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The Mass Miracle: Public Religion In The Postwar Philippines, Deirdre De La Cruz

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

From November 1948 to March 1949, petals of roses fell from the sky on the grounds outside of a Carmelite convent in the town of Lipa, Batangas. The petals and stories about them circulated at local, national, and international levels, giving rise to a variety of interpretations of their significance. Thisarticle examines the rose petals of Lipa as both a phenomenon to be mediated and a medium in its own right, in order to propose the need to rethink the common category of “popular religion.”KEYWORDS: Religion • Catholicism • The Mass Media • Miracles • Transnationalism

The Montclarion, October 02, 2014, The Montclarion

The Montclarion

Student Newspaper of Montclair State University

The Alestle - Vol. 67 No. 8 - 10/02/2014, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

The Alestle

Vol. 67. No. 8

Curriculum Subcommittee Minutes, October 2, 2014, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Applied Economics

• Course Description Change, Prerequisite Change, Dual List
• Title Change, Course Description Change

Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Sciences

• New Course
• Credit Hour Change
• Add University Studies Designation

Plant Soils and Climate

• Prerequisite Change, Course No. Change

Caine College of the Arts

• Add University Studies Designation

Accounting

• Course Description Change

COMMDDE

• New Course

HPER

• New Course
• Course Description Change, Title Change

Psychology

• Prerequisite Change

Teacher Education and Leadership

• Add Multiple List
• Course Description Change
• Delete Course (remove dual list)
• Add Multiple List
• Title Change
• Course Description, Prerequisite Change
• New Course
• Grade Type

Civil and Environmental Engineering

• New Course
• Delete Course …

Women Religious And Sociopolitical Change In The Philippines, 1930s–1970s, Coeli Barry

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

Thisarticle develops a framework for the study of spirituality and the congregational lives of women religious in the Philippines from the 1930s to the early 1970s. It explores the multiple and sometimes contradictory meanings of membership of women in religious communities. Set within the history of women religious in the Catholic Church, the study explains the transformations in the originally Belgian order, the Immaculé Coeur Marie (ICM), while also drawing on the experiences of women leaders from other congregations. Thisarticle looks at the Filipinization of leadership and subsequent reshaping of congregational ideologies in the context of the Second Vatican Council …

The Inkwell, Armstrong State University

The Inkwell

No abstract provided.

Improving Middle School Students' Subjective Well-Being: Efficacy Of A Multi-Component Positive Psychology Intervention Targeting Small Groups Of Youth And Parents, Rachel Anne Roth

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

A dual-factor model of mental health conceptualizes mental health status as a combination of both psychopathology and subjective well-being. Current literature indicates that complete mental health (i.e., low psychopathology, high subjective well-being) is associated with the best academic and social functioning among youth. Thus, the absence of psychopathology alone is not sufficient for student success. While research on interventions for improving subjective well-being, termed positive psychology interventions (PPIs), is increasing, PPIs for youth in particular lag behind similar interventions for adults. Additionally, a majority of youth-focused PPIs have targeted singular constructs (e.g., gratitude, character strengths), have neglected to include relevant …

Popular Religion And The Turn To Everyday Authenticity: Reflections On The Contemporary Study Of Philippine Catholicism, Jayeel S. Cornelio

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

The seminal works on everyday religion in the Philippines that appeared in the 1960s were motivated by pastoral concerns. Since the 1990s, however, there has been a growing interest in everyday religion as authentic expressions of what it means for individuals to be Catholic. This turn in the scholarship of social scientists and religious scholars has been driven less by the question of secularization than the demand for religion’s local relevance. Thisarticle explores the conditions under which the turn to authenticity has emerged in Philippine studies: the socioeconomic contexts, the expansion of the social sciences, the changing attitudes to religious …

Ethnography As An Act Of Witnessing: Doing Fieldwork On Passion Rituals In The Philippines, Julius Bautista, Peter J. Bräunlein

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

Thisarticle juxtaposes two narrative accounts of ethnographic fieldwork on the Passion rituals of Central Luzon in the Philippines. Framed from two distinct cultural and temporal contexts, these narratives highlight the limits and the possibilities of reflexive participant observation in understanding and depicting Filipino religious culture. The authors problematize the assumption that the researcher is the sovereign determinant of fieldwork parameters and local “informants” are merely complicit with the former’s empirical strategies. The act of witnessing, they argue, is a fluid process of exchange conditioned by the expectations and desires of the researcher’s interlocutors and the researcher’s own anxieties over the …

Curriculum Minutes 10/02/2014, Curriculum Committee

Curriculum Committee Minutes

In these minutes: Division of the Social Sciences catalog course changes.

