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“I had to open my eyes”—A narrative approach to studying the process of adult belief change
Political Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Why do people, socialized and sedimented in their political beliefs, change their convictions in adulthood? Belief change has a long history of research in the social sciences. Yet, in quantitative research, belief change is studied largely through cognitive and behavioral lenses, that, however valuable, struggle to capture how people ...
Marcel van den Haak, Kamile Grusauskaite
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Economic Origins of Witch Hunting
Studies in Business and Economics, 2018 A number of events taking place in the twenty-first century such as mass arrests of members of the Iran President Mahmud Ahmadinezhad's executive office accused of witchcraft make one doubt that witch hunt trials remained in the far Middle Ages.
Shmakov Aleksandr, Petrov Sergey
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A Second‐Order Moral Twin‐Earth
Ratio, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How to understand metaphysical disputes is a disputed matter. Within this broader dispute, deflationist approaches read some of the traditional metaphysical debates as having metalinguistic negotiations at their roots. That is, some metaphysical disagreements are read as speakers commending each other to use some concepts over others ...
Pyro Suarez
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Before the Fire Burns: Trials for Superstition, Magic, and Witchcraft in Sixteenth-Century Bologna
ReligionsThis article investigates the factors that provoked the trial and death sentence of four witches in Bologna in 1559. That is, it aims to elucidate how a witch hunt (albeit a small one) was triggered in a context where demonology was present, but the ...
Guido Dall’Olio
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The archaeology of counter-witchcraft and popular magic [PDF]
, 2018 Brian Hoggard
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From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
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Naomi Mitchison’s we have been warned (1935) in post-referendum Scotland [PDF]
, 2016 Mitchison weaves a realist political novel about the lives of two upper-middle class women in 1930s Britain with abstract forays into Scottish folklore as the kelpies follow the sisters, haunting their modern activities. Sometimes the dialogue is stilted,
Mcfarlane, Anna
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MEDICINE AND WITCHCRAFT IN THE DAYS OF SIR THOMAS BROWNE [PDF]
, 1905 J. F. Knott
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This essay demonstrates how a gender‐informed, more‐than‐human lens can provide new ways to analyse how the role of a queen in forestry management was conceptualised by sixteenth‐century professional men. It explores these ideas as they are presented in a work published by Guillaume Martin, Lieutenant General of the forests and waterways of ...
Susan Broomhall
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