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An ecclesiastical court: Christian nationalism and perceptions of the US Supreme Court

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Recently, scholars have increasingly examined the unique blending of Christian and political ideology known as Christian nationalism. During this period, the US Supreme Court has increasingly ruled in ways that favor Christian nationalism, and Court watchers have criticized several justices for showing bias toward Christianity at best and ...
Miles T. Armaly   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

(Non)belonging and (un)freedom

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This article centers on the concept of “belonging” to argue that belonging and freedom are fundamentally related, and that this relationship cannot be easily captured in formal terms alone. I contend that experiences of incomplete belonging among citizens deserve attention from political science because, in addition to their more obvious ...
Yuna Blajer de la Garza
wiley   +1 more source

Acceptability of cool roofs: a qualitative study in Nouna, Burkina Faso. [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Public Health
Bärnighausen K   +13 more
europepmc   +1 more source

God Knows Best

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Arabic phrase Allāhu a‘lam—“God knows best”—is used frequently in everyday Muslim speech and to conclude seemingly assertive statements or fatwas. At its heart lies the recognition that God is the All‐Knowing, whereas humans know next to nothing. Reflecting on this recognition, this essay discusses Sufi refusals of the ethnographic project
Amira Mittermaier
wiley   +1 more source

A Qualitative Exploration of Factors Influencing Prostate Cancer Adjustment Among Older Adults: A Social Ecological Model. [PDF]

open access: yesAm J Mens Health
Nakhodaeezadeh M   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

On 3‐MMC: A Cathinone I Have Come to Know and Love

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article attempts to complicate the mythology of a compound in a state of becoming. I will trace lightly its origins as a cultural disruptor and how I am implicated in this imperative. Introducing you to 3‐MMC will require multiple modes of storytelling and taking of liberties, drawing on literature reviews, practice‐based research, prose,
Carmen Ostrander
wiley   +1 more source

The Vicissitudes of the Nafs: Madness, Paralysis, and the Work of Transgression in Sufi Ethics

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How should we theorize Sufi ethics when the practice of zikr (remembrance) that leads to spiritual enlightenment (tazkiyya) might also bring one to the brink of majzubiyat (madness)? What forms of regulation or restraint are imagined or enacted by practitioners to prevent spiritual boundlessness from perverting into its underside of paralysis (
Muhammad Osama Imran
wiley   +1 more source

Where the Magician Lives: An Ontological Problem in the Anthropology of Magic

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The purpose of the present study is to outline a theoretical framework in which the anthropologist can introduce a naturalistic approach, which will not be conflicted with scientific discourses, into his ethnographic work. First of all, I argue that the principles of magic can be understood as a part of social cognitive causal chains, based on
Keishi Okamoto
wiley   +1 more source

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