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Book Review: Was Hinduism Invented? : Britons, Indians, and Colonial Construction of Religion [PDF]

, 2007
A review of Was Hinduism Invented?
Fort, Andrew O.
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Taboos as Drivers for Counterculture: Normalizing Misogyny in Incel Communities and Beyond

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Mihaela Popa‐Wyatt, Justina Berškytė
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Reading Through Traces: Xaverian Strategies of Including Chinese Folk Deities’ Statues in Museum Displays and Fictions in Parma, Italy

Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT This work reflects on the presence of a desacralized Buddha statue in the Museum of Chinese Art and Ethnography, established in Parma, Italy, in 1901 by Xaverian missionaries. The Buddha's hollowed back is a potent trace of the transnational interactions between these Roman Catholic missionaries and folk believers from the Henan region ...
Valentina Gamberi
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American Idol: Should it be a Singing Contest or a Popularity Contest? [PDF]

In the very popular FOX TV reality show, American Idol, the judges, who are presumably experts in evaluating singing effort, have no voting power when the field is narrowed to the top twenty-four contestants.
J. Atsu Amegashie
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Models, Idols, and the Great White Whale: Toward a Christian Faith of Nonattachment [PDF]

, 2013
The juxtaposition of models of God and Christian faith may seem repugnant to many, as models are tentative and faith aims at an abiding certainty. In fact, for many Christians, using models of God in worship amounts to idolatry. By examining Biblical and
Hustwit, J. R.
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Using Celebrity to Advance Equality

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Alfred Archer
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Violence, Volition, and Volatility: The Embodied Subjectivity of Women in Cults

Symbolic Interaction, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 113-133, February 2026.
This paper explores the embodied experience of 25 women who are former cult members. By delving into the stories of three protagonists, we examine how these women engaged with and possibly redefined the cult's socially constructed notion of womanhood.
Shirly Bar‐Lev, Michal Morag
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Fans' self-identity crisis and reconstruction in the context of idol disgraced: Evidence for a self-identity configuration

Acta Psychologica
With the advancement of information technology and the widespread popularity of fan culture, fan communities have developed a set of complex, self-serving identity processes configuration.
Wenbo Huang, Jianquan Zhou, Xuanhong Yi, Xingwei Jing   +3 more
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Pohanský idol z Kouřimi, Česká republika
Poganski idol s Kouřima, Češka republika

Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2012
The paper considers the findings about the archaeologically detectable pre-Christian manifestation in the hill-fort of Kouřim/Kurim in the 10th century written report in Middle Bohemia.
Nad’a Profantová
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On the Myth of a General National Culture. Making Visible Specific Cultural Characteristics of Learners in Different\ud Educational Contexts [PDF]

, 2012
The concept of a few values that can characteristically explain all units of culture (Schneider, 1968, pp.1-2) within any national context generally sounds promising. In order to take design-oriented decisions on culture-specific research questions, such
Adelsberger, Heimo H., Richter, Thomas
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