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Saburova, Vera I. "Issues of Ethics in Prenatal Diagnostics." Studies in Christian Ethics 24, no. 4 (November 2011): 470–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0953946811415016.
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Aspects of the current practice of prenatal diagnostics in Russia are surveyed. In the light of this, various ethical concerns are highlighted: (1) the requirement of parental informed consent to testing is not always sufficiently respected either in state regulation or in the practice of physicians; (2) not all Russian physicians are aware of international guidelines or standards of good practice in areas such as non-directive counselling, patient confidentiality with respect to genetic information and the patient’s right to maintain control over his or her information; (3) abortion is viewed increasingly as an aspect of preventive medicine.
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Riley, David G. "37 Genetic aspects of livestock adaptation." Journal of Animal Science 97, Supplement_3 (December 2019): 35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jas/skz258.069.
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Abstract Livestock adaptation to less than favorable ambient has a genetic basis. Estimates of additive genetic variance and narrow sense heritability for % intramuscular fat in Hereford varied across United States geography quantifications evaluated in random regression analyses. Shedding and regrowth of winter coats of Angus cows in subtropical areas may indicate differential adaptation in cattle not adapted to the subtropics. Acquired adaptation to local conditions (multiple generations across more than 50 years) may was evidenced by performance of Florida Angus relative to prominent U.S. Angus in subtropical Florida; later sexual maturation may be a prominent component of such adaptation, and increasing milk production may be antagonistic to adaptation in natural conditions. Cattle temperament may be indicative of adaptation and is highly heritable; however, results from random regression analyses suggest that the additive genetic component appears to decrease in importance and the permanent environmental component of phenotype appears to become more important as calves age. Crossbreeding represents a proven strategy to improve adaptation almost immediately. Heterosis influences cattle body temperature maintenance, reproduction, survival, and, to a lesser extent, temperament in subtropical or other stressful environmental conditions (for example, in toxic fescue). Prenatal stress alters patterns of methylation (and likely other epigenetic mechanisms) and thereby encourages or inhibits gene expression to promote postnatal fitness. Brahman exposed to prenatal stress exhibited substantially different patterns of methylation across the genome in lymphocytes in both male and female calves; those patterns differed by sex. Female longevity may be the ultimate adaptation trait, as annual compliance to reproductive standards may be an appropriate assessment of a combination of attributes that represent adaptation. Longevity has documented heterotic influence; the additive genetic component is less well characterized but real. A simple, effective way to improve longevity may be to select bulls from aged, proven cows.
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Umeanolue, Ikenna L. "Religious influences on politics in Nigeria: Implications for national development." OGIRISI: a New Journal of African Studies 15, no. 1 (October 15, 2020): 139–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/og.v15i1.9s.
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The phenomenon of religious politics in Nigerian is an obvious one. In political aspects such as style of governance, policy formulations and the electoral process in Nigeria, religion has been a strong determining factor. However, the influence of religion on politics in Nigeria could be both positive and negative. In other words, as religion enhances national development, so also it could be counterproductive. This paper critically discusses the influence of religion on Nigerian politics especially in the post-independence Nigeria, with emphasis on the implications for national development. This study recommends ways of ensuring the sustenance of the positive influence, as well as tackling the challenges of the negative influences. In practising politics in Nigeria, adherence to religious moral values and observance of Nigerian constitution which makes provision for freedom of religion are necessary for achieving national development. The paper concludes that if the recommendations are practically observed, religion will cease to be an agent of disunity and backwardness in Nigerian nation
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Boomsma, DI, EJC de Geus, GCM van Baal, and JR Koopmans. "A religious upbringing reduces the influence of genetic factors on disinhibition: Evidence for interaction between genotype and environment on personality." Twin Research 2, no. 2 (April 1, 1999): 115–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1375/twin.2.2.115.
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AbstractInformation on personality, on anxiety and depression and on several aspects of religion was collected in 1974 Dutch families consisting of adolescent and young adult twins and their parents. Analyses of these data showed that differences between individuals in religious upbringing, in religious affiliation and in participation in church activities are not influenced by genetic factors. The familial resemblance for different aspects of religion is high, but can be explained entirely by environmental influences common to family members. Shared genes do not contribute to familial resemblances in religion. The absence of genetic influences on variation in several dimensions of religion is in contrast to findings of genetic influences on a large number of other traits that were studied in these twin families. Differences in religious background are associated with differences in personality, especially in Sensation Seeking. Subjects with a religious upbringing, who are currently religious and who engage in church activities score lower on the scales of the Sensation Seeking Questionnaire. The most pronounced effect is on the Disinhibition scale. The resemblances between twins for the Disinhibition scale differ according to their religious upbringing. Receiving a religious upbringing seems to reduce the influence of genetic factors on Disinhibition, especially in males.
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Radermacher, Martin. "Space, Religion, and Bodies: Aspects of Concrete Emplacements of Religious Practice." Journal of Religion in Europe 9, no. 4 (November 30, 2016): 304–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18748929-00904001.
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This article takes up the implications of the spatial turn in the wider context of a material turn (Manuel A. Vásquez) and deals with concrete emplacements of religion. It argues that the concrete, material space of religious practice is not just a passive stage, but itself has ‘agency,’ i.e. it shapes and facilitates discourse and embodiment of human actors in space. The materiality of space influences sensory perception, communication and embodiment, and also relates to imaginations about space as well as social norms. The emplacement of religious practice is illustrated by examples of rooms of silence and rooms of Christian fitness classes in the United States. The article opens a research area at the interface of architecture, spatial studies, embodiment studies, and the psychology of perception – and intends to make this encounter productive for the study of religions.
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Parncutt, Richard, and Robert Chuckrow. "Chuckrow’s theory of the prenatal origin of music." Musicae Scientiae 23, no. 4 (October 26, 2017): 403–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1029864917738130.
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In 1965, the second author, a graduate student in physics at New York University, drafted a paper entitled “Music: A synthesis of prenatal stimuli,” in which he proposed that structural elements of music such as rhythm and melody are analogs of fetal stimuli. In the 1980s, the first author independently published a similar theory. Both authors considered fetal perception of internal body sounds, correlations between those sounds and maternal states, the ability of the fetus to hear and remember sound patterns, biological and behavioral correlates of emotions shared by mother and fetus, transfer of hormones across the placenta, and effects of maternal psychopathology on infant behavior. Both argued that consideration of fetal consciousness is unnecessary because unconscious learning can influence later conscious behaviors and experiences. Chuckrow uniquely proposed that meter and polymeter, perceived as combinations of approximately isochronous pulses with one pulse in the foreground, might derive from the combined sound of maternal and fetal heartbeats as perceived by the fetus. We evaluate these theories in the context of more recent approaches to the origin of music. A systematic consideration of prenatal influences can parsimoniously explain communicative, emotional and structural aspects of music. Music may be a by-product of adaptations such as prenatal hearing and motherese that promoted infant survival in ancient hunter-gatherer settings.
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OKURE, SHCJ, TERESA. "‘I will open my mouth in parables’ (Matt 13.35): A Case for a Gospel-Based Biblical Hermeneutics." New Testament Studies 46, no. 3 (July 2000): 445–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0028688500000254.
