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Is the Muslim Brotherhood a Sect?

open access: yesReligions
This article proposes the novel understanding of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood as a sect, going against the grain of the existing literature, which posits it as a political group, a social movement, or a religious movement (or some combination of all ...
Mustafa Menshawy
doaj   +1 more source

Religious Specificities in the Early Sultanate of Banten (Western Java, Indonesia)

open access: yesJurnal Indo-Islamika, 2015
The author examines the religious specifics of Banten during the early Islamizing of the region. The main characteristics of the process resided in a link between commerce and Muslim networks, a strong cosmopolitism, a variety of the Islam practices, the
Gabriel Facal
doaj   +1 more source

The Coptic Church in the Aftermath of the Second Vatican Council: Theological or Tactical Anti‐Judaism?

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Vatican II's declaration on the Jews, absolving them from collective guilt of deicide, marked a significant turning point in Catholic theology. Arab governments tended to perceive this development as evidence that Catholics (or Christians generally) were taking the side of Zionist Jews in the Arab‐Israeli conflict.
Amir Krispel
wiley   +1 more source

Culture and Religion [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Matthew Arnold was a deeply religious man; his training as a child insured that, but in his essay, Culture and Anarchy, shallow reading might lead to the false assumption that he had little faith in religion.
Foster, Russell
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‘Liberation’ of ‘Younger Brothers’ or Genocide of Subhumans? Genocidal Discourses on Ukrainians in Putin's Regime

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores Russia's genocidal discourses on Ukrainians, focusing on the predominant narrative that frames cultural genocide as the ‘liberation’ of Ukrainians through the erasure of their cultural identity. Existing literature tends to overlook this form of genocidal discourse, which diverges from typical ‘othering’ by instead ...
Martin Laryš
wiley   +1 more source

"A comparative analysis of the political economies and ideologies underlying the emergence of the Palestinian Hamas and the Algerian FIS" [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper examines the political-economy and cultural dynamics and discourses underlying the emergence of the Palestinian Hamas and the Algerian Islamic Salvation Front.
LeVine, Mark
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The ‘State Patriotic Turn’: State Ideology and History According to the Russian Military Historical Society, 2022–2024

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Russian Military Historical Society (RMHS) was founded in 2012 on President Vladimir Putin's orders. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the society's members have not only published propaganda to support the ‘special military operation’ but have discussed the need for a proper ‘state ideology’.
Kati Parppei
wiley   +1 more source

The price of admission: football players' sacrificial conceptions of career and health through metaphors of war, religion, and family [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
textWith the recent discovery of traumatic brain injuries developing in retired professional football players, this study seeks to explore players’ perceptions of their careers in the sport, and how this may reflect notions of personal health over the ...
Alekajbaf, Nicolette Lea
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Cheating or Competing? University Students’ Experience of AI Marketing and What It Means for AI Literacy Programming

open access: yesAnnals of Anthropological Practice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Given generative AI's rapid incursion into higher education, we examined how AI tools are marketed to US college students and how students experience AI promotions. Using a scalable action research model, we collected and analyzed 131 social media ads, 48 student interviews, and field notes compiled by three interns at student‐facing AI ...
Elisa J. Sobo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Genesis of Suicide Terrorm (supporting online material) [PDF]

open access: yes
Contemporary suicide terrorists from the Middle East are publicly deemed crazed cowards bent on senseless destruction who thrive in poverty and ignorance.
Scott Atran
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