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Military Commitment and Identity as Implicit Religion: A Key to Understanding the Loss of Profundity in the Transition from Military to Civilian Life

Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies
This article is based on a rare longitudinal interview study on the transition from military to civilian life in which participants shared their experiences over the course of ten years.
Jan Grimell
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The Myth of Religious NGOs : Development Studies and the Return of Religion (abstract)

Revue Internationale de Politique de Développement, 2013
In a remarkable about-turn, development studies has discovered religion and considerable attention is now dedicated to analysing religious non-governmental organisations (NGOs).
Philip Fountain
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Elementary Forms of the Metaphorical Life : Tropes at Work in Durkheim’s Theory of the Religious [PDF]

, 2014
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Asad T, Bloor D, Brown RH, Durkheim É, Durkheim É, Durkheim É, Durkheim É, Durkheim É, Fournier M, Gibbs RW, Gould SJ, Hesse M, Hunt L, James W, Jones R, Kenny A, Kuhn T, Lakoff G, Lakoff G, Levine DN, Lopez J, Lukes S, Lévi S, McClosky DN, Morphy H, Nielson D, O’Toole R, O’Toole R, O’Toole R, Pickering WSF, Smith JZ, Smith WC, Smith WR, Stedman Jones S, Strenski I, Strenski I, Urry J   +36 more
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Collaborating with transnational families: Learning from the experiences of family caretakers, educators, psychologists, and spiritual leaders in Honduras

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This manuscript centers on the experiences of caretakers of minors in Honduran transnational families (TNFs) in which one or both parents emigrated, and of the schoolteachers, professional psychologists, and spiritual leaders working with these families.
Marco Gemignani, Yolanda Hernández‐Albújar, Nerea Larrinaga‐Bidegain   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
wiley   +1 more source

‘People Need to Understand That They Are Stealing From Their Neighbours’: A Critical Media Analysis of the Representations and Resistance Throughout the Robodebt Scheme

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Robodebt scheme issued thousand‐dollar debts to an estimated half a million people who had received social security. The debts were largely inaccurate and illegal, with the aim of improving the federal government's budget. The 2023 Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme found that the stigmatising political and public language about ...
Ella Kruger, Phillipa Evans
wiley   +1 more source

Social Media, Environmental Activism and Implicit Religion: A Case Study of Extinction Rebellion

Religions
This study explores the manifestation of implicit religion in climate change activism on social media, focusing on Extinction Rebellion (XR) in The Netherlands between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2023.
Ömer F. Gürlesin
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source

Football and religious experience: sociological reflections [PDF]

, 1997
Football (“soccer”) is a central aspect of contemporary British, European and even global culture – as the build-up to big international events such as the European Championships and the World Cup shows.
Eyre, Anne
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Memory, tradition, and Christianization of the Peloponnese [PDF]

, 2015
This work examines the use of memory and tradition in the Christianization of the Peloponnese based on the evidence of the location and topography of churches.
Sweetman, Rebecca Jane
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