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The keys to the garden: Capital, class, and the repurposing of Persian mystical poetry in Los Angeles

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 3, December 2026.
Abstract This article traces the social life of medieval Persian poetry as it is repurposed within Los Angeles's Iranian diaspora. Based on 5 years of immersive ethnography in private erfān classes and mystical assemblies, I argue these gatherings function as contemporary diasporic courts, mobilizing core texts within a spiritual marketplace structured
Zia Khoshsirat
wiley   +1 more source

A scoping review and thematic analysis of the landscape of spiritual health and spirituality in Canada. [PDF]

PLoS One
Boutros HM, Mina M, Lasair S, Michaelson V, Baetz M, Kokorelias K, Harris MT, Van Doorn-Harder N.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Social Diseases and Social Problems: An Islamic Framework for Cultural Awareness And Social Diagnosis

Sociological Inquiry, Volume 96, Issue 4, 2026.
Despite decades of policy interventions, the world suffers from profound social problems including drug abuse, family breakdown, and systemic injustice. The research problem is the persistent gap in existing sociological theories: objective criteria lacking for diagnosing social harm before it becomes visible.
Jilani Ben Touhami Meftah
wiley   +1 more source

The Connection Between the Normalization of Homosexuality and Erroneous Theories on Sex and Gender: A Challenge for Gender Critical Feminism. [PDF]

Linacre Q
Newton W.
europepmc   +1 more source

Advancing a National Dialogue on Disability in Catholic Education

Psychology in the Schools, Volume 63, Issue 10, Page 1480-1488, October 2026.
ABSTRACT This qualitative descriptive study examined perspectives from 85 participants at the National Convening on Disability and Catholic Education, a 3‐day gathering of Catholic school leaders, educators, and advocates. Using reflexive thematic analysis of structured roundtable dialogues, the study identified psychological and organizational factors
Michael J. Boyle
wiley   +1 more source

The Qur'anic heart and converging evidence from contemporary cardiac science: From qalb to cardioception. [PDF]

J Taibah Univ Med Sci
BaHammam AS.
europepmc   +1 more source

Rethinking Merit in Calvin's Doctrine of the Atonement: Beyond Possessive Individualism

International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 28, Issue 4, Page 378-400, October 2026.
Abstract Joan Lockwood O'Donovan argues that the Reformation doctrine of grace entails a rejection of the proprietary anthropology of self‐owning individuals and its attendant notion of justice – what C. B. Macpherson termed the “theory of possessive individualism.” Although O'Donovan praises Calvin's anthropology and his account of law for its non ...
John Walker
wiley   +1 more source

Amazonian cosmologies, plant-human relations, and the colonial entanglements of Indigenous artifacts. [PDF]

Hist Sci
Uchôa R.
europepmc   +1 more source

Renaissance of the Trinitarian: Erwin Schadel's Integral Perspective

Modern Theology, Volume 42, Issue 4, Page 979-994, October 2026.
Abstract Erwin Schadel (1946–2016), a central yet little‐known figure of the so‐called Bamberg School, developed a distinctive triadic ontology that deserves attention within the contemporary renaissance of Trinitarian thought. Drawing on Augustinian and Comenian sources, Schadel articulates a relational grammar of being through the categories of in ...
Matteo Raffaelli
wiley   +1 more source

Negotiating illness through faith: Religious narratives of cancer etiology among patients and caregivers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. [PDF]

PLoS One
Fikre K, Kassegne AB, Tadele G.
europepmc   +1 more source