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Prokopovych, L., P. Prokopovych, and D. Gratii. "THE CULT OF TECHNOLOGY AS A SOCIO-CULTURAL PHENOMENON." Scientific heritage, no. 93 (July 22, 2022): 18–21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6882261.
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The aim of the study is to identify the signs of the cult in people's attitudes to technology (including digital) and analyze the factors that contribute to the formation of the cult of technology as a phenomenon of modern mass culture. Analysis of the results of the study showed that the manifestations of the phenomenon of the cult of technology in mass culture should be considered in combination with another phenomenon − the cult of the brand. After all, both of these cults are part of the cult of consumption. The sacralization of digital technology is indicated by the presence of basic elements characteristic of any religious system: from the ideology usually proclaimed by the "spiritual leader" − the founder of the technology brand, to ritual actions, sometimes even sacrificing their own body (sale of a kidney for the purchase of an iPhone, implantation of electronic chips, etc.). All these features of the cult, although they do not turn the cult of technology into a full-fledged religion, but indicate a high degree of readiness of people to join this cult, being exposed to other technologies − social. As a result, a socio-cultural phenomenon is formed, which combines the real achievements of science and technology with the mythologizing and sacralization of their perception by the minds of the mass consumer.
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Och, Dana. "The Mainstream Cult of Fifty Shades of Grey: Hailing Multiple Women Audiences." Communication, Culture and Critique 12, no. 2 (2019): 213–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcz017.
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Abstract Fifty Shades of Grey (FSOG) is argued to be a female-focused mainstream cult film that deliberately fosters a simultaneity of viewing modes. This multiple address highlights how the lauded qualities of cult texts are standard in feminine narratives that need to appeal to a large cross section of women. Cult discourse still depends on misogyny and masculinized distinction even when the mainstream mode seems to break down gendered fandom. Contradictions emerge because cult was traditionally defined against the mindless consuming of women. However, the cultish consumption patterns for FSOG are deliberately fostered by merchandising strategies. Thus, the same element that shows cult tendencies is used to denigrate the film as the antithesis of cult: women as consumers.
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HOLBRAAD, MARTIN. "Religious ‘Speculation’: The Rise of Ifá Cults and Consumption in Post-Soviet Cuba." Journal of Latin American Studies 36, no. 4 (2004): 643–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022216x04008119.
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With an ethnographic focus on the prestigious cult of Ifá, this article seeks to account for the recent effervescence of Afro-Cuban cult worship in urban Cuba. It is argued that, since worship involves a marked emphasis on ritual consumption, the cult's rise can be related to wider transformations that have taken place in the field of everyday consumption in Havana during the economic crisis that has followed the collapse of the Soviet bloc. In particular, Ifá has provided an arena for what habaneros call ‘especulación’, a style of conspicuous consumption that has become prevalent among so-called ‘marginal’ groups in recent years.
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Jaramillo, Laura. "Ritual, Cult Spectatorship, and the Problem of Women's Flesh in Alejandro Jodorowsky's Midnight Movies." Feminist Media Histories 6, no. 3 (2020): 172–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2020.6.3.172.
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In January 2019, New York's Museo del Barrio canceled a retrospective of the Chilean multimedia artist Alejandro Jodorowsky due to public protest over his claim that he raped the lead actress in his 1970 film El Topo (The Mole). For decades, Jodorowsky's film was synonymous with the cult spectatorship it inspired among its New York audiences, who attended screenings ritualistically. This paper argues for a feminist critique of cult spectatorship that considers Jodorowsky's violence against women as central to the category of cult. By tracing Jodorowsky's evisceration of women's flesh from his early performance practices through his midnight movies, I show how the advent of cult spectatorship marked a historical transition away from classical spectatorship, characterized by absorption and linked to a rational public sphere, toward postmodern spectatorship, characterized by distracted consumption and linked to cybernetic control.
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Hurst, Emilie. "Wagner the gardener: Media as nature and the building of a cult." Journal of Fandom Studies 9, no. 3 (2021): 235–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jfs_00043_1.
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This article explores why composer Richard Wagner has such a passionate cult following, by employing the ‘family resemblances’ of cult texts identified by Matt Hills and, in the process, uncovers the elemental threads embedded into his work. Taking up John Durham Peters’s call for an elemental approach to media, I argue that Wagner’s treatment of art as nature allowed for the erasure of mediation. By insisting that his products were of an organic nature, he was thus able to keep the spectre of commercialization at bay. In turn, this encouraged the formation of a cult fandom. Finally, I make the case for further study of both fans of high culture and how we might trace the emergence of cultish modes of consumption to the nineteenth century.
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Clark, John R., and Chad E. Finn. "Blackberry cult ivation in the world." Revista Brasileira de Fruticultura 36, no. 1 (2014): 46–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0100-2945-445/13.
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Blackberries have now become a common fruit in marketing outlets, particularly in North America and the European Union. Blackberries have enjoyed expansion due to a combination of factors including improved cultivars, expanded marketing efforts and fruit availability, and an overall increase in berry consumption, especially as fresh fruit, in many areas of the world. It is estimated that cultivated blackberries are grown in excess of 25,000 ha worldwide. World production, and cultivation are commented.The rapid expansion of the blackberry industry has been remarkable. New, higher quality, cultivars, modified production practices and new production regions have all combined to make this crop one that consumers expect to be available fresh year-round in their grocery stores. As new cultivars are developed that combine the industry's need for high quality arrivals with increased flavors and expanded dates of harvest, the blackberry industry should expand further.
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Bibby, Reginald W., and Harold R. Weaver. "Cult Consumption in Canada: A Further Critique of Stark and Bainbridge." Sociological Analysis 46, no. 4 (1985): 445. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3711159.
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Andrés-Sánchez, Jorge de, Ángel Belzunegui-Eraso, and Anna Sánchez-Aragón. "Examining dimensions of religiosity as protective factors against substance consumption in teenagers." Aposta: Revista de Ciencias Sociales, no. 105 (April 1, 2025): 46–72. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15074889.
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(1) Background: Adolescence is a fundamental phase in the development of individuals, during which they are especially sensitive to substance use, both in terms of initiation and the consequences that habitual use can lead to. This explains why the study of the variables that influence substance use by teenagers is a key topic in the public health literature. In this regard, religiosity has been widely reported to be a protective factor against substance use. (2) Methods: In a sample from Tarragona (Spain) (N=1,935 adolescents), we tested whether religion is a protective factor against the use of the most common substances: alcohol, tobacco, and cannabis. We differentiate three dimensions of religiosity in the scale used in the studies of Planet Youth: faith, cult attendance, and religious environment. (3) Results: The religiosity scale of Planet Youth, which can be split into three subscales (faith, cult attendance and religious environment), was validated with exploratory factor and confirmatory factor analyses. We have also checked that religion is indeed a protective factor against substance abuse since the odds ratio for at least one dimension linked to religiosity was often less than one for all examined consumption behaviours. However, the degree of statistical significance depended on the substance assessed. Protection is clearer for cannabis than it is for alcohol and tobacco. Similarly, cult attendance had a significant protective effect. On the other hand, the religious environment appears to be less of a protective factor, while simply being a believer seems to have no preventive effect at all. (4) Conclusions: Religion has a significant ability to prevent substance use. However, the power of that inhibitory capability depends on substance and use behaviour and on the religiosity dimension.