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The study participates in the ongoing discussion of the relationship between hermeneutics and exegesis. A review of the main aspects of the discussion, the meanings of both terms, and key influences in modern biblical criticism reveals that hermeneutics is an operating fundamental in both ‘exegesis’ and ‘hermeneutics’. The study consequently proposes ‘exegetical hermeneutics’ as an integrative methodology which would place exegesis at the service of hermeneutics. Jesus’ use of parables models the salient aspects of the proposed ‘exegetical hermeneutics’. A concluding section highlights the implications of the proposed approach for NT scholarship.
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Sandsmark, Signe. "A Lutheran Perspective on Education." Journal of Education and Christian Belief 6, no. 2 (September 2002): 97–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/205699710200600203.
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THIS PAPER GIVES an account of some aspects of Christian education that are emphasized in Lutheran thinking on education. One of these aspects is a focus on education for everybody, not only Christians, another is the place of paradox and polar structure both in the theology and in the educational thinking. Maybe the most important paradox in this context is what Luther called the model of the two governments. The paper also mentions human finitude as a strongly emphasized aspect, and finally there are some thoughts about how a Lutheran perspective influences the curriculum.
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Salo, Hanna. "ANTHROPOLOGICAL VIEWS OF THE UKRAINIAN DIASPORA THINKERS: RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL INFLUENCES." Sophia. Human and Religious Studies Bulletin 13, no. 1 (2019): 46–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/sophia.2019.13.11.
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The study examines theoretical sources of the Ukrainian diaspora thinkers that influenced ideas about the person. Through the prism of the diversity of their creative heritage, one can identify the peculiar directions of their religious and philosophical vision, which was based on spirit, mind, heart, transcendence, which correlate with the Divine principle of human existence. It is emphasized that the ideas about a person of the Ukrainian diaspora thinkers were influenced, firstly, by religious ideas (ethnic religion, Christian anthropology); secondly, anthropological problems in the works of ancient Rus' thinkers (the development of the idea of cordocentrism); concepts about a person Gregory Skovoroda, Pamfil Yurkevich (the doctrine of the "internal" person, the heart as the focus of spirituality and morality) thirdly, the Western European philosophical anthropological tradition (psychoanalysis, existentialism, personalism, dialogism, etc.). Due to the existing positions, it can be established that the anthropological trend in the religious views of the Ukrainian diaspora was expressed in such positions: the anthropological perspective was comprehended against the background of a religious worldview, which was reflected in the model of the "man-God-peace" relationship. Diaspora scholars have identified man as the highest value, reflected in its everyday orientations and priorities. Their anthropological teaching is based on the existential-anthropological dominant, which largely determines the content and basic structural and semantic aspects of their religious and philosophical heritage. In fact, the assertion and actualization of diaspora discourse took place on the basis of a synthesis of the domestic religious and philosophical tradition and pan-European anthropological ideas. Intertwining into a kind of mosaic, various influences formed the syncretic religious-philosophical doctrine of person, which is key to the writings of diaspora thinkers.
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Orfali, Moisés. "Aspects of Spanish Acculturation among Moroccan Jews." European Judaism 52, no. 2 (September 1, 2019): 42–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ej.2019.520205.
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This discussion of the processes of Spanish acculturation among Moroccan Jews deals with influences that Spanish Jews brought to Morocco both before and after 1492, especially their regulations establishing a considerable improvement in the status of Jewish women and restrictions on expenditure on the occasion of family celebrations. In accordance with the Valladolid Takkanot (1432), they forbade the wearing of certain jewellery and the display of valuable finery. These social and ethical-religious measures also expressed a concern not to expose property and people to the envy of non-Jews. The megorashim (newcomers from Spain) spread the Castilian custom of ritual slaughter of animals for consumption. The re-Hispanisation of the Judeo-Spanish language (Ḥaketía) was consciously considered among the descendants of the megorashim as part of their Spanish identity and collective memory.
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Kolbutova, Irina. "Interrelation of Platonic and Jewish-Christian Aspects of the Symbolism of the Cross in the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles, Church Fathers and Christian Iconography." Scrinium 13, no. 1 (November 28, 2017): 309–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18177565-00131p21.
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Considering the symbolism of the cross in the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles, scholars interpreted it in terms of Platonic and Gnostic influences. In this article I made an attempt to demonstrate a more profound ancient mythological and Jewish-Christian mystical background of this symbolism, which can be traced later in Christian Patristic writings and iconographic patterns.
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Bunnik, Eline M., Adriana Kater-Kuipers, Robert-Jan H. Galjaard, and Inez D. de Beaufort. "Should pregnant women be charged for non-invasive prenatal screening? Implications for reproductive autonomy and equal access." Journal of Medical Ethics 46, no. 3 (September 16, 2019): 194–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2019-105675.
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The introduction of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) in healthcare systems around the world offers an opportunity to reconsider funding policies for prenatal screening. In some countries with universal access healthcare systems, pregnant women and their partners are asked to (co)pay for NIPT. In this paper, we discuss two important rationales for charging women for NIPT: (1) to prevent increased uptake of NIPT and (2) to promote informed choice. First, given the aim of prenatal screening (reproductive autonomy), high or low uptake rates are not intrinsically desirable or undesirable. Using funding policies to negatively affect uptake, however, is at odds with the aim of screening. Furthermore, copayment disproportionally affects those of lower socioeconomic status, which conflicts with justice requirements and impedes equal access to prenatal screening. Second, we argue that although payment models may influence pregnant women’s choice behaviours and perceptions of the relevance of NIPT, the copayment requirement does not necessarily lead to better-informed choices. On the contrary, external (ie, financial) influences on women’s personal choices for or against prenatal screening should ideally be avoided. To improve informed decision-making, healthcare systems should instead invest in adequate non-directive, value-focused pretest counselling. This paper concludes that requiring (substantial) copayments for NIPT in universal access healthcare systems fails to promote reproductive autonomy and is unfair.
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Fox, Jonathan. "The Secular-Religious Competition Perspective in Comparative Perspective." Politics and Religion 12, no. 3 (June 17, 2019): 524–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s175504831900018x.
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AbstractPolitical secularism is defined as “an ideology or set of beliefs advocating that religion ought to be separate from all or some aspects of politics or public life (or both).” In the secular–religious competition perspective, I argue that political secularists compete with religious political actors to influence government policy around the world. Yet this competition is complicated by many factors. The contributions to this symposium demonstrate that this is the case in their examination of secular–religious tensions and state–religion relations in Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Turkey, and Tunisia. These cases show that government religion policy evolves over time and is deeply influenced by secular–religious competition but that this competition is a complex one involving many other factors and influences.
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Friedman, Benjamin M. "Economics: A Moral Inquiry with Religious Origins." American Economic Review 101, no. 3 (May 1, 2011): 166–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.101.3.166.
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In contrast to the standard interpretation of the origins of economics out of the secular European Enlightenment of the 18th century, the transition in thinking that we rightly identify with Adam Smith and his contemporaries and followers, which gave us economics as we now know it, was powerfully influenced by then-controversial changes in religious belief in the English-speaking Protestant world in which they lived: in particular, key aspects of the movement away from orthodox Calvinism. Further, those at-the-outset influences of religious thinking not only fostered the subsequent spread of Smithian thinking, especially in America, but shaped the course of its reception. The ultimate result was a variety of fundamental resonances between economic thinking and religious thinking that continue to influence our public discussion of economic issues, and our public debate over economic policy, today.
