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{"title":"Nafsanalysis: The Problem of Refinement in Sufi Ethics","authors":"Muhammad Osama Imran","doi":"10.1111/etho.70043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.70043","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The <i>nafs</i> is the spirit in its ordeal of embodiment. It is the veil through which separation from God becomes the condition of relation to Him. Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork among practitioners of the Naqshbandia Awaisia Sufi order in Pakistan, this article approaches the <i>nafs</i> as the site of enjoyment that survives refinement by investing itself in piety, renunciation, and in the spectacle of its own defeat. I introduce “nafsanalysis” as an analytic for reading how practitioners interpret their conduct in relation to the enjoyment of the <i>nafs</i>. By approaching “spiritual unveiling” and “psychocorporeal disturbance” as internally implicated modes of experience between which the subject cannot finally adjudicate, this article develops an account of Sufi ethical life in which sin may preserve God-orientation, discipline may nourish the desire it seeks to extinguish, and the veil may protect the intimacy it appears to obstruct.</p>","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"54 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/etho.70043","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149084149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ethos Forum | Responses to Defrosting humanism","authors":"Cheryl Mattingly,&nbsp;Clayton Van Woerkom,&nbsp;Elise Berman,&nbsp;Hamza Esmili,&nbsp;Richard A. Shweder,&nbsp;Yael Assor","doi":"10.1111/etho.70046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.70046","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Editors’ Note:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;i&gt;Ethos&lt;/i&gt; Editorial Board decided to revive and systematize a long-standing tradition of commentary, discussion, and debate in the journal surrounding critical issues in psychological anthropology. This “Ethos Forum” will include discussions that extend beyond the format of the traditional research article or special issue. It provides space for shorter debates on focused topics, commentaries and responses to a focal article published in Ethos, or other formats.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The following commentaries and author response provide discussion and debate surrounding a focal article, published in this issue. “Defrosting Humanism” represents a difficult and vulnerable take on complicated and controversial issues. The article and commentaries in this forum consider how psychological anthropologists and others reflexively navigate, challenge, and reshape their own moral outlooks in the face of war, genocidal violence (including the controversies over how to understand this violence), and traumatic aftermaths. We are very grateful to those who were willing to engage with this article critically and foster an important discussion that is grounded in psychological anthropology, but also clearly extends well beyond the field.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;–Jacob R. Hickman and Julia Cassaniti (Editors-in-Chief, &lt;i&gt;Ethos&lt;/i&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;FOCAL ARTICLE&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Assor, Yael. 2026. “Defrosting humanism: Losing my ethical worldview in the wake of October 7th and Israel's retaliation.” Ethos 54(3), 1–18. e70039. https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.70039&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;COMMENTARIES&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Cheryl Mattingly&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;University of Southern California &amp; Aarhus University&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;COMMENTARY: Sharing Perplexities as a Generative Ethical Act&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This riveting account of “defrosting” a core ethical concept is at once intimately personal, politically situated and utterly timely. It reveals how “humanism,” that vexed abstraction, is lived locally as an inheritance from natal communities. Assor demonstrates how her taken-for-granted concept is awakened by the “wind of thinking” (another Arendtian metaphor) through the harrowing experience of Israeli-Palestinian conflict she has been living through, shaking her world to the core. Arendt's metaphorical depictions of thinking are especially apt for this piece. As Arendt puts it in &lt;i&gt;Life of the Mind&lt;/i&gt;, Vol. 1: “Frozen thoughts…come in so handily that you can use them in your sleep; but if the wind of thinking…has shaken you from your sleep and made you fully awake and alive, then you will see that you have nothing in your grasp but perplexities and the best we can do is share them with each other” (1978, 175).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Assor shares her perplexities with us about humanism, not merely as a concept, but as a situated practice, an ethical orientation that has lost its solid moorings. My comments are meant to make more explicit how her account is indebted not only to Arendt and Beauvoir specifically, but to the phenomenolog","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"54 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/etho.70046","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149083957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Book review: Jeffrey Snodgrass, Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games”","authors":"Johanna Bard Richlin","doi":"10.1111/etho.70044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.70044","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"54 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149084053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Defrosting humanism: Losing my ethical worldview in the wake of October 7th and Israel's retaliation","authors":"Yael Assor","doi":"10.1111/etho.70039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.70039","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This auto-ethnographic analysis describes the loss of my ethical worldview and my attempts to regain it following the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel and the subsequent Israeli retaliation. On October 7th, I was unable to feel compassion for the people of Gaza or to take action against the Israeli retaliation, aspects that I used to see as foundational to my humanistic worldview. As I lost my intuitive understanding of humanism, I realized that it had become to me what Hannah Arendt defined as a “frozen” thought, a fixed and unquestioned concept. Drawing upon my attempts to “defrost” my humanistic worldview, this essay critically considers Arendt's theorization and offers an ethical perspective that is grounded on ambiguity rather than on clear and fixed concepts. Focusing on these internal processes also illuminates the moral atmosphere that enables an Israeli public discourse that largely facilitates the violent retaliation against Palestinians.