presence

Phenomenal presence

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What kinds of features of the world figure consciously in our perceptual experience? Colours and shapes are uncontroversial; but what about volumes, natural kinds, reasons for belief, existences, relations? Eleven new essays investigate different kinds of phenomenal presence.

Several schools of psychology draw from Buddhist thought and use meditation and mindfulness practices. However, meditation for stress reduction differs from meditation embedded in a project like enlightenment. These evidences led to the hypothesis that Buddhism and psychotherapy…

This basic qualitative research study explored senior baccalaureate nursing students’ descriptions of how they transitioned knowledge about providing spiritual care into clinical nursing practice. Studying students’ descriptions of their experiences with spiritual care showed th…

An entry point into understanding the implications of an artwork can be located by exploring both the place of a work in its proper art historical context as well experiencing first-hand its essence as a kind of living thing. This “livingness” quality which art embodies seems to…

Local government plays a key role in the construction of civic identity. Through an analysis of mayoral addresses in 2019, a rhetoric of civic fealty emerges. This thesis situates the implications of such rhetoric in crafting notions of Black conformity or resistance to institut…

Fragments, Futures, Absence and the Past: a new approach to photography

by Helmerdig, Silke

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According to Walter Benjamin, the past that is not recognized by the present threatens to disappear irretrievably. As a consequence, photographs cannot save the moment from oblivion by pure depiction alone, but only by keeping the depicted moment actual at every present moment. …

My doctoral thesis examines what absence is and how it works in a performance. I study the paradox of representation, whereby absence is never absent and presence is not present. I have named this using the oxymoron present absence. I use Jacques Derrida's philosophy and survey …

The International Coalition of Historic Site Museums of Conscience contributes to current debate about the role that heritage institutions can play as agents for social change. In particular, it proposes historic sites as key venues where dialogue about contemporary human rights…

This dissertation is a qualitative testimonio study that documents the reflections and experiences of twenty Mexican/Latinx Chicago teachers through a Latino Critical Race (LatCrit) Studies in Education theoretical lens. These testimonios contribute to the ongoing documentation …

Christian teachers lead godly change in the lives of people whom they influence. The preparation of people to lead as teachers in the church requires the development of inner character that is consistent with Christian purposes. One of the fundamental attributes of this sort of …

This paper explores whether gaming history affects participants’ ability to feel engaged during virtual reality exposure therapy (VRET). Innovative technologies, chiefly smartphones connected to virtual reality viewers, have made it feasible for VRET to be conducted remotely (i.…