First Generation Minority Students: Understanding The Influential Factors That Contributed To Their Preparation And Decision To Pursue Higher Education, Alexis Shawnee Palacios Cabrera

PSU McNair Scholars Online Journal

The purpose of this research was to explore and understand the experiences of first generation minority students at Portland State University. First generation students are students whose parents have not earned a four-year degree or the equivalence of a bachelor’s degree in the United States. By looking at factors that contributed to college decision making process, such as family, peers, high school educators, and high school mentor programs, we can better understand how these factors influence students’ experiences. A qualitative analysis was used to assess the responses from 42 students collected through an online survey. This study looked at how …

Front Matter Volume 8, 2014, Mcnair Scholars Program

PSU McNair Scholars Online Journal

Front matter includes program background, Table of Contents, and a complete listing of 2014 Portland State McNair Scholars.

"If You Can Hold On...": Counter-Apocalyptic Play In Richard Kelly’S Southland Tales, Marcus O'Donnell

Journal of Religion & Film

Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales (2006) presents a dystopic, post-apocalyptic, near-future through an aesthetic, which fuses contemporary postmodern screens with the phantasmagorical of traditional apocalyptic visions. This article argues that Southland Tales is an example of what feminist theologian Catherine Keller calls the “counter-apocalyptic” (Keller 1996:19-20). Through strategies of ironic parody Kelly both describes and questions the apocalyptic and its easy polarities. In situating the film as counter-apocalyptic the paper argues that the film both resists the apocalyptic impulse however it is also located within it. In this sense it produces a unique take on the genre of the post-apocalyptic film …

Blood-Suckers! The Concepts Revisionist And Anti-Revisionist Mythology Introduced By The Vampire- And Werewolf-Tetralogy Underworld (2003-2012), Stefan L. Arvidsson

Journal of Religion & Film

By undertaking a structuralist influenced analysis of the vampire- and werewolf-tetralogy Underworld the author argues for the usefulness of the concept “revisionist mythology” and “anti-revisionist mythology” in the study of the history of religion in general and in the study of popular mythology in specific. These concepts point to dramaturgical, but also ethical and ideological, changes within the world of commercial pop-mythological artefacts. The article focuses on certain aesthetic aspects of the tetralogy that unveil counter-cultural traits that might be labelled socialist. The article ends with speculations about the causes for the strong revisionistic and anti-revisionistic trends that are taking …

Sculpting The Illness Experience, Molly Bathje

The Open Journal of Occupational Therapy

Otto Kamensek provided the cover art for the Fall 2014 issue of the Open Journal of Occupational Therapy. “Glimmer of Hope” is part of Otto’s collection “Shard’s, Bone Deep,” which includes hand-built ceramic sculptures that portray his experiences with a lifelong chronic illness. Engaging in ceramic sculpture helps him process the experiences associated with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis and provides a means to support others experiencing chronic illness.

The Significance Of Somatosensory Stimulation To The Hand: Implications For Occupational Therapy Practice, Guy L. Mccormack

The Open Journal of Occupational Therapy

The hands contain numerous nerve endings that are intimately connected to the brain. Mounting evidence supports the concept that willful manipulation of objects contributes to expansion or reorganization of the somatosensory cortex and can produce therapeutic outcomes. In the past decade, research has demonstrated that cortical plasticity can continue throughout adulthood. Brain plasticity is a core principle that demonstrates the ability of the central nervous system to respond to stimuli and modify its structural organization and function as an adaptive response. Occupation-based interventions, which engage the use of the hands, are conceived in this article as a “mindbody” experience because …

Relationships Among Occupation/Activity Patterns, Health And Stress Perceptions, And Life Orientation In Well Adults, Barbara Prudhomme White, Amy Ma, Deborah Whitney

The Open Journal of Occupational Therapy

Background: This study examined the relationships among activity choices, perceived health, stress, and life orientation (optimism-pessimism) in a general population of 675 healthy adults ranging in age from 18-91 years. The objective was to examine assumptions that occupational scientists and practitioners hold regarding the relationships among health factors and engagement in activities/occupations.

Method: The study used four self-report measures, including a customized activity card sort that asked participants about both healthy and unhealthy activity patterns. Responses were then compared with the participants’ perceptions of overall health, stress levels, and degrees of optimism and pessimism (life orientation).

Results: Major findings confirmed …

“Putting The Occupation Back In Occupational Therapy:” A Survey Of Occupational Therapy Practitioners’ Use Of Gardening As An Intervention, Amy Wagenfeld, Ben Atchison

The Open Journal of Occupational Therapy

Background. This study examines how and why occupational therapy practitioners across practice areas use gardening as an intervention. Respondents’ interpretation of the best and least desirable aspects of their facility’s garden and whether they contributed to its design was also examined.

Method. A description and link to a 15-question online survey about gardening as an occupational therapy intervention was emailed to Western Michigan University Occupational Therapy alumni and posted on four OT Connections groups and the AOTA LinkedIn site.

Results. Gardening as an occupational therapy intervention is meaningful and purposeful (93.66%, n = 56), motivating (80%, n = 48), fun …

“I Think Relax, Relax And It Flows A Lot Easier”: Exploring Client-Generated Relax Strategies, Dianne Cirone, Sara E. Mcewen

The Open Journal of Occupational Therapy

Background. Some adult stroke survivors participating in Cognitive Orientation to daily Occupational Performance (CO-OP) treatment programs self-generated relax strategies that have not been explored in previous CO-OP publications. The objective of this study was to describe the process by which adults with stroke used relax strategies and to explore the outcomes associated with their use.

