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Little Fish in Big Ponds: The Pathways to Inclusion for Micro‐Minorities in Power‐Sharing Societies

open access: yesSwiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Emergent critique of consociations has focused on how micro‐minority ‘others’ are frequently excluded from the opportunities presented by power‐sharing systems, with dominant elites shutting them out. Therefore, a key question is: how do the political elites of micro‐minorities gain more meaningful inclusion by adopting or navigating the ...
Aleksandra Zdeb, Drew Mikhael
wiley   +1 more source

Confessionalism in the Modern Levant: the Ottoman and Safavid Cases

open access: yes, 2015
تحتل المذهبية مساحة واسعة في النقاشات السياسية والدينية في منطقة المشرق العربي منذ اوائل عقد الثمانينات من القرن العشرين حيث وقعت الثورة الاسلامية في ايران.
الزويري, محجوب
core  

DO CONFESSIONAL AO PLURAL: uma análise sobre o novo modelo de ensino religioso nas escolas públicas brasileiras

open access: yesRevista Diálogo Educacional, 2008
This article tries to examine the new model of religious education defined by federal law 9.475/97, which changes article 33 of LBD from year 1996. The new model of religious education chases away from all forms of confessionalism and proselytism trying ...
Cesar Ranquetat Júnior
doaj  

Mathematical knowledge in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

open access: yesPoznańskie Studia Slawistyczne
The article is devoted to mathematical knowledge in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. This fragment of the linguistic worldview of the inhabitants of the GDL is modelled on the basis of the other authors’ works and the study of the relevant Ruthenian ...
Alena Rudenka
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What is a Multi‐Ethnic Party and How to Spot a Fake One?

open access: yesSwiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Multi‐ethnic parties have been variously defined: as those which do not champion the interests of, or mobilize against, any specific ethnic group; as those with a recognisably cross‐communal leadership or membership; and as those which acquire some distribution of support across groups.
Jon Fraenkel
wiley   +1 more source

Confessional nature of Karaites and their right to confessional buildings

open access: yesUkrainian Religious Studies, 2013
In some publications in book and newspaper forms, in the thoughts of civil servants who are concerned with national and religious issues, the version of Crimean Karaites belonging to Jewry still exists, considering their Karaite religion as a kind of Judaism only on the grounds that they have the Old Testament with their Holy Book The bible However, if
Anatolii M. Kolodnyi, Oleksandr N. Sagan
openaire   +2 more sources

The “Communal College:” Cross‐Ethnic Voting Rules and Census Requirements for Dyadic Consociational Democracies

open access: yesSwiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Electoral systems in deeply divided societies are pivotal for peace and stability among ethno‐national groups. Consociationalism and centripetalism are the most widespread approaches from which derive the major incentives for electoral systems in deeply divided, dyadic societies.
Ivan Pepić
wiley   +1 more source

Teaching New Religious Movements Historically: Distance, Empathy, and Cults in the Classroom

open access: yesTeaching Theology &Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Resistance to understanding the beliefs of modern New Religious Movements (NRMs) is well‐known to those who teach in the area. This paper builds on Eugene Gallagher's repurposing of “methodological belief” for college classes on NRMs by suggesting that scholars and teachers in the field of religious studies engage methods and content drawn ...
Douglas FitzHenry Jones
wiley   +1 more source

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