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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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New imperialisms, old stereotypes [PDF]
, 2016 This chapter assesses the shift from a Cold War-driven news agenda concerning Africa’s relations with global superpowers to a post- Cold War agenda that camouflages a no less imperialistic and exploitative modernity.
Paterson, CA
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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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Television and the gospel of entertainment in Ghana [PDF]
, 2012 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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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 +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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Polish and American religious right movements in the perspective of secularization, privatization and deprivatization of religion theories [PDF]
, 2014 The aim of my paper is to : analyze the phenomenon of Radio Maryja (Radio Virgin Mary), present arguments for classifying the movement around it as he Polish Religious Right, compare it to the American Religious Right, and examine the processes which ...
Napierała, Paulina
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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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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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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 +3 more
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