Anna King
Biographic Data
| ID | 5569022 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna King |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | King |
| SIGNATURE | KING A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Winchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3039-2995 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Backtalk: Partnering with families to close pandemic learning gaps
National Assessment of Educational Progress results show that U.S. students have not recovered the from the learning losses of the COVID-19 pandemic. Surveys also show that parents and families are not aware of the extent of the crisis. Anna King, immediate past president of the National PTA, discusses the importance of letting parents know the extent of the problem and sharing how they can help
Karel Werner (12 January 1925—26 November 2019)
s death was a particularly sad and momentous event for the editors of RoSA, because the journal is itself a development of the Spalding Symposium on Indian Religions which he founded in 1975.The Spalding Symposium came into being at a time when there were few scholarly platforms for researchers in South Asian religions, when education was expanding and when many university departments of theology and religious studies were creating lectureships i…
The Promise and Challenge of Multireligious Peacebuilding in the 21st Century: A Myanmar Case Study
This article explores whether a relational approach to peacebuilding, shared multireligious perspectives and widening networks can bring sources of strength which enable positive peacebuilding and create grassroots, cross-community peace. While religious peacebuilding organizations have become the object of a burgeoning literature, the role of multireligious organisations in peacebuilding has received far less attention. The purpose of this paper…
Enhancing the Efficacy of Religious Peacebuilding Practice: An Exploratory Evidence-Based Framework for Assessing Dominant Risks in Religious Peacebuilding
The 'risk assessment' in peacebuilding has become a standard, if sometimes slightly formulaic and performative, element of project design and written proposals. Largely driven by donor requirements and organisational procedures, the relatively new discipline and practice recognised as 'Religious Peacebuilding' has taken on many of the elements of 'secular' peacebuilding, including the risk assessment. This means that organisations increasingly ha…
Written action plans for children with long‐term conditions: A systematic review and synthesis of qualitative data
Peace by Peaceful Means? A Preliminary Examination of Buddhist Peacebuilding in Post-Conflict Nepal
This article reflects the growing interest of governments, international development, peace and interfaith organizations, and academics in the link between religions and conflict, and in the fact that religion often serves as a vehicle and language for protest and conflict. It is often deeply implicated in national, ethnic, cultural, and/or geopolitical considerations. The article also reflects the fact that religious studies as a discipline is i…
Vedic Science and Modern Science
This article raises questions about how non-Christian theologies, especially literalist or ‘fundamentalist’ types, respond to, and join in, the debate over modern science and religion. It focuses attention on the response of Indian religious traditions to one particular theme in the Western discourse on modernity and religion; namely, the notion of rational science as seemingly opposed to irrational religions, and ef?cacious technology as seeming…
Krishna’s Cows: ISKCON’s Animal Theology and Practice
This article addresses the cultural influence of Hindu reflection on human attitudes toward animal welfare at a time of rapid globalization and worldwide environmental destruction. The hope is that it can contribute to deliberations on practical ethics across religious and cultural boundaries. It considers the extent to which existing Vaishnava resources have the potential to advance new transcultural orientations toward the protection of nonhuma…
The Glorious Disappearance of Vaishnavas: ISKCON’s Vision of Exemplary Death
This article examines accounts of the deaths of notable ISKCON devotees, beginning with that of the founder, and shows how these are presented as examples to other devotees. Death is understood as merely a transition, and the glorious death as the culmination of a process of conscious dying which takes place within the communion of devotees. Recollecting these glorious deaths, devotees learn how to die and how to mourn. From this perspective, pai…
Krishna'sprasadam: Eating Our Way Back to Godhead
This article analyzes the preparation, consumption, and distribution of food in ISKCON, and the ways in which ISKCON has absorbed and remade the Hindu tradition of prasadam, transforming it into a major vehicle of proselytization, a sacred cuisine, a health cure, a worldwide charitable enterprise, and increasingly a successful method of fundraising. The article contextualizes ISKCON's food culture, arguing that it emerges from the encounters betw…
Shoplifting: Work, Agency, and Gender
Often described as “pink collar,” shoplifting is crime thought to be dominated by women. While there is evidence of gender discrimination in the crime’s availability to women and that drug addiction as well as personal resources motivate individuals to choose it, the gendered nature of this work (the “how” of the work) is not further elaborated in the literature. The occupational processes of the crime have also largely been omitted from research…
Assessing the impact of a restorative home care service in New Zealand: A cluster randomised controlled trial
Due to the ageing population, there is an increased demand for home care services. Restorative care is one approach to improving home care services, although there is little evidence to support its use in the community setting. The objective of this trial was to evaluate the impact of a restorative home care service for community-dwelling older people. The study was a cluster randomised controlled trial undertaken at a home care agency in New Zea…
