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Harriet Prescott Spofford’s Development of a Protestant Aesthetic for a Diverse Nation

open access: yesEuropean Journal of American Studies, 2019
In “Charlestown,” an historical sketch from her 1871 collection New-England Legends, Harriet Prescott Spofford examines the contest between Protestantism and Roman Catholicism that shaped Americans’ understanding of democracy as well as Spofford’s ...
Paula Kot
doaj   +1 more source

An ecclesiastical court: Christian nationalism and perceptions of the US Supreme Court

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Recently, scholars have increasingly examined the unique blending of Christian and political ideology known as Christian nationalism. During this period, the US Supreme Court has increasingly ruled in ways that favor Christian nationalism, and Court watchers have criticized several justices for showing bias toward Christianity at best and ...
Miles T. Armaly   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Getting on the grid: A field experiment on bottom‐up political pressure and access to essential public services

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Water is essential for human life, yet governments frequently leave vulnerable citizens to rely on informal channels for access. What can motivate governments to provide public services such as water to citizens trapped in informality?
Nikhar Gaikwad, Anjali Thomas
wiley   +1 more source

Altar Call of Cthulhu: Religion and Millennialism in H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos

open access: yesReligions, 2019
Religion suffuses H.P. Lovecraft’s (1890−1937) short stories—the most famous of which, “The Call of Cthulhu,” has led to a literary subculture and a shared mythos employed by Lovecraft’s successors.
Benjamin E. Zeller
doaj   +1 more source

Volunteering While Researching Conflict and Violence: Reflections on Listening, Solidarity, and Decoloniality in Myanmar's Borderlands

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars working on conflict and violence often engage with local organisations, yet the methodological and ethical implications of volunteering‐while‐researching are rarely discussed in writing. This article contributes to debates on decolonizing research by conceptualising volunteering‐while‐researching as a practice that—while imbued with ...
Shona Loong
wiley   +1 more source

The Return of the Native

open access: yes, 2021
This is the first complete scholarly edition of one of Hardy's greatest novels. The Return of the Native engages ambitiously with contemporary ideas and problems of existence, and would go on to become one of the major 'Wessex novels'. When composed in 1878, however, Hardy's Wessex did not yet exist, and this edition, which is based on meticulous ...
openaire   +1 more source

Organisational dehumanisation: Authority as remedy

open access: yesEuropean Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract According to orthodoxy, the human relations movement was a watershed in rehumanising scientifically managed workplaces. In the wake of such purported reform, pundits (theorists and practitioners alike) have typically taken for granted that 21st century approaches to workplace superintendence, birthed in the wake of the Hawthorne Studies and ...
Jean‐Etienne Joullié   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Confronting philosophical objections to Chomskyan linguistics

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2005
In this paper I consider some of the most prominent philosophical challenges to the viability of Chomskyan linguistics. The challenges in question are generated by the work of Quine, Kripke and Crispin Wright.
Mark J. Cain
doaj  

The politics of resentment: what is it and how is it mobilized by populist radical right-wing parties in different contexts?

open access: yesFrontiers in Political Science
The role of emotions in politics is drawing increasing scholarly attention. Yet, despite this heightened interest, the ways in which politicians concretely appeal to emotions of their target audience are still blurry.
Koen Damhuis, Ekaterina R. Rashkova
doaj   +1 more source

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