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‘Double vision’ in the interlegal: the situated pluri‐legal consciousness of British Muslim women
Abstract Legal pluralism scholarship has argued that co‐existing legal orders interact. Individuals draw on exogenous norms to strategically resist social and legal constraints. Integrating the concepts of ‘situated legal consciousness’ and ‘interlegality’, I explore how identities within intersecting legal orders influence legal consciousness. To this
SIMRAN KALRA
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More visible but limited in its popularity: atheism (and atheists) in Finland
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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Locke and Hume on Personal Identity: Moral and Religious Differences [PDF]
Hume’s theory of personal identity is developed in response to Locke’s account of personal identity. Yet it is striking that Hume does not emphasize Locke’s distinction between persons and human beings.
Boeker, Ruth
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The Challenges of Pluralism: Locating Religion in a World of Diversity [PDF]
This is a postprint (author's final draft) version of an article published in the journal Social Compass in 2010. The final version of this article may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0037768610362406 (login may be required).
Ammerman, Nancy T. +19 more
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Multi‐Temporality and the Ghostly: How Communing with Times Past Informs Organizational Futures
Abstract Despite growing interest in time, history, and memory, we lack an understanding of the multi‐temporal reality of organizations – how past, present, and future intersect to inform organizational life. In assuming that legacies are bequeathed from past to present, there has been little theorization on how this works practically.
Mairi Maclean +3 more
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Limitations and Boundaries of Government and Opposition in Light of Qur ān & Sunn āh
Until some time ago, socialism was practiced as political and economic thought, philosophy, and system in the Soviet Union and many other countries. Apparently, few moderate classes of Muslims wanted to prove forcefully that Islam is closer to socialism.
Muhammad Rafiq, Ahmad Raza
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Abstract This study asserts that the secularization theory has the potential to offer insights into the processes of social change experienced by faith groups outside the modern West. The study focuses on the transformation undergone by Alevi groups in Turkey, who are now experiencing a more modern way of life compared to their past.
Volkan Ertit
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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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Proselytism and the right to freedom from improper irreligious influence: the example of public school education [PDF]
Jurisprudentially speaking, proselytism is a concept within the larger genus of the protection of religious rights and freedoms. The word lends itself to differing opinions.
de Freitas, S
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Interpreting Humani Generis: The Evolution Controversy in the Melbourne Catholic Press, 1960–61*
From mid‐1960 to early 1961, the Melbourne Catholic weekly newspaper The Advocate carried an extended controversy on evolutionary science and its compatibility with the teachings of the Church. An intra‐denominational debate among Catholic scientists, clergy and laymen, the controversy was shaped by the theological framework of Pope Pius XII's ...
Joel Barnes
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