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Alienation, equality, and multifaith establishment
Abstract Religious establishment today often takes a multifaith form, whereby multiple religions are supported in different ways and to different degrees. In order to contribute to the development of a normative framework for assessing practices and regimes of multifaith establishment, this article recommends the concept of “social alienation ...
Andrew Shorten
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A Century's Change in Religion. George Harris. The Houghton Mifflin Co.1914. - Modern Theology and the Preaching of the Gospel. William Adams Brown. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1914. [PDF]
W. W. Fenn
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Friction in the field: Milpa, missionary, and scales of refusal in 1960s highland Guatemala
Abstract This article takes a scalar view of “friction” (Tsing 2005) and “refusal” (Ortner 1995) between ethnography and the archive. The concept of friction was originally formulated in the context of a globalizing world, but friction's perception and experience are highly local.
Mallory E. Matsumoto
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David Hume and His Influence on Philosophy and Theology. [PDF]
George H. Sabine, James Orr
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Religious authority in the urban mosque
Abstract In Eastern Indonesia, young male Islamic activists articulate a notion of religious authority that reorients community life toward neighborhood mosques. By providing local communities with Qur'anic classes and religious services, these activists—affiliated with Indonesia's largest Salafi organization—have created a network of spaces in which ...
Chris Chaplin
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Elegance, Facts, and Scientific Truths [PDF]
I argue that scientific determinism is not supported by facts, but results from the elegance of the mathematical language physicists use, in particular from the so-called real numbers and their infinite series of digits. Classical physics can thus be interpreted in a deterministic or indeterministic way. However, using quantum physics, some experiments
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Assembling for Water: The Prefigurative Politics of Land Futures in Argentina
Abstract As in other areas of Argentina, residents from the Norte Neuquino in the northwestern reaches of Patagonia are concerned about the recent advancements of extractivism onto their territories. Their analysis is clear: the environmental crisis is directly linked to a democratic one, and they engage in a wide range of actions to envision and enact
Mattias Borg Rasmussen+1 more
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Abstract Research has shown that specific individual values, such as green and environmental values, are important in motivating the decision to start a sustainable business. Beyond this finding, there is limited knowledge about why, how, and when such values become important and what this means for sustainable entrepreneurship engagement.
Christina Novak Hansen, Rolf Brühl
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