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Crisis identitaria estadounidense ante su paradoja posmoderna: quiebra de American civil religion y riesgo transoccidental / American identity crisis under its posmodern paradox: American civil religion breakdown & trans-Western...

open access: yesCauriensia, 2018
Resumen Estudio crítico de autenticidad, sobre la crisis de la identidad estadounidense, que no se limita a un problema formal-coyuntural de adaptación, sino sustancial-fundacional de naturaleza y continuidad: qué es ser estadounidense actualmente y ...
Antonio Sánchez-Bayón   +2 more
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Finding Mecca in America

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 2013
The notion that Islam is “Becoming an American Religion” may be unnerving to those who see America’s roots in its Christian, and more recently Judeo-Christian, heritage.
Celene Ayat Lizzio
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Defining Reconciliation Studies: Theoretical and Practical Dimensions

open access: yesConflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Reconciliation studies (RS) has become increasingly influential in understanding alternative views to ending conflict and dealing with the aftermath. As a discipline or field, however, it is not well defined. The actual usefulness of reconciliation (as a concept), or of RS (as a discipline), is debated, and due to its growing usage, it is ...
Colleen Alena O’Brien
wiley   +1 more source

Ethno-Religiosity in Orthodox Christianity: A Source of Solidarity & Multiculturalism in American Society

open access: yesReligions, 2015
This study will analyze the processes of community organization implemented by Eastern Orthodox Christian ethno-religious groups, and Greek Orthodox Christian communities in particular, to establish themselves in American civil society. It will be argued
Chris Durante
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Mapping the US Bridgebuilding Field: Situating Organizations in the Ecosystem of Social Change

open access: yesConflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the ecosystem of bridge‐building initiatives in the United States. Drawing on an original database of 223 organizations, interviews with 7 staff across 6 organizations, and a literature review related to bridge‐building, polarization, and collective action, we first describe the range of existing initiatives and their ...
Gabrielle Mathews, Karen Ross
wiley   +1 more source

What’s my original name ? : Changement de nom, transnationalisation et revendications identitaires dans le nationalisme noir états-unien

open access: yesNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2010
Since the beginning of the 20th century, name changing has been at the center of conversion processes in many African American religious and political movements. While adopting a new religion, the member of the movement had to renounce his American civil
Pauline Guedj
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Do CSR Committees Moderate the Relationship Between Democratic Societies and Firm Innovation? An International Overview

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to provide evidence of the impact of civil liberties and political rights on corporate innovation, through the lens of institutional theory. Moreover, the research also analyses the moderating role of the CSR committee in the relationships between civil liberties and innovation, and political rights and innovation.
Isabel Gallego‐Álvarez   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Robert Bellah’s Concept of Civil Religion in America and the Idea of New Religion in Czech Thinking of the Twentieth Century

open access: yesAmerican and British Studies Annual, 2012
At the end of the 1960s sociologist Robert Bellah formulated his concept of American civil religion, a concept which has since then provoked considerable reaction among scholars and intellectuals.
Tomáš Bubík
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The American Civil War as a social revolution: the Enlightenment, providential consciousness and changes in moral perception [PDF]

open access: yesEnglish Studies at NBU, 2015
This article analyses Enlightenment ideas and nation-making practices in the American Civil War and pre-War civil societies. It analyses African American mobilization and the abolitionist movement, and Lincoln's role in war, reconciliation and ...
Tadd Graham Fernée
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Towards a new religious narrative in the United States of America?

open access: yesCauriensia, 2021
American secularization is considered an exceptional case in the Western world because of, on the one hand, the softer way it seems to have occurred in relation to other Western countries and, on the other, the fusion which is done among Judeo-Christian ...
Sergio García Magariño
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