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Insider/Outsider/Transsiders of Transnational Migration
ABSTRACT Migration is individually and collectively a challenging but also a transformative praxis and process. In my proposal, I present these in the context of transnational migration of two multigenerational families whose pioneers originally migrated from Turkey to Germany.
Halil Can
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Burying Futures: Artisanal Mining Deaths and the Politics of Negligence in Zimbabwe
ABSTRACT In the gold‐mining town of Kwekwe, central Zimbabwe, injury and death are a constant presence. Collapsing shafts, sudden explosions, gang fights, and neglected health infrastructure characterize the everyday lives of the town's impoverished residents.
Melusi Nkomo
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An Interesting Study on the Religious Syncretism in the Bulgarian Rhodopes
The Book of the Polish Ethnologist and Anthropologist Dr. Magdalena Lyubanska Muslims and Christians in the Bulgarian Rhodopes. Study on Religious (Anti) Syncretism (Lubanska, Magdalena, 2015. Studies on Religious (Anti) Syncretism, eBook by Gruyter Open
Nonka Bogomilova
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Norm Circles and the Limitations of European Union Normative Projection in Afghanistan
ABSTRACT Norm diffusion research explains the international travel of norms in semantic terms, through resonance, framing, grafting and localisation. Such accounts presuppose norms to be portable objects whose identity persists through transit. Yet, ontologically, norms exert causal force only where a real social group endorses and enforces them.
Oz Hassan
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Syncretism and indigenisation in the newer Pentecostal and charismatic churches in South Africa
Background: Syncretism is a complex subject that represents the combination of more than two religious belief systems with fundamental differences. Objectives: This article aimed to contrast the syncretistic views on the newer Pentecostal and charismatic
Mookgo S. Kgatle
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Belief and the beast: Religion and attitudes towards tigers in Central India
Abstract Human perceptions of wildlife are critical to shaping conservation outcomes, particularly in landscapes where people coexist with large carnivores. Religion, a deeply rooted sociocultural force, remains underexplored in the context of human–wildlife conflict.
Sathvika Krishnan +4 more
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Speaking of syntheses or mixtures of religious traditions without taking into account the ontologies that operate in them leads to certain mistakes. In this paper I suggest that popular forms of Cuban spiritism (espiritismo) offer a genuine “anthropology”
Diana Espirito Santo
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Multifunctional Affixes in Formal Approaches
ABSTRACT Multifunctional affixes are affixes that occur in different structural or morphosyntactic environments and are associated with different functions or interpretations in those environments. We begin by presenting the theoretical puzzles raised by such affixes.
Stefan Milosavljević +2 more
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When applied to Pentecostalism in Zimbabwe, the concept of cultural hybridity provides a framework for understanding how global religious movements can adapt to and incorporate local cultural elements.
Francis Marimbe
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Theory of religious cycles and its application to interreligious dialogue and trans-religious theology [PDF]
The application of my theory of religious cycles to the development of inter-religious and transreligious thinking is twofold. First, it goes beyond the uni-religious approach and claims to religious exclusivity, by viewing different spiritual traditions
Mikhail Sergeev
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