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Faith in Fear: Conspiracy Theories as an Explanatory Tradition Within the American Christian Right

Religion Compass, Volume 19, Issue 7, July 2025.
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

Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 50, Issue 1, June 2025.
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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Producing interventions for AIDS-affected young people in Lesotho's schools: Scalar relations and power differentials [PDF]

, 2009
This is the post-print version of the final paper published in Geoforum. The published article is available from the link below. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other ...
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Uncovering the Paradox of Affordable Innovation: The Divergent Effect of Innovativeness on Managers' Attitudes Toward Affordable Innovation

Creativity and Innovation Management, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 443-465, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Affordable innovation refers to new products and services that target customers with a low willingness or ability to pay. Although they can provide significant economic and societal benefits, managers often prefer premium innovations to affordable innovations.
Nadine Gurtner, Sebastian Gurtner, Mario Schaarschmidt   +2 more
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Conspiracy Theories, Quantum Social Science, and the Political Power of Irrelevant Beliefs

Social Science Quarterly, Volume 106, Issue 3, May 2025.
ABSTRACT Objectives Recent psychological research into conspiracy theories (CTs) has explored the possible relationships between antecedents or predisposed mindsets as explanations of increased rates of CT belief and tested the increased susceptibility to cognitive fallacies among CT believers.
Michael P. A. Murphy
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SPECTACLE: The Semiotics of Albinism in Tanzania

Cultural Anthropology, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 249-275, May 2025.
ABSTRACT In the past fifteen years, scores of high‐profile murders of Africans with albinism have sparked a robust global movement for albinism rights. In Tanzania, disparate albinism stakeholders (wadau) attribute violence to an illicit market for albino body parts run by traditional healers and their patrons, who are said to believe in the ...
JANE L. SAFFITZ
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White Christian Nationalism, Biblical Proof Texting, and Literacy Curriculum and Instruction

Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 1, January/February/March 2025.
Abstract If the White Christian nationalist movement has significantly galvanized parent, community, and larger‐scale political groups whose guiding ethos challenges teacher professional roles in shaping literacy curriculum and instruction, then how can literacy teachers and teacher educators better understand this movement, its interpretive ...
Mary Juzwik, Rebecca Witte, Kevin Burke, Esther Prins   +3 more
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Viewers like you: community norms and contributions to public broadcasting [PDF]

The logic of collective action (Olson 1965) suggests that public broadcasting may be underprovided, because non-contributors are not excluded from receiving the benefits. Why do so many individuals voluntarily contribute to public television, even though
Knack, Stephen, Kropf, Martha
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Soft power and its audiences: Tweeting the Olympics from London 2012 to Sochi 2014 [PDF]

, 2015
The ‘Tweeting the Olympics’ project (the subject of this special section of Participations) must be understood in the context of efforts by host states, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and other actors involved in the Games to cultivate and ...
Burchell, Kenzie, Gillespie, Marie, Nieto McAvoy, Eva, O’ Loughlin, Ben   +3 more
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The Spirit as Plural Person

International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 1, Page 94-125, January 2025.
Abstract According to plural person theory, a group of close friends can act together not just distributively, as separate individuals all at once, but also corporately, as a nonmetaphorical plural person supervening on the friends. This article proposes that the Spirit is a plural person in precisely this sense.
Olivia Bustion
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