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  • Article
  • Open Access
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12 March 2024

This paper discusses the secrecies of border spirits within 20th century Finnish belief narratives. The aim is to explore how and in which contexts the imaginary aspects of border spirit narratives link to the idea of the “power of storytelling...

  • Article
  • Open Access
191 Views
21 Pages

19 January 2026

This article explores how Herta Müller and Paul Bailey transform the apparatus of state bordering, i.e., passports, permits and catechisms, into metaphors for an interior struggle between flight and belonging. In The Passport, The Land of Green ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,682 Views
14 Pages

25 June 2023

Shirley Caesar, a celebrated, multiple award-winning gospel singer and preacher, used and retold stories about three transformative spiritual experiences to build a case for defending her call to preach. These ritualistic spiritual events included ch...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
1 Citations
7,220 Views
3 Pages

8 December 2010

I'm honored to be the guest editor of this volume of Animals. The essays included here are in the spirit of this new and forward-looking journal http://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/1/1/1/pdf. They stem from a precedent setting gathering of scholars from al...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
9,154 Views
14 Pages

Alcohol Marketing during the UEFA EURO 2016 Football Tournament: A Frequency Analysis

  • Richard I. Purves,
  • Nathan Critchlow,
  • Martine Stead,
  • Jean Adams and
  • Katherine Brown

This study examined the frequency and nature of alcohol marketing references in broadcasts of the 2016 UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) European Championships football tournament in the United Kingdom (UK). Eighteen matches from across...

  • Article
  • Open Access
931 Views
16 Pages

24 October 2025

As a multi-ethnic border region of China, Xinjiang hosts revolutionary cultural tourism resources (RCTRs) that embody historical memory and the spirit of frontier reclamation, while also playing a strategic role in strengthening national identity and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,582 Views
22 Pages

18 January 2019

Then is the designation in Vietnamese and Tày given to shamanic practitioners of the Tày ethnicity, who reside mainly in the northern provinces of Vietnam. Scholars are long aware that the predominantly female spirit mediums among the Z...