Religion and Media: legal control & regulations. Comparative analysis en Europe and USA [PDF]
[Resumen] Este trabajo está centrado en la elaboración de un análisis comparado relativo al con- trol y regulación sobre materia religiosa en los medios de comunicación en Europa y EEUU.
Morán, Gloria M.
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Experiential Engagement: A Scale for Experiential Contexts
ABSTRACT In marketing, engagement has been discussed as context contingent, spurring proliferation of context‐specific engagement scales. While experiential contexts (e.g., music, the arts, sports) exhibit differences, they also hold similar characteristics (e.g., behavioral participation, feelings of connectedness, meaningful interaction) that provide
Adria Mankute +3 more
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The Status of Civil Society in Zambia: Challenges and Future Prospects [PDF]
This report analyses this multi-faceted nature of CSOs, whether formal or informal in nature, in order to gain a greater understanding of the characteristics that make them a valued partner in the development process, the challenges they encounter, and ...
Moonga Hangoma Mumba, Rudo Phiri Mumba
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The medium is the message: The geographies of cryptocurrency remittances to Venezuela
Short Abstract Cryptocurrency remittances overcome many regulatory and practical barriers, but there is little empirical research into this increasingly popular remittance medium. In response, this article explores cryptocurrency remittances from Latin America and the Caribbean into Venezuela.
Daniel Robins
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Censorship as Placemaking: Untangling Knots of Access, Protection, and Moral Panic
ABSTRACT In recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of book challenges in educational contexts in the United States. Books representing sexual and gender diversity have been particularly targeted, as have books by and about people of color.
Ryan Schey, Mollie V. Blackburn
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Pentecostalism and Popular Culture in Britain and America from the Early Twentieth Century to the 1970s [PDF]
Pentecostalism is now the second largest subgrouping of global Christianity. It’s charted tremendous growth, even in deeply post-Christian countries like Sweden. This chapter compares British and American pentecostalism and looks at how disciples related
Stephens, Randall
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The Network Expression of a Roma Diaspora
ABSTRACT Despite the longstanding debates among ethnographers and policymakers regarding the social organization of the Roma–the largest and most marginalized native ethnocultural minority in Europe–quantitative analyses are limited. This is partly due to a unique combination of social closure and spatial dispersion of most Roma groups, exacerbated by ...
Francisco J. Ogáyar +4 more
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Television and the gospel of entertainment in Ghana [PDF]
Charismatic-Pentecostal 'media ministries' have become very successful in Africa's new media fields. They shape new forms of public religiosity that spill over into various forms of popular culture and resonate with broad audiences. This article explores
Witte, M. de
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Faith in Fear: Conspiracy Theories as an Explanatory Tradition Within the American Christian Right
ABSTRACT Since the 1970s, the Christian right in America has developed from a movement deliberately detached from politics into a lobbying force wielding influence in the heart of the American political system. Along this journey, the Christian right fostered and developed a number of conspiracy theories which played numerous roles in their ideology ...
Billy Mann
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Beyond therapeutics: Psychosis and poetics
Abstract In this article, I examine how poetry serves as a form of semiotic rearrangement for those undergoing episodes of what psychiatry calls psychosis. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, I explore how poetry's capacity to hold intemporal experiences facilitates an ambiguous economics of meaning that serves as a semiotic ...
Anjana Bala
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