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Of Carcasses and Christ: Rereading the Repugnant Ecological Other
ABSTRACT This essay claims that a collection of hunting and fishing devotionals provincializes a common trope in environmental literatures: the figure of the repugnantly anti‐ecological conservative Protestant. A close reading of these texts reveals their authors’ and ideal audiences’ extensive knowledge of land and animal minds, which deflates their ...
Colin B. Weaver
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Religion and Official Politics in Contemporary China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan
ABSTRACT With increasing discussions on political deification and the official references to traditional religions in the People's Republic of China (PRC), recent debates on the PRC's alleged infiltration over Taiwan elections through the goddess Mazu, and the post‐Handover government's emphasis on filiality to China in Hong Kong, it is high time to ...
Ting Guo
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Micropolitics of Secrecy: Traders' Enactments of Expertise After the Failed Military Coup in Turkey
ABSTRACT Conducting ethnographic research in financial institutions is challenging because secrecy is pivotal for traders to maintain their expert image. It became more difficult in Turkey after the failed coup in 2016 as Turkish President Erdoğan increasingly weaponized conspiracies that are historically and politically rooted in Turkish society to ...
Deniz Coral‐Irwin
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There are thousands of statistical reports proving that by next September we will be so computerized and digitized that we will not have to go to school or work anymore.
Jordahl, Ron
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Love at Arms’ Length: Reconciliationism and its Tentative Future
Abstract In a string of articles, over the years, Shawn Bawulski has propagated a palatable via media between full‐fledged apokatastasis and a traditionalist doctrine of hell. Though not original to Bawulski, reconciliationism, in the eyes of many, offers a more faithful and effective synthesis of varied Christian eschatological commitments.
Andrew Hronich
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Religious Identity, Religious Attendance, and Parental Control
Using a national sample of adolescents aged 10–18 years and their parents (N = 5,117), this article examines whether parental religious identity and religious participation are associated with the ways in which parents control their children.
Annette Mahoney +39 more
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Abstract The article explores Christianity's role in society through public theology, particularly in relation to the public calling of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands (PCN). It advocates for reflecting on the dichotomy of church/world through the lens of divine mediation, challenging traditional dualisms and emphasizing a ‘soft difference ...
Rachèl Blokhuis‐Koopman
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Win, Lose, or Draw: Using LGBTQ+ Legal History to Reassess Social Movement Outcomes
ABSTRACT In 1992, Colorado's citizens enacted Amendment 2, a ballot initiative that prevented governmental entities from extending antidiscrimination protections to gays and lesbians. That same year, Oregon's voters rejected a similar measure. At first glance, it may seem that queer rights advocates experienced a loss in Colorado and a victory in ...
Marie‐Amélie George
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‘The Devil Made Me Do It’ Electus per Deus and Quasi‐Occult Crime in South Africa
ABSTRACT This study interrogates the phenomenon of ‘occult crime’ in South Africa, focusing on the perspectives of crime such as Electus per Deus, the murder of Kirsty Theologo, Hansie Cronjé, and the context behind the assumed connection between criminal culpability, mens daemonica, and the occult.
Tristán Kapp
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Sermon preached at the fourth biennial onvention of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, Vancouver, 4 Jl 1993. Historical series, no 4.
Sjoberg, Donald W.
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