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Warren County (NC), 1982: Churches as Actors of Environmental Justice
JoMaCCThe 1982 protests against a PCB landfill in Warren County, North Carolina, often seen as the symbolic origin of the Environmental Justice Movement, underscore the pivotal role of African American Protestant churches.
Rigodanzo, Michele
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Religions, 2017 French intellectual Auguste Comte was the most influential sociologist and philosopher of science in the Nineteenth Century. This first of two articles summarizes his complex life’s works and details reactions to them by Transcendentalists and Unitarians,
Kenneth S. Sacks
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National Policy Coherence Counts for Reducing Inequality in Global Climate and Development Agendas
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT International institutions promote policy coherence as crucial to the effective and fair implementation of global sustainability agendas, though the evidence for its benefits is slim. We present here the first systematic cross‐country dataset on the consequences of national government efforts to promote policy coherence for vulnerable groups ...
Katherine Browne +10 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the institutional determinants of environmental disclosure in the context of sustainable development and analyses the moderating role of board gender diversity in this relationship. Using an international sample of 26 countries over the period 2014–2023, we explore how macro‐level socioeconomic, cultural, political, and ...
Carmelo Reverte +2 more
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RELIGION AND SCIENCE IN AN ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC CULTURE
Zygon, 1987 . These are reflections on the Arkansas creationist trial by a witness for the American Civil Liberties Union. The following points are stressed: First, religion took the lead in defending science at the trial. Second, the appearance of creation science
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Religion, the Public Good, and the Research University
American Journal of Islam and Society, 2010 I am delighted to be with you today and to have this opportunity to share with you some thoughts about “Religion, the Public Good, and the Research University.” Of course it is important to acknowledge at the outset that any one of these terms probably ...
Richard A. Rosengarten
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT By the mid‐21st century, the global economic system had not yet fully solved the problem of hunger. Therefore, achieving SDG 2 (Zero Hunger), one of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), is crucial. This study therefore aims to examine the factors that may lead to hunger in seven selected Asian countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh ...
Ali Çelik +3 more
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How Frank Underwood Paved the Way for Donald Trump
Current Objectives of Postgraduate American StudiesLocated between Bellah’s American Civil Religion, Bredekamp’s Image Act Theory, and Genette’s theory on narratology, this essay examines the impact House of Cards had on the 2016 presidential elections. Kevin Spacey’s iconic character Frank Underwood was
Anna Ley
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Private to Public: Deterrent Effects of Bans on Confidential Settlements
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Nondisclosure agreements are common in the settlement of legal disputes but are controversial as they suppress information that could prevent harm to others. But until the 2017 #MeToo movement, there had been little legislative effort to prohibit the practice in any context, and consequently no evidence on whether public disclosure of harms ...
Blair Druhan Bullock, Joni Hersch
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Religions, 2018 Contemporary wealth inequality has prompted a renewed and increased interest in the role that external funding plays in civil society. While observers frequently consider how big philanthropy influences education, politics, and social services, few ...
Philip D. Byers
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