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Emotions in Meaning‐Making: Toward a Sociological Theory of Cathexis

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The role of emotion in meaning‐making remains undertheorized in cultural sociology. This article argues that emotions and affect are intrinsic to meaning‐making and proposes cathexis—the attachment of emotions generated in social interaction to objects, symbols, and ideas—as the fundamental mechanism by which emotions co‐constitute cultural ...
Dmitry Kurakin
wiley   +1 more source

Systemic barriers to donation for African, Caribbean and Black communities: A qualitative key informant study

open access: yesTransfusion Medicine, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and Objective For many blood collection agencies (BCAs), meeting the transfusion needs of people living with sickle cell disease, a genetic condition that causes sickling of red blood cells, is a priority but also a challenge because of a lack of diversity in the donor base.
Jennie Haw   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mosque As the Center of Economic Empowerment of the Millennial Generation in Garut Regency

open access: yesIndonesian Journal of Islamic Economics and Finance
Mosques are the most important facilities for Muslims. There needs to be efforts by mosque administrators to make mosques the center of Muslim civilization, especially in efforts to empower the millennial generation.
Enceng Iip Syaripudin   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Asylum as Artifice: Race, Law and Capital as Regimes of Abstraction in the United Kingdom's Asylum Accommodation System

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Taking as its case study the category of the ‘asylum seeker’ in UK law, this paper develops on latent concerns in legal geographies with processes of abstraction. Following Bhandar and Toscano, race, law and capital are here understood as different, co‐articulating modalities of abstraction, through which the ‘asylum seeker’ is constituted and
Anna Pearce
wiley   +1 more source

Proceedings of the Conference on Emerging Economic Issues in a Globalizing World [PDF]

open access: yes
The relationship between the degree of religiosity and economic development is empirically investigated for a cross-section of all Turkish cities with municipal authorities.
Hakan Hotunluoðlu, Sacit Hadi Akdede
core  

Muslims in America: Identity, Diversity and the Challenge of Understanding [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Discusses the challenges and opportunities posed by the growing number of American communities that practice the Muslim faith, and Islam's impact in the U.S.
Sam Afridi
core  

From Mosque to Mosque, from Mosque to Museum: Moving Minbars during Restoration

open access: yesDestins d’objets
Dina Ishak Bakhoum The protagonist of this story is the minbar (pulpit) of the mosque/madrasa of Tatar al-Ḥijaziyya (Fig. 1), now housed at the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo (known earlier as the Museum of Arab Art). The story of its journey to the museum is not on display to visitors, who may assume that it directly came from its original mosque. Its
openaire   +1 more source

Evictability—A Relational Comparison: Fears, Manoeuvres and Regimes of Housing Insecurity in Rapidly Urbanising Cities

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This article develops the concept of ‘evictability’—the potential of eviction—as a lens for relational comparison of housing insecurity in cities undergoing rapid urbanisation. ‘Evictability’ has advantages over ‘displaceability’, we argue, because it does not meld residents' fears of coerced loss of home with presumptions about ruptured
JoAnn McGregor   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Mainstream Misrepresentation of Muslim Women in the Media [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
I discuss the widespread misrepresentation of Islamic women in multiple sources of media and its subsequent effects on the general population\u27s perception of this demographic as a ...
Mastro, Megan A.
core   +1 more source

EFL learning, religious faith and globalization in Indonesia's pesantren

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract Increasing global demands to teach and learn English in religious educational institutions remain high, yet little EFL research has been conducted in such contexts. Using Indonesia's Islamic educational institutions (i.e., the pesantren) as a focus of analysis, this article seeks to narrow that gap by examining the key factors driving EFL ...
Muhammad Jauhari Sofi   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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