societies have often been understood and discussed as almost the prototypical egalitarian society (see, e.g., Lepowsky 1990 ). However, the understanding of what egalitarianism is has often been based on ideas of economic distribution or political systems
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Pentecostalism and Egalitarianism in Melanesia
A Reconsideration of the Pentecostal Gender Paradox
Annelin Eriksen
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 37–50 (14 total)
Culture Constraints of High-Speed Rail in the United States
A Perspective from American Exceptionalism
Zhenhua Chen
The development of high-speed rail (HSR) infrastructure in the United States faces a great challenge given concerns of economic viability and political complexity. However, an in-depth investigation reveals that some of these challenges and complexities regarding high-speed rail mobility can be elucidated by historical and cultural characteristics that affect daily behavior, lifestyle, and public attitudes in U.S. society. This essay discusses the debate on the U.S. high-speed rail development policy from the perspective of American exceptionalism. Through an exploration of the four traits of American exceptionalism, the essay argues that the stagnation of U.S. federal high-speed rail initiatives can be explained by U.S. cultural constraints: individualism, antistatism, populism, and egalitarianism. Unless more solid evidence is provided to convince the public about the benefits of HSR mobility, the HSR debate is likely to continue in the United States.
Racing Mobility, Excavating Modernity
A Comment
Cotten Seiler
literary studies, sociology, and the history of technology, these essays illustrate the versatility of the mobility optic as well as its massive potential for the formation of new knowledge and the effecting of egalitarian policy. The scholars here make the
The Ethics of Collective Sponsorship
Virtuous Action and Obligation in Contemporary Tibet
Jane Caple
an egalitarian sense, since it provided an opportunity for many (rather than few) to engage in virtuous action and thus accumulate merit. However, he also saw donation as a practice rooted in its immediate social context: while some villagers and
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 145–157 (13 total)
Discipline and Publish?
Transfers as Interdisciplinary Site
Cotten Seiler
, sustained, and throttled in different historical moments. American studies’ objects of inquiry, methods, and ethos mark it as oriented toward national and global transformation in an egalitarian, democratic direction, an orientation it shares with most
Mariske Westendorp, Bruno Reinhardt, Reinaldo L. Román, Jon Bialecki, Alexander Agadjanian, Karen Lauterbach, Juan Javier Rivera Andía, Kate Yanina DeConinck, Jack Hunter, Ioannis Kyriakakis, Magdalena Crăciun, Roger Canals, Cristina Rocha, Khyati Tripathi, Dafne Accoroni, and George Wu Bayuga
’—a concept that meant humanitarian progress, equality, egalitarianism, brotherhood, and harmony” (p. 5). In contrast, Daggett's (2017: xvi) biography of Rey aims “to look past the messages of the departed” to highlight the social and political troubles
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2019
- Article Type:
- Book Review
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- 171–196 (26 total)
Ritual Tattooing and the Creation of New Buddhist Identities
An Inquiry into the Initiation Process in a Burmese Organization of Exorcists
Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière
egalitarian ethos. Most are dressed in the brown clothes of the yawgi (P. yogi ) that are associated with lay practitioners of Buddhist asceticism. At the entrance, where religious products and medicine of the congregation are sold, a stall ( fig. 1 ) is
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 129–144 (16 total)
Kim Knibbe, Brenda Bartelink, Jelle Wiering, Karin B. Neutel, Marian Burchardt, and Joan Wallach Scott
-determination” (ibid.). A consequence is that African Pentecostal women and men are not seen as emancipated and egalitarian and thus can never become fully and equally accepted as belonging to society. Unraveling the particularity of the intersections between
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 176–191 (16 total)
Michael K. Bess, David Lipset, Kudzai Matereke, Stève Bernardin, Katharine Bartsch, Harry Oosterhuis, Samuel Müller, Frank Schipper, Benjamin D’Harlingue, and Katherine Roeder
ethnic groups. Cycling is not egalitarian by definition: gentrification, which engenders rising costs of living in urban centers, pushes the unprivileged to the outskirts, where cycling facilities are often far from optimal. For them, commuting distances
Eirini Kasioumi, Anna Plyushteva, Talya Zemach-Bersin, Kathleen F. Oswald, Molly Sauter, Alexandra Ganser, Mustafa Ahmed Khan, Natasha Raheja, Harry Oosterhuis, and Benjamin Fraser
. Hoffmann’s plea for more equitable cycling policies offers a valid corrective, not only to the assumption that the two-wheeler is by definition an egalitarian vehicle but also to the celebration of the recent “bicycle renaissance” in many Western cities
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