Andrew Angyal
Department of English and Environmental Studies
Elon University
Thomas Berry's Earth Spirituality
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Monika Ardelt
Department of Sociology
University of Florida
'Love Thy Neighbor': Religiosity and Compassionate/Altruistic Love in a Sample of Older Hospice Patients, Nursing Home Residents, and Community-Dwelling Adults
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Jay Azarow
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Stanford University School of Medicine
Generativity, Health, and Well-being: Are Erikson and Vaillant Correct?
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Alison Benders
Department of Religion
Case Western Reserve University
Mystical Texts as Guidance for Interpersonal Relationships
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Claus Bernet
Department of History
University of Halle
A German-American Love Affair? Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love and Peace Dale, the Settlement of Brotherly Love
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Rosemary Bertocci
Philosophy & Religion Department
St. Francis College
"The Quality of Mercy is not Strain'd": Concupiscence and Altruism
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Aimée Bessire
Art History
Maine College of Art
Namhala Nyumbani Shilinde: Spiritual Transformation and the Spirit of Healing
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Helen Black
Polisher Research Institute
How Moral Imagination in Long-Term Care Workers evokes Compassionate Love
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Kevin Brien
Department of Philosophy
Washington College
Spiritual Transformations and Agape Love
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Norman Brown
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
The Place of Compassionate Love in a Comprehensive Emotional-Developmental Theory of Love: Introducing a Psychobiological Model
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Susan Burggraf
Department of Psychology
Mount Holyoke College
Sky Mind is Where We Find Each Other
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John Cecero
Fordham University
Love Conquering Fear: A Psycho-Spiritual Perspective
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Evgenia Cherkasova
Department of Philosophy
Penn State University
The Heart's Work: Duty to Love in Kierkegaard and Dostoevsky
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Kathryn Coe
Arizona Cancer Center
University of Arizona College of Public Health
Altruism and Compassionate Love: An Ancestress Hypothesis
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Kathleen Duffy
Department of Physics
Chestnut Hill College
The Evolution of Love in Teilhard de Chardin
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Tim Eastman
Plasmas International, Silver Spring, MD
From Objects to Physical Relationships
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Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer
Religious Studies Program
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
Human Hospitality and Volunteerism: A Case Study Divine Love
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Kathleen Curzie Gajdos
Private Practice
When Compassionate Lovers Meet — What Do They Tell Us?
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Maria Glowacka
Department of Anthropology
Idaho State University
Nagotooh-gahni — The Bonding Between Mother and Child In Shoshoni Tradition
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Drusilla Gould
Department of Anthropology
Idaho State University
Nagotooh-gahni — The Bonding Between Mother and Child In Shoshoni Tradition
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Yudit Greenberg
Department of Philosophy and Religion
Rollins College
Can Love Be Commanded?
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Roma Stovall Hanks
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
University of South Alabama
Love Beyond the Bond: Exploring Limits of Grandparental Love and Linkages to Altruism and Volunteerism
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Ann Higgins-D'Alessandro
Department of Psychology
Fordham University
Identifying Necessary Psychological Abilities for the Expression of Compassionate Love
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Karen Hoffman
Department of Religion and Philosophy
Hood College
Dangerous Altruism: Kierkegaard and King on the Good Samaritan
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Dale Ironson
Ironson & Associates
Love as a Field: A New Framework For Thinking About and Enhancing Altruism
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Timothy Jackson
Candler School of Theology
Emory University
Heroism on an Empty Stomach: Weil and Hillesum on Work, Love, and Self-Sacrifice
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Katherine Jankowski
Identifying Necessary Psychological Abilities for the Expression of Compassionate Love
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Thomas Johnson
Department of Psychology
Indiana State University
Cultivating Loving-Kindness: A Two-Stage Model for the Effects of Meditation on Compassion, Altruism and Spirituality
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Warren Johnson
Department of Geography
San Diego State University
The Gift of Peaceful Genes
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Jean Kristeller
Department of Psychology
Indiana State University
Cultivating Loving-Kindness: A Two-Stage Model for the Effects of Meditation on Compassion, Altruism and Spirituality
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Beverly Mack
Africana Studies
University of Kansas
Morocco Faith-based Communities and their Activities in Relation to the Spiritual Ideal of Unlimited Love Sufi Communities in Fes
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Ashok Malhotra
Department of Philosophy
SUNY Oneonta
Wisdom Used Compassionately to Build Character Brick by Brick
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Judith Miller
Department of Human Development
Columbia University
Spiritual Transformation: Love and the Fruits of the Spirit
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Mary Montgomery-Clifford
Chicago Theological Seminary
Paul Tillich and Pitirim A. Sorokin on Love: Contributions of a Dialogue between Science and Religion
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Nancy Morrison
Department of Psychiatry
University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
Toward a Biological Framework for Morality
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Stuart Muszynski
Project Love
The Power of Love: Fact or Fantasy
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John Napora
Department of Anthropology and Sociology
Kutztown University
Love and Lover Transformed: The Sufi Path to God
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Lynn O'Connor
The Wright Institute
Altruism as a Fundamental Motivation: The Role of Interpersonal Guilt and Empathy
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Doug Oman
Public Health Institute
University of California Berkeley
A Spiritual Toolkit For Compassion and Effectiveness: A Randomized Intervention Among Health Professionals
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Thomas Oord
Department of Philosophy and Theology
Northwest Nazarene University
A Metaphysics for the Love-and-Science Symbiosis
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Augustine Pamplany
Institute of Science and Religion
Little Flower Seminary
Cosmic Harmony as Cosmic Sacrifice — A Scientific Hermeneutic of the Hindu Mysticism of Love
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Kuruvilla Pandikattu
Jnanam Discussion Group
Jnana Deepa Vidyapeeth
Gandhi as a Symbol of Unconditional Love that Crosses Borders!