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Öhlinger, Birgit, Stephen Ludwig, Gerhard Forstenpointner, and Ursula Thanheiser. "Lifting the Lid." Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 34, no. 2 (2022): 165–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/jma.21979.
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In this paper we investigate local foodways and ritual consumption in Iron Age Sicily through a study of cooking pots, integrating contextual, archaeozoological, archaeobotanical and chemical data. We focus on material from the central cult site of the settlement of Monte Iato, located in the hinterland of western Sicily, in order to explore the interaction between food, people, bio-/artefacts and environments as a process of formulating and reformulating social relationships and local power dynamics within specific social spaces and settings. We reveal different foodways and consumption practices within the same cult site, characterized on the one hand by long-standing traditions, with more or less constant and unchanging dishes, and on the other by the integration of external stimuli. We discuss the emergence of foreign- (Greek/Phoenician-) style cooking pots and ingredients as markers of an haute cuisine, developed with the aim of social differentiation.
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Zestanakis, Panagiotis. "Historicizing Early 1980s Greek ‘Denunciation Movies’." Cultural History 7, no. 1 (2018): 48–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cult.2018.0158.
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This article explores representations of youth, masculinity, family and modernity in ‘denunciation movies’, a film genre criticizing juvenile lifestyles that experienced noticeable success in early-1980s Greece. Based on six movies launched between 1981 and 1983 the article approaches denunciation movies as documents expressing sociocultural developments and as presenting a darker view than the frequent more optimistic characterization of the period. Scrutinizing the historicity of the movies, the article examines representations of ‘youth’ and the ‘city’, highlighting politics of consumption, sexuality and family relations. Finally, it investigates how music was used as a medium of critique of foreign cultural influences.
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Korsten, Frans-Willem, Cornelis van der Haven, Inger Leemans, Karel Vanhaesebrouck, Michel van Duijnen, and Yannice De Bruyn. "Imagineering, or what Images do to People: Violence and the Spectacular in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic." Cultural History 10, no. 1 (2021): 1–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cult.2021.0229.
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This article studies the visual representation of violence in the Dutch Republic and the growth of a “staple market of images” in the early modern period. It introduces and employs the concept of imagineering for analysing what images can do to people when circulated in the context of a fast-expanding market. The advancement of the early modern print industry and imagery marketing produced a swirl of violent images. It was through this “spectacle of violence” and its related sensory and embodied experiences, that new ways of looking were introduced, which helped to craft new selves and realities. As the public manifestation of violence by ruling powers became less dominant, violence could become a matter of private consumption; a commodity to be enjoyed. Producers needed to create new markets as well as serve an existing one, satisfying clients in their inquisitive search for knowledge and excitement. Imagineering was not just a mimetic duplicate of its historical context, here, it performatively altered the imagination through the effective use of a new cultural infrastructure that enabled a visual abundance and continuous repetition and remediation of images.
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Welton, Rebekah. "Eating Upon the Mountains: Deviant Consumption and Commensality." Avar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Life and Society in the Ancient Near East 1, no. 1 (2022): 7–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.33182/aijls.v1i1.1686.
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This article uses sociological and anthropological approaches to assess cases of deviant consumption in Hebrew Bible texts. Drawing together key concepts such as commensality and deviance, the importance of eating within the bounds of culturally constructed norms is emphasised. Food is a significant part of material culture that assists in the construction of individual and group identities. Consequently, deviation from normative food habits has serious ramifications on group identity and cohesion. For authors of Hebrew Bible texts, eating in a way that did not render Yahweh jealous was a key aspect of eating practices that were deemed acceptable. These practices included shared meals between human and divine participants, and the proper sharing of food within Yahweh’s cult. By focusing on the social reaction to certain deviant consumption events, the deviantisation processes used by the authors of ancient Hebrew texts are highlighted, rather than asserting the existence of any inherent “wrong.”
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Toshchenko, Z. T. "TRANSFORMATION OF IDEAS AND MEANING OF LABOR: FROM THE CULT OF LABOR TO THE CULT OF CONSUMPTION (AN EXPERIENCE OF HISTORICALAND SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS). PART I." Living Standards of the Population in the Regions of Russia 21, no. 2 (2025): 274–86. https://doi.org/10.52180/1999-9836_2025_21_2_8_274_286.
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The article reveals the historical aspect of the emergence of the concepts of "work", "labor" for understanding their meaning at various stages of human development. The main attention is paid to the transformation of the state and public recognition of the role of labor in the USSR / Russia in the twentieth century. It is shown how a fundamentally new attitude to labor of people directly involved in the process of its implementation was formed both during the period of creation and formation of a new socialist society, and during the functioning of the mobilization economy, and then in the years of trials - during the Great Patriotic War. The role of the state in changing the attitude to labor is determined, which was reflected in its economic and social policy. The article shows the ways of solving a strategically important task - the formation and formation of the cult of labor, which gradually developed in the Soviet Union. The process of its formation, enrichment and transformation into an effective force for the construction and transformation of a new type of social structure - a socialist society is described and explained. Both positive and problematic situations in the attitude to labor of various social and class groups, as well as ways of resolving emerging contradictions are considered. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of new forms of labor organization in accordance with the needs of each stage in the development of Soviet society, the forms and methods of motivating workers to productive work, the search for creative abilities and their implementation, as well as ways to overcome the contradictions that arise in the process of achieving the goal of creating an industrial power, which was created by 1941, when the Great Patriotic War began and it was necessary to restructure many aspects of the life of society and people, including in the labor sphere.
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Hubbert, Jennifer. "Biography of a Chairman Mao Badge: The Creation and Mass Consumption of a Personality Cult." American Ethnologist 29, no. 2 (2002): 444–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ae.2002.29.2.444.
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Ionesov, Vladimir, and Sergey Folomeev. "CARL BALLOD (KARLIS BALODIS): REFLECTIONS ON THE SOCIETY OF THE FUTURE." Bulletin of Chelyabinsk State University 474, no. 4 (2023): 71–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.47475/1994-2796-2023-474-4-71-77.
