Incertezza, precarietà, capacità di immaginazione del futuro e modernità: un confronto tra Appadurai e De Martino by Alessandro Mancuso

“…In both cases, their starting point is in fact the uncertainty of human condition and social orders, and at the heart of their theory, there stands the issue of identifying the different kinds of ethos and cultural activity which permit people to historically and existentially confront this uncertainty through establishing their belonging to a “cultural homeland” (De Martino) or forms of social imagination which shape the capacities of constructively projecting themselves into the future (Appadurai). …”
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Assessing the Place of Christo-Peace in Transforming the Life of Nigerian Christians by Kelechi Johnmary Ani

“…The quest for peace by men has remained a major existential need of man. People go to different places including the church in the search for peace. …”
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Singapore Government Securitization Measures against Transboundary Haze Pollution as a Non-Traditional Security Threat by Muhammad Ramli

“…Additionally, mass media and social media play a critical role in channeling popular opinion. Keywords: existential threat; securitization policy; constructivism approach; transboundary haze pollution; speech act …”
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De la crainte de la damnation éternelle aux prémisses de l’angoisse existentielle contemporaine : inquiétudes sotériologiques et eschatologiques chez William Hale White (« Mark Rut... by Jean-Michel Yvard

“…How did these fears often secularise themselves, opening the way to our contemporary « existential anguish » ? Such are some of the questions which are raised in this paper through a study of the autobiographical and fictional writings of William Hale White (« Mark Rutherford »).…”
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THE TRADITION OF NEW PERSONALITY UPBRINGING IN THE HISTORY OF RUSSIAN EDUCATION by V. I. Polishchuk

“…In author’s opinion, the actual renewal of people’s world outlook can be achieved only by getting rid of old misunderstandings and emphasizing the spiritual potential and existential bases.…”
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On the Transformation of Thinking on Personal Responsibility Towards Requirements of Environmental Ethics in Slovakia by Katarína Mária Vadíková

“…Comparisons of the situation in thinking on responsibility for the environment, before and after the Velvet revolution, are based on an analysis of findings of various inter-disciplinary research-projects, argued via enviro-criminal cases mentioned in the Slovak media, existentially verified by the author herself, as a living witness, and fostered by appropriate Slovak legislation. …”
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Intertexte et réécriture du Drame de l’Homme, de la Femme et de Dieu dans 'Partage de midi' de Paul Claudel by Samuel Bidaud

“…However, he places these elements in a different existential and religious context, marked by free will and the grace of a God who can always draw good from evil. …”
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Dziecięce konstrukcje świata w rozmowach z dorosłymi by Agnieszka Nowak-Łojewska

“…The text was produced as a result of series of meetings with schoolchildren of 1–3 classes and the struggle to find answers to their questions of social, existential, ethical and moral nature. It reflects childlike concepts of social knowledge. …”
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Pakistan’s Water Security Crisis: Challenges and the Case for Integrated Water Resource Management by Safia Mansoor

“…In the past, issues pertaining to water security were largely neglected, paving the way for its transformation into an existential threat with alarming consequences for Pakistan. …”
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IBN ARABI AND FRITHJOF SCHUON’S ANDROCENTRIC ONTOLOGY by Cennet Ceren Cavus

“…In his ontology, he consecrates femininity by putting the feminine Essence (dhât) at the top of his existential hierarchy. Frithjof Schuon, who reads Ibn Arabi’s philosophy very critically, refers to the feminine aspect of God with the concept of “Eternal Feminine”. …”
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Kino wielojęzyczne jako pole komunikacji międzykulturowej by Teresa Rutkowska

“…Chris Wahl postrzega kino wielojęzyczne (polyglot cinema) jako szczególny gatunek filmowy wraz z takimi podgatunkami jak: episode film, globalisation film, immigrant film, colonial film i existential film. Przypisuje temu gatunkowi szczególne znaczenie, ponieważ odnosi się on do dosłownego i metaforycznego znaczenia granic w obecnym świecie i komunikacji międzyludzkiej. …”
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I santi degli altri. Devozione, mutamento e rituali tra i singalesi cattolici a Messina by Giovanni Cordova

“…For this reason, processes of construction of sainthood at the core of these ritual systems, very useful to reflect upon the vernacularization of religious discourses along the post-colonial trajectories of western “multicultural” Church, will be analyzed looking at the interactions connecting them to ecclesial powers, the daily experience of the sacred, and religious actors’ existential and biographical paths. Sinhala Catholics living in Messina are now deeply grounded in the local migration landscape. …”
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Suicide from a Holistic Point of View by Søren Ventegodt, Joav Merrick

“…In this chapter, we present parts of a story of a young girl who had experienced child sexual abuse. In holistic existential therapy, it is our experience, when the patient is well supported in the confrontation of the fundamental questions related to assuming responsibility for the coherence, that this confrontation will almost always lead to a big YES to life. …”
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The returning dead: unconventional inhumations in Medieval Lithuania by Gintautas Vėlius

“…The great number of so-called unconventional inhumations in medieval Lithuania depict the permanent co-existence of both pagan post-existential concepts and rituals and the new Christian ones; such manner of beliefs is significant for a religiously syncretic society. …”
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Forum: Attempting a dialectical reconciliation of the concept truth in the objectivism of evangelical Christianity and the relativism of postmodernism by E. K. Foshaugen

“…God is Objective Truth and has become involved in history: in the existential; in the material setting of our relative and infallible thoughts and the slanted interpretative experiences of the Triune God and life. …”
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Weimar Migrations: Katherine Anne Porter in Berlin by Joseph Kuhn

“…It is more appropriate to compare Porter’s work with that of a Weimar expatriate, Hannah Arendt, especially in their mutual emphasis on the thoughtlessness of evil; on the particular need for the exercise of the faculty of judgment in times of crisis; and on Saint Augustine’s concept of natality as a means for counteracting the existential despair of interwar Europe.…”
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Reading and (not) seeing? by Sandra Saayman

“…one is inclined to wonder, as the text, from the moment the pictorial is introduced, becomes embroiled in an existential and narcissistic questioning regarding the identity(ies) of the writer and painter Breyten Breytenbach. …”
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Does a Feedforward Orientation Provide Competitive Advantages Under Disruptive Conditions? A Review of Control Literature with an Illustrative Case by Rajaram Veliyath

“…Moreover, when severe external environmental disruptions inevitably erode an organization’s resource bases and pose an existential threat to the organization’s survival, such a feedforward orientation could be the catalyst for coping, adapting, and developing new dynamic capabilities. …”
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Pengembangan dan validitas Pane Afdal Psychological Condition for Domestic Violance Inventory (PAPC-DVI) by Nurmaida Pane, Afdal Afdal

“…Assertive behavior will measure positive assertiveness, self-affirmation, and negative assertiveness. resilience will measure equaminity, perseverance, self-reliance, meaningfulness, and existential aloneness. This research was conducted on 90 wives who experienced violence in the city of Padang using purposive sampling techniques. …”
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Challenges in normative conceptualisation by Siyasanga M. Tyali

“… Technological developments continue to have an existential impact on the normative understanding of the community radio sector of South Africa. …”
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