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Introduzione
No full textIntroduzione al volume S. Botta, D. Riboli e D. Torri (eds.), Sciamanesimo e persona: una svolta ontologica? (Sapienza Sciamanica/6), Nuova Cultura, Roma 2023, pp. 9-18
Il revival etnico-religioso delle minoranze del Nepal contemporaneo
No full textIn contemporary Nepal, the so-called revival of ethnic minorities
is undoubtedly one of the most relevant political dynamics unfold -
ing in the Himalayan country. Tied to the major political events of
the last decades, and especially since the first people movements
of the 1990s and throughout the Maoist insurgency, issues related
to indigeneity, multiculturalism, secularism and religious freedom
were always included in the janajāti ādivāsī movement’s agenda.
After the transformation of the country into a republic, in
2008, the hegemony of Hinduism as a state-sponsored religion
and ideology was shattered, paving the way to a deep transformation
of the state along more inclusive criteria. In this context, previously
marginalized or oppressed groups emerge to visibility, and
negotiate space, legitimacy and status vis-à-vis the state and other
groups. In this paper, the author gives an overview of processes in
and around the religious field, highlighting some of the dynamics
currently unfolding in Nepal
Religious Identities and the Struggle for Secularism: The Revival of Buddhism and Religions of Marginalized Groups in Nepal
No full textOne of the most relevant aspects of contemporary political life in Nepal is the rise of ethnic minorities. From the early 1990s, the movement for democracy started campaigning against Hindu Monarchic autocracy for the lifting of the ban on political parties, the recognition of multiculturalism and freedom of religion. Many things have changed since then: a Maoist-led insurgency and a new people\u27s movement have managed to topple the monarchy and to transform the Himalayan country into a republic. As a reaction to the state-enforced Hinduization of the people, supporting the caste system and maintaining the power in the hands of high caste Hindus, many groups are now campaigning to revive their local cultures and traditions. Religion is one of the key areas of confrontation, and the struggle for secularism has created space for the revival of the religious traditions of marginalized groups
Cayley continuants
No full textIn 1858 Cayley considered a particular kind of tridiagonal determinants (or continuants). By a direct inspection of the first cases, he conjectured an identity expressing these determinants in terms of certain other determinants considered by Sylvester in 1854. Then Cayley proved the conjectured identity by induction but, as he wrote, he felt unsatisfied with his proof. The main aim of this paper is to give a straightforward proof of Cayley's identity using the method of formal series. Moreover we use this method and umbral calculus techniques to obtain several other identities.Cayley continuants appear in several contexts and in particular in enumerative combinatorics. Mittag-Leffler polynomials, Meixner polynomials of the first kind, the falling and the raising factorials are just few instances of these continuants. They can be interpreted in terms of weighted permutations. Moreover, as we prove in this paper, they also appear in the context of Hankel determinants generated by certain Catalan-like numbers
Spiegare e "spiegarsi" il crimine: considerazioni sull'attività del medico legale, tra umanità e scienza, sulla scorta di tre valutazioni psichiatrico forensi effettuate, nella prima metà dell''Ottocento, sul pluriomicida Pierre Rivière, raccolte e commentate da M. Foucault
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Multicultural approach to forensic psychiatric assessment on foreign criminal offense committers. An emerging issue displayed through a case report
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