Torthaí cuardaigh - a study

Towards a Critical Trauma Studies: A Response to Felix Lang de réir Matthies-Boon, Vivienne

“…In this response, I agree with Felix Lang about the need to problematize trauma studies’ prevalent underlying assumptions. However, I suggest that we should go a step further, namely towards a phenomenological account of trauma rooted in Frankfurt School critical theory. …”
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The work of a religious representative in a democratic legislature: A case study of the Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man in Tynwald, 1961-2001 de réir Edge, Peter W., Pearce, Augur

“…The Isle of Man is a largely autonomous territory of the United Kingdom Crown, whose dominant constitutional body is the Tynwald. …”
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Economic Research on the Arab World and the Middle East – A Neglected Field of Study in Germany de réir Wippel, Steffen

“…It includes the most important institutions and central research topics and approaches, underlining that in fact it is a multidisciplinary field of study. The article also points out some of its most salient structural, conceptual, and methodological problems. …”
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Sect-Bashing in the Guise of Scholarship: A Critical Appraisal of Select Studies of Soka Gakkai de réir Lewis, James R.

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Crossroads Studies: From Spatial Containers to Studying the Mobile de réir Hornidge, Anna-Katharina, Mielke, Katja

“…After three years of largely empirical, ethnographic research, the network has indulged in a process of bringing the different empirical insights on the role of mobilities and immobilities in the spatialities of everyday life together by discussing the conceptual, methodological, and epistemological research outcomes and lessons they offer for conventional area studies approaches. …”
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Between Text and Practice: Considerations in the Anthropological Study of Islam de réir Lukens-Bull, Ronald A.

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Thinking Religion and Religious Studies de réir Milani, Milad

“…This article argues religious studies is a discipline specifically designed for answering the big questions about religion. …”
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Rudolph Otto and the Study of Religions de réir Sawai, Yoshitsugu

“…This paper is the text of a lecture delivered at Marburg University, with which Tenri University has a sister relationship. …”
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Scientology and the European Human Rights Debate: A Reply to Leisa Goodman, J. Gordon Melton, and the European Rehabilitation Project Force Study de réir Kent, Stephan A.

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The study of religions and the dialogue of religions (Shûkyôgaku to shûkyôtaiwa) de réir Pye, Michael

“…While the study of religions itself is a non-religious activity, the dialogue between religions, on the other hand, certainly is in some sense a religious activity. …”
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Shifting Epistemologies in Area Studies: From Space to Scale de réir Derichs, Claudia

“…Area studies suffer from various epistemic borderlines which have been drawn and grown during decades of constructing a 'world order' that is ultimately defined by political power relations. …”
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Perspectives on Gender Studies at the Universities of Manouba and Sousse, Tunisia de réir Woitynek, Jamie

“…In Tunisia, the University of Manouba and the University of Sousse each offered a master’s program in Gender Studies in 2019. This essay examines these programs’ structures and foci, providing some comments on their contexts. …”
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Reading Marx in Beirut: Disorganised Study and the Politics of Queer Utopia de réir Chamas, Sophie

“…Drawing on Moten and Harney, I frame this intellectual labor as a form of dissonant , disorganized study - a mode of preparing for revolution by being together in brokenness and routinely generating a commitment to a particular political horizon. …”
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J. Gordon Melton: The Church of Scientology (Studies in Contemporary Religions) de réir Frenschkowsky, Marco

“…J. Gordon Melton is a well-known expert on the smaller religious denominations and groups in the USA. …”
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Some methodological reflections about the study of religions on video sharing de réir Pasche, Florence

“…This article offers an overview of methodological difficulties that arise in the study of religions on video sharing websites (VSW). …”
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No Such Thing as Society? A Critique of Hegemonic Notions of Trauma in the Research on Cultural Production de réir Lang, Felix

“…The notion of trauma is widely used in contemporary research on literature, film, music, and other forms of cultural production in the Arab world. Building on a tradition of trauma studies in the humanities, much of this work is predicated on an essentialist, naturalized notion of trauma as developed in the seminal work of the literary scholar Cathy Caruth, among others. …”
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Comparative Area Studies and Middle East Politics after the Arab Uprisings de réir Bank, André

“…The paper concludes by evaluating the promises, risks and prospects of following a CAS perspective in the study of Middle East politics.…”
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Comparing What to What? Intersecting Methodological Issues in Comparative Area Studies and Transitional Justice Research de réir Oettler, Anika

“…As the field of transitional justice studies is approximating a status of maturation, academic enterprises tend to focus on empirical as well as theoretical generalization. …”
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Individuals, Institutions and Discourses: Knowledge and Power in Russia's Iranian Studies of the Late Imperial, Soviet and Post-Soviet Periods de réir Volkov, Denis V.

“…The scholarship on late Imperial Russia's Oriental studies is divided by a disagreement over the applicability of Edward Said's Orientalism to the Russian case. …”
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Pedestrian Research or Walking as Method de réir Egeler, Matthias

“…In analogy to the technique of a ‘close reading’ in the study of literature, a ‘close walking’ of story places can help to establish their contexts in everyday life, including aspects such as land use, economy, social frames of reference, or topography. …”
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