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Functionaries: A Distributional Approach to Institutional Analysis

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper outlines a distributional approach to institutional analysis, reconceptualising institutions as distributions of knowledge and activity across people. We argue that institutionalisation and institutional change are best understood by focussing on actors with the requisite knowledge and motivation to keep institutional patterns going,
Dustin S. Stoltz, Marshall A. Taylor, Omar Lizardo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Decolonial limits to Henri Lefebvre's spatial revolution

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 1, March 2026.
Short Abstract This commentary appreciates Hamish Kallin's (2024) account of the prospects for reconciliation of anarchist and Marxist approaches via engaging Henri Lefebvre's work, but signals equivocation about Lefebvre triggered by his depictions of colonialism, Islam and the tropics. I argue that these are inconsistent with ongoing decolonial moves
James D. Sidaway
wiley   +1 more source

Chaldean and Neo-Platonic Theology [PDF]

, 2016
In the present paper, the meanings the term “Chaldeans” acquired during the Antiquity and the early Middle Ages are presented, but mainly the role the Chaldean Oracles played inside the movement of Neo-Platonism is emphasized. The stratification of Being
Viglas, Katelis
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Between resistance and adaptation in COVID‐19 times: The outbreak daily prevalence moderates the association between conspiracy thinking and adherence to government protocols

British Journal of Health Psychology, Volume 31, Issue 1, February 2026.
Abstract Objectives Conspiracy thinking has played a significant role in shaping public responses to the COVID‐19 pandemic and has influenced citizens' adherence to government protocols, including reluctance to receive vaccination and adherence to public health measures.
Michele Roccato, Silvia Russo, Moreno Mancosu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Law and order, magical spirits, and false flag operations: On the co‐occurrence of authoritarianism, spirituality, and conspiracy beliefs and their association with support of violent protests

Political Psychology, Volume 47, Issue 1, February 2026.
Abstract In Western democracies, commentators have noted an unprecedented diversity in protest movements opposing ecological and health regulations, including traditional right‐wing authoritarians alongside conspiracy and spiritual believers. Some of these beliefs appear to be incompatible with one another, since authoritarianism is a hallmark of ...
Marius Frenken, Roland Imhoff
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A deconstructed guru

Approaching Religion, 2018
Review of Tobias Churton's Deconstructioning Gurdjieff: Biography of a Spiritual Magician (Rochester, Inner Traditions, 2017).
Hippo Taatila
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“All women are Isis”: the figure of Isis in The Sea Pristess (1935) and Moon Magic (1956) by Dion Fortune [PDF]

, 2018
This article aims to examine the reception of the figure of the goddess Isis in two novellas by writer and occultist Dion Fortune who portrayed the Egyptian goddess from the perspective of several Greco‐Roman sources (mainly Apuleius and the hermetic ...
Sánchez Pérez, Carlos
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Women's Ecofeminist Spirituality: Origins and Applications to Psychotherapy [PDF]

, 2018
The aim of this paper is to theoretically explore the origins and possible psychotherapeutic applications of some neo-pagan, neo-shamanic, or psycho-spiritual women's movements that are currently spreading in Western countries.
Blanco Fernández, Marta, Cantera Espinosa, Leonor María, Cifre, Eva, Santamaría-Dávila, J.   +3 more
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Freedom of Scientific Inquiry and Democracy. A Systems‐Theoretical Approach

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 342-352, January/February 2026.
ABSTRACT The article examines the relationship between democracy and one of its inherent features: freedom of scientific inquiry—a multi‐layered concept closely intertwined with the broader notion of academic freedom—both of which are increasingly under threat worldwide. The paper advocates for the use of Luhmann's theoretical framework to analyse this
Krešimir Žažar, Steffen Roth
wiley   +1 more source

Reincarnation in America: A Brief Historical Overview

Religions, 2017
American theories of reincarnation have a long and complex history, dating from 1680s to the present. It is the purpose of this paper to highlight the main currents of reincarnation theory in the American context, giving a brief historical survey ...
Lee Irwin
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