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‘It's Like a Horror Movie That You Walk Through’: Experiencing Horror Through Immersive Recreation

The Journal of American Culture, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 121-130, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Horror stories have provided enjoyable forms of leisure for centuries. Over the past five decades, however, these experiences have evolved into increasingly immersive forms of popular culture. What once involved constructing the narrative world internally through reading has expanded into sensory engagement through visual and auditory media ...
Susan Weidmann
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Exiled From Their Own Lands: Indigenist Policies, Oil, and Colonial Plunder in 20th Century Venezuela

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the historical displacement of Indigenous peoples in Venezuela, focusing on the links between indigenist policies and the exploitation of natural resources, particularly oil, throughout the 20th century. Using a combined historical and ethnographic approach, it demonstrates how the formation of the Venezuelan nation‐state
Gabriel Tardelli
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‘We Can Win this Fight Together’: Memory and Cross‐Occupational Coordination

Journal of Management Studies, Volume 63, Issue 4, Page 1907-1940, June 2026.
Abstract While scholars have studied coordination across occupational lines, they have yet to theorize how the memories held by those involved in such coordination might influence it. In this paper, we frame occupational groups as mnemonic communities – collectives for whom a shared understanding of the past constitutes their character – to explore the
Sung‐Chul Noh, Matthew C. B. Lyle, Boram Do   +2 more
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The Reputational Configuration and Dynamics of Christian Churches in Switzerland

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 217-228, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines how the reputation of Christian churches is configured, and which sociodemographic variables and experiences (personal or mediated) relate to it. It provides in‐depth insights into how the Swiss population evaluates Roman Catholic, Reformed Protestant, and Evangelical churches on the basis of various theories, such as ...
Rebekka Rieser, Mark Eisenegger, Jörg Schneider   +2 more
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Narrative formatting, chronotopic orderings, and moralization in ex‐gay stories

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract Formatted stories rely on spatiotemporal cues to evoke recognizability through linearity, which prescribes a particular template for meaning‐making. This article examines stories narrated by ex‐gay members of a Christian organization in Singapore and considers how chronotopes within the stories are ordered to regiment ways of feeling for ...
Vincent Pak
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Reading Nietzsche in an Age of Conspiracy Theories

Modern Theology, Volume 42, Issue 2, Page 251-275, April 2026.
Abstract This essay considers Friedrich Nietzsche's critique of Christian morality as a template for interpreting the epistemology of modern conspiracy theorists. The first section elucidates Nietzsche's notion of ressentiment as it can be applied to contemporary conspiracism. The effectiveness of this comparative assessment thus raises the question of
J.W. Olson
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Society beyond morality: mimesis, sovereignty, and being not‐human in the Nyau associations of Malawi La société par‐delà la moralité : mimèse, souveraineté et existence non humaine dans les sociétés Nyau du Malawi

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 67-84, March 2026.
Nyau masked dancers embodying a variety of people, animals, and objects appear at many public events in Chewa areas of Malawi. Understood to be the physical manifestation of ancestral spirits, these entities are classified as ‘not human’ and transgress ordinary morality, mocking and threatening audiences.
Sam Farrell
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Disruptive Repentance: Protesting in the Morning Service at Waitangi in 1983

Journal of Religious History, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 96-109, March 2026.
In 1983 on Waitangi Day, nine Pākehā Christian protesters (including Catholic, Anglican, Presbyterian and Baptist ministers) were arrested and charged with disorderly behaviour for interrupting the morning church service at Waitangi. In solidarity with Māori activists and wider protests, they sought to draw attention to the longstanding failure of the ...
Michael Mawson
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Haunted by Houses: Built and Lived Absences in a Transnational Mexican Community

Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT Globally, millions of migrants have sent money home to build a house. In early phases of migration, remittance houses are aspirational objects that materialize the continuous belonging of migrants to a community. In later stages, experiences of loss, estrangement, deportation, and death increasingly challenge these attachments.
Julia Pauli
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Evangelicals in Canadian national television news, 1994-2004 : a frame analysis of reports from global, CBC and CTV television networks and a survey of national television journalists

, 2009
This study employed two primary research techniques: a frame analysis and a survey. The frame analysis examined the portrayals of evangelicals and evangelicalism in national, nightly news reports airing between 1994 and 2004. For the survey, national television news personnel were questioned about their attitudes towards religion in general and ...
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