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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
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Actual Grace and the Elevation of the Secular [PDF]
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.
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Therapeutic aQompaniments: Walking together in hypnotherapy—and ethnography
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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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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Advertising communication and spirituality: a critical approach of academics and professionals [PDF]
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
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Spiritualities and social dynamics: memory and perspectives - A review for the 27th SOTER Congress
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
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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
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Film and Christian Preaching: Toward a Cinemate Homiletic (Part I)
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
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Two Ways of Being Conscious: The Notion of Psychic Conversion [PDF]
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
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