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Shah, Rebecca Supriya. "The Freedom of Religious Institutions and Human Flourishing in India: A Present and Future Research Agenda." Religions 12, no. 7 (July 19, 2021): 550. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel12070550.
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In this paper, I explore how India’s complex regime of control and management of religious institutions and communities—ironically, particularly Hindu institutions—influences the capacity of these institutions to promote various dimensions of human flourishing and socio-economic uplift among the most marginalized. In addition, I provide an overview of India’s highly varied landscape when it comes to the freedom of religious institutions from state control, and in particular discuss how some minority religious institutions experience fewer government constraints on some aspects of their freedom to self-identify and self-govern, especially when compared to some majority institutions, such as Hindu temples. Although some minority institutions still face constraints on certain aspects of their operations, the freedom they have to manage their internal affairs can, at times, translate into greater agility and the ability to innovate and flourish in the context of 21st-century India.
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Tzeng, Huey-Ming, and Chang-Yi Yin. "Demands for Religious Care in the Taiwanese Health System." Nursing Ethics 13, no. 2 (March 2006): 163–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1191/0969733006ne835oa.
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In order to care ethically nurses need to care holistically; holistic care includes religious/spiritual care. This research attempted to answer the question: Do nurses have the resources to offer religious care? This article discusses only one aspect - the provision of religious care within the Taiwanese health care system. It is assumed that, if hospitals do not provide enough religious services, nurses working in these hospitals cannot be fully ethical beings or cannot respect patients’ religious needs. The relevant literature was reviewed, followed by a survey study on the provision of religious facilities and services. Aspects considered are: the religions influences in and on Taiwanese society; the religious needs of patients and their families; strategies that patients use to enable them to cope with their health care problems; professional motives for attuning to patients’ religious needs; and hospital provision for meeting the religious and spiritual needs of patients. A survey of nursing executives showed differences between religious service provision in hospitals with and without a hospice ward. The practical implications for hospital management and nursing practice are discussed.
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Lee, Eunmi, and Klaus Baumann. "How Korean Psychiatric Staff Deal with Religious and Spiritual Issues of Patients: What Is Professional?" Religions 10, no. 10 (September 22, 2019): 544. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel10100544.
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In contrast to other secularized countries, religious and spiritual needs and/or aspects of patient-centred-care are hardly studied in South Korea, even less in the context of psychiatry and psychotherapies. This study investigates religious and spiritual values of Korean psychiatric staff, and their experiences as well as considerations regarding their patients’ religious and spiritual aspects in clinical settings. In 2015, we surveyed psychiatric staff in Daegu and suburban areas using Korean versions of the Duke Religion Index and a questionnaire on Religion and Spirituality in Medicine: Physicians’ Perspectives by F. Curlin. Six clinics participated in our research. A total of 328 questionnaires were distributed. Ultimately, 270 fully completed questionnaires were analysed (return rate: 82.3%). Regarding religious and spiritual values, Korean psychiatric staff does not differ considerably from the average of the Korean population. However, there are significant moderate correlations between their own religious and spiritual attitudes, and their consideration as well as behaviors related to religious and spiritual aspects of their patients. In addition, there is evidence of an unconscious bias which influences treatment. These results call for more professional attention and self-reflective training.
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Reynolds, Gabriel Said. "On the Presentation of Christianity in the Qurʾān and the Many Aspects of Qur’anic Rhetoric." Al-Bayān – Journal of Qurʾān and Ḥadīth Studies 12, no. 1 (July 8, 2014): 42–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22321969-12340003.
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Many important western works on the Qurʾān are focused on the question of religious influences. The prototypical work of this genre is concerned with Judaism and the Qurʾān: Abraham’s Geiger’s 1833 Was hat Mohammed aus dem Judenthume aufgenommen, or “What Did Muhammad Acquire from Judaism?” In Geiger’s work – and the works of many who followed him – material in the Qurʾān is compared to similar material in Jewish or Christian literature in the hope of arriving at a better understanding of the Qurʾān’s origins. In the present article I argue that these sorts of studies often include a simplistic perspective on Qur’anic rhetoric. In order to pursue this argument I focus on a common feature of these works, namely a comparison between material in the Qurʾān on Christ and Christianity with reports on the teachings of Christian heretical groups. Behind this feature is a conviction that heretical Christian groups existed in the Arabian peninsula at the time of Islam’s origins and that these groups influenced the Prophet. I will argue that once the Qurʾān’s creative use of rhetorical strategies such as hyperbole is appreciated, the need to search for Christian heretics disappears entirely.
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Vukomanovic, Milan. "Schopenhauer and Wittgenstein: Assessing the Buddhist influences on their conceptions of ethics." Filozofija i drustvo, no. 24 (2004): 163–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/fid0424163v.
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In the first part of this essay, the author discusses certain aspects of the Hindu and Buddhist philosophical and religious conceptions that could have made some impact on the European ethics before Schopenhauer. In the second part, he deals with various channels of possible Buddhist influence on Schopenhauer's ethical thought. Finally, in discussing Buddhist-Wittgenstein relationship, one is confronted with convergent, yet independent, responses to similar sets of problems. Independently, and less systematically than Buddhist philosophical schools, Wittgenstein indicates the way of liberation that cures from the "metaphysical pain " emerging from inappropriate use of language. His own project, however, was not metaphysical, but meta-linguistic in a very specific sense. The philosophical "cure" from the language disease leads ultimately to the "purification " and "decontamination " of thought: in turn, the mind rests in peace and silence before the senseless, paradoxical questions of the moral, esthetical religious or metaphysical character.
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Lapaeva, Valentina V. "Preimplantation and prenatal genetic diagnostics in Russian Federation: ethical and legal issues." RUDN Journal of Law 25, no. 1 (December 15, 2021): 179–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2313-2337-2021-25-1-179-197.
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The topicality of the article is due to the strategy of transition to personalized medicine in Russia, based, among other things, on technologies of preimplantation and prenatal genetic diagnostics. The purpose of the article is to analyze the main directions of ethical and legal support for the development of these technologies. The work is based on the study of relevant international regulations, foreign and Russian legislation using the methods of legal-dogmatic and philosophical-legal analysis. The article substantiates the need for a clearer distinction between legal and moral-religious approaches to regulating relations in applying these technologies. The task is to find legal structures that can take into account the moral aspects of the problem without replacing legal regulation with an appeal to moral and religious values and norms. An example of this approach is the development of a legal regime for manipulations with embryo in vitro, in which the necessary legal protection of the embryo is provided by recognizing its special ontological status as a constitutional value of the common good. From these positions, the author identifies a range of issues that should form the organizational and legal context necessary to ensure adequate guarantees of human rights in the field of application of the considered genetic technologies. The legal regulation of this range of issues should be fixed in a special federal law on genetic testing.
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Patrick, Julie Hicks, Laura Bernstein, Madeline M. Marello, and Heather R. Moore. "EXAMINING RELIGIOUS DOUBT AND WELL-BEING OVER TIME." Innovation in Aging 3, Supplement_1 (November 2019): S358. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.1303.
