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Community and Social Interaction in Digital Religious Discourse in Nigeria, Ghana and Cameroon [PDF]

, 2013
Since the advent of the Internet, religion has maintained a very strong online presence. This study examines how African Christianity is negotiated and practised on the Internet. The main objectives are to investigate to what extent online worshippers in
Chiluwa, Innocent
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Opportunities for the Labour Party: Football, Class and Community Renewal

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article argues that football represents an underutilised opportunity for the Labour Party to anchor a wider programme of civic renewal. In many working‐class communities, the decline of trade unions, working men's clubs and other associational spaces has eroded collective life, leaving football clubs as rare institutions where dignity ...
Sam Taylor Hill
wiley   +1 more source

Claiming kinship through ‘filial heart’: migrant care workers in ageing Shanghai Revendiquer la parenté par le « cœur filial » : travailleurs migrants du care dans Shanghai vieillissante

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Drawing on the ethnography of migrant care workers in eldercare in Shanghai, this article reveals the evolving landscape of caregiving and kinship practices in contemporary China. The ethnography presents the emic perspective of care workers, who actively develop symbolic trajectories for claiming kinship through ‘filial heart’ in caregiving.
Xinyuan Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Exorcism

, 2012
History
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Spiritual Interventions - Chapter 10 of Counseling and the Demonic

, 1988
Chapter 10 of Counseling and the Demonic by Rodger K ...
Bufford, Rodger K
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Women's sense of their hak, divine justice, and economies of divorce in Istanbul Sens du hak des femmes, justice divine et économies du divorce à Istanbul

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Building on life story interviews with Muslim women – divorced and living in Istanbul – this article traces women's evocations of hak (haqq, , right) and other related terms in their narratives about financial arrangements during divorce proceedings. Mainly denoting right, justice, truth and due, the polysemic notion of hak encompasses a complex set of
Burcu Kalpaklıoğlu
wiley   +1 more source

Index - from Counseling and the Demonic

, 1988
Index from Counseling and the Demonic by Rodger K ...
Bufford, Rodger K
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Dwelling in a post‐fallout landscape: re‐shaping and sustaining life in a former evacuation zone in Fukushima Habiter après la catastrophe : redonner forme au monde et entretenir la vie dans une ancienne zone évacuée à Fukushima

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article explores the activities of daily life in a village neighbouring the TEPCO nuclear power plant in Fukushima. It argues that one of the potentials of taking a dwelling perspective – a phenomenological approach to living within the ecological and social environments – emerges most compellingly within a polluted landscape.
Tomoko Sakai
wiley   +1 more source

Demon Possessed or Spirit-Filled? Religious Dissent and Feminine Religiosity in the Twelfth Century Rhineland

I Quaderni del MAES
Around 1169, after several failed attempts to exorcise a young noble woman from the Lower Rhine region, called Sigewize, she is brought to Rupertsberg where the ritual is successfully conducted not only according to the indications of the famous ...
Andra Alexiu
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Anthropological Research of the Phenomenon of Spirit Possession: Social Aspects and Implications

Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2006
Spirit possession, in its many forms, represents an important factor in numerous re­ligions and cults throughout the world. In the international context, work on spirit possession is abundant, and theories and their implications have been developed ...
Danijel Sinani
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