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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Why do some women choose to submit to their husbands in marriage? In anthropology, the paradox of ‘chosen submission’ has famously been explored by Saba Mahmood. Her work amongst Egyptian women donning the veil in the Islamic da'wa movement spotlights the notion of ‘piety’ to explore how devotion to God can act as a powerful motivator of human ...
Naomi Richman
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.In June 2023, the Laje River, located in the traditional territory of the Wari’ Indigenous people in Rondônia, Brazil, was declared a legal entity, an earth being, with rights, following the co‐ordinated action of an indigenous councillor and non‐indigenous activists.
Aparecida Vilaça
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Sekularingseringstesen i religionssociologien
Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 1999 Secularization has been á major issue in sociological debates on religion. Recent developments in theory as well as in social reality seems to indicate that the future for the seularization thesis will not be as glorious as the past. The main argument in
Lene Kühle
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This essay introduces the themed cluster of articles, ‘Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI’. The advent of artificial intelligence (AI), especially in large language models capable of producing coherent discourse mimicking conversational interaction, is exerting unprecedented pressure on prevailing concepts of language, personhood, and the human ...
Webb Keane, Constantine V. Nakassis
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The Meta-Analysis of Researches on Secularization in Iran Based on Indicators Inferred from the Religious Scriptures [PDF]
اسلام و مطالعات اجتماعی, 2015 The question about occurring or not occurring of secularization in Iran after the Islamic revolution has been one of the main concerns of researchers of sociology of religion field during recent years, and it has received diverse answers from them.
Hossain Bostan (Najafi)
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The evolution of secularization theory: from monopoly to crisis
Українське Pелігієзнавство, 2008 Secularization theory is one of those intellectual products that determine the understanding of religion, its status in society, and the changes that take place between faith and unbelief, between church and state, for quite some time. Constituted in the
K.I. Shvalagina
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Aisthesis, 2022 This article investigates the relationship between secular politics and theology in Walter Benjamin’s The Origin of German Trauerspiel. It explores that question by starting from how the Weimar legal theory conceived the relationship between modern ...
Nikolaos Tzanakis Papadakis
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Perils of the Future: A Discussion of Marx’s Secularization Thesis [PDF]
Future Human Image, 2014 As both a journalist and a philosopher, Karl Marx had one eye on the present and the other on the future. This dual concern is particularly clear in On the Jewish Question, where Marx persons his theory of secularization.
Clava Brodsky
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THEORY OF SECULAR CHAOS AND MERCURY'S ORBIT [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2011 We study the chaotic orbital evolution of planetary systems, focusing on secular (i.e., orbit-averaged) interactions, because these often dominate on long timescales. We first focus on the evolution of a test particle that is forced by multiple massive planets.
Lithwick, Yoram, Wu, Yanqin
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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