9 research outputs found
Hindu Arranged Marriage within the Indian American Community
No full text67 p.As families started to migrate out of India they brought the custom of arranged marriage with them to the United States. The author focuses on how Hindus in America are adjusting to the far-flung geography of Hindu communities, the role of caste and dowry, and technology. In addition to a literature review, the author also interviewed a group of mothers and second generation men and women between the age of 15 and 30
Ken Ham's 6,000 Year Old Universe
No full text84 p.The author discusses the literature of Creationism, how it compares and contrasts with the mainstream science of Evolution, and how Creationism has been used to create Creation Museums, which the author compares to traditional natural history museums
Peace House : Lived Religion and Social Activism in Kalamazoo
No full text98 p.The author reviews the history of the Catholic Worker Movement and Quakerism and then reports on the day to day work of Peace House, an intentional community providing outreach services to the Edison neighborhood of Kalamazoo
Imported Religion: Chilean Buddhism in a Global Market
No full textiv, 64 p.The author explores the presence of Nichiren Buddhism in Chile in the context of Jose Casnova’s theories of globalized religion, and how the Buddhist religion and lifestyle fit into a culturally Chilean setting. Within that broader conceptualization, she explores how the powerful Catholic Church has played a part in the resurgence of Buddhism and how those differing religious cultures are, or are not, synchronizing in a complex way. The author spent six weeks in Santiago, Chile immersed in the observation and study of a small Nichiren Buddhist group out of the province of Nufioa, attending meetings, events, activities, classes, and interviewing members
Material Culture in the Borderland : A Focus on the "Miracle Room" at the Basilica of Our Lady of San Juan del Valle
No full textiv, 62 p.Material culture in the lower Rio Grande Valley exists among the faithful devotees that attend Our Lady of San Juan del Valle who put their faith in a variety of religious objects to feel secure from the many social, economic and political problems including the violence that is a result of the drug war that Mexico has been currently facing in the last couple of years. The author focuses on "el cuarto de los Milagros" (the miracle room) and the material culture found in the room at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in San Juan, Texas to define the culture of the community surrounding the Basilica. For six weeks and approximately five hours per week during the summer of 2012, she observed and interviewed the residents of the parish where she grew up
Open Wounds of San Francisco : The Effects of Gentrification in the Mission District
No full textiv, 77 p.San Francisco is facing a monster that people are describing now as hypergentrification. The Mission District is the neighborhood that is changing at the most fastest rate compared to other neighborhoods in San Francisco and others around the United States. In the last four to seven years the city has had a complete makeover by having openings of luxurious condominiums, the closing of long-term businesses, the opening of new businesses, and the change in population. In the last few years with technology booming in certain areas of the United States there has been shifts among cities dominated by people of color. In San Francisco, the Mission District has always been a neighborhood populated by Latinos. It is in the Mission where one finds most of the Latin American products and businesses. It is in the Mission, where the Latino Cultural Center is found. Moreover, it is in the Mission where many Latin Americans families especially immigrants families were able to find affordable housing. In the last 15 years but primarily in the last four years San Francisco has become one of the most expensive cities to live in and has become affordable only for a selected few. The Mission District for many families was the only place that living in San Francisco was not a burden. In addition, for many immigrant families the Mission was a home away from home. It was one of the very few places in San Francisco where people could find the products that are sold in their native countries. Besides that, in the Mission there was a sense of community and less of the individualistic mentality, which is how many Latin American communities function. It was a neighborhood with resources for Latinos in San Francisco. Today these feelings have been dissolved because technology workers and people with wealth have made living in the Mission unaffordable because they have populated the Mission neighborhood. There has been a displacement of people of color in the Mission due to the so-called "techies". This is term being used in the Mission to describe the people who work in Silicon Valley companies invested in technology but live in the Mission. Because these "techies" are able to afford a life of high expenses, the cost of living has increased tremendously. It is important to not only acknowledge what is happening in San Francisco but also understand why it is happening and what is currently being done. The author asks, what has been happening to the Latino community of the Mission? Why are certain businesses and cultural aspects of the neighborhood being kept but others shut down? Furthermore, where are Latinos moving? The author focuses on forms of resistance. What are the murals expressing in this community? Are they a form of resistance and empowerment or are they an exotic exhibition for its new residents? What is happening to the churches in that community and how are they being involved in stopping gentrification
Bishop John Hughes, The Public School Society, and the School Question of the 1840s