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Abstract Drawing on seminal pieces in the field (e.g., Krause et al., 1999; Krause & Ellison, 2009) and our own work (e.g., Henrie & Patrick, 2014; Patrick & Henrie, 2015; 2016), we examine several aspects of religious doubt, including: 1) identifying a multidimensional measure, 2) replicating cotemporaneous associations among doubt and key well-being outcomes, 3) demonstrating the longitudinal stability of doubt over a 2-year period, and 4) examining whether doubt influences the stability or levels of well-being over a two-year period. Our factor analysis supports a 4-factor model of religious doubt, with stability over the 2-year period. Associations among religious doubt and well-being were consistent across multiple samples. Latent growth curve models showed that religious doubt and age significantly influence mean levels of well-being, although neither age nor doubt influenced the trajectory of change in well-being over the 2-year period. Future directions for design and analyses are discussed.
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Martínez-Peña, Annia A., Genevieve A. Perono, Sarah Alexis Gritis, Reeti Sharma, Shamini Selvakumar, O’Llenecia S. Walker, Harmeet Gurm, Alison C. Holloway, and Sandeep Raha. "The Impact of Early Life Exposure to Cannabis: The Role of the Endocannabinoid System." International Journal of Molecular Sciences 22, no. 16 (August 9, 2021): 8576. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms22168576.
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Cannabis use during pregnancy has continued to rise, particularly in developed countries, as a result of the trend towards legalization and lack of consistent, evidence-based knowledge on the matter. While there is conflicting data regarding whether cannabis use during pregnancy leads to adverse outcomes such as stillbirth, preterm birth, low birthweight, or increased admission to neonatal intensive care units, investigations into long-term effects on the offspring’s health are limited. Historically, studies have focused on the neurobehavioral effects of prenatal cannabis exposure on the offspring. The effects of cannabis on other physiological aspects of the developing fetus have received less attention. Importantly, our knowledge about cannabinoid signaling in the placenta is also limited. The endocannabinoid system (ECS) is present at early stages of development and represents a potential target for exogenous cannabinoids in utero. The ECS is expressed in a broad range of tissues and influences a spectrum of cellular functions. The aim of this review is to explore the current evidence surrounding the effects of prenatal exposure to cannabinoids and the role of the ECS in the placenta and the developing fetus.
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Cheong, Weng Kit. "The Attenuation of Female Empowerment among Three Pentecostal-Charismatic Chinese Churches in Malaysia and Singapore." Pneuma 41, no. 3-4 (December 9, 2019): 477–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700747-04103001.
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Abstract Among all branches of Christianity, female empowerment has been valorized in Pentecostalism. However, questions remain regarding the extent of empowerment in its egalitarian ethos. This article examines some historical and sociological aspects of pentecostal-charismatic female power and leadership among three Chinese majority churches in Malaysia and Singapore. It does so by a participant-observation methodology of these churches and in-depth interviews of church and lay leaders to enquire into the degree in which women are (dis)empowered for ministry. It concludes that specific practices and traits of Pentecostalism such as the charismata, prayer and worship, and church female leadership are configured in response to contextual sociocultural influences to produce a Christian/pentecostal woman that is both modern yet distinctly Chinese but attenuated within a Confucian family logic.
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Viltart, Odile, and Christel C. A. Vanbesien-Mailliot. "Impact of Prenatal Stress on Neuroendocrine Programming." Scientific World JOURNAL 7 (2007): 1493–537. http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2007.204.
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Since life emerged on the Earth, the development of efficient strategies to cope with sudden and/or permanent changes of the environment has been virtually the unique goal pursued by every organism in order to ensure its survival and thus perpetuate the species. In this view, evolution has selected tightly regulated processes aimed at maintaining stability among internal parameters despite external changes, a process termed homeostasis. Such an internal equilibrium relies quite heavily on three interrelated physiological systems: the nervous, immune, and endocrine systems, which function as a permanently activated watching network, communicating by the mean of specialized molecules: neurotransmitters, cytokines, and hormones or neurohormones. Potential threats to homeostasis might occur as early as duringin uterolife, potentially leaving a lasting mark on the developing organism. Indeed, environmental factors exert early-life influences on the structural and functional development of individuals, giving rise to changes that can persist throughout life. This organizational phenomenon, encompassing prenatal environmental events, altered fetal growth, and development of long-term pathophysiology, has been named early-life programming. Over the past decade, increased scientific activities have been devoted to deciphering the obvious link between states of maternal stress and the behavioral, cognitive, emotional, and physiological reactivity of the progeny. This growing interest has been driven by the discovery of a tight relationship between prenatal stress and development of short- and long-term health disorders. Among factors susceptible of contributing to such a deleterious programming, nutrients and hormones, especially steroid hormones, are considered as powerful mediators of the fetal organization since they readily cross the placental barrier. In particular, variations in circulating maternal glucocorticoids are known to impact this programming strongly, notably when hormonal surges occur during sensitive periods of development, so-called developmental windows of vulnerability. Stressful events occurring during the perinatal period may impinge on various aspects of the neuroendocrine programming, subsequently amending the offspring's growth, metabolism, sexual maturation, stress responses, and immune system. Such prenatal stress-induced modifications of the phenotypic plasticity of the progeny might ultimately result in the development of long-term diseases, from metabolic syndromes to psychiatric disorders. Yet, we would like to consider the outcome of this neuroendocrine programming from an evolutionary perspective. Early stressful events during gestation might indeed shape internal parameters of the developing organisms in order to adapt the progeny to its everyday environment and thus contribute to an increased reproductive success, or fitness, of the species. Moreover, parental care, adoption, or enriched environments after birth have been shown to reverse negative long-term consequences of a disturbed gestational environment. In this view, considering the higher potential for neonatal plasticity within the brain in human beings as compared to other species, long-term consequences of prenatal stress might not be as inexorable as suggested in animal-based studies published to date.
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Drønen, Tomas Sundnes. "Christian Migrant Communities." Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 30, no. 3 (July 24, 2018): 227–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700682-12341412.
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AbstractThe growing literature on religion and migration offers a wide range of terminologies in order to describe different aspects of the migratory trajectory. The article analyses how the three terms “transnational”, “transcultural”, and “translocal” are applied by different scholars in order to describe how religion influences and frames the experiences of those who leave their homes behind. It is further argued that discourse analysis can be a helpful methodological and analytical approach towards the field under study in order to engage with the rich variety of sources which might help us develop a yet more finely tuned analysis of the new religious communities. With the object of exemplifying how discourse analysis can be applied in future studies, the article gives examples from three different contexts where religious practices face change due to the migratory situation. The first example proposes studies of the “simultaneity aspect” in transnational studies among Nigerian migrants in Europe. The second example highlights how translocal aspects influence the study of ethnicity among migrants to cities in northern Cameroon, and the third example focuses on transcultural aspects of historical conversion narratives.
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Parncutt, Richard. "Prenatal and infant conditioning, the mother schema, and the origins of music and religion." Musicae Scientiae 13, no. 2_suppl (September 2009): 119–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1029864909013002071.