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The article shows the diffi cult path of fi nding approaches to the society of the future by Karl Ballod (Karlis Balodis), a well-known Russian, Latvian and German economist, demographer and statistician, professor at the Berlin and Latvian universities, later presented by him in his work “A look into the state of the future. Production and Consumption in a Welfare State”, put by the leaders of the young Soviet state as the basis of the GOELRO plan.
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Price, Ludi, and Lyn Robinson. "‘Being in a knowledge space’: Information behaviour of cult media fan communities." Journal of Information Science 43, no. 5 (2016): 649–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0165551516658821.
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This article describes the first two parts of a three-stage study investigating the information behaviour of fans and fan communities, focusing on fans of cult media. A literature analysis shows that information practices are an inherent and major part of fan activities, and that fans are practitioners of new forms of information consumption and production, showing sophisticated activities of information organisation and dissemination. A subsequent Delphi study, taking the novel form of a ‘serious leisure’ Delphi, in which the participants are not experts in the usual sense, identifies three aspects of fan information behaviour of particular interest beyond the fan context: information gatekeeping; classifying and tagging; and entrepreneurship and economic activity.
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Landsberger, Stefan R. "Biography of a Chairman Mao Badge: The Creation and Mass Consumption of a Personality Cult. Melissa Schrift." China Journal 49 (January 2003): 186–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3182217.
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Frank, Barbara. "Gendered Ritual Dualism in a Patrilineal Society: Opposition and Complementarity in Kulere Fertility Cults." Africa 74, no. 2 (2004): 217–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/afr.2004.74.2.217.
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AbstractAlthough a favourable position for women is usually anticipated where they occupy important economic roles in the context of matrilineal descent, such a position may well exist in a patrilineal society, especially if women organise as in West Africa. Here there exist well-organised women's cult associations which are well known from Liberia and Sierra Leone and occur also in western Cameroon and south-eastern Nigeria. The present article demonstrates the existence of a comparable women's association in middle-belt Nigeria among the Kulere. The article focuses mainly on the manner in which through the cooperation of certain men's and women's associations ‘gender symmetry’ was ritually expressed in the sphere of agriculture and fertility. The practical foundation of this symmetry in fertility cults was a relatively even division of labour between the sexes and a favourable position for women in marriage, since they could decide independently whether to stay with a husband or leave him. Cult associations were predominant in public life. Women were strictly excluded from men's associations which held political–ritual offices and channelled advantages in ritual consumption to men. Notwithstanding this exclusion, women had their own association in which they could regulate their own affairs as well as pass decisions for the whole community including the men. The women's organisation held major responsibilities for the protection and the fertility of the fields, both practically as well as ritually. In this responsibility the women's association cooperated with a men's association which otherwise intimidated women. This association of males protected the fields through the presence of supernatural guardians which was sometimes staged in masquerades. The corresponding duties and cooperation of both associations were enacted ritually through the use of common shrines and when the women contacted water spirits to increase the harvest under the protection of male masqueraders. The Kulere case shows a patrilineal society where women had a relatively independent position which was publicly acknowledged through gender dualism in the ritual organisation of agriculture in which their special capabilities with respect to fertility and sustainability were recognised.
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Falvey, Eddie. "Contemporary horror on physical media: prestige releasing and cult consumption in the case of Second Sight’s distribution practices." New Review of Film and Television Studies 22, no. 3 (2024): 853–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17400309.2024.2424017.
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Lavanya V. "SARSA-Based Reinforcement Learning Framework for Energy-Aware and Makespan-Optimized Workload Scheduling in Cloud Computing." Journal of Information Systems Engineering and Management 10, no. 1s (2024): 198–209. https://doi.org/10.52783/jisem.v10i1s.115.
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In fact, it’s no longer a question of whether users should utilize computational resources from the cloud — the question is rather how to do it. Dynamic workload scheduling is however diffi-cult to optimize because of the interplay between energy consumption and makespan. Lastly, to overcome this, we put forward a reinforcement learning (RL) framework grounded on SARSA, with the objective of achieving that balance between makespan and energy consumption. In-dependently it adapts scheduling decision for tasks based on real time workload characteristics, without compromising the throughput but optimization the energy consumed. Through exper-iment, our proposed SARSA based scheduling algorithm has been show to improve over tradi-tional scheduling strategies and can potentially save a large amount of energy and minimize makespan. In this work, an adaptive mechanism is proposed that allows tuning of the cloud computing service to optimize its sustainability while minimizing a deleterious effect on the service quality.
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Stozhko, Dmitry, and Natalia Stozhko. "Humanitarian Context of Modern Environmental Risks (Theoretical and Methodological Aspects)." E3S Web of Conferences 451 (2023): 01015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202345101015.
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The purpose of the study is a comparative analysis and assessment of the current environmental situation against the background of the global environmental crisis and constantly growing turbulence, uncertainty and environmental risks. The article reveals the humanitarian context of modern environmental risks caused by extensive industrial production, the cult of consumption and wastefulness that has lasted for many decades. The resulting “consumer society” brought the situation to a global environmental crisis and transferred itself into a “risk society.” In this regard, the article raises questions about the purposeful formation of environmental culture and improvement of the regulatory framework of environmental legislation, the development of environmental consciousness and environmental psychology. It is noted that economic or technical and technological tools alone were clearly not enough to overcome negative processes in the environment. The main condition for the implementation of the author's proposals is the rejection of wastefulness and so-called false needs in favor of frugality and moderation in the consumption of natural resources.
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Rychkova, O. V. "Smart drugs are as a dangerous model of psychoactive substance use." Современная зарубежная психология 10, no. 2 (2021): 44–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.17759/jmfp.2021100205.
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When examining the factors of the use of psychoactive substances (PAS) by young people, recreational consumption has traditionally been studied. The second well-known causal model to examine psychoactive substances was its interpretation as a way of coping with stress for persons with a limited number of adaptation strategies. But data from foreign studies show the development of a new practice of consumption of stimulants, including permitted drugs, in order to improve mental productivity, performance, and improve cognitive function. The pace of life, loads, complex tasks that have to be solved in adolescence are increasing. In conjunction with the models of social behavior influencing the modern young persons, with the cult of success, achievements, perfectionist attitudes, this creates the motivation for self-improvement. And unless ways of improving the body have repeatedly become the topic of scientific researches and publications, the desire to improve the one's own brain function stays in the shadows, it has not yet attracted attention of Russian specialists and needs to be studied. The article analyzes the data of empirical studies that indicate an increase in the consumption of nootropics and other stimulants by students to achieve academic success.
