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The Comic at the Crossroads: The Semiotics of ‘Voodoo Storytelling’ in The Hole: Consumer Culture Vol. 1

open access: yesThe Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, 2019
This article focuses on the use of religious semiology in the 2008 Black graphic novel The Hole: Consumer Culture Vol. 1 by Damian Duffy and John Jennings.
Lisa Kottas, Martin Schwarzenbacher
doaj   +2 more sources

Religious Competition, Culture and Domestic Violence: Evidence from Colombia [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2023
This paper studies how religious competition, as measured by the emergence of religious organizations with innovative worship styles and cultural practices, impacts domestic violence. Using data from Colombia, the study estimates a two-way fixed-effects model and reveals that the establishment of the first non-Catholic church in a predominantly ...
arxiv  

Community resilience to crime: A study of the 2011 Brisbane flood

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, Volume 70, Issue 3-4, Page 379-393, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Understanding and enhancing community resilience is a global priority as societies encounter a rising number of extreme weather events. Given that these events are typically both sudden and unexpected, community resilience is typically examined after the disaster so there can be no before and after comparisons.
Rebecca Wickes   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Correction: The Seven Steps: Building the DiGA Thesaurus

open access: yesJournal of Open Humanities Data
This article details a correction to: Autiero, S., Elwert, F., Moscatelli, C., & Pons, J. (2023). The Seven Steps: Building the DiGA Thesaurus. Journal of Open Humanities Data, 9. https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.111.
Serena Autiero   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Decolonizing the Study of Religions: Muslim Intellectuals and the Enlightenment Project of Religious Studies

open access: yes, 2018
The term ‘religion’ as a discursive term occupies a dominant, but neglected feature of Muslim intellectual reflections since the 19th century. Intellectuals from Muḥammad ʿAbduh (he died in 1905) to recent scholars like Naṣr Ḥāmid Abū Zayd (he died in ...
A. Tayob
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Religious Studies

open access: yesProblemos, 1978
Religijotyros sekcijoje perskaityta 11 pranešimų: „Krikščionybės kritikos pirmtakai Lietuvoje“ (J. Barzdaitis), „Marksistinis ateizmas Lietuvoje 1917–1940 m.“ (P. Mikuckas), „Marksistinės JAV lietuvių ateizmo srovės susidarymo klausimas“ (J. Sakalauskas). J.
openaire   +3 more sources

Religious literacy in the context of Theology and Religious Studies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
‘Theology and Religious Studies’ has become, in the UK, a catch-all phrase for the academic study of religion. Several universities have a ‘Department of Theology and Religious Studies’ (Kings College London, Nottingham, Leeds, Chester, Glasgow, and several others), advocacy for the field is carried out by a body called ‘Theology and Religious Studies ...
Higton, Mike, Ford, David
openaire   +1 more source

“A Little Baby is on the Way:” Botho/Ubuntu and Community-Building in Gaborone Baby Showers

open access: yesGender Studies, 2017
The expectation and arrival of a baby has always played a significant role in many societies across the globe. For simple reasons, babies are perceived as blessings from God.
Motswapong Elizabeth P.   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analyses of Religiosity. A Four-Factor Conceptual Model [PDF]

open access: yesLemos, Carlos Miguel, et al. "Dimensionality and factorial invariance of religiosity among Christians and the religiously unaffiliated." PloS one 14.5 (2019): e0216352, 2017
We describe an exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis of the International Social Survey Programme Religion Cumulation (1991-1998-2008) data set, to identify the factors of individual religiosity and their interrelations in quantitative terms. The exploratory factor analysis was performed using data from the first two waves (1991 and 1998), and ...
arxiv   +1 more source

Religious Studies in Latin America

open access: yes, 2016
This article critically reviews recent contributions to religious research in Latin America. Social scientists have long considered religion to be a structuring feature of culture and local society. Owing to the centrality of Catholicism in Latin America,
R. D. L. Torre, E. Martín
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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