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Lights and Landscapes: More‐Than‐Human Nature in Near‐Death Experiences as Reconciliation in a Time of Ecological Crisis

open access: yesDialog, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores lights and landscapes as depicted in near‐death experiences (NDEs). NDEs are specific experiences, which human beings with a (perceived) close brush with death may have and later recall, often including seeing a brilliant light and sometimes traveling to unearthly dimensions, which may or may not include landscapes.
Tobias Anker Stripp
wiley   +1 more source

Actual Grace and the Elevation of the Secular [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper develops and integrates several strands of thought represented in recent contributions that the author has tried to make to the secularization-sacralization debate.1 That debate is both ecclesial and theological, and the two contexts are ...
Doran, Robert M.
core   +1 more source

Therapeutic aQompaniments: Walking together in hypnotherapy—and ethnography

open access: yesEthos, 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
wiley   +1 more source

Making moral selves through comparison: Narratives of moral decline and the modern virtuous self among middle‐class older adults in Nepal

open access: yesEthos, 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
wiley   +1 more source

Advertising communication and spirituality: a critical approach of academics and professionals [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This article explores advertising as a space where spiritual discourses are reproduced from the critical approach of academics in communication and sociology, along with professionals in the advertising sector.
Gil-Soldevilla, Samuel   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Spiritualities and social dynamics: memory and perspectives - A review for the 27th SOTER Congress

open access: yesHorizonte, 2014
This is a communication regarding the 27th congress of the Society of Theology and Religious Studies (SOTER), held between the 15th and 18th of July, 2014. According to the proposition established by 2013’s assembly, the Congress assumed as common thread
Ceci Maria Costa Baptista Mariani
doaj  

Help can harm: Unintended consequences of child protection and parenting support for Vietnamese immigrant families in Germany

open access: yesEthos, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper, we explore the unintended consequences of parenting support and child protection services for families who have migrated from Vietnam to Berlin, Germany. We identify such negative consequences on three levels: The relationship between practitioners and parents was, contrary to good intentions, often characterized by tensions and
Nga Thi Thanh Mai, Gabriel Scheidecker
wiley   +1 more source

Film and Christian Preaching: Toward a Cinemate Homiletic (Part I)

open access: yes, 2017
didn’t want you to enjoy the film. I wanted you to look very closely at your own soul Sam Peckinpah (Director) The cinema or pop film[2] has now become “the cathedral of the [twenty-first] century.”[3] Among its many implications, this metaphor keenly ...
Yang, Sunggu
core  

Two Ways of Being Conscious: The Notion of Psychic Conversion [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In this essay I will present an overview of what I have called psychic conversion. I will begin by narrating the birth of the idea, then will present a brief schematic history of its development and principal applications to date, and will conclude by ...
Doran, Robert
core   +1 more source

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