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Social Science Quarterly, Volume 106, Issue 6, November 2025.ABSTRACT Background The recent jump to study worldviews like apocalypticism and Christian nationalism has left open questions about the social role of religion in the production of prejudice and politics. Objectives We take up the longstanding finding that social contact across lines of difference can tamp down prejudice, especially when such contact ...
Paul A. Djupe +3 more
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Radical atheism and religious power: new atheist politics
Approaching Religion, 2012 The increased visibility of assertive forms of atheism has provoked much public debate. This article argues that new atheism primarily seeks to contest what it considers to be the unjustifiably powerful role of religion through a multifaceted challenge ...
Stuart McAnulla
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Respublica noumenon: Kant, Rousseau, and Plato's Republic
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 387-409, September 2025.Abstract This article examines the philosophical sources for Kant's interpretation of Plato's Republic and its impact on his conception of the ideal state. I argue that Kant's knowledge of Plato was not derived from Plato's writings, but from secondary accounts.
Michael Kryluk
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Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 50, Issue 1, June 2025.Abstract This paper brings together two brilliant analysts of social encounters, Jane Austen and Erving Goffman. It proceeds by applying some of Goffman's terms for face‐to‐face interactions to several scenes from Austen's novels in which characters try to extract information from others while preventing others from extracting information from them. In
Richard Handler
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Alcohol use in Iraq: Perceptions of interviewed students at three Iraqi universities
Drug and Alcohol Review, Volume 44, Issue 4, Page 1240-1253, May 2025.Abstract Introduction Iraq has faced decades of conflict and increased exposure to alcohol use. While the majority (60%) of Iraq's population is under the age of 24, there is no research examining their views on alcohol use and related factors. This study explores how the individual, interpersonal and social contexts of university students may ...
Mustafa Al Ansari +3 more
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More visible but limited in its popularity: atheism (and atheists) in Finland
Approaching Religion, 2012 This paper argues that atheism has become more visible in Finland, but it is a relatively unpopular identity position. The relatively low popularity of atheism is partly explained by the connection between Lutheranism and Finnishness. In public discourse
Teemu Taira
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Approaching Religion, 2012 In this paper I focus on a difficulty in our contemporary discourse about atheism. My rough thesis is that certain important problems stem from the fact that contemporary culture at large is already fine tuned with many of the crucial ‘virtues’ that are ...
Mattias Martinson
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THE LEGACY OF TOLERATION: J. G. HERDER AND MOSES MENDELSSOHN'S DEFENCE OF PLURALISM
German Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 1, Page 31-48, January 2025.ABSTRACT Moses Mendelssohn's ‘Jerusalem, or on Religious Power and Judaism’ (1783) was a milestone in the promotion of religious toleration – a principle that is constitutive for human rights in their contemporary conception. This article argues that ‘Jerusalem’ borrows from a surprising source: Johann Gottfried Herder's world history, which is ...
Yael Almog
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Reclaiming & reasserting Third World womanhoods in U.S. higher education
Higher Education Quarterly, Volume 79, Issue 1, January 2025.Abstract This study combines narrative inquiry with Third World feminism to bring a nuanced and scopic perspective of Third World women student experiences in US higher education. Specifically, it utilises Talpade Mohanty's concept of Third World womanhood to visibilise the experiences of five Third World international female students.
Bhavika Sicka
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