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Know Your Lanes: Unpacking Theoretical Plurality Across Studies of Professions
Journal of Management Studies, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 1604-1636, May 2026.Abstract Professions continue to be central to understanding organizing in the 21st century. The literature on professions is segmented into theoretical conversations that offer different conceptualizations of professions and theoretical concerns. Through an analysis of the literature, we unpack four lanes – teleological, institutional, ecological, and
Ruthanne Huising, Pauli Pakarinen
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International 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
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Religion, politics, and climate‐protective behaviors: Insights on individual intentions in Italy
Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, Volume 26, Issue 1, April 2026.Abstract Climate‐protective behaviors (CPBs) aim to reduce one's carbon footprint and to engage others in climate saving. Under the late Pope Francis's leadership (2013–2025), the Catholic Church, to which most Italians belong, paid increasing attention to the planetary crisis and advocated for lifestyle changes to protect the climate.
Martino Mazzoleni +2 more
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How religion mediates the fertility response to maternity benefits
Economic Inquiry, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 508-532, April 2026.Abstract Do religious beliefs affect responses to fertility incentives? We examine a 1982 maternity benefits expansion in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in a difference‐in‐differences framework with similar East European countries as comparisons. To isolate the importance of religion, we compare women who did and did not grow up in religious households ...
Elizabeth Brainerd, Olga Malkova
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The Social Contract in the European Union's Context
European Law Journal, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 106-121, April 2026.ABSTRACT This article revisits social contract theory through a dialogue between Jule Goikoetxea Mentxaka and Antoni Abat i Ninet, questioning whether classical and contemporary contractarianism can account for structural forms of domination that precede and shape consent.
Antoni Abat i Ninet +1 more
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Reading Nietzsche in an Age of Conspiracy Theories
Modern Theology, Volume 42, Issue 2, Page 251-275, April 2026.Abstract This essay considers Friedrich Nietzsche's critique of Christian morality as a template for interpreting the epistemology of modern conspiracy theorists. The first section elucidates Nietzsche's notion of ressentiment as it can be applied to contemporary conspiracism. The effectiveness of this comparative assessment thus raises the question of
J.W. Olson
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Transnational Nationalisms Reflections on Nationalism and Territory in Globalization
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 282-291, April 2026.ABSTRACT Transnational practices redefine nationalism: a nonterritorial sense of belonging for groups and extraterritorial sovereignty for states. Territory is at the core of the analysis in both cases. For groups and communities' transnationalism leads to a new imagined community guided by an “imagined geography” that is not territorial.
Riva Kastoryano
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New paradigms and the study of religion: an anti-essentialist reflection
Religião e Sociedade, 2006 Over the last few years, there has been a heated debate among social scientists of religion whether we are going through a return of the sacred or an even deeper process of secularization. But this dilemma cannot be approached properly without a new gaze
Joanildo A. Burity, Amanda Marie Lyons
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Secularization and Its Discontents, by Rob Warner
Secularism and Nonreligion, 2012 Isabella Kasselstrand
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National Aggregates and Individual Disaffiliation: An International Study [PDF]
Using a data set of 15,000 subjects from 32 western countries, the current study examines individuals who were raised in a certain religion and at some stage of their lives left it. Currently, they define their religious affiliation as ‘no religion’.
Pablo Brañas-Garza +2 more
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