Sociological Definitions, Language Games and the "Essence" of Religion [PDF]
, 2002 Peer ...
McKinnon, Andrew M.
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Global Islamophobia: Muslims and Moral Panic in the West [Book Review] [PDF]
, 2013 This article reviews the book: “Global Islamophobia: Muslims and Moral Panic in the West”, edited by George Morgan and Scott ...
Drury, Abdullah
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“We are against Islam!”: The Lega Nord and the Islamic folk devil [PDF]
, 2012 © 2012 the Author(s). This article has been published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. Without requesting permission from the Author or SAGE, you may further copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the article, with the ...
Armstrong, G, Testa, A
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Holy Time and Popular Invented Rituals in Islam: Structures and Symbolism
Al-Jami'ah: Journal of Islamic Studies, 2018 This paper tackles three popular invented rituals in the early centuries of Islam performed in the seventh and eighth months of the Islamic calendar; Rajab and Shacbān, namely the sacrifices of faraca and catīra, fasting and prayers.
Mabrouk Chibani Mansouri
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Jathilan Horse Dance: Spirit Possession Beliefs and Practices in The Present-Day Java
IKAT: The Indonesian Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 2018 Jathilan is one of the names for traditional Javanese trance dance which takes its roots in the most archaic levels of local culture but remains very popular nowadays.
Eva Rapoport
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Cultural Identity and the Comparative Study of Text and Image in the Lithographed Manuscript of Amir Arsalan Namdar [PDF]
Matn/Pizhūhī-i AdabīThe story of Amir Arslan Namdar is one of the famous folk stories of Persian literature from the Qajar era and one of the most famous romance stories that marks the transition from the short story to the novel.
Mahmonir Shirazi, Maryam Hoseini
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The public presence of religion in Western Europe : its social significance among religious constituencies lying between the secular and churchgoing Christians? [PDF]
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Glendinning, Tony
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Analyzing the Myth of Fairies in Bakhtiari Folk Literature and Literary Texts: Shahnameh and Samak-e Ayyar [PDF]
Matn/Pizhūhī-i AdabīBakhtiari people consider fairies to be beautiful and charming creatures that appear to young people, often in the woods at night, and cause them harm.
Mahmood Aghakhani Bizhani, Najmeh Dorri
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Sensory Screens, Digitized Desires: Dancing Rasa From Bombay Cinema To Reality TV [PDF]
, 2016 Bombay cinema incorporated songs, dances, choreography, staging, and costumes from a variety of traditional forms to mark a modern national identity. The pioneering figure for using dance in films was Uday Shankar in his experimental film Kalpana. Bombay’
Chakravorty, Pallabi
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The Legend You Thought You Knew: Text and Screen Representations of Puteri Gunung Ledang [PDF]
, 2010 This article traces the evolution of narratives about the supernatural woman said to live on Gunung Ledang, from oral folklore to sixteenth-century courtly texts to contemporary films.
Hijjas, Mulaika
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