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The Secret Society of Torturers: The Social Shaping of Extremely Violent Behaviour [PDF]
International Journal of Conflict and Violence, 2016 How do normal people become able to torture others? In order to explain this puzzling social phenomenon, we have to take secrecy – the characteristic trait of modern torture – as the lynchpin of the analysis.
Jürgen Mackert
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Secret society, secret sources?
South African Journal of Science, 2016 Iain Edwards
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University as Secret Society: Becoming Faculty Through Discretion [PDF]
Society, 2021 O'Donnell JL, Sadlier ST.
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Kereke Ya Sephiri: A Study of a Secret Society in Botswana and South Africa [PDF]
Journal for the Study of Religion, 2022 The difference between esotericism and exoterism is unlike the difference between circles and rectangles. It is also not the difference between the size and relevance of a specific body of knowledge in circulation.
Leslie Nthoi
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Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2021 In this paper, the authors argue that Franz Boas had a coherent theory of the secret society, which he did not systematically develop anywhere, but which can be reconstructed from several of his works.
Dragana Jeremić Molnar +1 more
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«It seems that we grow younger generation “oblivious of gens”…» [PDF]
Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность", 2018 Alexander Mikhailovich Plekhanov is a Ph.D in history, professor, full member of the International Informatization Academy, veteran of the KGB of the USSR, retired colonel, author of several monographs devoted to the biography of F. E.
A. M. Plekhanov
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The making of ''Black Hand'' reconsidered [PDF]
Istorija 20. Veka, 2016 This study assesses the effects of Serbian „Macedonian Struggle“ over the making of the secret society, popularly known as „Black Hand.“ Building on the existent literature, by using memoires, court records and sources from diplomatic correspondence, the
Tetsuya Sahara
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Humanities, 2023 The objective of the present study is to analyze the operational methods employed by the secret police agency (Securitate) in exerting influence and control over individuals within the Romanian communist society, as depicted in the film Metronom directed
Ecaterina Pavel
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Evolution of Secret Services in Poland. Legal and Social Dimension
Journal of Modern Science, 2023 Objectives The aim of the analyzes presented in this study is to introduce considerations on the relationship between the perception of secret services and the shape of the legal system regulating their functioning in the Republic of Poland over the last
Maciej Norbert Ciesielski
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Croyances religieuses et sociétés secrètes en pays Kôdè 1740-1890 [PDF]
Revue Hybrides, 2023 Settled at the centre of Ivory Coast towards the years 1740, the Kôdè people had itstraditional religion before the penetration of Islam in 1890. That animist people believed in the existence of a unique God which is surrounded by the other divinities ...
LAURENT KOUADIO AKOUMIA
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