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How moral values underpin and affect attitudes on ethnic discrimination

open access: yesPolitical Psychology, Volume 47, Issue 5, October 2026.
Abstract When political elites and activists promote anti‐discrimination policies, they often frame discrimination as violating liberal moral values such as fairness, care for vulnerable groups, and equality. However, this approach may fail to resonate with conservative voters and could even alienate them.
Ida Bruun Nørregaard
wiley   +1 more source

Boredom, despondency, and the scourge that lays waste at noon: an anthropology of acedia Ennui, abattement et le fléau qui frappe à midi : une anthropologie de l'acédie

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 946-964, September 2026.
Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
wiley   +1 more source

Why do Public Debates Escalate? Trigger Points and the Moral Dynamics of “Hot Politics”

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, Volume 77, Issue 4, Page 701-712, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Escalating, emotionally charged, and moralized forms of controversy are a central feature of contemporary politics. Our study develops a framework for understanding how political debates between ordinary citizens become heated; why certain issues provoke particularly strong emotions; and how this affective potential is weaponized by ...
Linus Westheuser   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Meta: Religion and Its Study in a Time of Crisis

open access: yesReligion Compass, Volume 20, Issue 5, September/October 2026.
ABSTRACT The academic study of religion in the United States is in crisis as departments close and tenured faculty are terminated. Simultaneously, we are witnessing not only an unprecedented alliance between religion and politics at the federal level, but the turning of many non‐religion scholars, journalists, and public intellectuals to religion as ...
Valerie Stoker
wiley   +1 more source

Nutritional Characterization of Selected South African Indigenous Seed Flours and Their Impact on Bread Baking Performance

open access: yesJournal of Food Science, Volume 91, Issue 8, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Diets based predominantly on refined cereal staples are associated with inadequate intake of high‐quality protein and essential micronutrients. This study evaluated five underutilized South African indigenous seed flours, Lowveld chestnut (Sterculia murex), marula (Sclerocarya birrea), forest mahogany (Trichilia dregeana), Natal mahogany ...
Karen de Jager   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Revealed Relatedness: Mapping Industry Space [PDF]

open access: yes
In this paper we measure technological relatedness between industries using a dataset on product portfolios of plants. For this purpose we first develop a general methodology to extract data on co-occurrences of classes (e.g.
Martin Svensson Henning, Frank Neffke
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"Be holy to me, for I the Lord am holy": an investigation of holiness in the Hebrew Bible

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This dissertation is an investigation of the concept of holiness in the Hebrew Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls. The “holy” in biblical scholarship has often been approached in terms of the "divine" This can be ontological; holiness is described as a ...
Calderbank, Anne
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An effective, low-cost measure of semantic relatedness obtained from Wikipedia links [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This paper describes a new technique for obtaining measures of semantic relatedness. Like other recent approaches, it uses Wikipedia to provide structured world knowledge about the terms of interest.
Ian H. Witten   +3 more
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Bringing artifacts (back) to life

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, Volume 53, Issue 3, Page 268-282, August 2026.
Abstract Museums’ ethnographic collections can be conceptualized as affective forces—relational intensities that emerge between human and more‐than‐human actors, unfold over time, and are embedded in and co‐shape sociomaterial environments. Drawing on debates in the anthropology of objects and political ontology, I develop this perspective through long‐
Hansjörg Dilger
wiley   +1 more source

Technological relatedness and regional branching [PDF]

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The relatedness between the technologies used among firms in a region is thought to affect the nature and scope of knowledge spillovers. In this paper, we set out how the concepts of technological relatedness and related variety have enriched recent ...
Koen Frenken, Ron Boschma
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