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Existing theories of the origins of music and religion fail to account directly and convincingly for their universal emotional power and behavioural costliness. The theory of prenatal origins is based on empirically observable phenomena and involves prenatal classical conditioning, postnatal operant conditioning and the adaptive value of mother-infant bonding. The human fetus can perceive sound and acceleration from gestational week 20. The most salient sounds for the fetus are internal to the mother's body and associated with vocalisation, blood circulation, impacts (footfalls), and digestion. The protomusical sensitivity of infants may be based on prenatal associations between the mother's changing physical and emotional state and concomitant changes in both hormone levels in the placental blood and prenatally audible sound/movement patterns. Protomusical aspects of motherese, play and ritual may have emerged during a multigenerational process of operational conditioning on the basis of prenatally established associations among sound, movement and emotion. The infant's multimodal cognitive representation of its mother (mother schema) begins to develop before birth and may underlie music's personal qualities, religion's supernatural agents, and the link between the two. Prenatal theory can contribute to an explanation of musical universal such as specific features of rhythm and melody and associations between music and body movement, as well as universal commonalities of musical and religious behaviour and experience such as meaning, fulfilment, and altered states of consciousness.
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Raedel, Christoph. "Understanding Pannenberg: Landmark Theologian of the Twentieth Century." European Journal of Theology 28, no. 2 (December 1, 2020): 198–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/ejt2019.2.021.raed.
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SummaryThe volume introduces the reader to the main aspects of the theology of W. Pannenberg. After describing Pannenberg’s biographical data and theological influences on him, the author points out the significance of the physical resurrection of Jesus for the overall theological conception of Pannenberg. Subsequent chapters are on the doctrine of God, Christology and anthropology as well as pneumatology, the perception of history as revelation and the Church. Thiselton presents Pannenberg’s thoughts as basically convincing without articulating substantial critical questions. Nevertheless, the book is suitable as a textbook given its structured and comprehensive presentation and also because each chapter concludes with questions for discussion and the book comprises a bibliography and several indices.RÉSUMÉCet ouvrage expose les principaux aspects de la théologie de Pannenberg. Après un portrait biographique de ce théologien et une présentation des influences qui se sont exercées sur sa pensée, Thiselton met en lumière l’importance de la résurrection physique de Jésus dans la pensée théologique de Pannenberg. Les chapitres suivants sont consacrés à la doctrine de Dieu, la christologie et l’anthropologie, ainsi qu’à la pneumatologie, à la manière dont Pannenberg perçoit l’histoire de la révélation et à l’Église. La présentation que Thiselton livre ainsi est convaincante, mais ignore certaines questions critiques importantes. Cet ouvrage constitue un bon manuel recommandable pour sa présentation structurée et complète et pour la façon dont chaque chapitre se conclut sur des questions pertinentes pouvant servir de base de discussion. Il comporte aussi une bibliographie et de nombreux indexes.ZusammenfassungDer Band führt in die wichtigsten Aspekte der Theologie W. Pannenbergs ein. Nach Ausführungen zu biographischen Stationen und theologischen Einflüssen wird die Bedeutung der leiblichen Auferstehung Jesu für die theologische Gesamtkonzeption Pannenbergs herausgearbeitet. Es folgen Kapitel zur Gotteslehre, Christologie und Anthropologie sowie zur Lehre vom Heiligen Geist, dem Verständnis von Geschichte als Offenbarung und zur Kirche. Thiselton präsentiert Pannenbergs Konzeption als grundsätzlich überzeugend, gewichtige kritische Anfragen werden nicht formuliert. Das Buch eignet sich gleichwohl als Lehrmittel, da die Darstellung strukturiert und verständlich ist, jedes Kapitel mit Fragen zur Diskussion abschließt und das Buch mit einer Bibliographie und mehreren Indices versehen ist.
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Dewi, Rita Sukma. "MAUDU’ (A WAY OF UNION WITH GOD)." Penamas 31, no. 1 (July 25, 2018): 243. http://dx.doi.org/10.31330/penamas.v31i1.245.
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The term “Sayyid” or “Arab” has always been associated with Islam in Indonesia. Since Islam originated in the land of Arab, Muslims in Indonesia often believe that religion and Arab race are similar, just as the term “Culture” or “Religion”, although they have different context, many people believe that the term “culture” is similar to “religion”. Religious influences are embedded in many aspects of culture but Arabic culture is not an identity about Islam, these two should be separate from one another.
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Larsen, Sean. "How I think Hauerwas thinks about theology." Scottish Journal of Theology 69, no. 1 (January 25, 2016): 20–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0036930615000757.
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AbstractThis paper highlights two aspects of Stanley Hauerwas's thought: philosophical ethics, which consists of second-order methodological claims; and moral theology, which consists of first-order, local, unsystematic moral descriptions. I show how the philosophical ethics relates to the moral theology by proposing a set of rules that constitute a ‘grammar’ of Hauerwas's thought. These rules are asymmetrical in that later rules presuppose earlier rules but earlier rules do not presuppose later rules. Each rule corresponds to texts that Hauerwas recommends and relies upon. The first rule prioritizes MacIntyre's concept of non-foundational ‘practical wisdom’. The second rule, which draws on Aristotle, Wittgenstein, Anscombe and Kovesi to stress the impossibility of separating agent from act, influences the third rule that ethics is moral description. The fourth rule uses ‘postliberal’ theologians and draws on the liturgy alongside Barth and Yoder, in order to redescribe the shape of Christian life in liberal modernity.
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KLYMENTOVA, Olena. "THE MAIN DIRECTIONS OF COMMUNICATIVE DYNAMISM IN THE SPACE OF RELIGIOUS COMMUNICATION." Ezikov Svyat (Orbis Linguarum) 17, no. 2 (December 31, 2019): 100–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.37708/ezs.swu.v17.i2.11.
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e features of the modern situation in Ukraine demonstrate a growth of the interest in the phenomenon of the linguistic programming of personality, which is correlated to the media, political and religious influences simultaneously. The article is devoted to the categories of communicative ethics and responsibility in the religious discourse. The main directions of renovation of religious communication in Ukraine have been stated. The effects of communicative dynamism are corresponded to the political, marketing, social functions and are represented by the religious advertisement, religious branding, religious tourism, religious naming, media activity of the Orthodox and proselyte religious groups, the different types of convergence with political values. The objects of the research are the hidden aspects of verbal religious communication. The subject of the article is renovating communicative status of religious texts. The tasks are the following: to analyze the innovative forms of communicative interactions in the modern Ukrainian religious discourse. The methodology of the research is based on the current approaches to scientific studying of linguistic suggestion. I use discourse analysis (critical) for the science qualification of interactional aspects, sociopsychological and sociocognitive characteristics, frameworks and contexts.In religious discourse, text representation has some characteristics of the independent semantic field, but in a communicative process a religious text can acquire the forms of power and control, which are used by the religious leaders and institutions. Therefore, the use of mass media channels for retranslation of religious ideas, in which the media literacy is ignored, promotes the growth of all types of verbal manipulation. In Ukraine the present-day informational situation is determined by the needs of popularisation of knowledge about existing manipulative technologies and linguistic manipulative techniques, in particular.
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Ardhana, I. Ketut. "FEMALE DEITIES IN BALINESE SOCIETY: LOCAL GENIOUS, INDIAN INFLUENCES, AND THEIR WORSHIP." International Journal of Interreligious and Intercultural Studies 1, no. 1 (October 1, 2018): 42–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.32795/ijiis.vol1.iss1.2018.36.
