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The Psychological Pathways to AI Resistance: Religiosity, Populism and Anxiety as Predictors of AI Engagement

open access: yesInternational Journal of Psychology, Volume 61, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how religiosity affects individuals' intentions to engage with artificial intelligence (AI) using a non‐WEIRD sample (N = 422). We examined populist beliefs and AI‐related anxiety as mediators in this relationship. Results indicate that higher religiosity is associated with stronger populist attitudes, which increase AI
Zeynep Aytaç   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Secularization, Evolution, and Politics [PDF]

open access: yesPolitics, Religion & Ideology, 2016
ABSTRACTThis article proposes three evolutionary games to study secularization. The games assume that there is a severe competition for a resource defined as the material wealth a society produces. Successful strategies emerge out of the process, become the authority, capture and allocate the resource. Individuals who prefer a heavier or lighter weight
openaire   +3 more sources

Disintegration, Salvation, and/or Madness in Dostoevsky

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, Volume 23, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Psychological fragmentation and derangement suffuse Dostoevsky's fiction. This paper argues that the madness of Dostoevsky characters derives from intense wounds to the self: humiliating lacerations that impel fugue and disintegration. Such vulnerable, frangible characters seek to escape and deny themselves to avoid being seen for who they are.
Jerry Piven
wiley   +1 more source

Early Occupational Outcomes of University Graduates in Italy. A ‘Centre–Periphery’ Geographical Approach

open access: yesPopulation, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT The diversification of young people's life trajectories in Europe over the past 50 years has been significantly influenced by more uncertain social and economic conditions, marked by high youth unemployment and increasing job insecurity. In Italy, precariousness has propagated unevenly across regions and social strata, particularly affecting ...
Francesca Tosi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sekularyzacja jako megatrend społeczno-kulturowy

open access: yesRelacje Międzykulturowe, 2017
Secularization as Sociocultural Megatrend The article deals with the widely discussed issue of the phenomena of secularization and desecularization under conditions of diffusion of religious pluralism. New forms and functions of “returning” religiousness
Janusz Mariański
doaj   +1 more source

“We Represent a Definite Social Class”: The Class Identities and Resources of American Religious Groups in the Roaring Twenties

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, Volume 77, Issue 2, Page 372-391, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Class identity is a crucial sociological concept, but is only ever measured at the individual level. In this paper, we ask: do groups have class identities? And do those class identities correspond with material resources? To answer these questions, we examine data from 31 of the most prominent American religious denominations in the early ...
Tessa Huttenlocher, Melissa Wilde
wiley   +1 more source

How to Be Hopeful About Climate Change

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 148-158, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Why do people in climate‐vulnerable regions of Kenya and Namibia express more hope for the future than many in Germany, despite facing greater environmental threats? Drawing on ethnographic research and the philosophy of Gabriel Marcel, we make two arguments.
Julian Sommerschuh, Michael Schnegg
wiley   +1 more source

The Church and its Churches between Polis and Civitas

open access: yesIn_Bo
The aim of the paper is to deal with the question of the form of Catholic places of worship in the current secularization process phase, and with special reference to the Italian case and once assumed a sociological perspective.
Luca Diotallevi
doaj   +1 more source

The Social Truth of Schopenhauer's ‘Metaphysics of Pity’: Compassion and Critical Theory

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 79-95, March 2026.
Abstract Taking Horkheimer and Adorno's account of pity in the Dialectic of Enlightenment as my starting point, I show that Schopenhauer's compassion‐based moral theory exemplifies key elements of this account. In particular, this moral theory will be shown to possess a social truth for Horkheimer and Adorno because it is an expression of a wrong ...
David James
wiley   +1 more source

Immigrants’ Changing Religiosity: The Case of Spain

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 29-48, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This article analyzes changes in religiosity of the migrant–origin population in Spain. Using data from the Spanish General Social Survey (ESGE) from four different years between 2013 and 2023, we compare people with migrant background with respect to the native‐born population in terms of religious affiliation (vs.
Jacobo Muñoz‐Comet   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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