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POPULAR ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A Grammar of Moral Economy in Contemporary Urban Peripheries
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how popular entrepreneurship operates as a cultural grammar that disrupts established practices of wageless life in urban peripheries. Drawing on four years of ethnographic research conducted in São Paulo, it analyses entrepreneurial discourses not simply as ideological impositions, but as ambivalent mediations of ...
Henrique Costa
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Methodological Challenges in Studying Wealthy Families
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Studying the wealthy is not easy. This piece provides suggestions for recruitment, interview strategies, and design to gain high‐quality data on wealthy people. It is based on an interview study of 81 US racially‐diverse families with a median net worth of $25 million. First, to gain access to the wealthy, it is key for the researcher to use a
Annette Lareau
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The notions of martyrdom according to St. John Chrysostom [PDF]
, 1984 It is well known that the topic of martyrdom is central to early Church history. What is not, however, as well known is the theology of martyrdom, particularly as it emerged after the full harvest of the era of persecutions. This investigation represents
Christofis, Gus George
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Playing the Game: Illusio and the Cultural Normalisation of Shadow Education in Greece and Beyond
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Shadow education has become a defining feature of contemporary schooling systems, yet dominant explanations continue to emphasise access, market expansion, and examination pressure. This article advances a sociological account of how shadow education becomes culturally normalised within contexts formally committed to public educational ...
Alexandros Kamplitsis
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Educating Christians for political involvement: an examination of Augustinian, liberation and confessing church approaches [PDF]
, 2003 This thesis examines the role of the churches in educating their congregations for political involvement. It does this by examining three aspects of the political thought of three theologians, Augustine, Gustavo Gutierrez and Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
Oakley, Nigel William
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The wider network of social relationships and desistance from crime
Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract Prior research has focused on marriage as a key relationship associated with crime cessation. Yet particularly within the contemporary context, relationships with parents, peers, and other family members may also foster or inhibit progress toward desistance.
Peggy C. Giordano +4 more
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Prizren's diocese: Historical-canonical aspects [PDF]
Baština, 2013 Prizren's diocese is one of the oldest diocese's seats of the Serbian Church. Based on the scarce historical written sources, its foundation is connected for the 10th century, although archaeological researches move the limits of its diocese's seat (the ...
Janjić Dragana
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Rethinking Toleration: Wesley, Whitefield and Evangelical Collaboration in the Eighteenth Century
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract There is a growing body of scholarship on the history of religious toleration; nevertheless, historians have largely treated toleration as a matter of governmental policy and legal principle. This article broadens that account by examining John Wesley and George Whitefield's vision of evangelical unity across denominational lines.
Sarah Irving‐Stonebraker
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Rowan Tree Church Annual Report, 1993 [PDF]
, 1993 This digital asset was created from the original digital scans by Rev. Paul V. Beyerl and provided to the Valdosta State University, Archives & Special Collections to be part of their Rowan Tree Church Periodicals Collection of the New Age Movements ...
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The Issue of Pre‐Islamic Arabic Christian Poetry Revisited
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Is only very little Arabic Christian poetry extant from pre‐Islamic times? While distancing myself from Louis Cheikho's (1859–1927) view that almost all pre‐Islamic poets were Christians, I contend in this article that some of them indeed were.
Ilkka Lindstedt
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