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Religious Pluralism and Social Networks: How Exposure to Religious Pluralism Through Social Ties Influences Baptism Decisions

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A longstanding debate in the sociology of religion has focused on how religious pluralism affects religious participation. Existing research shows mixed findings, often relying on macro‐level measures that overlook how individuals are actually exposed to religious pluralism in their lives. This study shifts focus to the meso‐level by examining
Elis Carlberg Larsson
wiley   +1 more source

The Coloniality of Measurement and the Making of Smallness as Deficit

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT In global environmental governance, small island developing states (SIDS) are routinely described as vulnerable, fragile and capacity constrained. These characteristics are treated as natural consequences of smallness and are frequently interpreted as markers of deficit, despite the diversity, agency and resilience that characterise many SIDS.
Stacy‐ann Robinson
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring Orientalism and Moral Ambiguity in William Beckford’s Vathek

Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Science
William Beckford's Vathek (1786) is a significant piece in the Orientalist literary genre. It combines beautiful Eastern art with deep questions about morality and the mind.
Abbas Jaafar Mutar
doaj   +1 more source

Diversidad no es lo mismo que pluralismo: cambios en el campo religioso argentino (1985-2000) y lucha de los evangélicos por sus derechos religiosos Diversity is not the same as pluralism: changes in Argentina's religious field (1985-2000) and the evangelicals' fight for their religious rights

Sociedade e Estado, 2008
El trabajo argumentará que, para entender adecuadamente las modificaciones del campo religioso argentino, es necesario también incluir las resistencias sociales a esos cambios debido a las consecuencias que traen para la práctica y el desarrollo de las ...
Alejandro Frigerio, Hilario Wynarczyk
doaj   +1 more source

Ecologia e espiritualidades na modernidade tardia

Ciencias Sociales y Religión, 2020
O propósito do presente artigo é considerar a afinidade entre ecologia e espiritualidade na modernidade tardia. Procuramos compreender como os conteúdos ecológicos se tornam referências fundamentais da experiência religiosa no âmbito da espiritualidade ...
João Paulo de Paula Silveira, Flávio Munhoz Sofiati   +1 more
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The Reputational Configuration and Dynamics of Christian Churches in Switzerland

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 217-228, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines how the reputation of Christian churches is configured, and which sociodemographic variables and experiences (personal or mediated) relate to it. It provides in‐depth insights into how the Swiss population evaluates Roman Catholic, Reformed Protestant, and Evangelical churches on the basis of various theories, such as ...
Rebekka Rieser, Mark Eisenegger, Jörg Schneider   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cheia de axé (full of axé): Spirituality, resistance, and repair in Pernambuco's Afro‐Brazilian traditional communities

Feminist Anthropology, Volume 7, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
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Diritto e Religione. Esempi dal romanzo gotico inglese

CoSMO, 2013
The essay highlights the mutual interaction of Law and Religion. Instead of embracing the secular separation between these two domains, the Author focuses her attention on the elements which Law shares with Religion.
Daniela Carpi
doaj   +1 more source

Il viaggio nell’inconscio e la messa in scena del desiderio nell’opera ‘notturna’ di E.T.A. Hoffmann e W. Beckford

Between, 2013
Il fantastico non è un mero ‘genere’ con motivi tipici ricorrenti, ma piuttosto un modo letterario di esprimere, obliquamente e allusivamente, in maniera quasi seduttiva e onirica, il confronto gnoseologico con l’ineffabile inesplicabilità dell ...
Stefania Acciaioli
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Rural Root Shock

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.
Abstract This article expands social psychiatrist Mindy Fullilove's characterisation of US postwar urban community root shock in time and space. We explore the impacts of land dispossession and population displacement on Black farming communities and their health from colonial origins on.
Robert G. Wallace, Elsa Calderon, M. Jahi Johnson‐Chappell, Garrett Graddy‐Lovelace, Khaliah D. Pitts, Sam Sharpe   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source