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Women, Hospitality and The Intimate Politics of International Socialism, 1955–1965

In the 1950s, a commitment to democratic socialism connected networks of intellectuals, activists and political operators in both Europe and Asia. Many of these were women, who built informal and ... between men that remain underexplored. Apart from in Burma, the hub of the Asian socialist movement, Asian socialist parties were almost always in political opposition to mainstream nationalist parties. The

Cancer, Religious Philosophy, Death and Dying

This final issue of JORH for 2022 revisits the topics of (1) cancer, (2) religious philosophy, and (3) uniquely collates a number of papers discussing the theme of death and dying—which seems an ... /1568180291096793093. Cancer; Religious philosophy; Death; Dying; Queen Elizabeth II - Accepted: 14 September 2022 © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer

China, Gender Issues, Medical Philosophy and Measurement Scales

; Gender; Medical and religious philosophy; Measurement scales; J; S; Peale Introduction With COVID-19 still simmering, two other global issues continue to challenge international security, namely the ... Nigeria, and (16) factors challenging the spiritual rehabilitation of Iranian men affected by natural disasters. Medical Philosophy A small collection of articles in this issue present topics that relate

Doubt and the dislocation of magic: France, 1790–1940

. 10 Liam Kofi Bright, ‘White Psychodrama’, forthcoming in Journal of Political Philosophy. 11 Alexandra Walsham, ‘The Reformation and the “Disenchantment of the World” Reassessed’, Historical ... choosing, as he does, to see ‘belief’ as a colonizer of ‘neighboring epistemic categories’. Ibid., 282, 293. 7 See Ted Honderich (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, 2nd edn (Oxford, 2005), 193; D

Solitude and Soul in Restoration Britain

Mackenzie made no secret of his political ambitions. Modern interpreters treat the debate as a literary joust, a playful display of mock argument in a classic late Renaissance mode. A letter from Evelyn to ... political events; his shrewd reflections on the arts, religion and science: all these make his Diary an invaluable source. Evelyn was an influential courtier and a polymath, a notable figure in his day. But

An (Un)Holy Trinity: Differences in Climate Change-Induced Distress Between Believers and Non-believers in God Disappear After Controlling for Left–Right Political Orientation

climate change, belief in God, and left–right political orientation. These constructs were measured slightly differently across the studies. Regardless of how these constructs were measured, believers were ... -believers, and with only a few exceptions, these differences disappeared after covarying political orientation (left-right or liberal-conservative). Contrary to those who argue that there is something

Short version of the right-wing authoritarianism scale for the Brazilian context

Submission and Contestation to Authority. Correlations between these dimensions and right-wing political self-categorization were statistically equivalent for the full 34-item RWA scale version and the new 12 ... of the four-factor, 12-item RWA scale in this cultural context. Authoritarianism; Ideology; Psychometrics; Brazil; Conservatism Introduction Political ideologies have been increasingly pointed out

Is It Harmful? A Thomistic Perspective on Risk Science in Social Welfare

epistemological concepts from scholastic philosophy. Aquinas’ anthropological concepts related to modern ‘risk science’ and his concepts of rationality, harm and prudence are applied to contemporary social welfare. ... Policy Studies, Ulster University , Belfast , Northern Ireland 2 Department of Christian Philosophy, Faculty of Theology, Nicolaus Copernicus University , Toruń , Poland Probabilistic information is used

Gold Rushes, Universities and Globalization, 1840–1910

tendencies. The pre-gold city of Sydney, with a pre-rush population of 54,000, positioned itself at the top of the Australian colonies’ social and political food chain. Gold rushes upset this balance of power ... ’.53 In this case, the first university council in Melbourne saw revolutionary impulses and looked to re-create an Old World social hierarchy. Word of new political creeds in ascendance across the globe

Flows of History

articles reviewed date mostly from the year 2000 onwards, reflecting the growing importance of water to scholarly (as well as cultural, political and artistic) agendas in the previous two decades. We have ... and China and the staggeringly rapid melt of polar ice caps. At the same time, infrastructures around water reveal long legacies of political and environmental disfranchisement. To give but three recent

Nurturing Socioculturally and Medically Appropriate Palliative Care Delivery: Lessons Learned by Israeli Medical Faculty

