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Becoming Religious as an Education of Attention

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 279-290, September 2025.
ABSTRACT A vast literature in the social scientific study of religion demonstrates that religious people are made not born. More specifically, researchers have shown that becoming religious is something that people must learn how to do. Adding to this well‐established focus on the socialization of religious subjects, I argue that becoming religious ...
Daniel Winchester
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Regional governmentality: neoliberalization and the Caribbean community single market and economy [PDF]

, 2009
Formally launched on 30 January 2006, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Single Market and Economy (CSME) is, like many other regional economic initiatives, designed to create an economic space in which the uninhibited flow of goods, capital and skills ...
Newstead, C
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‘Had it not been for her’: Gender, Care Labour and Disability in the British Caribbean, 1788–1834

Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 561-575, July 2025.
Abstract This article explores the intersections between gender, disability and care labour in the slaveholding societies of the British Caribbean from 1788 to 1834. Considered economic burdens by slaveholders, aged and disabled bondswomen were made productive through caring for their enslaved peers, many of whom were themselves temporarily ...
Stefanie Hunt‐Kennedy
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Negotiating identities: ethnicity and social relations in a young offenders' institution [PDF]

, 2008
This article explores the situated nature of male prisoner identities in the late modern British context, using the contrasting theoretical frames of Sykes's (1958) indigenous model and Jacobs' (1979) importation model of prisoner subcultures and social ...
Allport, Gordon W., Back, Les, Barth, Frederik, Bartollas, Clemens, Bauman, Zygmunt, Bhattacharyya, Gargi, Bosworth, Mary, Brah, Avtar, Carroll, Leo, Clemmer, Donald, Coretta Phillips, Diaz-Cotto, Juanita, Earle, Rod, Edgar, Kimmett, Foucault, Michel, Genders, Elaine, Gilroy, Paul, Home Office, Jacobs, James B., Jewkes, Yvonne, Knowles, Caroline, Lash, Scott, Miles, Robert, MORI, Murji, Karim, Nayak, Anoop, Robins, David, Sewell, Tony, Sharma, Sanjay, Sykes, Gresham   +29 more
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Continental Scale Soil Monitoring: A Proposed Multi‐Scale Framing of Soil Quality

European Journal of Soil Science, Volume 76, Issue 4, July–August 2025.
ABSTRACT Globally, soils are subjected to various management practices and stressors which can lead to degradation. This makes their protection essential for sustaining many functions and services as well as maintaining the overall life support system of Earth.
Grant A. Campbell, Pete Smith, Nils Broothaerts, Panos Panagos, Arwyn Jones, Cristiano Ballabio, Daniele De Rosa, Lis Wollesen de Jonge, Emmanuel Arthur, Lucas Gomes, Nima Shokri, Mehdi Afshar, Gergely Tóth, Peter Lehmann, Pasquale Borrelli, Christine Alewell, Robert Minarik, Tomislav Hengl, Ichsani Wheeler, Lindsay Maskell, Madlene Nussbaum, Laurence Jones, Christopher J. Feeney, David A. Robinson   +23 more
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L´EXOTISME LITTÉRARIE: RELECTURE DU CONTE DE VATHEK DE WILLIAM BECKFORD

Anales de Filología Francesa, 2007
Cuando se recorre la mayor parte de los trabajos críticos publicados acerca de Vathek de William Beckford, escritor de nacionalidad inglesa –que, no obstante, decidió publicar este cuento en lengua francesa- , quedamos sorprendidos, en tanto que lectores
Françoise Morcillo
doaj  

Mental Toughness and Coping Skills in Male Sprinters [PDF]

, 2016
The predictive quality of psychological skills in relation to sports and more specifically track and field athletes continues to be explored. Purpose: To profile psychological adaptations in Jamaican male sprinters and to assess the differences between ...
Beckford, Tanielle S., Golden, Kerith D., Irving, Rachael R., Poudevigne, Melanie   +3 more
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Peter L. Berger and the sociology of religion [PDF]

, 2018
Peter L. Berger (1929–2017) was one of the most influential sociologists of the last century. In the sociology of religion, his classic status is uncontested. This article examines Berger’s original application of a constructionist sociology of knowledge
Hjelm, T
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FROM TRASH TO TREASURE: RILKE AND VENICE REVISITED

German Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 2, Page 127-193, April 2025.
ABSTRACT Rilke loved Venice and visited or passed through a dozen times between 1897 and 1920. He wrote extensively about the city in prose and verse between 1898 and 1908, including a cycle of poems in the Neue Gedichte and a polemical ‘Aufzeichnung’ in Malte Laurids Brigge.
Robert Vilain
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Adaptation Becoming Business as Usual: A Framework for Climate-Change-Ready Transport Infrastructure

Infrastructures, 2018
Extreme weather damages and disrupts transport infrastructure in a multitude of ways. Heavy rainfall and ensuing landslides or flooding may lead to road or rail closures; extreme heat can damage road surfaces, or cause tracks, signalling or electronic ...
Andrew D. Quinn, Emma J. S. Ferranti, Simon P. Hodgkinson, Anson C. R. Jack, John Beckford, John M. Dora   +5 more
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