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“A Person's God Should Look Like Them”: African Traditional Religions Among Black Queer Millennials and Gen Z Americans

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How are young Black Americans practicing spirituality contemporarily? Today younger generations of Black Americans are more likely than older Black Americans to identify as religiously unaffiliated or as practicing a non‐Christian faith. Drawing on 109 interviews with Black Millennial and Gen Z Americans, I examine how some of these younger ...
Terrell J. A. Winder
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From Competition to Compartmentalization: Rethinking Türkiye‐Gulf Relations

Middle East Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract For nearly a decade following the Arab uprisings, relations between Ankara and key Gulf capitals were marked by intense rivalry and proxy contestation across several regional arenas, notably in Egypt and Syria. Why did relations shift toward pragmatic cooperation after such prolonged polarization?
Betul Dogan‐Akkas
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‘Liberation’ of ‘Younger Brothers’ or Genocide of Subhumans? Genocidal Discourses on Ukrainians in Putin's Regime

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores Russia's genocidal discourses on Ukrainians, focusing on the predominant narrative that frames cultural genocide as the ‘liberation’ of Ukrainians through the erasure of their cultural identity. Existing literature tends to overlook this form of genocidal discourse, which diverges from typical ‘othering’ by instead ...
Martin Laryš
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A Forced Union: Exploring the Consequences of India's Removal of Jammu and Kashmir's Special Status

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article adds to academic literature interested in two core questions: What happens to residents as a result of an annexation? And how do aggressor states maintain control over an annexed territory where there is a history of insurgency and mobilization for independence?
Serena Hussain
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Consuming the jihad : an enquiry into the subculture of internet jihadism

, 2013
Recent years have seen a great deal of interest in phenomena such as Al Qaida ‘terrorism’, Islamic ‘radicalism’ or, increasingly, ‘jihadism’ - on the Internet. However, as I argue in this thesis, much work in these areas has been problematic for a number
Ramsay, Gilbert
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Between and Beyond: Negotiating Belonging Within Queer Borderlands

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Belonging is an affective, social and biopolitical phenomenon which is relationally negotiated and which produces material and symbolic ‘borders’. Subsequently, the politics of belonging refers to the construction, maintenance and policing of the borders of belonging.
Meg Poff
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Cultural conservatism and popular culture

, 2016
Gündelik hayatın ideolojisi olan popüler kültür, küreselleşme ve modernleşme momentleriyle birlikte açığa çıkmış ve kapitalist pazar ekonomisinin önemli üretim araçlarından birisi haline gelmiştir.
Tan, Gülçin Özge
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О новых понятиях в религиозной практике современных казахов: аккулар, сункар, нур-жигит

, 2012
The religious revival in the post-Soviet period increased religious syncretism among the Kazakhs. Beliefs and practices of folk Islam were complemented by pre-Islamic ones, especially by elements of popular Tengrian philosophy and shamanism not borrowed ...
Elena Larina, Larina, Elena
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Engineered Identity: Albanian Nationalism and the Limits of Established Nationalism Theories

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses the development of Albanian nationalism as a test case for assessing the explanatory reach of three major approaches to the study of nationalism: modernist, constructivist and historical‐comparative. Rather than privileging a single theoretical framework, the article places these approaches in dialogue, treating them as ...
Alda Kushi
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Dancing Ambiguity: Nora and the Politics of Cultural Nationalisation in Southern Thailand

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines Nora, a traditional dance‐drama from southern Thailand, through its designation as UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage (2021) and the Thai government's recognition of its performers as National Artists (2018, 2021). It situates these actions within Thailand's cultural nationalisation.
Goeun Kim
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