Western countries. This study describes the current state of PC in Israel through examination of: (1) its current status, self-image and structural factors; (2) its relation to cultural and political ... , spiritual and cultural aspects, (8) political and economic aspects, (9) obstacles and weaknesses, and (10) prospects and goals of palliative care.  Participants perceive PC as an integrative healthcare

The reliability and validity of the Temptations to Try Smoking Scale in a group of Chinese adolescents

of Psychology, Key Laboratory of Philosophy and Social Science of Anhui Province On Adolescent Mental Health and Crisis Intelligence Intervention, Hefei Normal University , Hefei, Anhui Province ... Funds in Key Laboratory of Philosophy and Social Sciences of Anhui Province(SYS2023B02), the Innovative Development Research Funds in Social Sciences of Anhui Province(2022KD013, 2023CXZ023), and the

Whole-of-Nation Moral Learning by Spiritual Hearts: A Case of Brunei’s Transformation to tackle the COVID-19 Pandemic

critical realist perspective, as a meta-philosophy (Bhaskar, 2012) , bridges between Islamic and contemporary sciences. All three perspectives underlined the importance of knowledge and learning for change ... Morris (2013) demarcated eight distinct typologies: political, moral, economic, cultural, social, critical, environmental, and spiritual. These typologies are not exhaustive and mutually exclusive but

Philosophy of Epidemiology

( - Epidemiology is not philosophy, and (most) epidemiologists are not philosophers. Despite this, epidemiologists write and think about causation, a central topic in the philosophy of science. Remarkably, the ... neutral and do not themselves tell whether the association is causal or not. Justifying causality therefore requires additional arguments that go beyond quantitative associations. In his book Philosophy of

Cross-cultural invariance of the Spanish version of the COVID-19 Assessment Scorecard to measure the perception of government actions against COVID-19 in Latin America

face the pandemic in the midst of their own structural crises such as social inequality and poverty that have led to social and political polarization, in addition to a high prevalence of chronic ... actions. In the case of Venezuela, COVID-19 has been a serious threat that adds to the daily struggle of people to obtain basic foodstuffs in the midst of a political and economic crisis (Cooper, 2020

Covid-19 and the Apocalypse: Religious and Secular Perspectives

secular apocalypticism (based upon radical political and economic change) and argue that both are to be found in the wake of Covid-19 infection. For religious believers, the apocalypse signifies the rapture ... faithful into heaven while those on earth will undergo the tribulations. For secular believers, the apocalypse signifies sociopolitical change. The paper ends by speculating upon the socio-political and

Islam and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Between Religious Practice and Health Protection

pilgrimages to Iran's Qom and as a result of the Jamaat Tabligh movement meetings. However, restrictions on religious practices have become a platform for political discussions, especially among Muslim clergy ... Discipline of Political Science and Administration, Vistula University Warsaw , Stokłosy 3, 02-787 Warsaw , Poland 1 Aldona Maria Piwko This  paper concerns a problem, the global pandemic COVID-19, which has

Care of the Aged, Women’s Health, and Measuring Religion, Spirituality and Health

://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-022-01546-0. JORH. ( 2022b ). China, gender issues, Medical Philosophy and Measurement Scales . Journal of Religion and Health , 61 ( 4 ), 2637 - 2642 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943

Why Chaplaincy at Asylum Centers is a Good Idea: A Care Ethics Perspective on Spiritual Care for Refugees

” (Tronto, 2013, p. 19) . If human interdependence is indeed fundamental, then the key political questions to ask are whether the needs for care of all human beings are sufficiently recognized and addressed ... , which political philosopher Joseph Carens (2000) labeled the precondition of even-handedness. Opponents of this type of active state engagement emphasize that accommodation can come at the expense of the

How the Political Becomes Private: In Vitro Fertilization and the Catholic Church in Poland

denotes a certain life philosophy, which organizes family, social, and political life. Ingrained here is a radical approach to sex and reproduction, in accordance with the teachings of the Humane Vitae, the ... lives of people, who have children thanks to IVF. Poland; In vitro fertilization; Catholic Church Private/political In 2010, Bishop Tadeusz Pieronek, an important player on the spiritual and political