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Peripheral traditionalism: Judeoislamic self‐help in Marseille's northern districts Traditionalisme périphérique : entraide judéo‐musulmane dans les quartiers nord de Marseille

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Through the synagogue‐cum‐community space of St‐X in Marseille's infamous peripheral northern districts, local urban‐invested intercommunal communication and solidarity are generated via self‐help initiatives that particularize humanitarianism. Because of their traditionalist Jewish and Muslim religious anchorings and the stranglehold of laïcité over ...
Samuel Sami Everett
wiley   +1 more source

Life unsettled: debating abortion in the US Supreme Court and the Irish Citizens’ Assembly La vie en question : débats autour de l'avortement à la Cour suprême des États‐Unis et dans l'Assemblée citoyenne irlandaise

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article examines polyvalent uses of the word ‘life’ in the debate about abortion in the United States compared with Ireland. It takes two axiomatically liberal events as its ethnographic site of comparison: the US Supreme Court case Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which overturned Roe v.
Natalie Morningstar
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The King's Evil Without the King: The Royal Touch during the Interregnum

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article examines how far, and in what ways, the traditional belief that English monarchs could cure scrofula (the “King's Evil”) by royal touch survived during the eleven years of the Interregnum (1649–1660). Charles I had been executed and the monarchy abolished, and Charles II was in exile for the vast majority of this period. It might seem that
David L. Smith
wiley   +1 more source

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