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Zhang, Yanchao, Chenjingyue Wu, and Xiangbo Liu. "The Development and Modern Transformation of Material Culture in the Worship of Mazu." Religions 14, no. 7 (2023): 826. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel14070826.
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Based on fieldwork and the analysis of the historical literature, this article studies the development of material culture in the cult of popular goddess Mazu, exploring in particular the materialization mechanisms and strategies deployed by various actors in her worship nowadays. Through the ages, people in China have expressed their religious feelings and experiences in the objects they display, worship, and exchange, as well as in the spaces that they build and inhabit. In this process, religious beliefs are externalized in forms of material culture, including symbols, texts, relics, music, and temples. As a result, these artifacts and places carry individual and collective memories and affects that allow believers to experience religion not only at special events like festivals and pilgrimages, but in everyday life. In modern China, the connotations and forms of material carriers have diversified. The rise of souvenirs and other forms of cultural consumption have transformed the materialization of religiosity. In the worship of Mazu, the relationship between pilgrimage, tourism, entertainment, and the production and circulation of commodities has become increasingly tight, changing the cult’s beliefs and their physical expression. That connection also brings social and economic sustenance to the local community. Taking the Mazu Temple in Meizhou as a case, this paper adopts a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach to examine the pilgrimage–tourism–commerce nexus, as well as other contemporary forms of the materialization of her cult.
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Ezzamel, Mahmoud. "ACCOUNTING AND REDISTRIBUTION: THE PALACE AND MORTUARY CULT IN THE MIDDLE KINGDOM, ANCIENT EGYPT." Accounting Historians Journal 29, no. 1 (2002): 61–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.2308/0148-4184.29.1.61.
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This paper examines detailed historical material drawn from primary sources to explore the role of accounting practices in the functioning of several key stages of the redistributive economy of the Middle Kingdom, ancient Egypt. First, the paper attends to the role of accounting in securing a regular flow of commodities to the state, in the form of taxation in kind. The historical material suggests clearly that accounting practices played a crucial role in levying and collecting precise tax liabilities, and in monitoring the storing of commodities in state granaries and storehouses. The second level of analysis is concerned with the role of accounting in coordinating the outflow of commodities to consumption units focusing on two examples. The first relates to the role of accounting in the distribution of food provisions to members of the Royal family and palace dependents while on a journey; the second examines the role of accounting in the writing and execution of a series of contracts to promote the mortuary cult of a dead individual. In both cases, the paper argues that the accounting practices were linked strongly to the social, political and economic contexts within which these accounting practices functioned.
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Vorobei, Roman. "Mythological narratives of Japanese animation: the memory of the collective unconscious in the culture of consumerism." Skhid 6, no. 4 (2024): 42–46. https://doi.org/10.21847/2411-3093.2024.648.
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The article explores the use of mythological narratives in Japanese animation as part of collective memory in the context of consumer culture. The author analyses symbolic and archetypal images in popular animated works such as Spirited Away, Gyakkyō Burai Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor, Death Note and Death Parade, which reflect the transformation of values, the crisis of freedom and the loss of authenticity in the context of the modern consumer society. Particular attention is paid to the idea of consumption as a new religion that creates a cult of material wealth and status, and its impact on the formation of public consciousness. The article examines how Japanese animation uses ancient mythological motifs and archetypes of the collective unconscious to criticise consumerism, but at the same time these motifs are often integrated into the system of consumption, becoming part of it. The work aims to explore the dual role of mythological narratives: as a means of criticism and as an element that reproduces consumer culture, and their significance in the philosophical understanding of the modern world.
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Farkić, Jelena, and Steve Taylor. "Rethinking Tourist Wellbeing through the Concept of Slow Adventure." Sports 7, no. 8 (2019): 190. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/sports7080190.
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The necessity for humans inhabiting the 21st century to slow down and take time to carry out daily practices frames the discourse of this research note. We suggest reconceptualising tourist wellbeing through the concept of slow adventure, as a response to the cult of speed and as a vehicle for engaging in deep, immersive and more meaningful experiences during journeys in the outdoors. We suggest that slow adventure has the potential to improve people’s general health and wellbeing through mindful enjoyment and consumption of the outdoor experience and thus bring people back to a state of mental and physical equilibrium. In so doing, we argue that extending the concept to include discussions around the psychological and social aspects of slow adventure is needed.
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Förster, Hans. "Die Perikope von der Hochzeit zu Kana ( Joh 2:1-11) im Kontext der Spätantike." Novum Testamentum 55, no. 2 (2013): 103–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685365-12341420.
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Abstract One focus of the interpretation of the Wedding at Cana ( John 2:1-11) is usually the abundance of wine. The amount of water in the six large jars, which is changed into wine, seems to be enormous. However, the amount is traditionally not put into the context of the average consumption of wine in antiquity. Archaeological and papyrological sources suggest that—in the context of antiquity—the amount seems not to be extraordinarily large. Rather, the amount of wine seems to be sufficient just for a “common household.” This is important for the interpretation of the entire passage: The “abundance of wine” is very often related to the hypothesis that this supposed abundance is to be seen in the context of the attempt to surpass the cult of Dionysos.
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Piluso, Francesco. "Collecting objects, becoming human subjects: The fetishism of collection in modern myths and narratives." Punctum. International Journal of Semiotics 09, no. 01 (2023): 153–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.18680/hss.2023.0009.
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Despite sharing some structural analogy with the processes of technical reproduction and commodities consumption, implying the passive cult of the serial objects and their fetishized value, the practice of collecting fosters the active role of the collector in restoring the historical and cultural meaning of material things. The simple syntactic logic of collection is enriched by accumulating new elements but mainly through their constant reassembling in original dispositions. The practice of collecting in modern mythology and narratives attests to human fascination and a fatal attraction to specific sets of objects. This is the case of some Disney and Disney-Pixar animated movies such as The Little Mermaid (1989), and Wall-E (2008), where collecting is a fundamental factor in the process of humanization of the main characters, who undergo a physical and existential transformation through the subjective consumption and resemantization of material remains. A blinding light emanates from the familiar relics collected by Jonathan in the movie Everything is Illuminated (2005). The memory of the past and the beginning of a new story transcend the limits of the collection and require the subject to break free from the objects’ enchantment.
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Kim, Kihyung, SangLin Han, and Yunchang Shin. "The Effect of Consumption Values in Luxury Brands on Cult Intention : Focusing on the Mediating Effects of Positive Affect and Compatibility." Journal of Society of Korea Industrial and Systems Engineering 43, no. 2 (2020): 98–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.11627/jkise.2020.43.2.098.
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Doherty, Bernard. "Sensational Scientology!" Nova Religio 17, no. 3 (2013): 38–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nr.2014.17.3.38.
