The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
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Demographic differences are associated with temporal variation in cardiac and electrodermal interpersonal synchrony. [PDF]
Sci RepOhayon S, Erez C, Gordon I.
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How task-sharing in abortion care became the norm in Sweden: A case study of historic and current determinants and events. [PDF]
Int J Gynaecol Obstet, 2020 Endler M +3 more
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Twenty‐First Century Butlers and the New Spirit of Service
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT More than 50 years ago, Lewis Coser argued that the “servant” had become obsolete, claiming that such a “premodern” occupation could not function within modernity without religious legitimations. However, with parts of the contemporary service sector exhibiting the very characteristics that Coser viewed as “premodern”—especially within ...
Bryan Boyle
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Secularity, abortion, assisted dying and the future of conscientious objection: modelling the relationship between attitudes. [PDF]
BMC Med Ethics, 2019 Magelssen M, Le NQ, Supphellen M.
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BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics &Gynaecology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective The Guidance for International Growth Standards (GIGS) project aims to improve and promote appropriate application of international growth standards across clinical, research and public health settings. Design A guidance document providing historical and conceptual context to support the appropriate application of international ...
Eric O. Ohuma +4 more
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Articulations of 'Funeral' in Swedish Newspapers During the Covid-19 Pandemic. [PDF]
Omega (Westport)Jarnkvist K.
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The legal and institutional framework for the protection of religious rights in Nigeria and the right to wear Hijab in public institutions. [PDF]
F1000Res, 2023 Elikwu CM, Olujobi OJ, Yebisi ET.
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De Stupro: First Insights on Rape and Its Prosecution in Maltese Courts (1701–10)
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article constitutes a first in‐depth investigation of rape and the prosecution of this crime in early eighteenth‐century Malta. The research, which is based on sixteen rape accusations claimed at the secular courts in Malta between 1701 and 1710, has analysed cases categorized as ‘simple rape’, ‘violent rape’ and rape committed under the ...
Vanessa Buhagiar
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Greek ΜΝΗΣΘΗ and Aramaic DKYR in the Near East: A Comparative Epigraphic Study
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Past studies of graffiti containing the word ΜΝΗΣΘΗ have never fully established its intrinsic meaning. However, due to the existence of the Aramaic term DKYR, which carries a seemingly identical meaning to ΜΝΗΣΘΗ, in similar contexts in the Roman Near East, a comparison between both words is possible. Four distinct sites where the coexistence
Sebastien Mazurek
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