boat. That the philosophy and religion and cultural values that would lead to these kind of outputs … something was wrong, something was deeply flawed. So that led to an exploration, starting into Asian philosophies. (Interview, 25 August 2016) Ray
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In Religion and Society
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Estella Carpi, Sandy F. Chang, Kristy A. Belton, Katja Swider, Naluwembe Binaisa, Magdalena Kubal-Czerwińska, and Jessie Blackbourn
receive financial support from their relatives abroad. Thanks to the particular individuals’ accounts, the reader fully understands the implicit rules of the “remittance clusters.” Interestingly, remittances are not romanticized as a spontaneous cultural
In Migration and Society
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- 01 Jun 2019
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Jelena Tošić and Annika Lems
cultural values ( Crawley and Skelapris 2018 ; Holmes and Castañeda 2016 ). These hierarchies of deservingness and undeservingness have created clear-cut moral delineations between the legitimacy of the mobility of some and the illegitimacy of others. The
In Migration and Society
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- 01 Jun 2019
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Jack Hunter, Annelin Eriksen, Jon Mitchell, Mattijs van de Port, Magnus Course, Nicolás Panotto, Ruth Barcan, David M. R. Orr, Girish Daswani, Piergiorgio Di Giminiani, Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen, Sofía Ugarte, Ryan J. Cook, Bettina E. Schmidt, and Mylene Mizrahi
subcultures. The analysis suggests numerous antecedents to New Age culture beyond familiar accounts of its core metaphysical propositions such as vitalism and metaphysical disease causation, including a broader cultural valuing of intuition and a belief in the
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2018
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- 192–217 (26 total)
Ivi Daskalaki and Nadina Leivaditi
(friendship) towards the xenos (stranger), or kindness towards the stranger ( Cabot 2013: 152 )—ascribes a significant historically-specific cultural value to popular and official representations of what it means to be Greek ( Cabot 2013 ; Du Boulay 1991
In Migration and Society
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- 01 Dec 2018
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- 51–65 (15 total)
The White Cotton Robe
Charisma and Clothes in Tibetan Buddhism Today
Magdalena Maria Turek
, didactic depiction of a culturally valued progression on the path toward the absolute attainment of liberation and enlightenment, which themselves are also represented by the robe. As an expression of pure charisma, Tsültrim Tarchin performs, at this
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2017
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Belonging in a New Myanmar
Identity, Law, and Gender in the Anthropology of Contemporary Buddhism
Juliane Schober
, national, or cultural values. Pointing to the complex challenges people in Myanmar are facing, I also aim to illustrate how an anthropology of Buddhism can account for the agency of ethnic and religious others living in contemporary Theravada contexts
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2017
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The Pope's Public Reason
A Religious yet Public Case for Welcoming Refugees
Aurélia Bardon
welcome refugees; that terrorists were hiding among them, thus letting refugees into Europe was a serious threat to security; and that the religious or cultural values and practices of these refugees were incompatible with European culture. Such claims are
In Migration and Society
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- 01 Jun 2021
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