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From Occupational Stigma to Mukti: Liberation, Place, and Agency Among Sex Workers in Sonagachi
Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how former sex workers in Sonagachi, Kolkata, India, navigate occupational and place‐based stigma through spiritual repertoires, of which mukti (liberation) is a central tool. Drawing on critical, embedded ethnography across three fieldwork periods (2001, 2011, and 2019) with long‐term engagement in the Freeset community,
Edwina Pio +3 more
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The Place of History in British Criminology: 20th‐Century Developments
Sociology Lens, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 16-30, March 2025.ABSTRACT While the relevance of historical research and analysis for the development of a critical criminology in the United States in the 1970s has recently received some attention by historical criminologists, the place of history in British criminology—and British critical criminology in particular—remains a largely unexplored area of academic ...
Roberto Catello
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Why Are Young Men Increasingly Drawn to Christianity? A Study of Finnish Young Men
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recent surveys in the Global North suggest a possible reversal in established gender patterns of religiosity, with young men increasingly engaging with Christianity. This study examines this development in Finland, a highly secular country, drawing on qualitative individual and small‐group interviews with 30 men attracted to Christianity.
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DARWIN AND THE HINDU TRADITION: “DOES WHAT GOES AROUND COME AROUND?”
Zygon, 2011 . The introduction of English as the medium of instruction for higher education in India in 1835 created a ferment in society and in the religious beliefs of educated Indians—Hindus, Muslims, and, later, Christians.
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, 2020 Jarillo et al.’s attempted refutation of Malinowski’s claims as to Trobrianders’ “universally” shared belief in baloma reincarnation fails. Contrary to their claims, Malinowski’s “Baloma” article (1916) documented wide, often contradictory variation in ...
Mosko, Mark S., Mark S. Mosko
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Towards a Responsible Liberalism
Kyklos, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Liberalism has many faces, ranging from that which emphasises the laissez‐faire approach of freedom from interference to the interventionist perspective on providing the conditions for people to exercise their liberty. In this essay, after summarising the arguments made by four prominent liberal scholars (namely, Keynes, Hayek, Buchanan and ...
Adam Oliver
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Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Examining work by Rowan Williams, this essay explores what he often refers to as the ‘difficulty’ of writing theology. The difficulty of theology lies in engaging the ruse of having ultimate answers to ultimate questions. The stakes are high: ‘God‐talk’ must concern itself with truth, with reality.
Graham Ward
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Metempsychosis & Reincarnation
, 2021 A flower's beauty does not last forever; the leaves wilt, and the petals fall to the ground until next season when the cycle begins. The moment a flower blooms is the beginning moment it starts to fade away.
Guan, Kerry Yichen
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A Critical Study of Professor Fayyazi’s Objections to Ibn Sīnā’s Arguments for the Impossibility of Bodily Reincarnation (Tanasukh Mulkī) [PDF]
حکمت سینویThroughout the history of philosophy, the doctrine of reincarnation has been proposed as a way to explain the reward or punishment of human actions and the longing for immortality. According to this view, after death the human soul transmigrates into the
Mahmud Saidi, Kukab Darabi
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Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Orthodox Christian theology in general prides itself on bearing the mantle of patristic thought. Orthodox theological anthropology is no different, often drawing on Greek patristic sources in presenting its vision of the human being. Yet Orthodox anthropology can also broadly be categorized as personalist in ways that are not necessarily so ...
Alexis Torrance
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