Methods. Secondary analysis of transcripts of intervention sessions from five participants was conducted.

Results. All five participants applied relax strategies after initially observing a breakdown in performance that was attributed to increased fatigue or tension. The relax strategies used by the participants during their occupations …

Unraveled Fall 2014, Southern Adventist University

Unraveled - School of Education and Psychology Newsletter

The Fall 2014 issue of Unraveled features articles on the completed renovation of Summerour Hall, a pictorial directory of the December 2014 education and psychology graduates, and faculty updates.

The Creative Economy In Southern Illinois: Opportunities For Reshaping Carbondale And Siu, Kent Dolezal

The Simon Review (Occasional Papers of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute)

Since the 2002 release of Richard Florida’s seminal book, The Rise of the Creative Class, a considerable amount of the regional and local development discussion has focused on his concept of attracting and retaining the creative class as a vehicle of economic growth. Florida’s (2002) work centers on the premise that contemporary development is not a process of attracting large employers but attracting talented people to an area; it is a process of jobs following people, not people following jobs. Although Florida has a primarily urban focus (Peck, 2005), with more than 59 million or 19.3 percent of the American …

Women & Gender Studies Fall 2014 Newsletter, Women & Gender Studies Program, University Of Southern Maine

WGS Newsletter

In this issue:

• Director's Welcome
• Major/Minor & Core
• GSSO Update
• Student Life Update
• Alum Updates
• Affiliated Scholars Program
• Fall 2014 Courses

Climate Change Survey Measures: Exploring Perceived Bias And Question Interpretation, Tarik Abdel-Monem, Lisa M. Pytlikzillig, Tonya K. Bernadt, Nicole Wall

Lisa PytlikZillig Publications

Climate change has become an important yet politically divisive topic in recent years. Further complicating the issue are assertions that climate change– related public opinion surveys used by social scientists are biased or otherwise problematic. We conducted a pilot study to explore questions concerning bias and interpretation of climate change surveys. Our study sample was composed of adult residents of Nebraska (n = 115). We augmented our survey findings with cognitive interviews of a subsample of respondents (n = 20). We assessed study participants’ attitudes about climate change, and perceptions of bias and interpretation of survey questions drawn from previously …

The Mass Of Graviton And Its Relation To The Number Of Information According To The Holographic Principle, Ioannis Haranas, Ioannis Gkigkitzis

Physics and Computer Science Faculty Publications

We investigate the relation of the mass of the graviton to the number of information 𝑁 in a flat universe. As a result we find that the mass of the graviton scales as 𝑚_gr ∝ 1/√𝑁. Furthermore, we find that the number of gravitons contained inside the observable horizon is directly proportional to the number of information 𝑁; that is, 𝑁_gr ∝ 𝑁. Similarly, the total mass of gravitons that exist in the universe is proportional to the number of information 𝑁; that is, 𝑀_gr ∝ √𝑁. In an effort to establish a relation between the graviton …

Fall Newsletter 2014, Benjamin Panciera, Rebecca Parmer, Carolyn Johnson

Friends of the Connecticut College Library Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Innovations Volume 1: Issue 1, Ron And Kathy Assaf College Of Nursing

Innovations Magazine

No abstract provided.

Further Changes In L2 Thinking For Speaking?, Gale Stam

Faculty Publications

Cross-linguistic research has shown that languages differ typologically in how motion events are indicated lexically and syntactically, and that speakers of these languages have different patterns of thinking for speaking (for a review, see Han and Cadierno, 2010). Spanish speakers express path linguistically on verbs, their path gestures tend to occur with path verbs, and their manner gestures may occur without manner in speech, whereas English satellite units, and their manner gestures rarely occur without manner in speech. Stam (2006b) has shown that the English narrations of Spanish learners of English have aspects of their first language (Spanish) and aspects …

Integral Counseling Psychology Newsletter, Ciis

Integral Counseling Psychology Newsletter

This is the Fall 2014 issue of ICP Newsletter

Ciis Today, Fall 2014 Issue, California Institiute Of Integral Studies

CIIS Today

This volume is the Fall 2014 issue of CIIS Today, the Magazine of the California Institute of Integral Studies.

Bilingual Typography: Study Of The Linguistic Landscape Of Jeddah, Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia, Shayna Tova Blum

Faculty and Staff Publications

Abstract: With the rise of globalization and the spread of Western culture across the globe, the use of English as an “international” language is often represented in bilingual and multilingual typographic signage. Throughout the Middle East North Africa and the Gulf region, the integration of Arabic and Latin letterforms is commonly viewed within the signage of storefronts, street signs, advertising billboards, and informational materials. This paper explores the use of bilingual/multilingual typography within the linguistic landscape of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.