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ReligionsMigration is a multidimensional process that reshapes identities and communities. This article adopts a polyhedral framework inspired by Pope Francis’s Laudato si’ and Michel Foucault’s concepts of “subjectivation” and the “polyhedron of intelligibility”.
Linda Koncz +2 more
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Theological Libraries and Scholarly Publishing in Religion and Theology
Theological Librarianship, 2018 Theological libraries and scholarly publishing in religion and theology operate within multiple overlapping contexts and economic markets: faith communities, theological education, scholars, libraries, and publishing.
Andrew J. Keck
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Why do some women choose to submit to their husbands in marriage? In anthropology, the paradox of ‘chosen submission’ has famously been explored by Saba Mahmood. Her work amongst Egyptian women donning the veil in the Islamic da'wa movement spotlights the notion of ‘piety’ to explore how devotion to God can act as a powerful motivator of human ...
Naomi Richman
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Laylayan theology and Rough Grounds: Theologies from and by the peripheries
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological StudiesThis article examines two Filipino contextual theologies – Laylayan Theology and Rough Grounds – as frameworks addressing the realities of the oppressed and marginalised.
Fides A. Del Castillo +3 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This essay introduces the themed cluster of articles, ‘Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI’. The advent of artificial intelligence (AI), especially in large language models capable of producing coherent discourse mimicking conversational interaction, is exerting unprecedented pressure on prevailing concepts of language, personhood, and the human ...
Webb Keane, Constantine V. Nakassis
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
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LIMINAL FORMS OF THE RITUAL: FROM RELIGIOUS CONSCIOUSNESS TO RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE
Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2019 The ritual phenomenon understood as a basis of religious activity is considered in the article. As the basic theory the symbolical theory of ritual of the anthropologist V. Turner is offered.
Yuri Victorovich Sobolev
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Theology, International Law, and Torture
American Journal of Islam and Society, 2006 In the post-9/11 environment, the American Muslim community has finally realized that it can no longer keep the rest of American society at arm’s length while seeking to establish its own infrastructure and ensuring its continuity as a distinct community.
Mohamed Elsanousi
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Het klinische domein van geestelijke zorgprofessionals
Religie & Samenleving, 2020 This article aims to offer a contribution to the definition of the professional domain of spiritual care professionals working in clinical settings. Starting with a conceptual disentanglement of theology and religious studies in face of the issue of ...
Hans Schilderman
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