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The Short Anthropological Guide to the Study of Ethical AI [PDF]

arXiv, 2020
Over the next few years, society as a whole will need to address what core values it wishes to protect when dealing with technology. Anthropology, a field dedicated to the very notion of what it means to be human, can provide some interesting insights into how to cope and tackle these changes in our Western society and other areas of the world.
arxiv  

Francesco Ingoli's essay to Galileo: Tycho Brahe and science in the Inquisition's condemnation of the Copernican theory [PDF]

arXiv, 2012
In January of 1616, the month before before the Roman Inquisition would infamously condemn the Copernican theory as being "foolish and absurd in philosophy", Monsignor Francesco Ingoli addressed Galileo Galilei with an essay entitled "Disputation concerning the location and rest of Earth against the system of Copernicus". A rendition of this essay into
arxiv  

God and the Big-Bang: Past and Modern Debates Between Science and Theology [PDF]

arXiv, 2023
A short phenomenological account of the genesis and evolution of the universe is presented with emphasis on the primordial phases as well as its physical composition, i.e. dark matter and dark energy. We discuss Einstein's theory of General Relativity and its consequences for the birth of modern relativistic astrophysics.
arxiv  

The Heidelberg Catechism: elements for a theology of care

Acta Theologica, 2014
This article proposes a fresh reading of the Heidelberg Catechism from the perspective of an ethics of care, a new paradigm of doing ethics, strongly influenced by feminist philosophy.
F. de Lange
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Beyond the Anthropocene: Construction of Human Agency within Lutheran Eco‐Theology

Dialog, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT For several decades, Lutheran theologians have wrestled with the issue of the climate crisis. This has resulted in a body of scholarship that utilizes Christological frameworks to articulate agential constructs. While recognizing such contributions as inherently valuable and highly significant, this article suggests that Lutheran eco ...
Hilla Lahtinen
wiley   +1 more source

Therapeutic aQompaniments: Walking together in hypnotherapy—and ethnography

Ethos, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on ethnographic data collected over 16 months of fieldwork with Indonesian hypnotherapists, this article investigates the suitability of different relationalities for providing therapeutic care. Clinical literature often advocates the merits of self‐hypnosis over hetero‐hypnosis, while anthropologists express skepticism regarding ...
Nicholas J. Long
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Dehumanization as the key to a real understanding of the image of God [PDF]

Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института, 2019
This article addresses the phenomenon of dehumanization in situations of extreme exhaustion, such as the dokhodyadi of the Gulag and the Muselmänner of Auschwitz.
Katya Tolstaya
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Making moral selves through comparison: Narratives of moral decline and the modern virtuous self among middle‐class older adults in Nepal

Ethos, EarlyView.
Abstract During fieldwork among older adults in middle‐class families in the city of Bhaktapur (2018–2019), I recurrently came across comparative narratives of moral decline, depicting a stark contrast between the present time and a mythical past where ageing parents were treated “as gods.” In this paper, I analyze how, through acts of comparisons ...
Paola Tinè
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Nor shadow of turning: Anthropological reflections on theological critiques of doctrinal change

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 360-382, December 2022., 2022
Abstract To all intents and purposes, the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland, the Brethren of Gamrie, and the Orange Order each claim a monopoly over theological truth, believing that they are right and that everyone else is wrong. Such a position is hardly exceptional – strong versions of pluralism take precisely this same monopolistic stance ...
Joseph Webster
wiley   +1 more source

Theologically Engaged Anthropology: An Update

OKH Journal: Anthropological Ethnography and Analysis Through the Eyes of Christian Faith, 2017
News and Opinions.
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