A restorative home care intervention in New Zealand: Perceptions of paid caregivers
Paid caregivers possess an essential role in home care services. However, recruitment and retention issues are extensive within this workforce, largely in relation to poor working conditions. This article primarily focuses on the qualitative data extracted from a large randomised controlled trial in New Zealand and is supported by some quantitative findings. The aim was to explore paid caregiver perceptions of a restorative home care intervention…
Once a Criminal, Always a Criminal?: ‘Redeemability’ and the Psychology of Punitive Public Attitudes
Islam, Women and Violence
Islam is a religion of vast dimensions which has inspired great civilizations and today offers many men and women comfort and ethical guidance. In this paper I suggest that the tension between the Qur'an accepted as the perfect timeless word of God and the encultured dynamic Islam of nearly a quarter of the world's population results in contending perspectives of women's role and rights. The Qur'an gives men and women spiritual parity, but there …
Is a conservative just a liberal who has been mugged: Exploring the origins of punitive views
As in the adage that `a conservative is just a liberal who has been mugged', many presume that punitive public attitudes are derived from the direct experience of crime and victimization. People become `fed up' with criminality and seek to strike back at lawbreakers. Social theories of punitiveness, on the other hand, typically portray punitiveness as a form of scape-goating in which offenders are just a stand-in population, masking more abstract…
Giving Up on the Young
In this commentary we explore the psychology behind the punitive criminalisation of young offenders that appears to characterise so much criminal justice policy in recent years. We draw from the findings of a mixed-method study of public attitudes in the UK. We highlight two particularly striking findings that emerged in the quantitative aspect of this work, which we illustrate using quotes from the qualitative data collected. When considered tog…
Diaspora of the gods modern hindu temples in an urban middle-class world Waghorne, Joanne Punzo
The divine and the demonic: Supernatural affliction and its treatment in north india Dwyer, Graham
"The divine and the demonic: supernatural affliction and its treatment in north india Dwyer, Graham." Material Religion, 1(2), pp. 269–270
Disowning Our Shadow: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Understanding Punitive Public Attitudes
Punitive public attitudes cannot be easily explained by pointing to instrumental concerns (e.g., fear of crime, personal victimization, or real or perceived levels of crime). Instead, numerous observers have suggested that public punitiveness is more a symptom of free-floating anxieties and insecurities resulting from social change than a rational response to crime problems. We argue that these public concerns might be better understood by drawin…
Ashes and Flowers: Some Hindu approaches to death and dying
Contemporary interest in death and dying in the West has provoked reflection upon other cultural and religious traditions. Many writers assume that just as health and death are predominantly in the West the realm of the clinical so in India they are in the realm of the sacred. This article rejects this oversimplification and explores the complexity of Hindu approaches to death and dying through an examination of the varied attitudes, beliefs and …
Academic Values and the Study of Religions
Spirituality: Transformation and Metamorphosis
Spirituality has increasingly featured in writings about religion. This article explores the diverse and often contradictory ways in which this term is now being employed, it questions the reasons for its present popularity, and asks to what extent it can serve the purposes to which it is being put. Finally, by using the insights of contemporary anthropology and especially the work of Michael Carrithers, it suggests a more satisfactory way in whi…
The Multicultural Dimension of the National Curriculum
Is a conservative just a liberal who has been mugged: Exploring the origins of punitive views
As in the adage that `a conservative is just a liberal who has been mugged', many presume that punitive public attitudes are derived from the direct experience of crime and victimization. People become `fed up' with criminality and seek to strike back at lawbreakers. Social theories of punitiveness, on the other hand, typically portray punitiveness as a form of scape-goating in which offenders are just a stand-in population, masking more abstract…
Spirituality: Transformation and Metamorphosis
Spirituality has increasingly featured in writings about religion. This article explores the diverse and often contradictory ways in which this term is now being employed, it questions the reasons for its present popularity, and asks to what extent it can serve the purposes to which it is being put. Finally, by using the insights of contemporary anthropology and especially the work of Michael Carrithers, it suggests a more satisfactory way in whi…
Disowning Our Shadow: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Understanding Punitive Public Attitudes
Punitive public attitudes cannot be easily explained by pointing to instrumental concerns (e.g., fear of crime, personal victimization, or real or perceived levels of crime). Instead, numerous observers have suggested that public punitiveness is more a symptom of free-floating anxieties and insecurities resulting from social change than a rational response to crime problems. We argue that these public concerns might be better understood by drawin…
A restorative home care intervention in New Zealand: Perceptions of paid caregivers
Paid caregivers possess an essential role in home care services. However, recruitment and retention issues are extensive within this workforce, largely in relation to poor working conditions. This article primarily focuses on the qualitative data extracted from a large randomised controlled trial in New Zealand and is supported by some quantitative findings. The aim was to explore paid caregiver perceptions of a restorative home care intervention…
