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Evil in Turkish Muslim horror film: the demonic in “Semum”
The aim of the following study is to offer a better understanding of the Turkish religious consciousness. Turkey is a secular country with a Muslim...
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A governmentality approach on the transformative role of authoritarian secularism
There is a substantial body of literature that analyzes secularism in terms of the way religion is regulated. In this context, while moderate...
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Religion and secularity as supersessionist categories
This article argues that the Christian ambivalence towards the Jews throughout history lies at the heart of the difficulties liberal societies are...
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Refuge from the Bovine?
In this chapter, I discuss the shadow emigration pathways that Indians are exploiting to leave the country to escape from the political targeting of...
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Me and My Dead Body: Death, Secularism, and Simultaneity
In this chapter, thoughts around death are explored through a peer interview study with 11 Swedes. They belong to the network of the author and are...
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From Secularism to Popular Progressiveness: Popular Religion and the Creation of Telangana Regionalism
This chapter retraces a discursive reconfiguration of the relationship between the state and popular religion in the recent movement for a separate...
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The Nation Form in the Global Age Ethnographic Perspectives
This open access book argues that contrary to dominant approaches that view nationalism as unaffected by globalization or globalization undermining...
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Dravidian and Dalit Populist Cinema: Democratising the Tamil Film Space using Convictional Aestheticism
The Dravidian movement and the film space in Tamil Nadu complement each other. It is a dynamic relationship that makes an (un)intended use of...
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When Islam goes to TED: features of a postsecular storytelling on Islam in new media
New media studies on Islam are focused on investigating the characteristics of Islamic discourse or Muslim practices in digital landscape. Since...
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1 May: Muslim Women Talk Back—A Political Transformation of Secular Modernity on International Workers’ Day
1 May 2017 hundreds of Muslim women wearing the veil took part in an International Workers’ Day demonstration in Gothenburg. The Swedish modernity...
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A second demographic transition in Indonesia?
As a predominantly Muslim and ethnically diverse new democracy in Asia, Indonesia is a timely case to study how the contending forces of development...
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Church and Education in Argentina During the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
In this article, we will analyze the positions adopted by the representatives of the Catholic Church in the face of the educational policies that...
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The Malaise of Normative Societal Structuration
The crisis symptomatic of complex societies invites the scrutiny of the malaise of normative structuration in a wider sociological context. The...
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Indian Religious Populism and Catachresis
Indian official politics exhibits a populist approach, emphasizing people-centrism and creating clear enemy images, reflective of the pluralistic...
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The Left, Liberalism and Gendered Islamophobia in France, and Belgium
Since November 2020, the French government under Emmanuel Macron has decried the so-called rife nature of Islamo-gauchisme, an alleged but vague...
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Map** gendered spaces and women’s rights in the modern egyptian public sphere
This paper draws on secularisation and feminist theories to analyse the intersection between political, religious and economic factors in defining...
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Worship and culture: endogenous and exogenous factors in a local church
Since the times of Karl Marx, George Frazer and Emile Durkheim the relationship between worship and culture has been as central issue, and so it is...