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Reinterpretation of the autonomy of art in the contemporary environment
This paper examines current status of art in society from the perspective of ‘Yin and Yang’ philosophy (Chinese Philosophy of Change) by using the...
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Theoretical Backgrounds of Public Happiness
AnyHappinesspublic happiness human being wants to be happy and thus makes efforts to be happy while living. They earn money, love, and/or hold on to...
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Beyond Altruism – The Moral Economy of Israelis Who Donated A Kidney to Strangers
Israel leads the worldwide record of living non-directed kidney donations: People who volunteer to donate one of their kidneys to people they do not...
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Fixing Up Waco, Texas: Populäre Religion, das Sentimentale und die Refiguration von Räumen
This article examines the current religious transformation processes in the Texas city of Waco as a spatial-communicative refiguration. The starting...
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Tongue Ties or Fragments Transformed: Making Sense of Similarities and Differences between the Five Largest English-Speaking Jewish Communities
The subjects of Jewish identity and Jewish communal vitality, and how they may be conceptualized and measured, are the topics of lively debate among...
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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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Faith and fandom: young Indonesian Muslims negotiating K-pop and Islam
Contemporary scholars in the intersecting field of popular culture and Islamic studies have argued for the importance of researching the ways Muslims...
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Spatial variation in literacy among the Muslim population: a block level scenario of Uttar Dinajpur District, West Bengal, India
Literacy is one of the most essential qualitative criteria for an individual’s development and the socio-economic advancement of human society....
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(Why) is the Sociology of Religion Marginalized? Results from a Survey Experiment
By several metrics, the sociology of religion subfield and its specialists are marginalized within academic sociology. Though various reasons for...
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Stairway to Heaven: LGBTQ+ Gatherings as Civil-Religious Rituals
This paper applies ritual theory to study public LGBTQ+ gatherings, including Pride parades, silent vigils, and commemorative litanies. The analysis...
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Alevitische Identität in der Diaspora: Erfahrungen von Exklusion und soziale Integration im deutschsprachigen Raum
This article explores the experiences of exclusion and social integration of Alevis in the German-speaking region. Despite being a minority compared...
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Personality Cult or a Mere Matter of Popularity?
This paper introduces a theoretical model for distinguishing between mere popularity and personality cults as there currently is an inflated use of...
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Multidimensional poverty in India: patterns of reduction across population subgroups and geographical locations during 2005–06 and 2019–21
To meet the national development goals in India on poverty alleviation and to trail the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), policy makers need to...
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The Non-religious Component of the “Jewish Enterprise”
The “Jewish Enterprise” (Mordecai Kaplan’s term) consists of all attitudes and actions, not just religious, which are held or performed by people who...
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Mythic Operators: Jean Baudrillard and the Rhetoric of Designation
This chapter focuses on the “rhetoric of designation” probed by Jean Baudrillard in reference to the media narration and informative strategies...
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I’m trying hard to fit among your scheme of things
Am Ostermontag des Jahres 1992 fand im Londoner Wembley-Stadion eines der größten und wichtigsten Benefiz-Konzerte der jüngeren Rock- und...
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On the Recent Worsening of Income Distribution among the Jewish Population in Brazil
Brazilian income distribution is one of the most unequal in the world, yet the first 15 years of the twenty-first century showed some improvement in...
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Documentary images and religious communication: the ritual transmission and functional imagination of Tua Pek Kong worship of Hakka people in Southeast Asia
Hakka is one important branch of the Han nationality in China. “Bo Gong” is a type of common local deity in traditional Hakka society. Along with the...
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Das Spiel mit dem Feuer: Religiosität, Okkultismus, Esoterik, Spiritualität und der Bezug zu nationalsozialistischen/faschistischen Ideologien im rechtsoffenen Musik-Underground
The article deals with the connection between youth/subcultures, religion and right-wing extremism. The question is raised to what extent religion...
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Is There Really ‘Another’ Counterexample to the Secularization Thesis? Religious Dynamics in Italy Between 1910 and 2013
BackgroundAmong the modern Western countries where the issue of religiosity has been studied, the United States and Italy offer the only examples of...