Assessing the impact of a restorative home care service in New Zealand: A cluster randomised controlled trial
Due to the ageing population, there is an increased demand for home care services. Restorative care is one approach to improving home care services, although there is little evidence to support its use in the community setting. The objective of this trial was to evaluate the impact of a restorative home care service for community-dwelling older people. The study was a cluster randomised controlled trial undertaken at a home care agency in New Zea…
Krishna'sprasadam: Eating Our Way Back to Godhead
This article analyzes the preparation, consumption, and distribution of food in ISKCON, and the ways in which ISKCON has absorbed and remade the Hindu tradition of prasadam, transforming it into a major vehicle of proselytization, a sacred cuisine, a health cure, a worldwide charitable enterprise, and increasingly a successful method of fundraising. The article contextualizes ISKCON's food culture, arguing that it emerges from the encounters betw…
Shoplifting: Work, Agency, and Gender
Often described as “pink collar,” shoplifting is crime thought to be dominated by women. While there is evidence of gender discrimination in the crime’s availability to women and that drug addiction as well as personal resources motivate individuals to choose it, the gendered nature of this work (the “how” of the work) is not further elaborated in the literature. The occupational processes of the crime have also largely been omitted from research…
The Promise and Challenge of Multireligious Peacebuilding in the 21st Century: A Myanmar Case Study
This article explores whether a relational approach to peacebuilding, shared multireligious perspectives and widening networks can bring sources of strength which enable positive peacebuilding and create grassroots, cross-community peace. While religious peacebuilding organizations have become the object of a burgeoning literature, the role of multireligious organisations in peacebuilding has received far less attention. The purpose of this paper…
The Multicultural Dimension of the National Curriculum
Academic Values and the Study of Religions
Spirituality: Transformation and Metamorphosis
Spirituality has increasingly featured in writings about religion. This article explores the diverse and often contradictory ways in which this term is now being employed, it questions the reasons for its present popularity, and asks to what extent it can serve the purposes to which it is being put. Finally, by using the insights of contemporary anthropology and especially the work of Michael Carrithers, it suggests a more satisfactory way in whi…
Ashes and Flowers: Some Hindu approaches to death and dying
Contemporary interest in death and dying in the West has provoked reflection upon other cultural and religious traditions. Many writers assume that just as health and death are predominantly in the West the realm of the clinical so in India they are in the realm of the sacred. This article rejects this oversimplification and explores the complexity of Hindu approaches to death and dying through an examination of the varied attitudes, beliefs and …
Disowning Our Shadow: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Understanding Punitive Public Attitudes
Punitive public attitudes cannot be easily explained by pointing to instrumental concerns (e.g., fear of crime, personal victimization, or real or perceived levels of crime). Instead, numerous observers have suggested that public punitiveness is more a symptom of free-floating anxieties and insecurities resulting from social change than a rational response to crime problems. We argue that these public concerns might be better understood by drawin…
The divine and the demonic: Supernatural affliction and its treatment in north india Dwyer, Graham
"The divine and the demonic: supernatural affliction and its treatment in north india Dwyer, Graham." Material Religion, 1(2), pp. 269–270
Diaspora of the gods modern hindu temples in an urban middle-class world Waghorne, Joanne Punzo
Giving Up on the Young
In this commentary we explore the psychology behind the punitive criminalisation of young offenders that appears to characterise so much criminal justice policy in recent years. We draw from the findings of a mixed-method study of public attitudes in the UK. We highlight two particularly striking findings that emerged in the quantitative aspect of this work, which we illustrate using quotes from the qualitative data collected. When considered tog…
Once a Criminal, Always a Criminal?: ‘Redeemability’ and the Psychology of Punitive Public Attitudes
Islam, Women and Violence
Islam is a religion of vast dimensions which has inspired great civilizations and today offers many men and women comfort and ethical guidance. In this paper I suggest that the tension between the Qur'an accepted as the perfect timeless word of God and the encultured dynamic Islam of nearly a quarter of the world's population results in contending perspectives of women's role and rights. The Qur'an gives men and women spiritual parity, but there …
Is a conservative just a liberal who has been mugged: Exploring the origins of punitive views
As in the adage that `a conservative is just a liberal who has been mugged', many presume that punitive public attitudes are derived from the direct experience of crime and victimization. People become `fed up' with criminality and seek to strike back at lawbreakers. Social theories of punitiveness, on the other hand, typically portray punitiveness as a form of scape-goating in which offenders are just a stand-in population, masking more abstract…
Shoplifting: Work, Agency, and Gender
Often described as “pink collar,” shoplifting is crime thought to be dominated by women. While there is evidence of gender discrimination in the crime’s availability to women and that drug addiction as well as personal resources motivate individuals to choose it, the gendered nature of this work (the “how” of the work) is not further elaborated in the literature. The occupational processes of the crime have also largely been omitted from research…
