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Introduction: Measuring Religiosity and Multi‐Religiosity in East and West

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The introduction to the spotlight set of research notes that are based on the Global East Survey of Religion and Spirituality briefly explains why we believe it is necessary to develop new measures of religiosity, the process of developing the questionnaire, and the key findings in this set of research notes, including the common phenomenon of
Fenggang Yang
wiley   +1 more source

Carework as resistance: How incarcerated women care for each other to survive carcerality amid a global pandemic

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic was a crisis in prisons and jails, with some of the largest outbreaks in the United States happening inside carceral facilities. In the absence of structural interventions to protect them, people inside prisons engaged in various forms of carework to support one another and to draw attention to the horrific conditions. We
Esther Melton, Leslie Riddle, Jennifer Elyse James   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The psychiatric fix

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article draws on four years of ethnographic fieldwork in Los Angeles’ (LA) jail mental health facility to describe the interrelated crises of rising numbers of people declared incompetent to stand trial and the recurrent failure of managing madness in jail.
Jeremy Levenson
wiley   +1 more source

Chopin's Craft of Musical Form: Making Romantic Music with Classical Theme Types and Galant Schemata

Music Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Frédéric Chopin adhered to traditional practices in musical form to a far greater extent than hitherto acknowledged. He took certain standard formal paths with remarkable consistency throughout his compositional career and across almost all his favoured genres.
Matthew Riley
wiley   +1 more source

“Shakunakharas":

Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry
The oral culture of the Central Himalayan region of Kumaun survives mainly due to its folk songs, which represent the true spirit of Kumauni life by reflecting the daily struggles, beliefs and superstitions, customs and rituals, and the popular legends ...
Shruti Pant Banerjee, Hari Priya Pathak   +1 more
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Why Do Voters Vote for ‘the Other Side’? Instrumental and Expressive Motives for Cross‐Ethnolinguistic Voting in Brussels

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While electoral support in deeply divided societies is expected to follow segmental lines, parties often attract substantial backing from outside their core constituencies. This article examines why voters in Belgium's Brussels‐Capital Region—a consociational system designed to enable the peaceful cohabitation of the French and Dutch language ...
Benjamin Blanckaert, Silvia Erzeel, Didier Caluwaerts   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ideology, Red in Tooth and Claw: Realist Ideology Critique and Animals

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Pablo Magaña
wiley   +1 more source

Governing and Living Through Failure: Russian Speakers in Ethnocentric Nation‐Building Projects of Estonia and Latvia

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to nationalism studies by demonstrating how states use failure as a governance tool to regulate national belonging and by showing how people experience and reinterpret failure in ways that unsettle dominant national imaginaries.
Lena Hercberga, Alina Jašina‐Schäfer
wiley   +1 more source

From roots to glamor: gendered transformations of adapted folk songs in contemporary Bollywood. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Begum M, Mukherjee A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Rethinking Indigenous Knowledge Systems In Children's Education: Efik And Igbo Folk Songs Perspectives Of Nigeria

Accelerando: BJMD
In the African traditional perspectives, music is posited as a medium of communication, education, training, history, sports, proverbs, food, environment, discipline, philosophies, and fosters general societal ideologies.
Olufemi Akanji Olaleye, Olusegun Stephen Titus   +1 more
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