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The role of communications and information media long has been acknowledged as a key factor in religious controversy. Since the 1970s “cult wars,” new religions scholars have focused considerable attention on how the media communicate, influence and frame public perception of new religious movements. In this article, I briefly survey ways in which constant changes in communications media and consumption require scholars to reassess interaction between the media and new religious movements. Using as a test-case the Church of Scientology’s interaction with Australian “tabloid television” programs in a series of heavily publicized controversies, I outline some traditional journalistic practices and media constraints, identified by scholars, in television coverage of Scientology in Australia. I will introduce a series of additional practices and contingent factors dealing specifically with tabloid television which may assist scholars in assessing the complex relationship between the media and new religions.
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Turcanu, Florin-Emilian, Marina Verdes, Vasilica Ciocan, Catalin George Popovici, and Sebastian Valeriu Hudisteanu. "The indoor climate modelling and the economic analysis regarding the energetic rehabilitation of church." Technium: Romanian Journal of Applied Sciences and Technology 1 (January 31, 2020): 67–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.47577/technium.v1i.116.
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The paper describes the behaviour of a heating system with radiators in a cult building. There has commonly used in many churches with many shortcomings. The temperature distribution in the analysed space is simulated in 2D. The simulation is based on an example, the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Jassy. The heating system with radiators simulated with the FLUENT program, the results being edifying for the factual state of the building. An important aspect is the impact of these heating systems on the works of art, the church being the 18th — century edifice. Current environmental issues lead to the continuous development of technologies used to reduce primary energy consumption. Churches are an invaluable wealth, sheltering heritage elements preserved in museums and historic buildings. Unheated churches have been used for centuries. Then, after installing one or more different heating systems, signs of rapid degradation appeared.
 
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Đerić, Gordana. "Food – The Story of Our Life: A Contribution to the Studies of Food and the Anthropology of Taste." Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology 8, no. 1 (2016): 41. http://dx.doi.org/10.21301/eap.v8i1.2.
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By approaching the phenomenon of food (consumption) as an identity issue of the first order, as man’s alimentary, only true biography, and an authentic expression of self and experience, but also as a key phenomenon in the development of man and mankind, the author points toward the anthropologically relevant aspects of research pertaining to food (the mythological, cultural and historical, economic, aesthetic, linguistic, political). The development of the art and philosophy of food (consumption) is considered in the context of history of the ideas of Epicureanism, empiricism and lametrism, as well as in the context of the end of the cult of culture” in its traditional meaning. Moving between issues of art theory and epistemology, the author pays special attention to the causes of the theoretical neglect of the senses of taste and smell, historical reasons of the second-rate position of gastronomy among the other sciences and arts, as well as changes taking place at the end of the “short 20th century” which enabled a revolution in aesthetics and social values – the expansion of food studies and the art of cookery. Thus the aim of the paper is twofold: on the one hand it is an attempt to shed some light on the history of this revolution in the context of the theoretical and aesthetic relationship toward food and the art of its preparation, and on the other, it should be an argument incentive to have the basic issue of food (consumption) find its way onto our own academic menu.
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Briceño-León, Roberto. "Urban violence and public health in Latin America: a sociological explanatory framework." Cadernos de Saúde Pública 21, no. 6 (2005): 1629–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0102-311x2005000600002.
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Interpersonal violence has become one of the main public health issues in Latin American cities. This article presents a framework for sociological interpretation that operates on three levels, expressed in the factors that originate, foment, or facilitate violence. Macro-social factors include: social inequality due to the increase in wealth versus poverty; the paradox of more schooling with fewer employment opportunities; increasing expectations and the impossibility of meeting them; changes in family structure; and loss of importance of religion in daily life. At the meso-social level the analysis highlights: increased density in poor areas and urban segregation; masculinity cult; and changes in the local drug market. The micro-social level includes: an increase in the number of firearms; alcohol consumption; and difficulties in verbal expression of feelings. The article concludes with an analysis of how violence is leading to the breakdown not only of urban life but also of citizenship as a whole in Latin America.
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Branković, Suada, Mersa Šegalo, Arzija Pašalić, et al. "Awareness and attitude of secondary school students about drug use." Journal of Health Sciences 3, no. 1 (2013): 55–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.17532/jhsci.2013.30.
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Introduction: Problem of addiction on psychoactive substances is one of the most diffi cult problems in a modern society, which brings serious consequences, both for the individual, his environment and the whole society.Methods: The study included 95 children and adolescents of medical school. Among the respondents, there were 44 subjects of third year of high school and 51 respondent-grader.Results: Students involved in this research as an answer to why young people start using drugs often reported curiosity in over 50% of cases, as well as pressure of friends. For students who use narkotine respondents generally thought they are reasonable and sufficiently weak and limited personality. Thelargest number of high school students who were involved in the study did not know the individuals who use drugs.Conclusion: Drug addiction is a serious problem all over the country, and the number of addicts is becoming larger. Particularly worrisome is the fact that the consumption of the drug phenomenon is a characteristic of young population, especially high school students
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Dovgan, Anatoliy. "Demonstrative consumption - the way of life of part of the elite group of citizens of Ukraine." Socio-Economic Problems and the State 25, no. 2 (2021): 722–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.33108/sepd2022.02.722.
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The essence of demonstrative consumption of material and spiritual goods in modern Ukraine are researched in the article. Consumer activity is seen as a process of conscious active behavior based on the needs and excessive financial capabilities of a person with the use of social benefits intended for material and spiritual development. Therefore, consumer activity can be considered as an element of the way of life of a person, and the cult of demonstrative consumption – an integral part of the way of life of a particular social stratum of the population of Ukraine. The emergence of distorted in the value dimension of some forms of commodity fetishism is revealed. In representatives of a particular social group (stratum), it asserts itself in the form of consumption of various objects of human activity. Such objects are not only material things, but also materialized cultural values, cultural mass events (theatrical performances, private parties with the participation of famous actors of theater and cinema and music, dance and singing shows). Functional and social properties and characteristics of things affect a person's acceptance of the way they are consumed. It is noted that people of this execution are beginning to demonstrate their own lifestyle, just as people of the previous, less overwhelmed by the choice of the era (twentieth century), consumed ordinary foods. In the context of the basic worldview principles of secular humanism, the significance of the "lazy class" theory of the famous American economist, sociologist and psychologist T. Veblen for the scientific analysis of everyday behavior of such representatives of the modern Ukrainian elite is revealed. Emphasis is placed on the manifestation of Ukrainian patronage in the late twentieth and early twentieth centuries.
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Orzechowski, Paweł. "Stres, przemiany tożsamości i konsumeryzm — wyzwania współczesnej młodzieży." Studia Europaea Gnesnensia, no. 10 (January 1, 2014): 231–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/seg.2014.10.11.