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One of the main issues that has been discussed in Indonesia regarding the democracy process in a modern world is about the feminism and gender issues. On the one hand, women are considered to play limited roles, whilst on the other hand, the men have always been considered to play a significant role. This can be traced back in the long process of the Balinese history not only in terms of political aspect, but also in the context of socio cultural aspects. It is important to look at what has happened in the Balinese societies, since Bali is known as a Hindu mozaic in Southeast Asia. The Balinese society has its own culture based on local culture that is strongly influenced by the Indian or Indic culture. The Balinese society is a patrilineal system, in which a man has a higher position, but in fact it was even Bali had a woman princess, who was of mixed Javanese and Balinese heritage, a wife of King Udayana of Bali between the 10th and 11th century. Both of them were considered as the Balinese kings at the same time. In the era of these two kings they were successful in integrating between Hinduism and Buddhism. Until now, the Balinese believe the soul of Mahendradatta as Durga. The main questions that will be addressed in this paper are firstly: how do the Balinese interpret the female deities? Secondly, how do they worship them? Thirdly, what is the meaning of this worship in terms of religious and cultural aspects in the modern and postmodern time? By discussing these issues, it is expected that we will have a better understanding on how the Balinese worship the female deities in the prehistoric, classical, and modern times in the context of a global or universal culture
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Van Goethem, Ellen. "Heian Jingū." Journal of Religion in Japan 7, no. 1 (November 8, 2018): 1–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22118349-00701005.
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Abstract The founding of Heian Jingū 平安神宮 in 1895 is usually explained in very simple terms: it was established to commemorate the 1100th anniversary of the move to the Heian capital and was, therefore, dedicated to the city’s founder, Kanmu Tennō 桓武天皇. A closer look at the shrine’s founding story, however, reveals a much more complex account that illustrates the fits and starts of State Shintō in the third decade of the Meiji period. By disentangling the standard narrative of Heian Jingū’s founding, this article touches not only on doctrinal issues such as the deification of past emperors, but also on material aspects such as early attempts at reconstructing long-lost structures and the Meiji government’s creation of a set of plans that regulated the appearance of newly erected shrines. Doing so will help explain how the design of this major imperial shrine could deviate so significantly from the stipulated template and be so replete with Chinese influences at a time when the relationship between the two countries was one of outright hostility.
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Mera, Yesica Pazmiño, Jorge Daher Nader, Miguel Gonzalez Pluas, Rocio Fonseca, and Vicky Narea Morales. "MATERNAL RISK FACTORS IN ADOLESCENTS WITH THREAT OF PRETERMINE BIRTH IN ENRIQUE SOTOMAYOR HOSPITAL." International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH 8, no. 2 (May 28, 2020): 124–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v8.i2.2020.193.
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It is vitally important to understand that premature birth at the Latin American level and in Ecuador is a Public Health problem is considered as one of the main causes of perinatal morbidity and mortality, determined by certain obstetric gynecological aspects such as newborn weight, gestational age is important when there is an irregularity of gestational development when not being found within 32 weeks they produce a greater rate of neonatal morbidity and mortality as a consequence a greater percentage of sequelae; Therefore, it is important that through the present study it is understood that the incidence of premature births should be reduced, which not only affects the pregnant woman but also the newborn. This research is quantitative, non-experimental, cross-sectional with a descriptive level of research, based on the medical records of patients between the ages of 10 and 19 treated at the Enrique C. Sotomayor hospital in Guayaquil in the period 2015 When the present study is carried out, it is concluded that since there is no consistent prenatal control on the part of pregnant women, it directly influences the pre-term delivery leading to this problem to establish a high predisposition to produce maternal-neonatal morbidity and mortality; a greater awareness campaign should be carried out regarding the prenatal controls necessary to reduce the incidence of preterm birth. The age group with the greatest predisposition is established in adolescents whose age range is from 17 to 19 years.
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Jäger, Pia, Claudia Rammelt, Notburga Ott, and Angela Brand. "Narrative Review: The (Mental) Health Consequences of the Northern Iraq Offensive of ISIS in 2014 for Female Yezidis." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 13 (July 9, 2019): 2435. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16132435.
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The Yezidis who represent a religious minority living in Northern Iraq were particularly affected by the persecution by ISIS (Islamic state of Iraq and Syria, syn.: ISIL—Islamic state of Iraq and the Levant) that gained power after 2013. This paper gives an overview of the events and the mental health consequences on the Yezidi community as well as associated influences on affected female Yezidis. Based on a systematic literature search, the aspects of “Persecution by ISIS and actual situation of the Yezidi community”, “Gender-specific aspects of the persecution and its consequences”, “Mental health of the affected women”, and “Cultural–historical and religious context” are worked out. Research indicates a high burden of health strain and mental health problems in the surviving Yezidi women, especially post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD) and depression. Concerning transgenerational trauma, the recent genocide has revived past experiences in the history of the community. Like the narrow cultural and religious rules of the community, this can be both a resource and a burden. The actual extent of the attacks is neither predictable for the affected individuals nor for the community, consequences could also be passed onto descendants. Long-term care and support of the affected persons, their descendants, and the Yezidi community seems indispensable.
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SHEIKH, MUSTAPHA. "Taymiyyan Influences in an Ottoman-Ḥanafī Milieu: The Case of Aḥmad al-Rūmī al-Āqḥiṣārī." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland 25, no. 1 (July 17, 2014): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1356186313000643.
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AbstractShaykh Aḥmad al-Rūmī al-Āqḥiṣārī (d. 1041/1632) is one of the most intriguing religious personalities of seventeenth-century Ottoman Turkey: although progress towards disclosing key aspects of his thought has been made recently – such as the association of al-Āqḥiṣārī with the Ottoman puritanical movement, the Qāḍīzādelis – the intellectual world-view of al-Āqḥiṣārī and, in particular, intellectual influences on his thought, are still hazy. This paper aims to make progress in this regard by studying the intellectual spring from which al-Āqḥiṣārī takes his conceptualisation of the religio-legal term bidʿa, the central theme of his seminal work, the Majālis al-abrār. In doing so, the paper finally puts to rest the vexed question over whether Shaykh al-Islām Taqī al-Dīn b. Taymiyya's writings had any influence in Ottoman Turkey prior to the advent of the 19th century reformist movements.
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Nina Stănescu. "Family - a procreative institution and the Christian sociopsychological and religious perception of abortion traumas." Technium Social Sciences Journal 14 (December 9, 2020): 670–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.47577/tssj.v14i1.2216.
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In the political and social life of the last centuries, almost every social aspect has been debated in a context of political influences and interests, of the opposition of different groups of more or less political nature. The family has always been the most favorable environment for the birth and perfection of the human being. The procreation, care, upbringing and preparation for life of a new creature have been and are a fundamental concern of any family. Children represent the "golden fund of a people" and maintain the natural human potential, give natural and spiritual strength to a people. One of the aspects that received special attention was the right of women to have a say in their own reproduction, namely the right of women to choose whether or not to keep a pregnancy. Immoral in terms of the Church, outlawed by the legislation of some states, the right to abortion has had a sinuous evolution on the social scene of many states. This issue has many political, moral and social connotations, being politically regulated differently by different states.
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Tudor, Thomas R., Robert R. Trumble, and Gerard George. "Significant Historic Origins That Influenced The Team Concept In Major Japanese Companies." Journal of Applied Business Research (JABR) 12, no. 4 (September 8, 2011): 115. http://dx.doi.org/10.19030/jabr.v12i4.5788.
