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
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- Research Article
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- 37–50 (14 total)
Invisible Veterans
Defeated Militants and Enduring Revolutionary Social Values in Dhufar, Oman
Alice Wilson
revolution, including the promotion of social egalitarianism, evident in education, social, and marriage policies ( Takriti 2013: 107–131 ). The ideological and practical support for the Front from combatants and noncombatants blurs the boundaries between
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2019
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- 132–149 (18 total)
Am I My Brother’s Keeper?
Michael D. Jackson
tension between a hierarchical and egalitarian mode of defining our obligations to others. On the one hand, we refer to a distributive morality that makes obligation relative to status, social distance, or social identity; on the other, we invoke notions
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War Veterans and the Construction of Citizenship Categories
Nikkie Wiegink, Ralph Sprenkels, and Birgitte Refslund Sørensen
less emancipatory and more benefits or prestige-oriented. War veterans do not necessarily aim for or support egalitarian forms of inclusion. Instead, they often implicitly emphasize that society should acknowledge certain hierarchies in citizenship by
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
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- 145–157 (13 total)
Liminality and Missing Persons
Encountering the Missing in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina
Laura Huttunen
egalitarianism usually characterize the relationships between liminal persons. In rites of passage, liminal persons are often humbled and reduced, just to be lifted again later to new statuses. Thus liminal persons are necessarily ambiguous, both threatening and
In Conflict and Society
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Book Reviews
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
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- Book Review
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- 171–196 (26 total)
Danger, Moral Opacity, and Outrage
Fear of Jihadism and the Terrorist Threat in Southern Mali
Tone Sommerfelt
emphasizing the equality of man before God, Wahhabism also challenged other social hierarchies—in particular, hereditary occupational distinctions. Indeed, Jean-Loop Amselle (1985) accredits the popularity of Wahhabism in Bamako to its egalitarian ethos
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jan 2018
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- 23–39 (17 total)
The Debts of War
Bifurcated Veterans’ Mobilization and Political Order in Post-settlement El Salvador
Ralph Sprenkels
mobilization for recognition does not necessarily have to be restricted to egalitarian citizenship-oriented goals and may also be used to procure prestige, influence, and privilege beyond that of “regular” citizens. In other words, recognition struggles pertain
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2019
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- 79–95 (17 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
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- Research Article
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- 129–144 (16 total)
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