Conceptualizing culture critically: Examining perspectives from additional language teachers
Abstract This paper presents the findings related to culture from an online survey with French as a second language (FSL) teachers (n = 45) about equity and antioppression in the Ontario FSL curriculum. FSL teachers defined culture and reflected on the link between language and culture and the role of students' cultures in FSL. Framed by an anti‐biased,
Marika Kunnas +2 more
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Cursing the daēvas as an Example of Verbal Aggression in the Zoroastrian “Declaration of Faith”?
This article examines the notion of verbal aggression evident in Zoroastrian prayers. Although one may be surprised that a declaration of Zoroastrian faith, called Fravarānē (Yasna 12), begins with the words “I hate / abhor / am disgusted” instead of “I
Kinga Paraskiewicz
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Shari\u27ah, Democracy, and the Modern Nation-State: Some Reflections on Islam, Popular Rule, and Pluralism [PDF]
In this article, the author examines two considerations that are critical to a full and meaningful assessment of the degree to which Islam, and Islamic law in particular, can find authentic expressions of themselves under what may reasonably be ...
Jackson, Sherman A.
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Orientalism, Postcolonialism, And The Achaemenid Empire: Meditations On Bruce Lincoln'S Religion, Empire, And Torture 1 [PDF]
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/88128/1/j.2041-5370.2011.00026.x ...
Colburn, Henry P.
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What the golden rule teaches us about ethics
Abstract The Golden Rule is regularly used in ordinary life, across many different cultures, to acquire new moral knowledge. At the same time, the Golden Rule is widely ignored both in ethics and metaethics because it seems to be an implausible normative theory.
Shane William Ward
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Rad and Mubad in Shahnameh of Ferdowsi [PDF]
In Mazdaâs tradition, gods, angels guarding the heavens and earth and any good thing created by Mazda are all entitled Rad. In most of the Zoroastrian scriptures and Pahlavi texts, Rad is also used as synonymous with Zoroastrian religious headman or ...
z Delpazir +2 more
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Newly-found Evidence of Sassanid Simple-pit Burial at Qaleh Iraj, Pishvā, Iran [PDF]
One of the most important and, at the same time, uncertain subjects related to Sassanid period is the recognition of common burial customs. Despite great attempts of Zoroastrian religious texts to represent a uniform burial tradition across the whole ...
Mehdi Mousavinia +2 more
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ABSTRACT Waves of psychological research over 50 years have resulted in the development of scales to measure psychological resilience. Multiple psychological resilience definitions and factors have emerged during this time, making its measurement complex.
Judye L. Margetts +4 more
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Health seeking behavior study among Zoroastrian residing in Yazd
Background: People give you an idea about variety of behaviors when confronting diseases. Different factors such as age, sex, economic and social situations have effect on its.
M Mohegh +4 more
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Reframing covenant for nursing: From individual commitments to covenant with society
Abstract Today's constrained healthcare environment can make it very difficult for nurses to provide compassionate, competent, and ethical care, and yet their continued commitment to care is viewed as requisite. Nurses' commitment to care of patients, enmeshed with professional identity, may be understood as heroic. A few nursing scholars have advanced
Dorolen Wolfs +4 more
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