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Every day, contemporary youngsters face limitations and exploit the possibilities offered by the global reality. The conditions which characterise the beginning of the 21st century are vastly different from the times in which their parents and grandparents grew up. It would be futile to look for any kind of order in the world today, be it political, moral or economic one. The young, who experience temporariness and constant change, have to develop their own measures of coping with post-modern challenges. The principal issue presented in this paper is the occurrence of information and relational stress. The fast pace of local migration, the overload of information, the weakening of social bonds and the relationships lasting “here and now” are the shameful markers of the lifestyle of young people. These are also constitutive traits which distinguish contemporary teenagers from their predecessors. In the subsequent section, the author considers excessive consumption as a modern form of cult. Finally, attention is drawn to the incoherent and continually evolving identity of individuals, who seek to determine their place within the contemporary social structures.
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Durst, Elizabeth. "Designs for Everyone: Transforming Women’s Fashions in Early Twentieth-Century Russia." Experiment 22, no. 1 (2016): 72–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2211730x-12341279.
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The world of women’s fashion in early twentieth-century Russia provides a rich context for measuring shifts in class identity and in gender norms, as the major cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg were witnessing broad social transformation. If not for the Revolution, the late-Imperial period may well have anticipated the mature markets of the West, where haute couture and the garment industry fueled widespread consumption and became what are now essential components of modern collective social behavior. In Russia, the intensified urbanization of the early twentieth century also ushered in the rise of new forms of popular culture, which often intersected with the world of women’s fashion. Specialized periodicals, such as fashion magazines and the new art of cinema, fueled a cult interest in the latest sartorial trends. A reflection of this phenomenon can also be found in Teffi’s (pseudonym of Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Lokhvitskaia, 1872-1953) broadly circulated stories, which allowed readers to better understand the perceived transformative power of fashion, even when expressed on the seemingly minor level of a small collar or hat.
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Denysenko, Anatolii. "Capitalism as religion: From Max Weber to Giorgio Agamben through Walter Benjamin." Filosofska dumka (Philosophical Thought) -, no. 1 (2021): 105–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.15407/fd2021.01.105.
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The article, based on the work “Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism” explores the concept of «capitalism» by Max Weber, as well as a critique of capitalism itself based on the texts of Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben. All three authors have different views on the nature of capitalism. If Weber is positive about capitalism, Benjamin and Weber see it as a danger. Weber approaches the issue from the point of view of Protestant practice, Benjamin and Agamben see capitalism as a parasite that uses Christian theology for its own useful purposes. Weber writes about the “spirit” of capitalism, Benjamin and Agamben write about capitalism as a form of religion. Weber wrote that «unbridled lust» is by no means identical with capitalism, much less its «spirit». Weber characterizes capitalism through such virtues as honesty, punctuality, diligence, moderation. Benjamin suggested that «Christianity during the Reformation did not contribute to the advent of capitalism, but was transformed into capitalism». He writes that capitalism is perhaps the most extreme of all religious cults, because it is based on a purely psychological connection to the object being fetishized. This cult, devoid of ideology or theology, exists solely through the continuous performance of its rituals — the purchase of goods and their consumption. Agamben asks very important question: “if capitalism is a religion, how do we interpret it in terms of faith? What does capitalism believe in?” He writes that capitalism is a religion based on faith. Capitalism is not simply the secularization of the Protestant faith. Agamben writes that capitalism is a religion where faith and credit replace God. Ever since money became a pure form of trust, capitalism has become a religion in which money is the God.
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Daulay, Resneri. "CONSUMERISM OF LEISURE CLASS IN SINGAPORE IN KEVIN KWAN’S CRAZY RICH ASIANS: A SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACH." Lire Journal (Journal of Linguistics and Literature) 5, no. 1 (2021): 35–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.33019/lire.v5i1.101.
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This research entitled “Consumerism of Leisure Class in Singapore in Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians: A Sociological Approach”. The purpose of this study is to analyze the leisure class reflected in Singapore in the novel Crazy Rich Asians. In addition, the aim of this research is to reveal the consumerism of leisure class in Crazy Rich Asians. This novel contained the aspect about the style of consumer in Singapore.
 This study used the mimetic approach by M.H. Abrams. The research used qualitative method to analyze the data. This study is used two main concepts of theory of leisure class by Thorstein Veblen, these are conspicuous leisure and conspicuous consumption. The research applied the data of Singaporeans leisure class in the book Understanding Singaporeans: Values, Lifestyle, Aspirations and Consumption Behaviours by Keng et al. This study also applied the concept of uniquely Singaporean mindset in the book entitled The Cult of the Luxury Brand: Inside Asia’s Love affair with Luxury by Chadha and Paul as a tool to analyze the consumerism of leisure class in the novel Crazy Rich Asians.
 In this study, the researcher found two main results. First, this study indicated conspicuous leisure as a signal of leisure class in Crazy Rich Asians based on seven leisure activities of Singaporean. They are sports, social, self-improvement, various charity, travel, home, and other activities. Second, the study discover the consumerism of leisure class in the novel Crazy Rich Asians and uniquely Singaporean mindset as a main result of consumerism of leisure class in Singapore reflected in the novel Crazy Rich Asians.
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Stephanie, Seneff. "Autoimmune Disease: Budget-buster or Enlightened Solutions? (The coming epidemic and the new administration in Washington)." Archives of Community Medicine and Public Health 3, no. 1 (2017): 032–40. https://doi.org/10.17352/2455-5479.000022.
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A rising epidemic among Americans threatens to disrupt the new US administration’s promise of affordable health insurance for all. The epidemic consists of a dramatic and ongoing increase in the incidence of autoimmune diseases (AD) across the populations of nearly all Western countries, diagnosed under approximately 100 different disease labels, and currently estimated to affl ict up to 50 million Americans. One potential reason for the epidemic appears to be autoimmune reactions in people to immune ‘triggers’ in foods, a prime example of which may be the newly described GMO foods’ antigenic glyphosate-induced misfolded proteins. An analysis was undertaken, using a case study approach, to compare the relative cost/benefi t ratios of treating the oncoming AD epidemic among Americans using the standard medicine (SM) pharmaceutical immunosuppression drug treatment model as compared to treating AD using a functional medicine (FM) approach of probiotics, lifestyle modifi cation and improved diet choices along with governmental regulations to reduce consumption of trigger foods. We conclude that, for the American people over the next 10 years, applying only SM could cost up to $2 trillion more than a potentially equally or more effective diagnosis and treatment program emphasizing FM and government action to reduce trigger food consumption and avoid confounding infl uences from industry. While these two models are not mutually exclusive, our analysis suggests that the US government has a series of diffi cult choices ahead which will impact both its population’s health and the affordability of their health insurance over the next decade and beyond.