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<span>Major historical aspects of the Japanese people reinforce their continued inclination to conform to societal norms at the cost of their own individualism. We look at this unique characteristic of their country, often referred to as a need for dependence versus the need for independence, with a historic perspective. We seek to identify these historic roots and its ramifications on the successful team-based Japanese management style. This paper examines the team concept as witnessed in (a) rice growing activities (100 BC to present); (b) religious influences, (500 BC to present); (c) the Tokugawa Period (1660-1867); and (d) the Meiji Period (1868-1911).</span>
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Leni, Nurhasanah. "Peran Antroplogi Bagi Studi Islam." Analisis: Jurnal Studi Keislaman 18, no. 2 (December 30, 2018): 233–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.24042/ajsk.v18i2.4138.
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This understanding makes Islamic studies less developed and unable to reach the religious practices of Muslims themselves. This article aims to describe the contribution of anthropology in Islamic studies. This article is a literature review by analyzing books related to Islamic studies and anthropology. The results of the study show that anthropology has at least two main functions for Islamic studies, namely helping Islamic studies in understanding the empirical aspects of Muslim diversity and helping to see the diversity of cultural influences in the practice of Islamic teachings. Furthermore, this study concludes that anthropology has a positive contribution to the development of Islamic studies
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Simojoki, Henrik. "Beirut in Berlin? Interreligiöse Bildung in der Spannung zwischen Globalem und Lokalem." Evangelische Theologie 74, no. 3 (June 1, 2014): 167–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.14315/evth-2014-0303.
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Abstract Religious pedagogy largely agrees that within religious education, interreligious instruction has to be aligned to the living environment of present-day children and youths. Yet in current concepts, this environmental context is normally interpreted in terms of the social proximity of the students, thus neglecting that the concept of religious contextuality has to be broadened as it develops in the interaction of global and local realities. Based on a case-study from the multi-religious context of Berlin, the present contribution discusses the initial conditions of interreligious education which are being changed by globalization. In a first step, the ambivalent presence of remoteness within the religious environment of modern youths is analyzed from an external sociological perspective. This is done in dialogue with selected sociological theories of reference which help to understand the »new contextuality « of the interreligious sphere as regards its basic dynamics of motivation. Subsequently, the essay focuses on inside aspects of this development: It addresses the question of how the spatial melting of the world influences the perception of the self and the other. Finally an approach is presented that substantiates the increasing globalization of religious environments from a youth-sociological perspective and makes it accessible to empirical analysis.
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Morais, Domingos A. R. "Cinco notas sobre a música e os instrumentos musicais populares em Portugal." Revista da Tulha 2, no. 1 (June 16, 2016): 12. http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-7117.rt.2016.125294.
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Music and popular Portuguese musical instruments, as we know them today, are the result of a long process In which multiple contributions and influences took place. Musical instruments are, along with the oral tradition, a one of the most fascinating aspects of the traits and marks that the travels of the Portuguese spread throughout the five continents. In five Notes, designed for those who wish to know the Music of the Portuguese people, we try to find meaning in what sometimes it seems disconnected, the result of chance and hazard. But in what we recognize the will of the communities and the persistence in the transmission even when in counter-current of secular and religious powers.
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Haqqul Yaqin. "Konstruksi Kearifan Lokal Islam Aboge di Probolinggo." HUMANISTIKA : Jurnal Keislaman 4, no. 1 (November 15, 2019): 17–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.36835/humanistika.v4i1.28.
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Religion is a phenomenon associated with many dimensions, including the social dimension. Social thinkers such as Durkheim, Marx, and Weber also imply that religion is essentially more of a social aspect than a purely individual thing. Hence it can be said that there is an inevitable connection between religion as one of the social phenomena with many aspects of community life. Religion can also be said to be inseparable from the influence of the context of the society in which the religion develops. These influences can then be carried away in tradition and it is not uncommon to find that the content of religious interpretation has already contained a tendency of certain political interests.
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Karpich, Yuliya. "The Political Choice of Orthodox Believers in Russia: Strengths and Limitations of Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches to Research." Sotsiologicheskoe Obozrenie / Russian Sociological Review 20, no. 2 (2021): 48–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.17323/1728-192x-2021-2-48-69.
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Previous studies have shown that religiosity is a heterogeneous concept combining identities, practices, and beliefs. At the same time, most of these studies are based on a quantitative methodology. It allows a relationship between religiosity and the political choice of believers to be found, but imposes a limitation on the analysis. The quantitative methodology does not control the interactions of aspects of religiosity, and cannot explain the discovered relationships. This paper proposes an alternative research strategy, specifically, (1) the proposed model allows an analysis of the multiple influences of both religious and non-religious identities, practices and beliefs, and that (2) the qualitative data collected from in-depth interviews with believers complements previous research of the mechanisms of religious influence on political choice. A subjective assessment of one’s position and the actions of the authorities are the most important aspects to the voter (the role of beliefs). An assessment leads to a political choice when (1) a group-identity intensifies the significance of the political problem and poses questions for the individual, and (2) a set of norms and practices provides clues on how to solve a problem. An empirical test of the model was carried out in 2019 in three settlements in the Lipetsk region. The findings illustrate the sufficient potential of the chosen research strategy. The different political choice among respondents, who were expected to have the same political attitudes by quantitative indicators, are explained through the choice of motives and context.
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Kłakulak-Torba, Weronika. "Specifics of religiocity and temporal perspectives by Philip Zimbardo and John Boyd." Educational Psychology 54, no. 12 (December 31, 2017): 165–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0011.7870.
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Religiocity, being an immanent part of an individual’s personality, influences numerous aspects of psychological functioning. One of them is a temporal dimension of human existence. Being a member of a religious community in times of growing secularity encourages a reflection on motivation and specifics of religiosity of people engaged. The aim of current work is to verify the relationship between religiosity and temporal perspectives and to characterize the religiosity of young Catholics belonging to the three most popular in Poland religious communities. There were 172 participants. They filled in a questionnaire „Your religiosity”, measuring religious orientations or a „Religion Centralism” scale, which describes religion in five dimensions. Every participant also filled in a time perspective questionnaire. The analysis revealed a negative correlation between past-negative tmeporal perspective and religious engagement. An unexpected result was a positive correlation between a social aspect of religious orientation and transcendental future. Additionally, religion centralism correlated negatively with a deviant factor of temporal perspective balance. Based on the obtained results it can be suggested that among all temporal perspectives, the qualitative interpretation of one’s own past has the biggest influence on religious engagement. Another conclusion is that an important factor of religious activity is a possibility of meeting affiliation needs. Conducted analysis also allowed conclusions on the specifics of the religiosity of young Catholics.
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Fox, Jesse, and Ralph L. Piedmont. "Religious Crisis as an Independent Causal Predictor of Psychological Distress: Understanding the Unique Role of the Numinous for Intrapsychic Functioning." Religions 11, no. 7 (July 2, 2020): 329. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel11070329.
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Religious and spiritual (R/S) struggles are tensions or conflicts one experiences in relationship to what is considered sacred or transcendent. In this study, we tested competing causal models of psychological distress as it relates to personality and R/S struggle using structural equation modeling. The study sample consisted of 226 (72.0%) females and 88 (28.0%) males (n = 314) drawn from the Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) worker population. We found that though the five-factor model (FFM) of personality was a robust predictor of psychological distress, the R/S struggle added significant, incremental predictiveness. SEM analyses supported our contention that R/S struggle may represent a new, causal pathway of psychological distress that is independent from the FFM. Our findings are taken as evidence that R/S struggles require unique ways of conceptualizing their causal impact on clinical impairment and that psychological interventions need to systematically address numinous constructs in order to ensure that all aspects of emotional dysphoria are considered and their influences treated.
