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(PREPRINT) Dancing for the Saints in the Time of COVID-19: Responses to the Lockdown in the Texcoco and Teotihuacan Regions in Central Mexico

open access: yesEntangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2021
During religious feasts in the Teotihuacán and Texcoco regions northeast of Mexico City, people ‘dance for the saint,’ often to fulfill a vow made in a supplication for healing.
David Robichaux   +2 more
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Christians, Jews, and Magic in the Sasanian Realm: Between Confrontation and Cooperation

open access: yesEntangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2022
This essay focuses on one particular aspect of Jewish-Christian relations during the Sasanian period, namely various types of interaction between the two religious groups in the domain of magic.
Sergey Minov
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The broth festival in San Andrés Zautla: the processes of symbolization in the recreation of a tradition

open access: yesRa Ximhai, 2022
This text aims to reflect on the importance of festivals within the religious practices of Indigenous communities, as contexts for social interaction and ritual processes where diverse symbolic processes are articulated, nourishing and conveying the ...
María De la Luz Maldonado Ramírez
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ONKRAJ REDUKCIJE RELIGIJE NA VEROVANJE: ZAKAJ KONCEPTUALIZIRATI TELO V PREUČEVANJU RELIGIJE [PDF]

open access: yesDružboslovne Razprave, 2023
The paper demonstrates why reducing religion to a belief is analytically incorrect. First, we point to a social consensus that views religion primarily as a matter of belief.
Igor Jurekovič
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Online Religion as Lived Religion. Methodological Issues in the Study of Religious Participation on the Internet [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
In his article Christopher Helland proposes a more comprehensive framework for his theoretical distinction for online religion and religion online. When he developed this typology in 1999, Helland recognized a clear distinction between religious Web ...
Helland, Christopher
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“Science and Religion” Meets Popular Culture

open access: yesZygon
The field of science and religion has grown significantly in recent decades, yet its insights remain largely disconnected from popular culture, where the conflict thesis persists.
Anthony Nairn
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Prospects for a Postsecular Heritage Practice: Convergences between Posthumanism and Popular Religious Practice in Asia

open access: yesReligions, 2019
By failing to document popular belief in the supernatural attributes of religious sites and by drawing up conservation management plans that fail to attend to such beliefs, current heritage regimes effectively perform a secular translation of them.
Denis Byrne
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Living at the Edge: Religion, Capitalism, and the End of the Nation-State in Taiwan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
This is a preprint (author's original) version of an article published in the journal Public Culture in 2000. The final version of this article may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/08992363-12-2-477 (login may be required)
Weller, Robert
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Why Study Religion from a Latin American Sociological Perspective? An Introduction to Religions Issue, “Religion in Latin America, and among Latinos Abroad”

open access: yesReligions, 2019
This article introduces the Religions issue on Latin American religiosity exploring sociological perspectives on the Latin American religious situation, from a Latin American perspective.
Gustavo Morello
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