Assessing the impact of a restorative home care service in New Zealand: A cluster randomised controlled trial
Due to the ageing population, there is an increased demand for home care services. Restorative care is one approach to improving home care services, although there is little evidence to support its use in the community setting. The objective of this trial was to evaluate the impact of a restorative home care service for community-dwelling older people. The study was a cluster randomised controlled trial undertaken at a home care agency in New Zea…
A restorative home care intervention in New Zealand: Perceptions of paid caregivers
Paid caregivers possess an essential role in home care services. However, recruitment and retention issues are extensive within this workforce, largely in relation to poor working conditions. This article primarily focuses on the qualitative data extracted from a large randomised controlled trial in New Zealand and is supported by some quantitative findings. The aim was to explore paid caregiver perceptions of a restorative home care intervention…
Vedic Science and Modern Science
This article raises questions about how non-Christian theologies, especially literalist or ‘fundamentalist’ types, respond to, and join in, the debate over modern science and religion. It focuses attention on the response of Indian religious traditions to one particular theme in the Western discourse on modernity and religion; namely, the notion of rational science as seemingly opposed to irrational religions, and ef?cacious technology as seeming…
Krishna’s Cows: ISKCON’s Animal Theology and Practice
This article addresses the cultural influence of Hindu reflection on human attitudes toward animal welfare at a time of rapid globalization and worldwide environmental destruction. The hope is that it can contribute to deliberations on practical ethics across religious and cultural boundaries. It considers the extent to which existing Vaishnava resources have the potential to advance new transcultural orientations toward the protection of nonhuma…
The Glorious Disappearance of Vaishnavas: ISKCON’s Vision of Exemplary Death
This article examines accounts of the deaths of notable ISKCON devotees, beginning with that of the founder, and shows how these are presented as examples to other devotees. Death is understood as merely a transition, and the glorious death as the culmination of a process of conscious dying which takes place within the communion of devotees. Recollecting these glorious deaths, devotees learn how to die and how to mourn. From this perspective, pai…
Krishna'sprasadam: Eating Our Way Back to Godhead
This article analyzes the preparation, consumption, and distribution of food in ISKCON, and the ways in which ISKCON has absorbed and remade the Hindu tradition of prasadam, transforming it into a major vehicle of proselytization, a sacred cuisine, a health cure, a worldwide charitable enterprise, and increasingly a successful method of fundraising. The article contextualizes ISKCON's food culture, arguing that it emerges from the encounters betw…
Peace by Peaceful Means? A Preliminary Examination of Buddhist Peacebuilding in Post-Conflict Nepal
This article reflects the growing interest of governments, international development, peace and interfaith organizations, and academics in the link between religions and conflict, and in the fact that religion often serves as a vehicle and language for protest and conflict. It is often deeply implicated in national, ethnic, cultural, and/or geopolitical considerations. The article also reflects the fact that religious studies as a discipline is i…
Written action plans for children with long‐term conditions: A systematic review and synthesis of qualitative data
Enhancing the Efficacy of Religious Peacebuilding Practice: An Exploratory Evidence-Based Framework for Assessing Dominant Risks in Religious Peacebuilding
The 'risk assessment' in peacebuilding has become a standard, if sometimes slightly formulaic and performative, element of project design and written proposals. Largely driven by donor requirements and organisational procedures, the relatively new discipline and practice recognised as 'Religious Peacebuilding' has taken on many of the elements of 'secular' peacebuilding, including the risk assessment. This means that organisations increasingly ha…
The Promise and Challenge of Multireligious Peacebuilding in the 21st Century: A Myanmar Case Study
This article explores whether a relational approach to peacebuilding, shared multireligious perspectives and widening networks can bring sources of strength which enable positive peacebuilding and create grassroots, cross-community peace. While religious peacebuilding organizations have become the object of a burgeoning literature, the role of multireligious organisations in peacebuilding has received far less attention. The purpose of this paper…
Karel Werner (12 January 1925—26 November 2019)
s death was a particularly sad and momentous event for the editors of RoSA, because the journal is itself a development of the Spalding Symposium on Indian Religions which he founded in 1975.The Spalding Symposium came into being at a time when there were few scholarly platforms for researchers in South Asian religions, when education was expanding and when many university departments of theology and religious studies were creating lectureships i…
Backtalk: Partnering with families to close pandemic learning gaps
National Assessment of Educational Progress results show that U.S. students have not recovered the from the learning losses of the COVID-19 pandemic. Surveys also show that parents and families are not aware of the extent of the crisis. Anna King, immediate past president of the National PTA, discusses the importance of letting parents know the extent of the problem and sharing how they can help
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