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Texte remanié de: Diss.--Fakultät für Orientalistik und Altertumswissenschaft--Universität Heidelberg, 1985. / Notes bibliogr. Index.

Diss.--Universität Zürich. / Notes bibliogr.

Proefschrift--Letteren--Groningen, 1996. / Résumé en néerlandais. Bibliogr., Part I, p.495-553. Index.

Diss. : Philosophische Fakultät : Bonn : 1983-84. - Notes bibliogr. -

Using person-centred ethnography and narrative analysis, this work provides an account of how 16 same-sex attracted Christian men retrospectively constructed experiences of sexual-moral crisis and healing. The first of its kind to explore such experiences in their entirety and reflect on the relationships between various successes, failures, events, and encounters therein, it outlines a shared narrative structure composed of: 1) early experiences of anomie and difference, 2) the unmaking of self and world with the emergence of same-sex attraction, 3) a phase of personal disintegration and ineffective coping, 4) the quest for new possibilities and engagement with various remedial institutions, 5) personal commitment to particular redressive strategies, 6) experiences of healing; and 7) the call to performance and service in the wake of crisis. The author argues that sexual-moral crisis cannot be solely attributed to religiosity nor resolved through evasive strategies of self-bifurcation and denial. Rather, overcoming this conflict requires a reconstruction of self and world capable of restoring personal integrity and bringing the spiritual, moral, and sexual selves into harmonious alignment. This task is primarily social and entails the appropriation of public symbolic devices – explanatory models, plots, and metaphors - to reconfigure one’s experience of self and world. The author outlines three distinct figures that emerge from this transformative process: the sexual ascetic, the ex-gay man, and the gay survivor. Each is associated with a distinct understanding of self and embodies a unique sexual, moral, social, and spiritual existence. Drawing on theories of reading, the author argues that these divergent approaches reflect four considerations: the persuasiveness of the remedial discourse, its relevance to subjective experience, its socio-political acceptability, and its perceived therapeutic efficacy. Ultimately, participants in all three groups described remarkably similar experiences of healing and characterize their current lives as highly satisfying despite complex experiences of growth, loss, and continued struggle. The work effectively eschews binary approaches to sexual orientation and encourages the reader to recognize a diverse array of sexualities, spiritualties, moralities, and selves present in contemporary North American society. Implications for policy development, ethical debate, and psychological practice are discussed.

?rea de concentra??o: Produ??o vegetal. / Submitted by Jos? Henrique Henrique (jose.neves@ufvjm.edu.br) on 2017-04-06T19:37:06Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) denison_ramalho_fernandes.pdf: 808234 bytes, checksum: 1a0ed5d2918dc6b1e8539da17113b329 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Rodrigo Martins Cruz (rodrigo.cruz@ufvjm.edu.br) on 2017-04-24T17:04:02Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) denison_ramalho_fernandes.pdf: 808234 bytes, checksum: 1a0ed5d2918dc6b1e8539da17113b329 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-04-24T17:04:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) denison_ramalho_fernandes.pdf: 808234 bytes, checksum: 1a0ed5d2918dc6b1e8539da17113b329 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016 / Funda??o de Amparo ? Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG) / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior (CAPES) / A pitaia ? uma esp?cie frut?fera cujo cultivo ? promissor no Brasil. Por se tratar de uma cultura recente no pa?s, informa??es sobre a aduba??o mineral s?o essenciais para subsidiar a adequa??o do sistema de produ??o nas condi??es brasileiras. Nesse sentido, a pesquisa foi realizada com o objetivo de estudar diferentes doses de f?sforo e pot?ssio no crescimento inicial e na produ??o de esp?cies de pitaia. Dois experimentos foram realizados para avaliar o efeito da aduba??o fosfatada e a pot?ssica, de forma isolada. O experimento com aduba??o fosfatada foi conduzido em casa de vegeta??o, por um per?odo de 14 meses. As esp?cies de pitaia estudadas foram Hylocereus undatus, Hylocereus polyrhizus e Selenicereus megalanthus, e as doses de P2O5 foram de 0; 90;180 e 360 mg dm-3. O experimento com aduba??o pot?ssica foi conduzido em condi??es de campo, no munic?pio de Couto Magalh?es de Minas, MG. As esp?cies de pitaia avaliadas foram H. undatus e H. polyrhizus, cultivadas no espa?amento 3 m x 3 m e as doses de K2O 0; 50; 100 e 200 g planta-1. As avalia??es foram realizadas nos ciclos produtivos 2013/2014, 2014/2015 e 2015/2016. Na avalia??o do crescimento inicial das esp?cies de pitaia foi observado maior crescimento das plantas com a aplica??o de 209 mg dm-3 de P2O5 para S. megalanthus, 195,7 mg dm-3 de P2O5 para H. undatus e 360 mg dm-3 de P2O5 para H. polyrhizus. No pomar adubado com pot?ssio, no primeiro ano de cultivo, a maior produ??o foi alcan?ada com as doses de 120 g de K2O, para H. undantus e 200 g de K2O, para H. polyrhizus. A melhor qualidade de frutas foi verificada com a aplica??o de 126,6 a 137,4 g de K2O. No segundo e no terceiro ciclo produtivo, a aduba??o pot?ssica n?o aumentou a produ??o e a qualidade das frutas produzidas pela esp?cie H. polyrhizus e a dose de 200 g de K2O aumentou em 64,6% e 54,2% a produ??o da H. undantus, respectivamente. A aduba??o fosfatada favoreceu o crescimento de brota??es e do sistema radicular das tr?s esp?cies de pitaia. As esp?cies de pitaia apresentam exig?ncias distintas em rela??o ? aduba??o fosfatada para o crescimento inicial. A aduba??o pot?ssica aumentou a produ??o e proporcionou melhoria na qualidade das frutas. A esp?cie H. undantus apresentou maior exig?ncia em pot?ssio, com maior incremento de produ??o e no tamanho das frutas. / Disserta??o (Mestrado) ? Programa de P?s-Gradua??o em Produ??o Vegetal, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, 2016. / Pitaya is a fruit species with promising cultivation in Brazil. However, because it is a recent culture in the country, information about the mineral fertilization are essential to subsidize the adaptation of the production system in the Brazilian conditions. In this sense, the research was conducted with the aim of studying different doses of phosphorus and potassium in the initial growth and production of pitaya species. Two experiments were conducted to evaluate the effect of phosphorus and potassium fertilizers an isolated way. The experiment with phosphorus fertilization was conducted in greenhouse for a period of 14 months. The species studied were of pitaya Hylocereus undatus, Hylocereus polyrhizus and Selenicereus megalanthus and the doses of P2O5 0; 90; 180 and 360 mg dm-3. The experiment with potassium fertilization was conducted in field conditions in the city of Couto Magalh?es de Minas. The species evaluated were pitaya Hylocereus undatus and hylocereus polyrhizus, cultivated in the spacing 3 m x 3 m and the doses of K2O 0; 50; 100 and 200 g plant-1. The evaluations were performed in productive cycles 2013/2014, 2014/2015 and 2015/2016. In the evaluation of initial growth of pitaya species was observed increased growth of plants with the application of 209 mg dm-3 of P2O5 for species S. megalanthus, 195.7 mg dm-3 of P2O5 for H. undatus and 360 mg dm-3 of P2O5 for species H. polyrhizus. In the orchard fertilized with potassium, in the first year of cultivation, the highest production was achieved with doses of 120 g of K2O for species H. undantus and 200 g of K2O for species H. polyrhizus. The best quality fruit was verified with the application of 126.6 to 137.4 g of K2O. In the second and third production cycle, potassium fertilization did not increase the production and quality of fruit produced by the species H. polyrhizus and the dose of 200 g of K2O increased in 64.6% and 54.2% the production of the species H. undantus respectively. The phosphorus fertilization favors the growth of shoots and roots of three species of pitaya. The pitaya species have different requirements in relation to the phosphate fertilizer for the initial growth. Potassium fertilization increased the production and promoted improvement in the quality of fruit. The species H. undantus presented higher demand in potassium with greatest increment of production and size of the fruit.

