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Against All Odds: How Rituals Sustain Engagement with Intractable Social Problems

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Being confronted with seemingly intractable problems such as refugee crises, climate change, or poverty is daunting and can risk a sense of meaninglessness for organizational actors working on these issues. We focus on the pervasive use of representations, including assessments and evaluations, to deal with intractable problems, even though ...
Corinna Frey‐Heger, Marian Konstantin Gatzweiler, Michael Barrett   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Religious Diversity and Multi‐Religiosity in Singapore

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Can government‐mandated exposure to religious diversity both reinforce exclusive identities and cultivate “multi‐religiosity”? This study leverages the 2024 Global East Survey of Religion and Spirituality to investigate how Singapore's state‐mandated and managed pluralism impacts the religious lives of its citizens.
Corey Resweber, Bing Han, Fenggang Yang
wiley   +1 more source

Disproportionality and discrimination in public health emergencies: Lessons from Trinidad and Tobago's COVID-19 cremation ban. [PDF]

Dev World Bioeth
Budrie L.
europepmc   +1 more source

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

Horticultural intensification and plant-based diets of 18^th century CE Waikato Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Kinaston RL, Keith S, Hudson B, Geber J, Kleffmann T, Stirling C, Reid M, Barr D, Kramer R, Sudron E, Waka Kotahi Tangata Whenua Working Group.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Multi‐Religiosity Among Asian Americans and Non‐Asian Americans

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reports key findings of a split‐sample experiment comparing conventional measures of single‐choice religion and new measures of multi‐religiosity. Although conventional measures implicitly assume congruence among religious affiliation, belief, and practice within a single religion, the new measures are designed to capture multi ...
Fenggang Yang, Joey Marshall
wiley   +1 more source

Taphonomic Trajectory of Diagenesis: How Site Formation Should Inform Biological Sampling Strategies for Isotopic Studies of Ancestors. [PDF]

Am J Biol Anthropol
Beasley MM.
europepmc   +1 more source

Extracting vitalities: Cuts in Indigenous women's bodies‐territories (Brazil)

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I explore the connections between the medicalization of childbirth and environmental devastation through Guarani‐Mbyá understandings of life and the living. I argue that the cuts made to Guarani‐Mbyá women's vaginas (episiotomies) in Brazilian hospitals are experienced and situated on the same cosmopolitical level as the cuts ...
Maria Paula Prates
wiley   +1 more source

Robert Hertz, Anthropophagic Practices and Traditional South Fore Mortuary Rites in Papua New Guinea. [PDF]

Omega (Westport)
Whitfield JT, Pako WH, Alpers MP.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Ladoga kurgan culture (stages of the formation of the burial rite)

Archaeological News, 2022
openaire   +1 more source