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Kashaf, Sh R. "A Meeting in Makhachqala regarding the problems and prospects of theological education in Russia." Minbar. Islamic Studies 11, no. 4 (February 4, 2019): 907–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.31162/2618-9569-2018-11-4-907-931.
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The article offers a survey of the meeting under the title “Theological education. Problems and Prospects” jointly organized by St Petersburg State University and The Daghestan Institute of Humanities. The meeting was held on the 20–21st of December in Makhachqala. The speakers addressed various aspects of Islamic education from its origins till the present day. They also offered talks on the way the Islamic religion influences the formation of younger generation in Russia, highlighted the urgent need to develop in the teaching personnel awareness of the history and Islamic culture to subsequently join the religious institutions and the role the leading theologians can play in this process. Special attention has been paid to the modernization of the teaching programs and their adaptation to the modern challenges such as digitization and IT literacy. One has also highlighted the progress and desiderata in this process, the disbalanced curricula regarding the Islamic culture and history as still found nowadays in the both teaching state and religious institutions.
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Norman, Ralph. "The Law of Sacrifice." Religion and the Arts 22, no. 4 (September 10, 2018): 405–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685292-02204002.
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Abstract When placing Hopkins in the divisive and impassioned religious and academic world of mid-Victorian Oxford, scholars have frequently drawn attention to those University tutors and senior churchmen who in different ways influenced his mental and religious development: Benjamin Jowett, Walter Pater, Henry Parry Liddon, and (more distantly, from Birmingham) John Henry Newman. In comparison, relatively little attention has been paid to Hopkins’s own undergraduate friends and contemporaries at Balliol College, or to the question of how other young men responded to the same set of religious circumstances and intellectual influences. In this study Henry Scott Holland (1847–1918) is selected to illustrate discernible Anglican parallels to particular aspects of Hopkins’s literary style and religious faith. Examining the ways Holland’s Anglicanism resembles, engages, contests, and shadows the early spirituality of Hopkins throws useful light on their overlapping academic and religious contexts. Particular attention is paid to examples of shared vocabulary, to themes from Holland’s published sermons and religious writings, which correlate to elements of Hopkins’s work, and especially to Holland’s vision of a kenotic “law of sacrifice” set in the life of the Holy Trinity. Key works such as Holland’s Logic and Life (1882) and the influential volume of Anglican essays Lux Mundi: A Series of Studies in the Religion of the Incarnation (1889) are utilized to inform a new perspective on Hopkins’s sermons and devotional writings.
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Horbury, Ezra. "The Bible Abbreviated: Summaries in Early Modern English Bibles." Harvard Theological Review 112, no. 02 (April 2019): 235–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0017816019000075.
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AbstractEarly modern English Bibles are among the most significant texts in western Christianity. They contained the translation of the Bible into English and its authorisation, they facilitated the Protestant Reformation, and their effects on English Christianity and culture are felt vividly to this day. A vital facet of these editions are paratexts: the titles, summaries, glosses, and other non-canonical additions appended to scripture to aid its organisation and interpretation. Though neglected by literary, historical, and theological scholarship, these paratexts comprised huge portions of early modern Bibles and acted as productive vehicles to disseminate politics and theologies. One such form of paratext are the casus summarii, the chapter summaries that precede many chapters in early modern Bibles. In these summaries, significant biblical events or controversial subjects were condensed, omitted, reframed, rephrased, or otherwise represented to suit the editor’s purposes. This article provides the first survey of the chapter summaries in early modern English Bibles, with a table detailing the extent to which they were copied between editions. The article focuses on the Matthew, Geneva, and KJV Bibles, with additional discussion of the Coverdale, Great, and Bishops’ Bibles. The article addresses notable aspects of this material, including practices of translation, representations of Sodom, the anglicisation of names, and the sexualisation of Eve. By explicating the origins and influences of these summaries, this article facilitates the understanding and study of paratexts and demonstrates their importance to scholarship of early modern Christianity.
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Yusof, Abdullah, Aizan Hj Ali @. Mat Zin, and Ahmad Faisal Abdul Hamid. "Islamic Nuance in Decorative-Ornament Architecture Art in Nusantara." International Journal of Nusantara Islam 2, no. 1 (June 9, 2014): 95–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.15575/ijni.v2i1.51.
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The advent of Islam in Nusantara sparked new phenomena or changing not only in structure of building construction of religious places, residency and houses but also ornaments and decoration expressing value of beauty of that building. The result of this research tries to reveal how far Islamic influence is working without undermining local aspects of architecture and how Islamic architecture was influenced by other characters in ornament and decorative-ornament artwith various design and sense. Islamic nuances are substantially showed in traditional and contemporary mosque architecture, graveyard, residencies, palaces, historical building and soon and so forth. Although local elementsare clear, and so with Hinduism and Buddhism, animism, colonial influence and other foreign influences including Middle East, Africa, India and China, Islam shows its prominence in interior and exterior ornament as well as its tools.
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Chronopoulou, Eleni. "Placebo is Magic or Magic is Placebo? The Greco-Roman Iatromagical Texts." Trends in Classics 13, no. 1 (June 1, 2021): 21–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/tc-2021-0002.
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Abstract Many of the numerous magical recipes and spells from the Greco-Roman world aim to heal or protect the practitioner. The text, however, show great diversity and heterogeneity and many of them seem to be an elaborate amalgam of different religious influences, analogies, and interactions. This variety can, among other things, play into certain aspects of the placebo effect. Here, I present a systematic categorization of Greco-Roman amulets according to physical support, format, chronology, and purpose, which together with a study of their terminology may point towards different placebo effects. Then, I examine their social context and describe the resources and the modus operandi of the magical healing, which will have further strengthened the effect of these amulets. Their reliance on cultural resources and tropes points especially towards conditioning and learned responses.
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Limbu, Ramesh Kumar. "Language as Cultural Expression: The Case of Limbu Mundhum and Ritual* Ramesh Kumar Limbu." JODEM: Journal of Language and Literature 11, no. 1 (December 31, 2020): 125–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jodem.v11i1.34813.
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An anthropological study of „religious /ritual language‟ concerns the relationship between the study of language and the study of culture. This article, using ethnolinguistics and ethnographies of communication as tools of study, examines how the Mundhum language distinctively maintains ethnographic communication by use of the ritual language, and communicates the social worldviews and cultural cognition of Limbu community. The Limbu, known also by endonym "Yakthung", are one of historically notable indigenous communities of Nepal. They have their own distinctive culture based on traditional ritual performances guided by Mundhum. The Mundhum is narrated and recited by Limbu ritual/religious actants/officiants in cultural/ritual observations, that is, rituals from pre-birth to after death. The study focuses on the issue how the Mundhum language, also known as Ritual Language (RL), is distinctive to the everyday language or Ordinary Language (OL) and helps express their cultural perceptions, behaviours and way of life. In doing so, it also shows the way this ritual/liturgical language influences not merely the kinds of speech but also the aspects of tradition, culture and way of life.