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Re-Imagining Fundamentalism in Traditional African Religious Thought: The Case of Ombatse in Nigeria

Religions
This article re-imagines the conceptual and existential dimensions of religious fundamentalism, which is generally conceived as a belief in the literal interpretation of texts and their application in contemporary society.
Benson Ohihon Igboin
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What Are Asset Price Bubbles? A Survey on Definitions of Financial Bubbles

Journal of Economic Surveys, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Financial bubbles and crashes have repeatedly caused economic turmoil notably but not just during the 2008 financial crisis. However, both in the popular press as well as scientific publications, the meaning of bubble is sometimes unspecified.
Michael Heinrich Baumann, Anja Janischewski   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fundamentalizm muzułmański jako ruch społeczny

Świat Idei i Polityki, 2006
Muslim fundamentalism is not only a religious but also a social and political phenomenon. Political science considers it both a political ideology and a social movement.
Sławomir Manikowski
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Stoning in Iran: A Sexist and Overlooked Practice [PDF]

, 2015
This paper seeks to dissect and expose the ancient practice of stoning in Iran, and to analyze the injustices that are built into this ...
Haugh, Megan R.
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Privilege Versus Right: Vigilantism Against Israel's Palestinian Citizens

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article addresses three core questions: What is the social origin of vigilantism? How do vigilantes justify extra‐legal violence and intimidation? What are vigilantism's long‐term effects? The analysis focuses on a period in which Israel's Palestinian‐Arab citizens increased their access to legal rights, social mobility, spatial ...
Gershon Shafir, Beatrice Waterhouse
wiley   +1 more source

Unveiling Propriety, Validity and Consensus: A Multi‐level Examination of Legitimacy Following the Global Financial Crisis

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Previous work on legitimacy has conceptualized its multi‐level nature, encompassing individual‐level propriety and collective‐level validity. Recently, scholars have introduced the construct of consensus, the degree to which evaluators agree in terms of their propriety beliefs.
Patrick Haack, Jost Sieweke, Michael D. Pfarrer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Screening Fundamentals

JNCI Monographs, 1997
While researchers have established the value of screening for breast cancer with mammography, with and without clinical breast examination, age-specific analyses have led to differing opinions regarding the ages and the intervals that breast cancer screening should begin.
openaire   +2 more sources

Akar dan Motif Fundamentalisme Islam:Reformulasi Tipologi Fundamentalisme dan Prospeknya di Indonesia

Wawasan, 2016
Political movements and Islamic fundamentalism emerges to respond to internal and external challenges of modernity. Islamic world is also involved in this social upheaval to establish regional strategic meaning in economy and military toward the emerging
Nunu Burhanuddin
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The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies [PDF]

, 2006
In theory, democracy is a bulwark against socially harmful policies. In practice, however, democracies frequently adopt and maintain policies that are damaging. How can this paradox be explained? The influence of special interests and voter ignorance are
Bryan Caplan
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Early Biblical Fundamentalism’s Xenophobic Rejection of the Subject in European Philosophy: How Rejecting the Knowing Subject Formed Fundamentalism’s Way of Thinking

Religions
This article is part of a wider project that addresses gaps in the scholarly knowledge of the philosophical and theological foundations of the Biblical Fundamentalism that originated in North America.
Matthew C. Ogilvie
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