No full textii, 28 p.The author examines the question of religious and ethnic assimilation. With every new wave of immigrants to the United States, there are always worries regarding whether or not that particular community is going to be able to assimilate properly into the majority culture, as well as whether or not that group is going to add to the current discourse and identity that already exists in regards to the definition of American society. This was certainly the case with the Catholic experience in the United States. One of the strongest examples of anti-Catholic prejudice in the United States was the controversy during the 1840s and 1850s surrounding the existence of parochial schools and the issues of program funding. Many Protestants viewed these schools as centers for potential propaganda and anti-American sentiments, as well as just another way of the Catholic community to not integrate into regular American society and culture. The subject of this paper deals with the conflict surrounding the catholic school controversy in New York City, and specifically the discourse between the Public School Society and Bishop John Hughes on school funding. Through viewing this controversy one can attempt to understand a particular example of both the reasons behind anti-Catholic prejudice as well as the difficulties that the Catholics faced living during the mid-nineteenth century as well as its relevance today
Comparison of Sexual Risk, HIV/STI Prevalence and Intervention Exposure Among Men Who Have Sex with Men and Women (MSMW) and Men Who Have Sex with Men Only (MSMO) in India: Implications for HIV Prevention
No full textThe Author(s) 2015. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com Abstract Using data from a cross-sectional bio-behav-ioral survey conducted among men who have sex with men (n = 3833) in India, we examined differences related to HIV-related sexual risk, HIV/STI prevalence and inter-vention exposures between men who have sex with men and women (MSMW, 35 % of the sample) and men who have sex with men only (MSMO). Among MSMW, 93 % reported having female regular partners, 14 % had female paid partners, and all types of male partners (regular 55 %; casual 77.1 %; paying 47 %; paid 19 %). Logistic regres-sion revealed that MSMW had higher odds of being aged 26 years and above (AOR 4.45, 95 % CI 3.66–5.42), lower odds of inconsistently using condoms with male partners (AOR 0.82, 95 % CI 0.67–0.98) and lower odds of having kothi (feminine/mostly receptive) identity (AOR 0.07, 95 % CI 0.06–0.09). HIV intervention exposure and HIV/ STI prevalence did not differ significantly between MSMW and MSMO (HIV 13.1 vs. 12.2 %; active syphilis 3.5 vs. 3.1 %, respectively). Concurrent sexual partnerships with men and women pose risk of HIV transmission/acquisition for MSM and their male and female partners. All sub-groups of MSM require tailored information and skills to consistently use condoms with different types of partners of either gender
Immunological and molecular features of the tumor microenvironment of long-term survivors of ovarian cancer
No full textBACKGROUNDDespite an overall poor prognosis, about 15% of patients with advanced-stage tubo-ovarian high-grade serous carcinoma (HGSC) survive 10 or more years after standard treatment.METHODSWe evaluated the tumor microenvironment of this exceptional, understudied group using a large international cohort enriched for long-term survivors (LTS; 10+ years; n = 374) compared with mid-term (MTS; 5-7.99 years; n = 433) and short-term survivors (STS; 2-4.99 years; n = 416). Primary tumor samples were immunostained and scored for intraepithelial and intrastromal densities of 10 immune-cell subsets (including T cells, B cells, plasma cells, myeloid cells, PD-1+ cells, and PD-L1+ cells) and epithelial content.RESULTSPositive associations with LTS compared with STS were seen for 9 of 10 immune-cell subsets. In particular, the combination of intraepithelial CD8+ T cells and intrastromal B cells showed near 5-fold increased odds of LTS compared with STS. All of these associations were stronger in tumors with high epithelial content and/or the C4/Differentiated molecular subtype, despite immune-cell densities generally being higher in tumors with low epithelial content and/or the C2/Immunoreactive molecular subtype.CONCLUSIONThe tumor microenvironment of HGSC LTS is distinguished by the intersection of T and B cell coinfiltration, high epithelial content, and C4/differentiated molecular subtype, features which may inspire new approaches to immunotherapy.FUNDINGOvarian Cancer Research Program (OCRP) of the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP), U.S. Department of Defense (DOD); American Cancer Society; BC Cancer Foundation; Canada's Networks of Centres of Excellence; Canadian Cancer Society; Canadian Institutes of Health Research; Cancer Councils of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, and Tasmania, Cancer Foundation of Western Australia; Cancer Institute NSW; Cancer Research UK; Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft; ELAN Funds of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg; Fred C. and Katherine B. Andersen Foundation; Genome BC; German Cancer Research Center; German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Programme of Clinical Biomedical Research; Instituto de Salud Carlos III; Mayo Foundation; Minnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance; Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad; Medical Research Council (MRC); National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences; National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NHMRC); Ovarian Cancer Australia; Peter MacCallum Foundation; Sydney West Translational Cancer Research Centre; Terry Fox Research Institute; The Eve Appeal (The Oak Foundation); UK National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centres at the University of Cambridge; University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; U.S. National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health; VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation; Victorian Cancer Agency
