the cosmos to be inhabited by multiple human and non-human societies, bound together by asymmetric power relations. Due to the brightness of many of its manifestations, the celestial space is seen as an environment populated by quite powerful, fecund
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The Chaco Skies
A Socio-cultural History of Power Relations
Alejandro Martín López and Agustina Altman
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2017
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- Research Article
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- 62–78 (17 total)
The Religious Foundations of Capoeira Angola
The Cosmopolitics of an Apparently Non-religious Practice
Sergio González Varela
, as Cobra Mansa told me, capoeira was not only an art but also a form of survival skill to help face a hostile social environment. Although today this hostile environment has changed to some degree, the deceptive attitudes that capoeira leaders embody
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2017
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- Research Article
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- 79–93 (15 total)
Stacy M. K. George
the Tea Party utilizes religion. In addition to establishing a moral foundation built on conservative Christian principles, the TP movement is able to create a situational environment (as described by IR theory) based on religious symbols, emotional
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2018
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- 39–51 (13 total)
Introduction
War Veterans and the Construction of Citizenship Categories
Nikkie Wiegink, Ralph Sprenkels, and Birgitte Refslund Sørensen
struggles to argue for a wider conceptualization of citizenship negotiations in African contexts to include the institutional environments and particular histories of the actors involved. Combined, the articles in this special section contribute to recent
To Be or Not to Be a Hero
Recognition and Citizenship among Disabled Veterans of the Sri Lankan Army
Matti Weisdorf and Birgitte Refslund Sørensen
restored. People displaced, dispossessed, and impaired by war had to be supported in rebuilding livelihoods in a vastly transformed social environment. Land had to be cleared of mines, property claims settled, and the infrastructure rehabilitated to
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2019
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- 96–114 (19 total)
Introduction
The Generative Power of Political Emotions
Mette-Louise Johansen, Therese Sandrup, and Nerina Weiss
reevaluating and defining the political environment. In Johansen’s study of the Danish police force, the indeterminacy of moral outrage is extremely problematic when the emotion is approached and managed in the form of its negative potentiality. Emerging as
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jan 2018
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- 1–8 (8 total)
A Ritual Demystified
The Work of Anti-wonder among Sufi Reformists and Traditionalists in a Macedonian Roma Neighborhood
Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic
was not anomalous as it encapsulated an environment of ritual iconoclasm, demystification, and anti-wonder, precipitated by a configuration of socialist secularism and dogmatic Islamic theologies over the last hundred years of Macedonian history
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2019
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- Research Article
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- 30–43 (14 total)
Matthew Carey, Ida Nielsen Sølvhøj, Eve Monique Zucker, Younes Saramifar, and Louis Frankenthaler
capital of Reggio Calabria. It is here that Pipyrou carried out the bulk of her fieldwork, exploring Grecanici identity, relatedness and governance in a southern Italian institutional environment radically restructured by the European Union but nonetheless
In Conflict and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2017
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- Book Review
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- 246–258 (13 total)
Navigating the Politics of Anxiety
Moral Outrage, Responsiveness, and State Accountability in Denmark
Mette-Louise Johansen
leave the individual vulnerable and at risk of recruitment into a radicalized environment (see also Atran 2016 ). Targeted individuals in the CVE program were offered psychological counseling and mentor support designed to enhance their feelings of
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jan 2018
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- Research Article
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- 9–22 (14 total)
The White Cotton Robe
Charisma and Clothes in Tibetan Buddhism Today
Magdalena Maria Turek
his oratory skill in imparting instructions punctuated by his perfectly timed, provocative laughter. The remote environment is another device in this spectacle of charisma. The isolated area where Tsültrim Tarchin chose to live and where he founded his
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2017
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- Research Article
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- 173–188 (16 total)