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This article analyses the ways characteristics associated with the ‘Schedule Tribe’ (‘ST’) category in India shape situated acts of relating to others with either deference or assumed superiority. Ethnography shows how within an indigenous Adivasi community the traits that determine identification within the group generate feelings of entitlement and ...
Thomas Herzmark
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Conference Worship Services - Calvin Symposium on Worship and the Arts
Booklet including outlines for four worship services held during the 2003 Calvin Symposium on Worship. The four services are based on the two central claims found in Joel 2: a call to repentance and the promise of the Spirit.
Calvin Institute of Christian Worship
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Can a good death occur for those who balance on the edges of grievability? In Bali, where death marks a transition within the cycles of reincarnation, a good death depends on the mortuary care performed by intimate others – care that may be foreclosed to those whose lives are shaped by stigma.
Sylvia Tidey
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2008 Worship Booklet: With Every Good Thing
As we gather for the 2008 Calvin Symposium on Worship, we turn to the Book of Hebrews as a focal point for the worship services at this year\u27s conference. For many in the church, Hebrews is a strange and daunting book.
Calvin Institute of Christian Worship
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Abstract This article examines lexical and phonological evidence for language contact between Old and modern Meiteilon (Manipuri) and Tai varieties, identifying loanwords relating to domestic life, trade and literary culture. Comparative data from Shan dialects and Old Meiteilon manuscripts such as the Cheitharon Kumpapa are employed in contextualising
Josiah Medin
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The woodpile we leave behind: The future of wildlife conservation
Wildlife Society Bulletin, EarlyView.
Tony Wasley
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Not Even Newton's Word: Authority and Resistance in the Royal Society Corpus1
Abstract This paper investigates the historical development of Isaac Newton's proposed distinction between mass and weight in the Principia Mathematica of 1687 and traces its fate in the scientific English of the Royal Society between 1700 and 1920.
Nina Haket
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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History
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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Imagination Will Not Be Automized: On AI Image Generators and Epistemic Oppression
Constellations, EarlyView.
Sarah Abel
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This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
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