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Religion and the state in pluralistic environments
, 2011 The political dimension of religions and their necessary relations with the state in terms of both competition and sponsorship has been frequently ignored by sociologists of religion who have instead attempted to analyse religions through the social and ...
Barbalet, Jack (R13604) +2 more
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Imagining Latin America in Australia : migration, culture and multiculturalism
, 2014 This special issue draws on a workshop organised by the editors in 2011 at the Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney. Its focus was to explore the increasing flows of people, commodities, ideas and practices between Latin ...
Rocha, Cristina (R11182) +1 more
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CTU083 : Islam, culture and religion / Academy of Contemporary Islamic Studies (ACIS) [PDF]
, 2023 This course is designed to teach the students the concept of human creation from Muslims and Western perspectives. It also defines and explains on human culture, its importance and differences among society.
UiTM, Academy of Contemporary Islamic Studies (ACIS)
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
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Delineating gender/sex‐related studies through bibliometric analysis
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract The multidisciplinary and socially grounded nature of Women's/Gender/Feminist Studies poses unique challenges for bibliometric analysis, as it extends beyond conventional disciplinary boundaries. This paper makes three key contributions: (1) We propose a novel retrieval method for constructing a corpus of scholarly documents in research areas ...
Natsumi S. Shokida +2 more
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Is Religion an Evolutionary Adaptation? [PDF]
Religious people talk about things that cannot be seen, stories that cannot be verified, and beings and forces beyond the ordinary. Perhaps their gods are truly at work, or perhaps in human nature there is an impulse to proclaim religious knowledge.
James Dow
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract This review analyzed 241 scholarly articles published between 2010 and 2025 in information science venues to examine how affect shapes refugees' information behavior during forced migration and to identify additional contextual factors. It identifies seven affective dimensions: anxiety, shame and stigma, grief and loss, frustration, (mis)trust,
Maja Krtalić, Lilach Alon
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Religion in the work of Frantz Fanon
, 2009 This thesis explores Frantz Fanon's engagement with religion, and its impact on his theories of race and racism. As a cultural theorist and political activist with strong Marxian-humanist sympathies, Fanon asserted that, as an irrational force, religion ...
Settler, Federico
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Exploring new avenues: Psychedelic‐assisted therapy for young people
British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.Rates of mental illness in young people are increasing, whereas the development of novel mental health treatments has not significantly progressed. Psychedelic‐assisted therapy, using substances such as psilocybin and 3,4‐methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), has shown potential in the treatment of mental illnesses in the adult population, including ...
Ioanna Artemis Vamvakopoulou +3 more
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‘Let's talk about the weather’: The activist curriculum and global climate change education
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Activist movements have garnered significant global attention on a range of sustainability issues, often involving collectives of citizens coming together. Invoked is the idea of citizens informed to act, emerging not from a common‐sense understanding of everyday life, but rather from a deep political understanding of the world—one that is ...
Richard Pountney
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