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Alienation, equality, and multifaith establishment

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Friction in the field: Milpa, missionary, and scales of refusal in 1960s highland Guatemala

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Religious authority in the urban mosque

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Elegance, Facts, and Scientific Truths [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv
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
arxiv  

Assembling for Water: The Prefigurative Politics of Land Futures in Argentina

open access: yesAntipode, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

How informational stimuli, formative experiences, and socialization can activate values to foster sustainable entrepreneurship engagement

open access: yesBusiness Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

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