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Eldar T. Hasanov deposited The Rise of Political Islam in Turkey: The Role of Socio-Psychological Factors in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 2 months, 3 weeks ago
The factors behind the rise of Islamism in Turkey remain the subject of intense scholarly debate. There are remarkable relationships between the rise of Islamism and preceding changes in population dynamics in Turkey. Rapid urbanization and large-scale migration of Kurds and other ethnic minorities from the east of the county to major cities in…[Read more]
Oscar Martinez-Peñate deposited La Pandemia, Retos y Desafios en la Sociedad in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks ago
La pandemia ha dejado al descubierto, necesidades y problemas sociales, asimismo, obligó a los gobiernos dar respuestas inmediatas de corto y mediano plazo para evitar el caos o la anomia social. El Covid-19, generó las condiciones hacia la realización de cambios y transformaciones sociales, para que, de esta incertidumbre y recesión, en lug…[Read more]
Ted Underwood deposited Book Reviews and the Consolidation of Genre in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 6 months ago
Some literary scholars have claimed that predictive models can measure the strength of the boundaries that separate different cultural categories—genres, for instance, or market segments. But interpreting textual models as evidence about the strength of a cultural distinction has seemed a questionable move to many readers. We use book reviews to t…[Read more]
Robert Tweheyo replied to the topic Call for Participation: PPJ Field Editors in the discussion
Sociology on Humanities Commons 6 months, 1 week ago
Is the call still on? I can see it was opened more than 2 years back.
Frans Prasetyo deposited reformasi dikorupsi : Indonesia under Jokowi in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 8 months, 4 weeks ago
As Indonesia’s increasingly authoritarian populist president Jokowi began his second term in autumn 2019, he finds himself confronted by a new generation radicalised by the converging crises of militarism, agrarian dispossession, environmental destruction and corruption.
Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review Guatemala’s Catholic Revolution Bonar L Hernandez Sandoval H-Socialisms February 2020 in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Throughout this book, Hernández Sandoval emphasizes the schism between the leadership of different Catholic parishes that supported conservative, anti-communist, and even military governments, and the missionaries who worked directly among the citizenry and who defied prevailing structural and political restraints and at times participated…[Read more]
Luis Gregorio Abad Espinoza deposited The rethinking and enhancement of the natural and cultural heritage of the cultural landscapes: the case of Sečovlje and Janubio saltpans in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 1 year ago
Cultural landscapes represent a complex category where the nature-culture dichotomy seem to not be able to unfold the main features and the profound relations that humans have with the environment. Drawing on ethnographic data collected in the saltpans of Se-ovlje (Slovene Istria) and Janubio (Lanzarote–Canary Islands) this article examines…[Read more]
Luis Gregorio Abad Espinoza deposited The moral philosophy of nature: Spiritual Amazonian conceptualizations of the environment in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 1 year ago
It is well known the harmful effects that savage capitalism has been causing to the environment since its introduction in a sphere in which a different logic and approach to nature are the essential conditions for the maintenance of the ecosystem and its complex relations between humans and non-human organisms. The amazon rainforest is a portion…[Read more]
Mark John Read deposited ‘Doing Belief’: British Quakers in the Twenty-First-Century Workplace in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months ago
Quakers enjoy their work. They tend to work in places which share their ambitions to make the world a better place. But how do Quakers respond when things go wrong? What we find is that the work organisation sets out the terms upon which Quakers try to improve the world. Quakers generally accept these terms. But when Quaker and work horizons…[Read more]
Sabine LAMOUR deposited Partir pour mieux s’enraciner ou retour sur la fabrique du poto-mitan en Haiti in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
Book chapter of: Dejouer le silence: contre discours sur les femmes haïtiennes
Narasimhananda Swami deposited Book Review Swaraj: Thoughts of Gandhi, Tilak, Aurobindo, Raja Rammohun Roy, Tagore & Vivekananda by Amulya Ranjan Mohapatra Prabuddha Bharata February 2012 in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
Book Review Swaraj: Thoughts of Gandhi, Tilak, Aurobindo, Raja Rammohun Roy, Tagore & Vivekananda by Amulya Ranjan Mohapatra
Narasimhananda Swami deposited Book Review Social Philosophy of Swami Vivekananda by Amulya Ranjan Mohapatra Prabuddha Bharata November 2010 in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
Book Review Social Philosophy of Swami Vivekananda by Amulya Ranjan Mohapatra
Narasimhananda Swami deposited Book Review Sites of Asian Interaction: Ideas, Networks and Mobility, eds. Tim Harper and Sunil Amrith Prabuddha Bharata March 2015 in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
Book Review, Sites of Asian Interaction: Ideas, Networks and Mobility, eds. Tim Harper and Sunil Amrith, Prabuddha Bharata March 2015
Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review Unconditional Equality Ajay Skaria Reading Religion October 2018 in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, is credited with having rekindled the ancient Indian discourse of an interrelation between spirituality, religion, and politics. This has been mostly studied from the perspective of faith or spirituality. The last five decades or so have seen rising scholarship on the not-so-spiritual…[Read more]
Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review Philosophy and Non Philosophy by Francois Laruelle Prabuddha Bharata August 2017 in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
François Laruelle’s non-standard philosophy is necessary for the survival or popularity of philosophy according to Laruelle: ‘Philosophy can only really become “for all” or “popular” by becoming non-philosophy’ (cover). Non-philosophy is not no philosophy but a different approach to philosophising where philosophy is not the main thing but the ‘real’ is.
Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review of The Tagore Geddes Correspondence by Bashabi Fraser PB September 2016 in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
This book is about the coming together of two great polyglot geniuses who were also autodidacts, who were concerned with the other’s nation, but though glorified in their own countries, remain relatively unknown in the nations of the other. Their friendship is, in many ways, a representation of the friendship of the East and the West, albeit m…[Read more]
Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review of The Enemies of Excellence by Greg Salciccioli Prabuddha Bharata October 2018 in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
Excelling is the goal of every endeavour. No one wants to be mediocre. Everyone wants to excel at what one does and reach the zenith of performance in that field. Very few can actually excel. Often the cause for not excelling is a general lack of discipline and a wrong understanding of the very parameters of excellence. Humility leads to…[Read more]
Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review of Intellectuals and Power by Francois Laruelle published in Prabuddha Bharata in July 2016 in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
Review of the book ‘Intellectuals and Power’ by Francois Laruelle
Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review of Cut of the Real by Katerina Kolozova July 2016 Prabuddha Bharata in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
Review of the book ‘Cut of the Real’ by Katerina Kolozova
Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review Introduction to Non-Marxism by Francois Laruelle Prabuddha Bharata August 2017 in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
Extending his non-philosophical thought to examining possibilities of a redfinition of Marxism, in this volume François Laruelle shows that in the light of the apparent failure of Marxism or communism, we need to explore the ‘single cause-of-the-last-instance for this failure’ (12). Another reason for this failure could be, according to Laru…[Read more]
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