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A Comprehensive Revisit to the Safe‐Haven Assets Literature

Journal of Economic Surveys, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A large number of studies examine the safe‐haven characteristics of different asset classes. However, this paper addresses a lack of systematic literature reviews and bibliometric analyses with a sound theoretical viewpoint the safe‐haven assets literature by focusing on 1305 studies published in top‐tier journals during 2013–2026 from the ...
Javed Bin Kamal, Sheena Sara Suresh Philip, Md. Lutfur Rahman, Asif ur Rashid Allis   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Contemporary Debate on Secularization and Its Cross‐National Variation: A Systematization Through Topic Modeling

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Secularization is a key concept in the social scientific study of religion, yet its meaning remains ambiguous due to varied definitions produced in the literature. This article aims to provide a data‐driven systematization of the debate on religious change by analyzing 1638 academic articles published between 2001 and 2022 using structural ...
Valeria Rainero, Ruud Luijkx
wiley   +1 more source

Religio‐Racial Lines, Intimate Ties: Christian–Muslim Couples, Birth Rituals, and the Bounds of Belonging

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Building on scholarship that conceptualizes race and religion as co‐constitutive forces within a “race‐religion constellation,” this article explores how this entanglement—profoundly infused and structured by secularity—is lived and negotiated in everyday life.
Deniz Aktaş
wiley   +1 more source

Federalism in Post‐Assad Syria: Toward Durable Peace in a Pluralist Society

Middle East Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract Syria's civil war has left behind a fractured state. While the new president, Ahmed al‐Sharaa, seeks to unify the country and restore centralized governance, this appears unworkable. Instead, this article contends, asymmetrical federalism offers a pathway toward stability.
Dilan Okcuoglu
wiley   +1 more source

Iran's Forward Defense in Sub‐Saharan Africa

Middle East Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines Iran's security and defense initiatives in sub‐Saharan Africa between 1990 and 2024 and how they reflect the extraterritorial application of the regime's forward defense doctrine. In response to the long‐term erosion of its homeland defense capabilities since the Iran‐Iraq War of the 1980s—driven by infrastructure ...
Ariel Limanya Limbu, Ronen A. Cohen
wiley   +1 more source

James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”

The Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
wiley   +1 more source

A Forced Union: Exploring the Consequences of India's Removal of Jammu and Kashmir's Special Status

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article adds to academic literature interested in two core questions: What happens to residents as a result of an annexation? And how do aggressor states maintain control over an annexed territory where there is a history of insurgency and mobilization for independence?
Serena Hussain
wiley   +1 more source

Voices from the minority: Understanding the acculturative experiences of British Shia Muslims

Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Objectives The aim of this research was to understand the acculturative experiences of British Shia Muslims, with hopes for practitioners to better understand how to support this population. Design Qualitative methodology was used, utilising semi‐structured interviews. Braun and Clarke's (Thematic analysis: A practical guide, Sage Publications
Mahdiyah Datoo, Sanaa Kadir
wiley   +1 more source

Perceived barriers and pathways to religious inclusion: UK Muslim clients' perspectives on faith in therapy

Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Objectives This study explored how Muslim clients experience the minimisation or exclusion of religion in therapy and identified their recommendations for making therapeutic practice more inclusive of faith. Design A qualitative design using reflexive thematic analysis was employed to examine participants' lived experiences and meaning‐making ...
Rumena Islam
wiley   +1 more source

Decolonial Entangled Ethnographic Research: Transformative Collaborations With the UK Alevi Community Over the Last 15 Years

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The vibrant British Alevi community has settled in London and other parts of the UK since the late 1980s, constituting the largest population of Kurdish Alevis outside of Turkey. Their religion is Alevism, but they are often mistakenly identified as Turkish and Muslim, contributing to their invisibility in this country.
Umit Cetin, Celia Jenkins
wiley   +1 more source