Historically, women have been largely discounted from the public comedic arena, typically serving as the butt of the joke or other various comedic fodder. As a female comedian, I became interested in how gender played into the performance of comedy, particularly in clown work. This case study follows an all female clown troupe called Clowns Ex Machina, based in New York, and investigates the impact of generating clown work in an all-female environment by all-female performers. The work that they do not only validates female participation in clown, but it also shows that the female experience is a human experience, and that gender lines do not have to prevent empathic identification.

The grounded theory method is used to generate a theory of leaving crime (“going straight”) from 24 women and men who were interviewed for this study. The main concern for ex-offenders is the degree to which residuals of a stigmatized, past self can be transcended. This residual self is comprised of three interrelated phenomena: i) the visible evidence pointing to a disreputable past, ii) the remnants of disreputable character traits, thinking patterns and emotional states which persist into the present, and iii) the social interactions which stigmatize ex-offenders. Ten of the research respondents are “hardcore” ex-offenders because their former immersion in criminal identities left residuals that are more apparent or knowable to others. The other 14 have criminal identities that were transient, or limited in time and the extent to which they subscribed to criminal values. For both types of offenders, a self-crisis preceded the decision to go straight. Ex-offenders import an exculpatory conversation from helping others that interprets their past harms as the result of the disease of addiction, early childhood trauma, or as lives unfolding within some greater plan by God or fortune. Hardcore offenders seek enveloping forms of help which occupy their ongoing daily consciousness and routines, whereas transient criminal offenders use help for transitory and pragmatic ends. The more that a past, residual self is knowable to others and subjectively problematic, the greater the difficulty that ex-offenders will have negotiating their stigmatized identity. An ongoing process of interpreting and negotiating one’s identity with self and others lies at the core of going straight. The outcome of going straight is credentials which consist of clean time, official pardons for criminal records, amends made with others or society in general, the performance of good works, and most importantly, making distinctions between who I was and who I am. The self presented today is an authentic one, unlike the criminal identity which they now see in retrospect as inauthentic. The degree to which a residual self remains with ex-offenders varies, with hardcore ex-offenders more likely to show or report signs and traits which can be stigmatized by evaluative audiences. However, it is also apparent that the residual self can be used for pragmatic and credentializing purposes, especially when one’s current identity is linked to who one was in the past. The problem of the residual self is differentially negotiated through culturally endorsed narratives of reform. To the degree that ex-offenders discriminate who I was from who I am in familiar stories of change, the greater will be their success in resolving the problems of the residual self. The theory of the residual self fits with recent findings in developmental theories in criminology, and offers optimism about the possibilities for change in adulthood criminal pathways suggested by life-course theories. This study, and others like it, can help promote a wider discourse to counter the “once a con, always a con” thinking which stigmatizes ex-offenders. / Graduate