This paper is a preliminary submission of the insights gained from CIAS Conference (11-13 September 2019) pilot scriptural reading sessions. The empirical component postdoctoral research project includes observing and interacting with groups active adherents three Abrahamic faiths, taking note how people faith appropriate meaning to their own authoritative scriptures those others. As precursor ...

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Using Jordan's concept of authoritative knowledge, this article describes some of the ways that the prenatal care practices of a group of U.S. women help to consolidate biomedical hegemony. We analyze the considerations that the women took into account when deciding whether or not to accept specific prenatal care recommendations as authoritative, focusing on when and how they used their own "em...

Living wills are often considered by physicians who are faced with a dying patient. Although popular with the general public, they remain problems of authenticity and authority. It is difficult for the examining physician to know whether the patient understood the terms of the advance directive when they signed it, and whether they still consider it authoritative at the time that it is produced...

Objectives: This study aimed to develop an explanatory model of assertiveness based on parenting styles mediated by anxiety and self-esteem. Methods: This study is descriptive-correlational modeling with partial least squares. The statistical population included singleton children of the sixth grade of the elementary school in the 3rd District of Tehran in the academic year 2017-18. The sampli...

This study was conducted to analyze Kosovo's most common parenting styles based on secondary school students' perceptions. There are four of parenting: 1) Authoritative parents, 2) authoritarian 3) Permissive, tolerant 4) uninvolved (negligent) parents. The concluded with students in two gymnasiums Klina and Gjakova. Out 1334 participants who took part the study, 848 were female, 486 male. A qu...