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Zhurkova, Daria A. "“Old songs about the main things” TV project. Interpretation of the Soviet culture’s leitmotifs." Vestnik slavianskikh kul’tur [Bulletin of Slavic Cultures] 59 (2021): 33–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2021-59-33-47.
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The paper deals with reinterpreting of the Soviet culture’s mythologemes in “Old songs about the main things” TV-project (1995–2001). Over the course of three parts of the project, one may observe some features of reconstructing of three main topics: labor, interpersonal relations and ideological clichés. The realities of the nineties had a great influence on the development of these topics. Whereas in the first part of the TV-project, along with irony, there was a certain nostalgia for the orderly mode and visual results of agricultural activities, the third part, instead of poetizing the image of the Soviet worker, seeks to reflect complexity of organization and tension of the show industry functioning. The theme of interpersonal relations is also undergoing a fundamental transformation. Compared to the first part, where the authors tried to recreate the lost feeling of unconditional benevolence towards others, in subsequent parts there is an ironic deconstruction of the very possibility of sincere feelings, which are replaced by the cult of a lone star. The script of the TV-project is also abundant in ideological clichés of the Soviet era, which, interspersed with re-advertised slogans, revealed semantic emptiness of the new consumption ideology.
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Vaz, Andréa Arruda, Marco Antônio Lima Berberi, and Tais Martins. "Obesidade e Direito – Entre a Estética e a Saúde: A Cirurgia Bariátrica e a Fulguração por Argônio para o Enfrentamento da Gordofobia." REVISTA INTERNACIONAL CONSINTER DE DIREITO 14, no. 14 (2022): 451–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.19135/revista.consinter.00014.21.
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Bariatric surgery and the subsequent flashes of argon appear in a dichotomous discourse, which demonstrates that the long-awaited definitive solution to the problem of obesity has not been effective. Health and obesity are subjects of study and research that are thought provoking in different fields of knowledge; be it in Fashion, Science, Psychology, Aesthetics, Law, Literature and Dramaturgy, all of them are linked, in a certain way, to the cult of the body and the search for aesthetic standards. The media and social networks aim at weight control that focuses on the consumer market, be it fashion, health or beauty. They serve as an organizer of individuals' direct and indirect choices regarding food, clothing, alcohol intake or use of dietary supplements. In theory they would culminate in a balanced body that is acceptable to consumption patterns, but not always healthy. Gordophobia is not just in fashion magazines – little or nothing inclusive. It is also in the workplace and everywhere, because it is prejudice that lurks in social relations without being noticed and often permeated by trivialized statements. Law as an agent that promotes inclusion and respect for equality in the face of constitutional law.
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Livinskaya, S. A. "Evaluation of some consumer properties of hemp oil." Tovaroved prodovolstvennykh tovarov (Commodity specialist of food products), no. 1 (January 1, 2024): 11–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.33920/igt-01-2401-02.
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The largest share in the actual production and consumption of vegetable oils falls on sunflower oil and is about 86%. Meanwhile, among agricultural crops there are those that can be used for the production of vegetable oils for food and cosmetic purposes. Since 1992, a movement has begun in the world to restore hemp production, but in the Russian Federation, despite government subsidies, hemp production does not expand due to the lack of specialized equipment and diffi cult licensing. Hemp oil from the seeds of hemp (Cannabis sativa Linnaeus) is included in the country's regulations and can be circulated in the market. The oil belongs to linoleic/linolenic oils and, depending on the region of cultivation, diff ers signifi cantly in fatty acid composition. Hemp oils are characterized by the presence of 46–70% linoleic acid (C18:2, two double bonds) and 26–28% linolenic acid (C18:3). The amount of monounsaturated oleic acid is 6–16%. The amount of saturated fatty acid is 16%. In the USA, Canada, Italy, and the Czech Republic, the modern Finola variety is cultivated, the fatty acid composition of the oil of which is almost 90% represented by unsaturated fatty acids.
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Bryndin, Evgeny. "Biblical View of the Causes and Essence of Disease." New Medical Innovations and Research 5, no. 5 (2024): 01–04. https://doi.org/10.31579/2767-7370/108.
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The Holy Scriptures contain specialized references to diseases. References to diseases are very numerous and are found in books of a wide variety of contents. We can find mention of diseases in historical narratives, in edifying reflections, in teachings, and in psalms, as well as in discussions of issues related to ritual purity and temple cult. The Old Testament mentions dozens of different diseases: infertility, pestilence, consumption, fever, fever, inflammation, leprosy, scabs, scabies, insanity, blindness, heart attack, etc. In the New Testament, the topic of illness and healing occupies a very prominent place. Most of the stories about the miracles of the Savior convey cases of miraculous healing: the healing of Peter’s mother-in-law, the centurion’s servant, a bent woman, a bleeding woman, a man born blind, ten lepers and many others (of the 36 miracles mentioned in the Gospels, 26, i.e. more than two-thirds - these are cases associated with healing). Having fallen through the sin of disobedience from the divine power that sanctifies and replenishes nature, man dooms himself to illness and suffering: “in illness you will give birth to children” (Genesis 3:16), God addresses Eve. Diseases are associated with sin, suffering and death.
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Margolin, Andrey. "Professional development of managerial staff as a necessary condition for ensuring real sovereignty." Public Administration 26, no. 4 (2024): 6–18. https://doi.org/10.22394/2070-8378-2024-26-4-6-18.
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Acquiring sovereignty is the top priority for socio-economic development in the new geopolitical reality characterized by the shift from a unipolar to a polycentric world. This is necessary to accomplish the Russian Federation’s national goals. Furthermore, if the Russian Federation’s military-political sovereignty is undeniable, then some issues, primarily in education, must be resolved to consistently guarantee various forms of sovereignty, including technological, financial, trade, economic, informational, cultural, and personnel sovereignty. Among them, the formation of a new managerial elite possessing clusters of professional competencies with the following characteristics deserves special attention: ethics and values – «from the contemporary cult of consumption to achieving sustainable development goals and guaranteeing security»; interdisciplinary knowledge and strategic thinking – from an emphasis on maximizing short-term benefits to longterm priorities; communication – from excessive administration and authoritarian management to comprehending the growing demands of a contemporary manager, the growth of digital competencies, and a corporate culture; effective management skills – minimizing professional risks, reducing the fear of making decisions, taking responsibility for inaction, and fostering trust between the government, private sector, and civil society; efficient resource management, including resource conservation and waste reduction.
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Palatkin, Vladimir Vladimirovich. "Modern approaches towards the study of food culture in foreign scientific discourse." Человек и культура, no. 6 (June 2021): 49–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-8744.2021.6.34248.
