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Quaker Theology

St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology, 2022
Originating amid the religious and political upheavals of seventeenth-century England, Quakers are now a geographically widespread and theologically diverse group, often best known for their peace work and for their social and political activism ...
Rachel Muers
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Religion and violence in a globalised world

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2011
Violent religious extremism is seen as one of the mega-problems of the 21st century. This article based on a key lecture at the conference on Violence in a democratic South Africa at the University of Pretoria and the David de Villiers memorial ...
Wolfgang Huber
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Power, ethics and the possibility of nonviolence [PDF]

, 2015
In this project I focus on the question, What makes nonviolence an ethical form of political action? The shift to an instrumental understanding of nonviolence in the civil resistance literature has made it difficult to conceptualize nonviolence using a ...
Balawender, Mark Stanislaus
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Seriality and style: The embodiment, perception, and normalization of collectives

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Within existential phenomenology, both seriality and style have been drawn on to theorize the embodiment and perceptibility of (social) ontological differences. While style refers to how we encounter the world and others not in the abstract, but as immediately and intuitively meaningful, seriality is a form of collective being that pertains to
Tris Hedges
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Nonviolence in social sciences: towards a consensual definition

Revista de Paz y Conflictos, 2015
Non violence, non-violence or nonviolence? Nonviolence can be defined as a methodology, an ethical-political doctrine, a way to build peace that is oriented towards a coherent philosophy, seeking a love of knowledge, experimentation and life.
Mario López Martínez
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EXTREME VIOLENCE AND SELF-DEFENSE OF THE SUBJECT IN THE MODERN POLITICAL REALITY

Вісник Харківського національного університету імені В.Н. Каразіна. Серія Філософія, філософські перипетії
This article substantiates an integrated understanding of the subject's self-defense in situations of extreme violence. This understanding is presented as a necessary component of the methodological complex for researching society and the processes of ...
Lidiia Gazniuk, Yuliia Semenova, Olena Orlenko   +2 more
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The Media Agenda‐Setting Role of Protests in Nondemocratic Regimes: A Case Study From Hungary

Sociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how protests influence media coverage in a nondemocratic context, focusing on the 2022–2023 education‐related protest wave in Hungary. Drawing on data from the Hungarian Protest Event Database (HuPED) and a corpus of 24,029 education‐related articles across 47 online news portals, we examine how different types of media—
Pal Susanszky, Sebastian Haunss
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Transboundary Spanning in Social Movements: Organizational Structure and Antiracism in the US Extinction Rebellion Movement

Sociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper introduces transboundary spanning as a novel concept for social movement analysis. Using Extinction Rebellion (XR) in the United States as a case study, we examine the relational dynamics of social movement boundary spanning: processes wherein actors and organizations engage across symbolic boundaries.
Tobias Müller, Peter Gardner
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Overcoming Violence in Islamic Ethics: Ṭāhā ʿAbd Al-Raḥmān’s Dialogism and Moral Responsibility

Religions
Ṭāhā ʿAbd al-Raḥmān’s Suʼāl al-ʻunf (The Question of Violence) is perhaps the most extensive philosophical-religious critique of violence in Islamic ethics in the last decade.
Abdessamad Belhaj
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The Emergence of Peace and Conflict Studies: Comparing Differences in the Creation of Academic Programs With Ties to Social Movements in US Higher Education

Sociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article expands the sociological scholarship on the development of academic programs in intellectual fields tied to social movements. After briefly reviewing this literature, which has especially focused on fields like ethnic studies and women's studies, it examines the development of the smaller field of peace and conflict studies.
Elise Wolff
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