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The Troubles and Beyond: The impact of a museum exhibit on a post‐conflict society

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract In divided societies, can museums contribute to healing and recovery? While efforts to memorialize past violence typically aim to promote tolerance and reconciliation, remembering could exacerbate divisions in recovering societies where the past is deeply contested. We examine a transitional justice museum exhibit in Northern Ireland.
Laia Balcells, Elsa Voytas
wiley   +1 more source

Nurslings Of Protestantism: The Questionable Privilege Of Freedom In Charlotte Brontë’s Villette

open access: yesStudia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2014
In Charlotte Brontë’s Villette, a number of foreigners at various points express their amazement or admiration of the behaviour of Englishwomen, who, like the novel’s narrator Lucy Snowe, travel alone, visit public places unchaperoned and seem on the ...
Mazurek Monika
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

The economic effects of the Protestant Reformation: Testing the Weber hypothesis in the German Lands [PDF]

open access: yes
Many theories, most famously Max Weber’s essay on the “Protestant ethic,” have hypothesized that Protestantism should have favored economic development.
Davide Cantoni
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Revisiting the Sectoral Cleavage in Canada: Evidence From the Canadian Election Studies

open access: yesCanadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT According to the budget‐maximizing bureaucrat model, public sector employees should rationally seek to increase government budgets to increase their own power. In contrast to most advanced democracies, class and sectoral voting has largely been neglected in Canada. The ideological and voting preferences of the public sector has been unexamined
Matthew Polacko   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Girolamo Savonarola: Katolik Kilisesine Eleştirileri ve Protestan Harekete Etkisi

open access: yesMilel ve Nihal
Girolamo Savonarola (ö.1498), 15. yüzyılda Floransa’da etkili olan Dominiken bir vaiz ve reformcudur. Katolik Kilisesi’nin kurumsal yapısına ve uygulamalarına yönelik sert eleştirilerde bulunan Savonarola, Floransa halkına verdiği vaazlarda, kendi ...
Özge Terzi Yazıcı
doaj   +1 more source

Religion and economy: a comment [PDF]

open access: yes
McCleary and Barro (2006) analyse whether Max Weber was right in emphasizing the religious impact on work ethic. They find a positive correlation between belief in hell and work ethic (p=0.098).
Benno Torgler, Christoph Schaltegger
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Nativist cosmopolitans: institutional reflexivity and the decline of “double-consciousness” in American nationalist thought [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Debate in the field of historical sociology on the subject of American citizenship and nationality tends to support one of two theories. The exceptionalist argument holds that American nationalist discourse has historically been based on the universal ...
Kaufmann, Eric P.
core   +1 more source

Pathogenic Variants in Mennonites From Southern Brazil: Implications for Preventive Measures in Public Health

open access: yesClinical Genetics, EarlyView.
In 325 exomes of South Brazilian Mennonites, we identified 23 pathogenic variants (P) and 27 likely P, with founder effects identified for 96% of P, whose frequencies differed from non‐Finnish Europeans, Amish, and Brazilian populations. ABSTRACT The Mennonite population has a unique history of 500 years of genetic isolation shaped by at least three ...
Luiza Beatriz Mayer de Lima   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

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