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Introduction [The Sage Encyclopaedia of the Sociology of Religion]
, 2020 Religion, understood as a Eurocentric concept, has been central to humanity since systematic and organised concerns about the non-visible and the afterlife started to develop.
Possamai, Adam (R8413) +1 more
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Thresholds: The metaphorical foundations of powerful knowledge
The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper advances a theoretical account of threshold concepts as metaphorical‐relational structures that reorganise meaning across contexts. Building on conceptual metaphor theory, we propose that threshold concepts can be understood as sites of schema‐level reorganisation: deep, embodied patterns of relational logic that scaffold abstract ...
Maria Karrol +1 more
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Robert Bellah - en stor sociolog
Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2013 English abstract: Bellah, who died in 2013, was a grand sociologist. His name is often connected to the concept civil religion, a concept introduced by Bellah in a 1967-article.
Lene Kühle
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study uses the policy regime framework to examine how background conditions, institutions, and actor configurations shaped hunting rights within the forest–wildlife policy domain during Slovenia's postsocialist transformation. Drawing on media analysis, in‐depth interviews with policymakers, and legislative documents, it conducts a ...
Milan Šinko, Brina Malnar
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The role of civil society organizations (CSOs) in addressing climate change is acknowledged, but engagement with questions of voice remains limited, especially in the Global South. Addressing this, this paper zooms in on (International) nongovernmental organizations ((I)NGOs) and their collaborations with domestic CSOs in the Global South on ...
Margit van Wessel, Precious Akampurira
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Religion, civil society and conflict: What is it that religion does for and to society?
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2011 Human consciousness instinctively tries to make sense of reality. Different human interpretations of reality lead to a world consisting of multiple realities. Conflict occurs when differing realities (worldviews) encounter one another.
Jaco Beyers
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European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite the variety of populist manifestations, little research has dedicated itself to exploring this variation within and between individuals. Building on a discursive tradition, we propose that individuals meaningfully differ in how they construct the populist group of ‘the people’. Across three studies, we developed a popular inclusion and
Joseph D. Foley +2 more
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Keeping their powder dry: Purity, pollution, and handgun ownership among Jewish women in Israel
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the gendered practices through which Jewish women in Israel experience and negotiate personal handgun ownership in everyday life. Drawing on interviews, participant observation in gun‐related spaces, and analysis of women‐only online forums, we explore the expanding participation of Jewish women in civilian gun ownership,
Maya Maor +3 more
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Folklore on Kayori: An Oral Tradition about Natural Disasters in Central Sulawesi
Mudra: Jurnal Seni BudayaThe characteristics of Indonesian society are firmly attached to the image of expressing language orally, which has been done since long ago and has survived until now.
Otniel Aurelius Nole
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Revista Criterio Libre, 2018 This article presents an updated revision of the different definitions of the concept of “religion” in the social sciences. The objective of this revision was to find an analytical category that is precise, clear and sufficiently broad to ...
Jean Paul Sarrazin
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