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Secularism and Its Discontents: The Moor’s Last Sigh and Riot [PDF]
, 2016 The recurrent theme of dropping frontiers in a world which has become increasingly heterogeneous but intolerant is the leitmotif of Sashi Tharoor’s Riot and Salman Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh.
Pillai, Swarnavel Eswaran
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‘The damned word’: culture and its (in)compatibility with law [PDF]
, 2005 The compatibility and incompatibility between law and culture are identified through an analysis of relation. By way of exploring the elusiveness of conceptions of culture and of law, a commonality relating them is arrived at, one that indicates not only
Fitzpatrick, Peter
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Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Previous studies provide mixed empirical support for White's thesis that Christianity has contributed to the ecological crisis. This study aims to add nuance to White's thesis by examining different aspects of Christianity within the secularized context of the Netherlands.
Nienke P. M. Fortuin, Carl Sterkens
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, 2012 Diversity matters, both at the firm and at the macro-economic level. This is the driving mission of JEOD. While the importance of diversity is already quite well recognized in other disciplines as a major source of wellbeing and quality of life, an open ...
BORZAGA, Carlo +2 more
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That sinkin’ feeling: Environmentally induced distress on a disappearing island
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Residents of Tangier Island, Virginia, a subsiding island in the Chesapeake Bay, embody psychosocial dimensions of environmental change. Analysis of ethnographic data shows islanders’ experiences and articulations of anxiety, panic, and despair as “that sinkin’ feeling,” resulting from the stress of living with the long‐term threat of imminent
Jonna Yarrington
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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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, 2010 In order to understand electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), we first need to learn and understand the principles of electronics. In this chapter, we will introduce the basic electric circuit theories, including the behaviours of circuit elements in direct current (DC) and alternating current (AC) circuits, complex algebra, electrical impedance,
Yuan, Xiao-Zi +3 more
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Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Depolarisation
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It has been suggested that multiculturalism has contributed to majority anxieties and thereby to the current polarisation. This article focuses on how to tackle and lessen this polarisation, which is fostering mutual distrust and threatening the national, democratic citizenships upon which any multiculturalist, egalitarian and unifying project
Tariq Modood
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Fundamentalisme Keagamaan dalam Perspektif Kebudayaan
Analisa: Jurnal Pengkajian Masalah Sosial Keagamaan, 2010 Religion becomes reference of civilized value system which is played and plays to underlie pattern of community’s act. In this case, religion as knowledgesystem And believe systemReally depends on a result of interpretation on religious symbols.
Mudjahirin Thohir
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