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The Nature of a Vow: Karma, Ritual, Lineage, and the Three Vows
, 2023 What is ritually produced when vows are conferred? Indian Buddhist scholars analyzed the three vows as discrete entities, as components of the person, to be defined and categorized in and of itself. In Tibetan Buddhist discourse, “three vows” (sdom gsum)
Johnson, Anna
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The Continuity and Rupture of the ‘New Washington Consensus’: From Biden to Trump 2.0
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The ‘New Washington Consensus’ (NWC) represents a major intellectual shift in the US approach to global economic governance. However, the NWC has never been subject to systematic academic critique. With Trump's return to the White House ushering in a new era of US trade policy, the NWC is widely considered to be politically irrelevant in the ...
Ming Du
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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Crises tend to redirect political attention toward urgent relief efforts, often sidelining long‐term policy priorities. This article examines the role of agenda‐keepers—policy entrepreneurs who work to preserve attention to existing issues when crises threaten to displace them.
Luis Rivera‐Velez, Lucile Maertens
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TRACING KRICKITT\'S AMNESIA IN \"THE VOW\" : A PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS [PDF]
, 2013 TRACING KRICKITT\'S AMNESIA IN \"THE VOW\" : A PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
QISTI, HAFIYANA +1 more
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Breathing in Plants and Chaos—Cosmic Tree Events in Cameroon and Beyond
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Contemporary practices of tapping into the wisdom of ancestral trees are described through three entangled recent events lived within the context of Bantu practices in Cameroon. In the three instances, the steered or chance encounters with high potency trees were serendipitous telling moments which brought something new to the horizon.
Julie Laplante +3 more
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Exceptional Circumstances: Electoral Boundary Conflict in Canada's Territories
Canadian Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract This article investigates why electoral districting, which across most of Canada was reformed by the “electoral boundary revolution,” is instead increasingly fraught in two northern jurisdictions, the Northwest Territories and Yukon. While independent electoral‐boundary commissions and judicial rulings have depoliticized and professionalized ...
Aaron John Spitzer
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The (Simp)le Truth About Excessive and Obsessive Romantic Behaviors in Men
Journal of Personality, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective “Simps” are individuals (primarily men) who engage in costly or extravagant gestures toward a romantic interest without receiving reciprocation. As its first empirical validation, the current study newly operationalizes simping behaviors as well as the motivating factors predicting simping.
Daniel Ho +3 more
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Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Much of the activism on environmental issues within the US Catholic Church is not coming from those with institutional power (like bishops and diocesan priests), but rather from sisters, who have no formal power. What factors facilitate sisters’ environmental activism?
Sabrina Danielsen, Ellie Simmons
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Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT After decades of struggle, the United Methodist Church (UMC) removed all LGBTQ‐restrictive language from its Book of Discipline in 2024, overturning exclusionary policies that forbid same‐sex weddings and the ordination of LGBTQ+ clergy. This research sheds light on the activism that preceded institutional change within the UMC.
Nancy L. Malcom, Melinda D. Kane
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This (Mortal) Christian Life: Growth in Grace and the Problem of Senescence
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Theological accounts of the Christian life attempt to describe the manner in which the Holy Spirit's communication of Christ's redemptive work engenders new ways of being in the world. Such descriptions normally entail, in one form or another, the conclusion that the Christian life is marked by progressive growth in grace, an upward spiral in ...
Daniel Lee Hill
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