Forming Spiritual Culture as a Cultural Category

The Cultural Foundations of a Republican Polity: Culture as Communication

Cultural Priming as a Tool to Understand Multiculturalism and Culture

What is multiculturalism, and how is it typically studied? The current paper provides answers to these questions by introducing approaches to the study of multiculturalism and their implications. We first present the view of multiculturalism as a static and dispositional phenomenon (i.e., demographic, as well as most uniand bidimensional conceptualizations of acculturation) and then focus on mo...

Cultural Politics and Spiritual Making of Anthropologists

Ethnographic studies of religion, stuck somewhere between ethnocentrism and literalism (especially in the case of Islam), have brought little distinctive anthropological analysis to bear successfully on the practical realities and political ideologies of religions. On the other hand, the popular assertion that certain ethnic groups, having had conflicts over centuries, will continue to fight wi...

constructing a cultural dimensions scale and investigating efl teacher burnout,iranian identity components, and the norms of khorasan razavi culture

این تحقیق در ساختار چهار مرحله ای خود هشت هدف را دنبال کرد: در مرحله اول، تنها هدف طراحی و معتبر سازی پرسشنامه ای بومی بر اساس مدل فرهنگی شش بعدی هافستد (2010) بود. این کار با استفاده از داده های جمع شده از 370 نفر و توسط روش آماری sem انجام شد. مرحله دوم که با استفاده از داده های جمع شده از 170 معلم زبان انگلیسی انجام شد دارای دو هدف بود: هدف اول، بررسی فرسایش کاری معلمان زبان از دید ابعاد فره...

Occupation as spiritual activity.

Although spirituality is rarely explicitly mentioned in the occupational therapy literature, it is implied as an interwoven part of the human system. This article explores the meaning of occupation in the context of sociological and Judeo-Christian theological frameworks and the meaning of spirituality in the occupational therapy clinic. A case is made for acknowledging spirituality in clinical...