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Reading Bond Films through the Lens of “Religion” : Discourse of “the West and the Rest”
Journal for Religion, Film and Media, 2019 “Religion” has been absent from the study of James Bond films. Similarly, James Bond has been absent from studies on religion and popular culture. This article aims to fill the gap by examining 25 Bond films through the lens of “religion”. The analysis
Teemu, Taira
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Human Rights and Religion: Islam in Perspective
Lectio Socialis, 2021 Though human rights exist in every religion as a concept, contemporary human rights movements blame religions for their resistance. Meanwhile, religious narratives are needed to ground normative foundations of human rights.
Muhammed Muhammed
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Tropical Fruit Improvement Project [PDF]
, 1975 Document describing a proposed tropical fruit improvement project for Latin America and the Caribbean to be headquartered at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad, and devoted to the collection, propagation, and post harvest issues of avocado ...
University of the West Indies
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Response of the West African Monsoon to the Madden–Julian Oscillation [PDF]
, 2009 Observations show that rainfall over West Africa is influenced by the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO). A number of mechanisms have been suggested: 1) forcing by equatorial waves; 2) enhanced monsoon moisture supply; and 3) increased African easterly wave
Lavender, Sally L., Matthews, Adrian J.
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Overcoming Occidentalism: The Necessity of a Cosmopolitan Solidarity
Migrating MindsThis essay delves into the concept of Occidentalism within a specific Arab-Islamic context, arguing that it represents a distorted interpretation of Western modernity and Islamic heritage. Occidentalism, in this context, refers to an ideological response
Boutayeb, Rachid
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, 2015 I argue that sunyata, or something like it, manifested itself in early Western thought. While Plato and Aristotle resisted emptiness or nothingness, they nevertheless felt themselves obliged to venture close to its edge in order to ground their ...
GRANDY, DAVID
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The deconstruction of the West: an unaccomplished task. Towards “the politics of imagining the West”
Im@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary, 2016 Despite the ambition of Postcolonial Studies to place deconstruction of “the West” at the heart of contemporary social sciences and humanities, the authority of this notion has never been so strong, and the West appears today to belong to a “natural ...
Lorenzo Casini
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Representation of the West in Imam Khomeini’s Discourse and the Continuation of Its Impact on Iran’s Foreign Policy [PDF]
Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish/hā-yi Rāhburdī-i Siyāsat, 2019 Since the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, when Iran became the center of Islamic political movement in the Islamic world, the West led by the US portrayed a hostile image of Islam and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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Foreclosure Crisis Impacts Chicago's Rental Housing Market [PDF]
, 2008 An analysis of 2007 foreclosure filings shows that 35 percent, or over 4,800 foreclosure filings, were on 2- to 6-units multifamily properties. Communities with the highest concentrations of foreclosures on 2- to 6-unit properties include West Garfield ...
Geoff Smith
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The Militarization of State as a Factor of Geopolitical Competition
Проблемы постсоветского пространства, 2017 This article analyses the conception of collision between Russia and the West. It presents the history of U.S.-Soviet relations in the context of globalization. The authors note that, despite the end of the Cold War after breakup of the Soviet Union, the
A. V. Tolochko, I. A. Zaitseva
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