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The crisis of meaning in modernity: between Mihai Gheorghiu’s hermeneutics and the poetic expression of contemporary traumas

Cogent Arts & Humanities
This article examines the crisis of meaning in late modernity through Mihai Gheorghiu’s dual work as a hermeneutic interpreter of Mircea Eliade and as a poet writing under the pseudonym Mihail Aslan.
Simona Trifu
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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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Retrieving psychosocial signs of structural violence in postcolonial Jamaica

Community Psychology in Global Perspective, 2016
Physical and psychological assaults on group life wound not only community well-being but, also, individual subject formation, altering the way people think, feel and act.
Deanne Bell
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Injustice, relational violence, and the foster system

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Political theorists have not paid sustained attention to the foster system or treated it as a political institution. Despite this, scholars and social movement advocates have identified the system as a site of social and political injustice. This paper develops an account of racial, class, and relational injustice in the contemporary US foster
Emma Ebowe
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Bouncing Back and Moving Forward: Resilience, the Joseph Narrative and Addiction Recovery

Communio Viatorum
The use of biblical narrative is an important resource in the practice of pastoral care and counselling. In this paper, which draws on the psychology of resilience as well as recent work on trauma and resilience hermeneutics, it is argued that the Joseph
Marion L. S. Carson
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(Un)threading Rhythms: On Affect and Vibe in a Rave

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Toronto, raves arise across large nightclubs, DIY venues and outdoors, despite changing regulations that have further arranged and narrowed their possibility in the past 4 years. Following a rave in Toronto, this work explores ways that potentialities and affects emerge in a single night, through my entry of taking part in dancing and ...
Tatiana Yunadi
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THE AVENGING GOD OF NAHUM AS COMFORTER OF THE TRAUMATIZED

Acta Theologica, 2018
In this article dedicated to my esteemed colleague Fanie Snyman, I want to contribute to the fascinating field of the study of biblical literature and the hermeneutics of trauma.
K Spronk
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Dealing With Conflicts in Medical Decisions: Epistemic Reasonable Disagreement Between Parents and Medical Staff

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many controversies in medical ethics, particularly those involving conflicts between parents and medical staff over decisions about child patients, are challenging to manage without causing significant polarization and communication issues. This is primarily because the parties involved—parents and physicians—operate at different epistemic ...
Chiara Innorta
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A review of trauma-informed neuroscientific theory to unpack the early childhood education teacher’s pastoral role in South Africa

South African Journal of Childhood Education
Background: This review explores the pastoral role of early childhood development (ECD) teachers through a trauma-informed lens, grounded in neuroscience.
Corinne Meier
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Waging War on Nature: Ecospaces, Ethnoecologies and Chicana/o Writings

Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media, 2018
Since the rise of El Movimiento in the 1960s, Chicanas/os have negotiated space (urban, rural and the wilderness) as central to la raza’s struggles for legitimate citizenship in the U.S. Chicana/o ecowritings reach beyond attempts at self-definition, and
Sofia Emmanouilidou
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