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Weber - General
Background,
General,
Marx
7
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Weber - text
Introduction,
What is his case study focused on,
Superior rationality of protestants
35
cards
weber - secondary
Algevall definition,
Algevall natural,
Agevall on weber thesis
25
cards
weber - essay
Intro,
Para 1 definition of religion,
Para 2 economics and religion
7
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Durkheim
Intro thought,
Intro primitive religion,
Intro role of sociology
28
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colonialism general
Key theme,
Fortesque,
Problem
8
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colonialism - provincialising summary
Summary,
Preface,
Intro relationship between histor...
40
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colonialism - orientalist summary
Intro what is the orient,
Intro orient and power struggles,
Intro 3 aspects of contemporary r...
40
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colonialism - secondary lit
Alison moutz,
Moutz on ethnicity,
Stroumsa on indians
12
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colonialism essay
3 paras,
1 the other,
1 ao2
7
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symbol and power - geertz islam observed
Preface aim,
Preface warnings about social sys...,
Preface solution to generalising ...
62
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symbol and power - asad
Background,
Intro assumption re western history,
Intro history as active
57
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symbol and power - geertz, religion as a cultural system
View of contemporary anthropology,
How do we define symbols,
Culture as linked to symbol
13
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symbol and ritual - mary Douglas
General,
Purity and impurity,
Chapter 1
14
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symbol and ritual - chisungu
Women as internal,
Chisungu as part of organisation ...,
Contradiction
29
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symbol and ritual - the forest of symbols, victor turner
1 what is the ritual,
1 the milk tree,
1 main theme of puberty ritual
34
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symbol and ritual - they shall take up serpents
Intro and case study,
Chapter 1 the ceremony,
1 impact of police on ceremony
16
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evangelicalism - general
Weber,
Mcloughlin,
Fundamentalism
3
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evangelicalism - ault, spirit and flesh
General,
Xi valenti,
Ault motive
23
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evangelicalism - bible believers, ammerman
General,
Biography,
Impact of biography on study
34
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evangelicalism - Falwell, harding
The account involves,
How the evangelical world of lang...,
How us fundamentalism in 20th cen...
41
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gender - Strahan, aliens and strangers
Lecture notes,
Welby intro,
Focus of book
24
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gender - badran, feminism in islam
The term gender activism,
Feminism,
Contemporary context
13
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gender - nieuwkerk, women embracing islam
Islamic feminism vs political islam,
Feminism as linked to individuals...,
3 stages in conversion
17
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gender - radojcic, lgbt catholics
Case study,
Aim of dignity members,
Background on dignity
15
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gender - politics of piety, mahmood
Why have scholars dismissed bodil...,
Dawa movement and aristotelianism,
2 disavowals chapter 5
15
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gender - secondary literature
Heschel written documents,
Heschel moments of female agency,
Herschel danger with feminist his...
9
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secularism - lecture notes
Secularisation thesis,
Value,
Secularisation as a narrative
6
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secularism - what matters? bender and taves
Main discussion,
Problems with main discussion,
Intro definition of secularism an...
33
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secularism - Sacred and Secular
What does the book demonstrate an...,
Human security,
Religious values hypothesis
25
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secularism - varieties of secularism in a secular age
What is taylors main argument,
3 types of secularity taylor,
Taylor wants to change the way we...
23
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secularism - secondary lit
Topal definition of secularism,
Topal islamic history,
Masud western vs muslim secularism
5
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gender - essay
How does religion impact toleranc...,
Evangelicalism and anti homosexua...,
Impact of religious institution
5
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secularism - essay
Intro,
Argument,
Paras
9
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science and religion - general
Fundamental questions,
New atheists,
Was the enlightenment anti xian
7
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science and religion - Long – Evolution and Religion in American Education
Layout of story,
Social element to evolutionary views,
Summary of views
31
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science and religion 2ndry
Conflicting or compatible longest...,
Conflicting or compatible longest...,
Conflicting or compatible longest...
20
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berkman and plutzer - evolution, creationism and the battle to control America's classrooms
Intro,
Chapter 1 scopes trial,
1 political struggle
38
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science and religion - forget Dawkins, Tremlett and shih
Intro what is new atheism,
Intro what do the ethnographers show,
1 new atheist revision of evoluti...
24
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science and religion secondary
0
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science and religion essay
0
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religious improvisations general
Features of revivalism,
Power of the mind,
Utopian aspect
6
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religious improvisations - making of a moonie
What is barkers focus,
Analysis of straw men argument,
Moonie and brainwashing investiga...
22
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religious improvisations - aliens adored, palmer
What is the study and how can we ...,
Rael,
Elohim
12
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religious improvisation - scientology, Hugh urban
What could it also be used to ans...,
Scandal in scientology,
Urban motive
24
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religious improvisations - essay
0
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religion and politics - general
In the uk,
Link to weber
2
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religion and politics - Salomon, for love of the prophet
What does he look at,
Intro islam in sudan and western ...,
Intro how political system is lived
39
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religion and politics - god's agents, engelke
What is the study focused on,
British and foreign bible society,
Counteracting of private religion
21
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religion and politics - religion and public opinion, clements
Study,
Perspective and analysis,
Stats re personal engagement with...
12
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miracles and images - lecture
Key issues orthodox view,
Iconoclasm,
Orthodox view of idolatry
10
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miracles and images - 1, eastern christians and religious objects
What did the writer see,
Icon in procession,
Main opinions expressed re ineffi...
19
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miracles and images - chapter 2, a dual quarrel of images on the middle volga
Setting,
Difference between xian veneratio...,
Hans belting
20
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miracles and images - chapter 6, exorcising demons in post-soviet Ukraine
Author,
Post socialist revival of religion,
Account of western ukraine
17
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ethnography
Insider outsider festinger ufo cu...,
Insider outsider festinger ufo cu...,
Observer as participant eileen ba...
11
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