Medical &Health Policy, Volume 18, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Catastrophic humanitarian conditions during the 2023–2025 genocide in Gaza have caused a public health crisis of exceptional magnitude. This article summarizes key short‐ and long‐term health consequences for Gaza's civilian population and outlines priorities for recovery.
Therese Alexandra Evald, Nanna Gram Ahlmark, Clara Barfod Parellada, Andreea Micula, Caroline Klint Johannesen, Dana Bdier, Fayez Mahamid, Hilde Lausund, Jane Brandt Sørensen, Maha Aon, Majd Qannita, Maren Johanne Heilskov Rytter, Nanna Maaløe, Nina Jøranson, Sara Aakre Faradonbeh, Vibeke Brix Christensen, Waseem Alzaanin, Sigurd Lauridsen, Helle Timm, Frederik Schou‐Juul   +19 more
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What Can the State of Nature Justify?

Philosophy &Public Affairs, Volume 54, Issue 2, Page 116-128, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT Social contract theory is one of the most popular approaches to political justification. While the state of nature account in social contract theory is generally invoked to justify the state's authority, I argue in this paper that no extant account succeeds in doing so.
Arthur (Hongyang) Yang
wiley   +1 more source

Tortious Interference With Expectancy of Inheritance or Gift--Suggestions for Resort to the Tort [PDF]

, 2008
This article examines the various factual circumstances in which a tort recovery for interference with the expectancy of inheritance or gift might be available, either as the only possible remedy for the disappointed expectant person or as an alternative
Johnson, Irene D.
core   +1 more source

Brain Computer Interfaces and Communication Disabilities: Ethical, Legal, and Social Aspects of Decoding Speech From the Brain. [PDF]

Front Hum Neurosci, 2022
Chandler JA, Van der Loos KI, Boehnke S, Beaudry JS, Buchman DZ, Illes J.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

On Making Descendant Communities: Three Case Studies From Historical Bioarchaeology

American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 190, Issue 1, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Bioarchaeologists, museums and universities, journal editorial boards, and academic professional organizations are working toward ethical engagements with human remains, with a focus on descendant community engagement. This article reexamines past and present bioarchaeological descendant community engagement to consider how “descendant ...
Alanna L. Warner‐Smith, Lauren R. Hosek, Meredith A. B. Ellis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Feral Territories: The Suburbanization of Nature in Eastern Bangkok

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 3, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Between the 1960s and 1980s, American and international financial and technical assistance spurred men with means to bring together concrete, asphalt, timber, and steel to construct unplanned, poorly serviced (because they were unplanned), and expensive subdivisions at the outskirts of what was then central Bangkok.
Samson Lim
wiley   +1 more source