Teaching New Religious Movements Historically: Distance, Empathy, and Cults in the Classroom
ABSTRACT Resistance to understanding the beliefs of modern New Religious Movements (NRMs) is well‐known to those who teach in the area. This paper builds on Eugene Gallagher's repurposing of “methodological belief” for college classes on NRMs by suggesting that scholars and teachers in the field of religious studies engage methods and content drawn ...
Douglas FitzHenry Jones
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Inter-Religious Communication, Religious Radicalization and Security Issues
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Narrating Entanglement Without Dehumanisation in Contemporary Eco‐Fiction
ABSTRACT This essay presents a comparative analysis of two contemporary works of eco‐fiction, Richard Powers's The Overstory (2018) and Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood (2023). Both novels use multiperspective narration in the service of entanglement narratives, forms of storytelling that emphasise the interconnection of human and nonhuman life.
Diana Rose Newby
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ABSTRACT This paper presents a close‐hearing analysis of Forest 404, a transmedial audio drama that was released to BBC Sounds in 2019. Despite the drama's eco‐dystopian critique of teleological ‘progress’ narratives (that enable and perpetuate the destruction of the natural world), I argue that the series ultimately propagates a sense of inevitability
Matilda Jones
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From Withering to Flourishing: Repairing Academia Through Holistic and Sustainable Care Practices
ABSTRACT We are scholars and educators committed to embracing care while working within colonialist, neoliberal, and performative academic environments, and we are withering. Our withering is balanced against our inner strength, a fierce belief in connection and community, and a commitment to harnessing the power of transformation.
Amy L. Kenworthy +6 more
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Spinoza y el Spinozismo en la Ilustración Occidental: los últimos giros de la controversia [PDF]
This article seeks to outline the main elements in the historiographical controversy over the significance of ‘Spinozism’ as an eighteenth-century Enlightenment category and the validity or otherwise of the concept of ‘Radical Enlightenment’ as well as
Israel, Jonathan
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RELIGIOUS MODERATION AS A PREVENTIVE MEASURE AGAINST RELIGIOUS RADICALISM
This article aims to describe that religious moderation is a preventive measure against religious radicalism. This research is a type of library study. The data collected in this research is qualitative data. The results of this research indicate that the city of Bandung needs a comprehensive concept of religious moderation to overcome the problem of ...
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Women's Communities in Strengthening Community Resilience Against Radical Ideologies in Solo Raya
Criminal acts that are a threat to every country. Many cases of radicalism are inseparable from the role of women as targets of preaching, others are housewives who do not have sufficient religious knowledge from their families. The purpose of this study
Suprapti, Anisatul Barokah
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Karl Polanyi in Budapest: On his political and intellectual formation [PDF]
Copyright © Archives Européennes de Sociologie 2009.A major thinker and inspiring teacher, Karl Polanyi's contributions have long been influential in a variety of disciplines, notably economic sociology and economic history.
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God\u27s Designs: The Literature of the Colonial Revival of Religion, 1735-1760
In December of 1990, after the completion of a section on Jonathan Edwards at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in New York City, a dozen or so of mostly younger scholars of Jonathan Edwards swept around the corner from the ...
Guelzo, Allen C.
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