Abstract This article investigates the symbolic politics of state‐led gentrification and heritagization, focusing on how these processes serve to ‘glorify’ state power. Drawing on Agamben's political theology, Bourdieu's notion of symbolic power and space, and political heritage studies, we argue that the symbolic politics of state glorification can ...
Wouter van Gent +2 more
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Making sense of the extraordinary - An investigation of the content and prevalence of appraisals of nonordinary experiences. [PDF]
Fortes P +10 more
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The Normative Turn: Back to Hobhouse?
ABSTRACT Supporters of a recently announced normative turn in sociology acknowledge that what they recommend is by no means entirely new. However, they have given little attention to an early precursor: the British sociologist Leonard Hobhouse. He focussed on the role of the normative in social life and insisted that sociology could, and must, play an ...
Martyn Hammersley
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Tracing the origins of molecular signals in food through integrative metabolomics and chemical databases. [PDF]
Mendoza Cantu A +2 more
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Snapshots from a Fast‐Moving Train: Religious History 1960–2025
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Alexandra Walsham
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The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment
ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
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Horror Fandom, morbid curiosity, and psychological resilience amid war conflict and economic crisis among university students in Lebanon: a cross-sectional study. [PDF]
Affan R +4 more
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Saint Valentine and Epilepsy: from Medieval Devotion to Modern Global Advocacy. [PDF]
Tambourgi PV, Li LM, Sander JW.
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A Fragmented Mind: Altered States of Consciousness and Spirit Possession Between Rituals and Therapy. [PDF]
Leo DG.
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