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Staging the Semahs: Performing Aleviness in Turkey and Europe
ABSTRACT The semah, a genre of music and movement practices imbued with values of gender, class, age and ethical egalitarianism, lies at the core of the Alevis' ayn‐i cem rituals. Since the 1970s, processes of urbanisation, migration, folklore production and heritage‐making have facilitated the circulation of semah beyond ritual contexts, particularly ...
Sinibaldo De Rosa
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Insider/Outsider/Transsiders of Transnational Migration
ABSTRACT Migration is individually and collectively a challenging but also a transformative praxis and process. In my proposal, I present these in the context of transnational migration of two multigenerational families whose pioneers originally migrated from Turkey to Germany.
Halil Can
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This article aims to approach Sanjuanist mysticism from a queer perspective. It is not a monolithic apology to queer people, nor a treatise on mystical interpretation, but an effort to recognize and validate the spiritual experience of LGBTIQ+ people. It
Anderson Fabian Santos Meza
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ABSTRACT There is growing interest in the role of cognitive flexibility in the development of politically motivated violence and a willingness to self‐sacrifice. However, the construct of flexibility has been applied in multiple ways across disciplines, resulting in conceptual ambiguity and methodological challenges.
Sebastian Deverson +2 more
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The Wordless Mystical and the Spirituality of Belief
In our day, at least among what passes as urbane and polite company, anything short of an enthusiastic affirmation of the full range of religious expression, including none, as anything other than the manifestation of an enriching difference, and as the ...
Dudiak, Jeffrey
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Menorah Review (No. 39, Winter, 1997) [PDF]
An Interpretive Methodology With Supersessionist Forebodings -- Through a Glass Brightly: Seeing the Unseeable -- The 12th Annual Selma and Jacob Brown Lecture -- Controversy and the Dead Sea Scrolls -- Book Listing -- Jewish Civics -- Leah -- Book ...
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Abstract This article reinterprets Levinas's account of ethical subjectivity by centering the temporality of the pas encore (“not yet”) and drawing on new materials in Œuvres complètes. I argue that, in Totality and Infinity, eros and ethics are internally continuous: eros generates a responsible not yet of time, secured by fecundity and oriented to ...
Huaiyuan Zhang
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Emotions in Meaning‐Making: Toward a Sociological Theory of Cathexis
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
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When does the story end? Presence, the present and ‘the contemporary world’
Abstract We write and read ethnography in the wake of time passing: a fact that has long thrown up a host of epistemological and ethical issues for the doing of anthropology. In this essay I revisit this classic problem—the problem of the ethnographic present—asking what happens when we rethink the relationship between ‘the present’ and ‘presence’, the
Michael Edwards
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The Way to Contemplation: Encountering God Today [PDF]
Reviewed Book: Jäger, Willigis. The Way to Contemplation: Encountering God Today.
Ross, Christopher F. J.
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