</p>","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"54 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/etho.70039","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149084055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Growing up otherwise: Situated ethics and pathways to non-violence in Southern Brazil","authors":"Dominique P. Béhague,&nbsp;Helen Gonçalves,&nbsp;Ana Paula Jacob,&nbsp;Joseph Murray","doi":"10.1111/etho.70042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.70042","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper proposes a reframing of how young men become embroiled—or not—in the systemic violence that infuses their daily lives. Most frameworks in health and social policy tend to approach violence as rooted in psycho-developmental problems and/or social and structural determinants. These approaches can underemphasize the relational specificities and institutional dynamics through which violence is reproduced and might otherwise be interrupted. Drawing on a 29-year ethnographic study embedded in the 1982 Pelotas Birth Cohort (Southern Brazil), which followed participants from age 15 into their early 40s, this paper puts our interlocutors' ways of theorizing violence into dialogue with Judith Butler's work on an ethics of non-violence. Examining how young people alternated between situated and categorical interpretations of violence, we demonstrate the conditions that enabled the former to chart new possibilities for non-violence. We show how young people and their parents unsettled prevailing psychological and social explanations of youth violence by reframing <i>growing up</i> amid violence <i>situationally</i>, as an ethical and political challenge. Two composite case-studies, Vicente and Raul, trace the contingent social and institutional conditions that nurtured a fragile but generative situated ethics and/or gave way to more categorical, discipline-as-care approaches. We close by considering what these insights can offer for more collectivist approaches in public health.</p>","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"54 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/etho.70042","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149083997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Therapeutic Sociality: Empathy and care amongst distressed Ethiopian domestic workers","authors":"Eva Melstrom","doi":"10.1111/etho.70041","DOIUrl":"10.1111/etho.70041","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Ethiopian migrant domestic workers frequently experience violence and abuse during employment, which can lead to serious emotional and mental distress. After returning to Ethiopia, some distressed women receive care at residential facilities specifically dedicated to rehabilitating returned domestic workers. In this paper, I examine the narratives from previously distressed domestic workers living in one such facility to understand how they view and respond to the distress of newly arrived returnees. I suggest that through embodied knowing they position the returnees’ distress as familiar, and, importantly, as ambiguous and temporary. It is at this intersection of ambiguous-familiarity where I situate an ethics of care marked by an empathic understanding of having-been-there and what-will-be, a past and future oriented knowledge that precipitates caring responses marked by calm, gentle, and ordinary engagements—a therapeutic sociality. I demonstrate that while empathy may be central to other therapeutic communities across various histories and geographies, it is a foregrounding of embodied knowledge and the imaginative projection of what-will-be amongst previously distressed returned Ethiopian migrant domestic workers that is distinctive to their ethics of care, and may offer both a practical and ethical resource for rehabilitating returned domestic workers.</p>","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"54 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13600345/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149041767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A sea of anchors: towards (more) global psychological anthropologies—Introduction to a virtual special issue","authors":"Thomas Stodulka,&nbsp;Anni Kajanus,&nbsp;Suzana Jovicic","doi":"10.1111/etho.70035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.70035","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This commentary reflects on the contemporary trajectories and futures of psychological anthropology through the metaphor of a “sea of anchors.” Rather than reproducing binaries of center and margin, we conceptualize “anchors” as temporary and dynamic points of orientation through which theories, methods, collaborations, and infrastructures condense and circulate unevenly across regions and disciplines. Building on contributions to the 2026 <i>Ethos</i> virtual issue, we argue for more decentralized, accessible, and collaborative forms of psychological anthropology that move beyond disciplinary silos while remaining attentive to enduring asymmetries in global knowledge production. We examine how psychological anthropologists navigate critical and often marginal positions between anthropology, psychology, and related fields, and how this intermediary position enables productive forms of interdisciplinary mediation, critique, and collaboration. At the same time, we emphasize that decolonizing psychological anthropology requires more than theoretical critique alone: it demands transformations in citation practices, research infrastructures, collaboration, and institutional accessibility. Contemporary psychological anthropology, we suggest, is uniquely positioned to engage constructively with both the humanities and sciences while critically interrogating universalizing psychologies, extractive epistemologies, and emerging global inequalities. By advocating for a plurality of interconnected “anchors,” we envision psychological anthropology as a politically engaged, empirically grounded, and globally collaborative field capable of fostering alternative forms of scholarly exchange and future-oriented anthropological practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"54 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/etho.70035","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148274895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Charisma revisited: Or why narcissism matters","authors":"Jeff Bennett","doi":"10.1111/etho.70037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.70037","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In 1990 Charles Lindholm published his landmark study of Charisma, shedding new light on a complex and controversial topic. Today, more than 30 years later, understanding charisma has become newly important as authoritarian leaders and populist politics have begun to reshape the global political landscape. This paper returns to Lindholm's original study to address the two phenomena Lindholm felt were most important – namely, the personality configurations of charismatic leaders and their followers and group psychodynamics. Unlike Lindholm, however, I approach these phenomena from the vantage point of intersubjective self psychology, a post-Freudian theoretical framework that is particularly well-suited for analyzing the popular appeal of figures like Jim Jones and the group dynamics that bonded the members of the People's Temple to the movement. To make this point, Lindholm's original case studies are referenced throughout the paper and a distinction between destructive and reparative leadership is made to highlight the difference between ‘leading’ and ‘trailing’ edge orientations as they pertain to charismatic leaders and their movements.</p>","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"54 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148274851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Review of Allen L. Tran 2023. A Life of Worry: Politics, Mental Health, and Vietnam's Age of Anxiety. University of California Press, 196 pp. ISBN: 9780520392168","authors":"Edda Willamowski","doi":"10.1111/etho.70036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.70036","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"54 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148274822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cognition in and out of the mind: Advances in cultural model theory By Giovanni Bennardo, Victor C. Munck, and Stephen Chrisomalis, editors. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. 2024. xxxvii + 419 pp.","authors":"H. J. François Dengah II","doi":"10.1111/etho.70034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.70034","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"54 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148274800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}