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Keum Young Pang
Department of Nursing
Howard University
Health: Holistic Harmony with Vital Energy, Compassion and Forgiveness
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F. David Peat
Pari Center for New Learning
The Fruit of the Spirit is Love (2 Corinthians, 22)
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Varadaraja V. Raman
Emeritus Professor of Physics and Humanities
Rochester Institute of Technology
Bhakti-ratakara: The Hindu View of Love as a Many Splendored Thing
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Thomas Reynolds
Department of Religious Studies
St. Norbert College
Love Without Boundaries: Theological Reflections on Parenting a Child with Disabilities
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Brent Robbins
Department of Psychology
Allegheny College
Joy, Awe, Gratitude and Compassion: Common Ground in a Will-to-Openness
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Francis Rohlf
Philosophy & Religion Department
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
"The Quality of Mercy is not Strain'd": Concupiscence and Altruism
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Dwight Roth
Department of Lifelong Education - Sociology
Hesston College
The Emergence and Impact of Helping Behavior in Young People: Impressionistic Self-Reflections of Mennonite College Students Serving Frail Elders in Light of World Religions
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Steven Sandage
Marriage and Family Studies
Bethel Seminary
Faces of Compassion and Forgiveness: Psychological and Theological Relationality
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Anthony Scioli
Department of Psychology
Keene State College
An Integrative Theory of Hope
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Sally Severino
Department of Psychiatry
University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
Toward a Biological Framework for Morality
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Lisa Sideris
Faculty of Religious Studies
McGill University
An Unfit Altruist: The Life and Work of Rachel Carson
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Israela Silberman
Department of Psychology
Columbia University
Religions as Facilitators of World Peace
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Lisa Stenmark
Austin College
The Power of Love: Hannah Arendt and Discipleship
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Patricia Terrell
Theology Department
Oxford University
Theobiogenesis: The Expression Of Love in Bios-Consciousness©
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Alan Tjeltveit
Department of Psychology
Muhlenberg College
Psychology's Love-Hate Relationship with Love: Critiques and Affirmations
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Donald Turner
Iliff School of Theology
Denver University
Altruism Across Species Boundaries: Levinasian Ethics and the Meaning of Human Uniqueness
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Amelia Uelmen
Law & Lawyer's Work Institute on Religion
Fordham University School of Law
Chiara Lubich: A Life for Unity
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Allen Utke
East Central Synod of Wisconsin
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)
Michael Faraday and Altruism: The Rest of The Story
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Douglas Vakoch
Center for SETI Research
SETI Institute
Encoding the Biology of Compassionate Love
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Helen Vassar-Sullivan
Peace International Foundation
Called to Demonstrate Unconditional Love
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Michael Ventimiglia
Department of Philosophy
Sacred Heart University
Agape and Spiritual Growth
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Joan Walling
Center for the Study of Religion
Princeton University
Indebtedness, Gratitude, and Community: Recipients' Interpretations of Caregiving
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Laura Weed
Philosophy Department
The College of St. Rose
Why Violence Begets Violence, and Love Enables Love
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Patricia Williams
The Evolution and Revelation of Love
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Daniel Wisniewski
Department of Mathematics/Computer Science
DeSales University
Salesian Images of Love in Creation
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Elaine Yuen
Center for Research in Medical Education and Health Care
Thomas Jefferson University
Cultivating Compassionate Love and Empathy within a Medical School Curriculum
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Eliezer (Eduardo) Zeiger
Torah Science Foundation
Love as Evolution, and Evolution as Love
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