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The subject of this research is the modern scientific discourse on food culture, while the object is the foreign approaches towards the study of food culture. Research dedicated to food culture is a crucial part of modern scientific discourse. The goal of this article lies in determination of the key approaches towards the study of food culture. The majority of foreign researchers claim that the modern study of nutrition shifted towards examination of the communicative aspects of food consumption (identity, cultural symbolism, social activity, etc.). From year to year, food and its consumption are explored by mass media and non-specialists as a form of art, leisure, source of social status, as well as method to express social / global differences, which manifests in the growing number of “trendy” food practices, magazine and newspaper publications, video blogs, cooking shows, etc. The author’s special contribution consists in outlining the three main approaches towards the study of nutrition: natural scientific, anthropological, and sociological. The natural scientific approach is associated with the basic principle of vitality of nutrition for people, which at the present stage is turning into a cult of healthy eating. The anthropological approach is based on determination of the anthropic characteristics of nutrition and is ramified and multidisciplinary. A special place is assigned to culturological direction. The sociological approach is focused of revelation of the role of alimentary culture in strengthening of social ties, social differentiation and integration on the micro- and macro levels. However, due to broadening of the research field related to nutrition, such classification can be elaborated.
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Gil-Quintana, Javier, Sonia Santoveña-Casal, and Efrén Romero Riaño. "Realfooders Influencers on Instagram: From Followers to Consumers." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 4 (2021): 1624. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18041624.
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(1) Background: Realfooders have positioned themselves in social networks such as Instagram by posting photographs of recipes, advises, habits and nutritional behaviours which are advertised as reliable nutritional patterns and by their self-promotion as highly trained people in the field of nutrition which sometimes jeopardises the health of digital citizenry. (2) Methods: In this article, we develop a quantitative study for analysing the influence of selected Realfooders on 2,866,980 followers on Instagram, taking into account channel variables (gender, location, interests and motivations), followers’ variables (engagement, interaction and consumption) and some variables related to the message of 54 posts about breakfast. (3) Results: Selected Realfooders concentrate their followers in Spain, mostly women between 18 and 24 and between 35 and 44 years old who link their interests on food to the cult of the body and recreational areas. On the other hand, the content generated by Realfooders has been increasing its impact using advertising and marketing techniques for awaking consumer’s interest. (4) Conclusions: Educational and social agents are facing the challenge of low health literacy in young population. Therefore, it is necessary to design and implement strategies for developing critical thinking that allow them to assess the content generated by Realfooders and identify which recommendations can be harmful or beneficial to their health.
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Bryndin, Evgeny. "The Impact of Physical Activity on Overall Health and Quality of Life in Older adults." New Medical Innovations and Research 5, no. 6 (2024): 01–04. https://doi.org/10.31579/2767-7370/118.
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The Holy Scriptures mentions personified diseases. References to diseases are very numerous and are found in books of a wide variety of contents. We can find mention of diseases in historical narratives, in edifying reflections, in teachings, and in psalms, as well as in discussions of issues related to ritual purity and temple cult. The Old Testament mentions dozens of different diseases: infertility, pestilence, consumption, fever, fever, inflammation, leprosy, scabs, scabies, insanity, blindness, heart attack, etc. In the New Testament, the topic of illness and healing occupies a very prominent place. Most of the stories about the miracles of the Savior convey cases of miraculous healing: the healing of Peter’s mother-in-law, the centurion’s servant, a bent woman, a bleeding woman, a man born blind, ten lepers and many others (of the 36 miracles mentioned in the Gospels, 26, i.e. more than two-thirds - these are cases associated with healing). Having fallen through the sin of disobedience from the divine power that sanctifies and replenishes nature, man dooms himself to illness and suffering: “in illness you will give birth to children” (Genesis 3:16), God addresses Eve. Diseases are associated with sin, suffering and death. Jesus Christ healed not only all kinds of diseases, but also all kinds of infirmities (Matthew 4:23).
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Morozov, А. Y. "THE ESSENCE OF A HUMAN BEING AND "OTHERWORLDLY": ETHICAL AND METAPHYSICAL VIEWS." UKRAINIAN CULTURAL STUDIES, no. 1 (4) (2019): 5–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/ucs.2019.1(4).01.
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The article shows that the elimination of the metaphysical concepts of "essence", "nature", "transcendental" makes it impossible for a person to set apart the poles of "being" and "due". And therefore it makes impossible the ethics itself. The metaphysical apriorism can justify the latter. The approaches of positivism and historicism in the moral sciences both destroy the tradition of natural law, undermines the theoretical foundation of democracy and European universalism. It is noted that the basis for the disclosure of the essence of human is participation in the otherworldly realm (G. Hegel). In the experience of the latter, the transcendence of the daily mode of being, the rise of natural existence to the level of "supernatural" occurs. The otherworldly comes in two versions: the strong version of the non-world is the sacred mystery of the divine, and the weak one is the romanticized space of a fairy tale. The fairy serves as a substitute for the sacred in the post-enlightenment era and performs therapeutic and preventive functions in the treatment of the moral diseases of our time – cynical mind, individualism, relativism, cult of consumption. It is noted that the absence of the otherworldly as a meta-value in the cultural space of a modern secular person leads to the fall of the natural (essentially human) mode of existence to an unnatural level, in a state of dehumanization.
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Bogachev, Aleksei M., Alexander M. Prilutsky, and Galina I. Teplykh. "Extremist behavior as an “act of communication”: A theological and psychological analysis." Issues of Theology 3, no. 2 (2021): 267–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/spbu28.2021.209.
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This article attempts to interpret extremist behavior in the adolescent and youth environment as a kind of “act of distorted communication”. At the same time, if such interpretations have been made within the materialistic (in particular, psychoanalytic) paradigm for a long time, then the interpretation of the factors of extremist activity at the junction of Orthodox theology and deep psychology is quite an innovative approach. This approach allows us to correctly “decipher” the message “embedded” in extremist behavior, and directly address the originally natural and healthy needs of the soul distorted by this conduct. The article notes that theology, especially practical theology, is able to actualize the spiritual needs sometimes hidden in the subconscious of young people. As shown by the research conducted by the team of the Laboratory of Religious Studies of the Herzen State Pedagogical University, this is a result of young people conducting a persistent spiritual search at the unconscious level. This search is largely conducted in a dimension that relates to one of the commandments given to people by Jesus Christ: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself ”. The article also concludes that the prevention of extremist behavior in the modern Russian youth environment must necessarily include an appeal to the immanent domestic culture of the need for participation and transcendence, as opposed to both the cult of consumption and destructive ideologies of an extremist nature.