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Kant on Bullshit Jobs—Mere Means and True Means
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Following David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs, there has recently been academic and public discussion about useless work. Immanuel Kant maintains that we ought to be means for others and that there is a duty to be useful. Graeber and Kant are both concerned with a form of harm often overlooked in contemporary ethics and political philosophy, namely,
Martin Sticker
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Religion and Use of Institutional Child Delivery Services: Individual and Contextual Pathways in Mozambique. [PDF]
Int Perspect Sex Reprod Health, 2019 Cau BM, Agadjanian V.
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The Journal of Popular Culture, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) has generated a long afterlife across global media, extending from literature to theater, film, and fandom. Its Korean musical adaptation, Dorian Gray: A New Musical (2016), illustrates how queer aesthetics are reconfigured under the logics of commercial entertainment and cultural export.
Di Cotofan Wu
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Religion Affects Whether US Women Marry Early, Without Cohabiting or Having a Nonmarital Birth First
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent US cohorts, premarital sex is ubiquitous, and cohabitation typically precedes marriage. Yet many religions discourage premarital sex, which implies disapproval of cohabitation or premarital birth. Using a discrete‐time event history, we assess how religious denomination, frequency of religious service attendance, and a rich set of ...
Man Xu, Paula England
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Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Previous studies provide mixed empirical support for White's thesis that Christianity has contributed to the ecological crisis. This study aims to add nuance to White's thesis by examining different aspects of Christianity within the secularized context of the Netherlands.
Nienke P. M. Fortuin, Carl Sterkens
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Religion and Black/White Residential Segregation: The Influence of Religious and Regional Context
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Research on religious tradition and residential segregation focuses on “open” versus “closed” civic orientations, but ignores the structural effects of religious fields as well as other relevant differences, such as Catholic immigrant parishes and the communal role of Black Protestantism in response to racial hostility in large northern cities
David Sikkink, Michael Emerson
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The Reputational Configuration and Dynamics of Christian Churches in Switzerland
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how the reputation of Christian churches is configured, and which sociodemographic variables and experiences (personal or mediated) relate to it. It provides in‐depth insights into how the Swiss population evaluates Roman Catholic, Reformed Protestant, and Evangelical churches on the basis of various theories, such as ...
Rebekka Rieser +2 more
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[Hegemonies, subalternities, and possible counter-hegemonies: The case of traditional medicine of Indigenous peoples in Mexico]. [PDF]
Salud ColectMenéndez EL.
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