Love and “Suffering for”: A Shia Perspective on Rene Girard’s Theory on Violence and the Sacred [PDF]
Religious Inquiries, 2017 When we know and recognize one another, our souls join with those of others. This is called ta’aruf in the parlance of the Qur’an. Ta’aruf increases love and unity, as it decreases violence and enmity. Knowing one another occurs in several ways.
Habibollah Babaei
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Who Is the System? On the Externalisation and Depersonalisation of Responsibility for Abuse
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the externalisation and depersonalisation of responsibility in the institutional communication of the Roman Catholic Church in the context of sexualised violence. Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems is used to show how semantic constructions such as ‘systemic causes’ rhetorically blur responsibility and contribute ...
Thomas Kron
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Friendship as Sacred Knowing: Overcoming Isolation, Samuel Kimbriel, Oxford University Press, 2014 (ISBN 978‐0‐19‐936398‐8), xvi + 224 pp., hb £35.99 [PDF]
, 2016 William C. Hackett
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Concrete in architecture: Redefining form, space, function, and insights from bibliometric analysis
Structural Concrete, EarlyView.Abstract Concrete has become a cornerstone in architectural and engineering innovation, as it seamlessly integrates structural performance with artistic expression. Its evolution from ancient opus caementicium to contemporary ultra‐high‐performance concrete illustrates its adaptability to the change in technological, environmental, and design paradigms.
Mouhcine Benaicha +2 more
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Araucaria, 2019 This article explores several key aspects of Tocqueville’s “new science of politics”. By focusing on its cross-disciplinary, comparative, normative, and political components, it highlights Tocqueville’s conceptual and methodological sophistication as illustrated by his preparatory notes for Democracy in America and his voyage notes.
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Erving Goffman at 100: A Chameleon Seen as a Rorschach Test within a Kaleidoscope
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.The 100th anniversary of Erving Goffman's birth was in 2022. Drawing on his work, the Goffman archives, the secondary literature, and personal experiences with him and those in his university of Chicago cohort, I reflect on some implications of his work and life, and the inseparable issues of understanding society.
Gary T. Marx
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Structure of Local Sacred Place and its Change on the Pilgrimage Way [PDF]
, 2006 In this research,the field investigation of "the Saigoku sacred place","the Bando sacred place",and the sacred places located around them was done.Moreover,the "fudasho" and the pilgrimage road were analyzed statistically.In addition,the clarification of
田上 善夫
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Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.In this article, I analyze my interviews with Mark (pseudonym), a social scientist who committed major academic fraud in over 50 top‐tier journal articles in the first decade of this century. I explain how stigma played a central role in how Mark and I shaped our interaction. I focus on how Mark, a former Professor and Dean with a distinguished career,
Thaddeus Müller
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“Creatures of Mimic and Imitation”: The Liberty Tree, Black Elections, and the Politicization of African Ceremonial Space in Revolutionary Newport, Rhode Island [PDF]
, 2007 The article explains how African slaves changed the colonial space of 18th century Newport, Rhode Island by transporting and preserving cultural and political concepts and codes.
Andrews, Edward E.
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