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Kamil Jański
Primeiro Comando da Capital and Comando Vermelho
Sociology

The era of the military junta left a legacy of draconian laws and inhumane prison conditions. The lack of effective reforms led to the rise...

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This paper, titled "Primeiro Comando da Capital and Comando Vermelho," promises a timely and relevant exploration into the origins, evolution, and soc...

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Marek Dziobak
#NeverAgainMSD and the March for Our Lives Movement
Sociology

The United States gives citizens the right to own guns and has developed a specific culture of gun presence in everyday life. However, this...

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The proposed paper, "#NeverAgainMSD and the March for Our Lives Movement," addresses a highly relevant and pressing issue in contemporary American soc...

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Esosa Osayamwen
Cultural Chronicles – Uncovering the Legacy of Oppressive Black Architecture in Memphis and Other Cities
Sociology

Architectural structures and the spaces they create are not neutral; instead, they mirror the values and power dynamics of the societies in...

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This paper proposes a highly ambitious and timely exploration into a critical, yet under-recognized, facet of architectural history: the role of built...

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James Lapping
REVIEW ESSAY: “It’s About Time!”
Sociology

Cherokee actor Wes Studi was recognised with an Academy Honorary Award in 2019. To date, he is the first and only Native American actor to be decorate...

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The review essay, aptly titled "It's About Time!", introduces a timely and significant discussion surrounding the career of Cherokee actor Wes Studi,...

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Gary D Bouma
Globalization, Social Capital and the Challenge to Harmony of Recent Changes in Australia's Religious and Spiritual Demography: 1947-2001
Sociology

Religious organizations have been one of the primary engines of social capital in Western societies. Globalization, demographic change, the...

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This paper tackles a highly pertinent and complex topic at the intersection of religious studies, sociology, and social policy, examining the profound...

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Paul James
God Bless America: From a National Covenant to the Global War on Terror
Sociology

Religion has always played a role in nation formation, and continues to do so even in these late-modern and post-sacred times. The overall...

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This essay offers a compelling and nuanced exploration of religion's enduring, albeit complex, role in nation formation, even within supposedly post-s...

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Kalpana Ram
Religion, Gender and the Postcolonial Crisis of the Present: Reflections on and from India
Sociology

The paper explores the crisis in modernity's incapacity to address the Other in various overlapping domains, those of 'religion', 'woman',...

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This paper presents a timely and ambitious intervention, positioning itself at the critical intersection of religion, gender, and postcolonial studies...

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Joan Daw
Catholic Church Engagement in Australian Society: A Symbiotic Relationship between "The Religious" and "The Secular"?
Sociology

The Catholic Church is a major provider of social welfare services in Australian society. Attitudes and practices relating to charitable/we...

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This paper investigates the multifaceted engagement of the Catholic Church in Australian society, particularly through its substantial role as a provi...

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Marian de Souza, Richard Rymarz
The Transmission of a Religious Heritage to Younger Members of Small Ethnic Communities in a Pluralist Society: The Perceptions of Young Australian Copts
Sociology

Contemporary Australia has clearly become a multi-faith and multi-cultural society. Even within the mainstream Christian religions there ar...

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This paper addresses a highly pertinent and timely topic concerning the transmission of religious heritage within small ethnic communities operating i...

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Friedericke Kuhn, Meia van der Zee
Globalisation Gangnam-style: The domination of Gangnam-style in touristic online representations
Sociology

This article presents cultural globalisation as a highly uneven and selective process, seeing that the exact nature of this “selectivity” of which cul...

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This article tackles a highly relevant and underexplored dimension of cultural globalization: the selective processes determining which cultural eleme...

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