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‘The Devil Made Me Do It’ Electus per Deus and Quasi‐Occult Crime in South Africa

open access: yesReligion Compass, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/February 2026.
ABSTRACT This study interrogates the phenomenon of ‘occult crime’ in South Africa, focusing on the perspectives of crime such as Electus per Deus, the murder of Kirsty Theologo, Hansie Cronjé, and the context behind the assumed connection between criminal culpability, mens daemonica, and the occult.
Tristán Kapp
wiley   +1 more source

ISLAMIC GOVERNANCE AND THEOCRACY

open access: yesThe Islamic Culture, 2018
ISLAMIC GOVERNANCE AND ...
Dr. Khalil ur Rehman
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¿Una distopía que supera a la ficción? El cuento de la criada como ideal del aceleracionismo. The A dystopia that comes true? The Handmaid's Tale as an axis of accelerationism. [PDF]

open access: yesDistopía y Sociedad, 2022
El aceleracionismo es una vertiente violenta del neonazismo y una de sus manifestaciones es el fenómeno de los célibes involuntarios que se caracterizan por la misoginia y por exhortar a la violencia contra las mujeres.
Eva Gómez Fernández
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PROTOCOL: Understanding the Content, Context, and Impact of Far‐Right Extremist Propaganda Disseminated Online: A Systematic Review

open access: yesCampbell Systematic Reviews, Volume 21, Issue 4, December 2025.
ABSTRACT This is the protocol for a Campbell Systematic Review. This review will address two aims: (1) A qualitative synthesis of literature on the composition of online far right propaganda, and (2) A quantitative synthesis of literature examining the impact of exposure to online far‐right propaganda on audiences. These syntheses will be guided by the
Mia Doolan, Katie Cox, Kiran M. Sarma
wiley   +1 more source

Anti-Westernism as a criterion for pretending to be revolutionary in Iran and its application as an effective tool in removing political rivals

open access: yesJournal of Geography, Politics and Society, 2019
What has been less visible to observers over more than Iran’s thirty years political events or, in other words, what was actually formed the motivation power of government system after the 1979 revolution, was located under the shadow of a vast tree of ...
Shokrollah Kamari Majin
doaj   +1 more source

On the public discourse of religion : an analysis of Christianity in the United Kingdom [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Debates over the involvement of religion in the public sphere look set to be one of the defining themes of the 21st century. But while religious issues have attracted a large degree of scholarly attention, the public discourse of religion itself, in ...
Audi   +45 more
core   +2 more sources

Theocracy Problem in Russian Scientific and Social thought in second half of 19th - early 20th Centuries

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Russian History, 2012
The article deals with the interpretation of theocracy as a form of government and socio-philosophical concept in the Russian scientific literature and periodicals in the second half of 19 th - early 20 th centuries.
A A Sakhno
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The Dialectic of Backsliding: Thinking with Habermas About Democratic Progress and Regression

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 1274-1290, December 2025.
Abstract There is widespread agreement that we are living in an age of “democratic backsliding,” in which a growing number of formally democratic countries are falling behind previously achieved levels of democratization. But on what grounds can we claim that one level of democratic development is “higher” or “lower” than another?
Fabio Wolkenstein
wiley   +1 more source

TERRITORIALIZING POWER: The Politics of Presidential Projects in Antananarivo, Madagascar

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 49, Issue 6, Page 1378-1398, November 2025.
Abstract Large‐scale infrastructure projects have become a defining feature of African urbanism. The study of the surge in infrastructure investments has largely been conducted against the backdrop of a purported ‘neoliberal global modernity’ in which cities compete to attract international investments.
Fanny Voélin, Lars Buur
wiley   +1 more source

The Obligation of Establishment of Governance and Civilian-Non Theocratic Nature of Government in Islam

open access: yesInternational Journal of 'Umrānic Studies, 2022
Governance is a religious obligation in Islam in order to maintain law and order, cater for the welfare of people, ensure justice and fair play and facilitate observance of religious duties, as religion could only be practised and practised well in an ...
Dr. Lateef KayodeADEYEMO   +1 more
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