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The Vicissitudes of the Nafs: Madness, Paralysis, and the Work of Transgression in Sufi Ethics

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How should we theorize Sufi ethics when the practice of zikr (remembrance) that leads to spiritual enlightenment (tazkiyya) might also bring one to the brink of majzubiyat (madness)? What forms of regulation or restraint are imagined or enacted by practitioners to prevent spiritual boundlessness from perverting into its underside of paralysis (
Muhammad Osama Imran
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Snapshots from a Fast‐Moving Train: Religious History 1960–2025

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Alexandra Walsham
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What It Was Like, What Happened, What It Is Like Now: Liminal Spaces and the Pedagogy of Recovery

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Addiction recovery is frequently interpreted through biomedical or punitive frameworks that overlook its cultural, ritual, and pedagogical dimensions. This article offers a theoretical and interpretive analysis of peer‐led, meeting‐based recovery communities in North America, particularly those organized around mutual‐aid traditions such as ...
Patrick L. Pellett
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Review of _Holy Body: Gender and Sexual Difference in Theological Anthropology and Ecclesiology_

Journal of Moral Theology
Review of _Holy Body: Gender and Sexual Difference in Theological Anthropology and ...
Annie Selak
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Theological Anthropology of the Contemporary Polish Candidate for Altars

Polish Political Science Yearbook, 2020
Book review: Ryszard Ficek, Christians in socio-political life. An Applied Analysis of the Theological Anthropology of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, Primate of Poland, Adam Marszałek Publishing House, Toruń 2020, pp ...
Kamila Rezmer-Płotka
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Cache‐Cache: Dans les souffles du Grand Fleuve…

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Between ventriloquism and divination, devotion and consecration, an old and sublime marine game unfolds each day, with living breaths shared in the waters of the great river. In Tadoussac, on the north shore of the St. Lawrence Estuary, at the mouth of the Saguenay, the rumor of whales has long resonated.
David Jaclin, Alexis Aubin‐Laperrière, Nicolas Cadieux, Patrick Weldon   +3 more
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Epistemic Automation and the Deformation of the Human: Artificial Intelligence and the Reconfiguration of Theological Anthropology

Religions
This paper argues that the most significant challenge artificial intelligence poses to theological anthropology is not ontological but epistemic.
Åke Elden
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Where the Magician Lives: An Ontological Problem in the Anthropology of Magic

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The purpose of the present study is to outline a theoretical framework in which the anthropologist can introduce a naturalistic approach, which will not be conflicted with scientific discourses, into his ethnographic work. First of all, I argue that the principles of magic can be understood as a part of social cognitive causal chains, based on
Keishi Okamoto
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Substance Dualist Theological Anthropology

St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
This article explores a conception of the human from a substantival perspective of the wider Christian tradition. After a general survey of substance dualist theological anthropology, the article focuses on the interplay between human constitution and ...
Joshua Farris
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THE THEOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF RALPH WENDELL BURHOE

Zygon, 1995
. A central aim of Ralph Wendell Burhoe's scientific theology is to define and interpret the meaning of human existence in relation to “ultimate reality.” As such, it can be understood as an exercise in theological anthropology.
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