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American Journal of Islam and Society, 2016 At 84-pages, Reimagining Malcolm X: Street Thinker Versus Homo Academicus by Seyed Javad Miri is more of a booklet than a book. In fact, like most of the 40 books on sociology and religion published by this scholar, many of which are self-published or ...
John Andrew Morrow
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Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT This work reflects on the presence of a desacralized Buddha statue in the Museum of Chinese Art and Ethnography, established in Parma, Italy, in 1901 by Xaverian missionaries. The Buddha's hollowed back is a potent trace of the transnational interactions between these Roman Catholic missionaries and folk believers from the Henan region ...
Valentina Gamberi
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“One Is a Frontier”: Settler Migration as Transmogrification
Sociological Forum, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 105-121, March 2026.ABSTRACT This paper explores the trajectories and framing strategies of American Jewish migrants to Palestine–Israel. Drawing on original in‐depth interviews with immigrants who migrated between 1976 and 2021, alongside interviews with and observations of an “aliyah” agency, it examines meaning‐making around spatial relocation in relation to the ...
Joseph Kaplan Weinger
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Salafism in Nigeria: Islam, Preaching, and Politics
American Journal of Islam and Society, 2018 The global spread of Salafism, though it began in the 1960s and 1970s, only started to attract significant attention from scholars and analysts outside of Islamic studies as well as journalists, politicians, and the general public following the September
Christopher Anzalone
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The Conservative Hold over Scottish Civil Society: Evidence from the 1854 Edinburgh Pollbook*
Parliamentary History, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 110-131, February 2026.Abstract As a carrier of influence and governance that stands distinct from parliamentary and municipal representation, civil society has been ascribed a particular layer of criticality in the Scottish example of the stateless nation. This article examines the voting choices made at the 1852 general election by those active within Edinburgh's voluntary
Graeme Morton
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Shades of empire: Evidence from Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian partitions in the Baltics
The Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 342-376, February 2026.Abstract In this study, we explore the long‐run effects of Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian imperial legacies in the Baltic region. Using a robust regression discontinuity design, we identify persistent differences in socio‐economic development across the South Livonia–Courland and the South Livonia–Lettgallia borders that emerged as a result of the ...
Theocharis N. Grigoriadis, Alise Vitola
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 77, Issue 1, Page 40-61, January 2026.Abstract This chapter examines the contours of the religious and spiritual information experiences subfield through a review and content analysis of selected contributions from the past two decades in both information science and related fields. The research question that guides this review is: How have spirituality and religion been conceptualized in ...
Nadia Caidi +4 more
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Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 3, Page 852-863, October 2025.ABSTRACT This article analyses the only Jewish girls’ school in nineteenth‐century Sweden, Sophiaskolan, and the discussions about girls’ education and Bildung that emerged within the community – including regarding Judaism's ‘Oriental heritage’. The community meetings were a male sphere in which men discussed women's role within Jewish tradition. This
Jens Carlesson Magalhães
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مسائل کاربردی تعلیم و تربیت اسلامی, 2021 This research seeks to investigate ‘the analysis of Iranian-Islamic university idea in Iran’s higher education documents’ (Islamic university document, country’s comprehensive scientific document, twenty years perspective document, and the law of the ...
Mohammed hasan Mirzamohammadi +1 more
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