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Changing Britain: whilst the non-religious are growing, new religious life is flourishing in urban areas [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Grace Davie’s 1994 book Religion in Britain Since 1945 has been one of the leading resources in the field of the Sociology of Religion. A revised edition, published in 2015, describes the religious situation in twenty-first century Britain, taking into ...
Davie, Grace
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Making care audible: Musical gifts and affective reciprocity in the clinic

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract In clinical settings, music therapy is frequently received as a gift—a voluntary offering that invites but does not demand participation. Drawing on ethnographic research with music therapists and patients in Canadian and American hospitals, this article examines how clinical care is co‐constituted through practices of giving, receiving, and ...
Meredith Evans
wiley   +1 more source

Football and religious experience: sociological reflections [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
Football (“soccer”) is a central aspect of contemporary British, European and even global culture – as the build-up to big international events such as the European Championships and the World Cup shows.
Eyre, Anne
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Developing a Typology of Korean Women Leaders' Resistance to Their Token Status in the Workplace

open access: yesHuman Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite remarkable economic development in South Korea (Korea), there are only a few women leaders, and they face challenges in the gendered workplace where organizational constraints and traditional values coexist. In a reanalysis of narratives of Korean women leaders (KWLs), using an ideal‐type analysis as a novel qualitative research method,
Yonjoo Cho   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Caste as a Social Kind

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gender and race have received significant philosophical attention recently; they are the paradigm cases of social kinds in most philosophical accounts. I argue for the inclusion of caste as a social kind because it affects the lives of many people, and because it presents itself as an important test case for philosophers of social kinds.
Ajinkya Deshmukh
wiley   +1 more source

Economy as a religious problem: A political approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This article tackles the problem of understanding money and economy with non-economic analytical categories. The first part is devoted to point out the differences between the exclusively economic approaches to money and the recent research, from ...
Ludueña, Fabian Javier
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Turning Down Mum's Cooking: The Ethics of Dietary Difference within Families

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although food ethicists have called for greater attention to the relational context of eating for over a decade, the context of ‘eating with family’ remains largely ignored. But the family is both a morally specific relational context and one within which many people do most of their eating.
Megan A. Dean
wiley   +1 more source

Sociology of religion [PDF]

open access: yesSociopedia, 2013
Durk Hak, Lammert Gosse Jansma
openaire   +2 more sources

Yes, Friendship and Love Can Be Bought and Sold

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Can friendship and love be bought and sold? I argue yes, contrary to philosophical consensus. The prevailing view rests on the common error of over‐reliance on idealized conceptions of friendship and love that bear little resemblance to actual relationships.
Simone Sommer Degn
wiley   +1 more source

Antropologia filosòfica i literatura: la religió en la novel·la de L. Tolstói 'Resurrecció' (1899) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
: In first place the text sets out the importance of the abundant and very little-known Tolstoi’s essays. After doing that, it justifies the study of the religion in his works; especially on account of the documented effect it had on two great ...
Llinares Chover, Joan B.
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