Autarchies: The Invention of Selfishness
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The philosophy of Ayn Rand has had a role equal or greater than that of Milton Friedman or F.A....
Cities of Light: Two Centuries of Urban Illumination
Margaret Maile-Petty, Sandy Isenstadt and Dietrich Neumann
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Cities of Light is the first global overview of modern urban illumination, a development that allows...
Critical Muslim 04: Pakistan?
Ziauddin Sardar and Robin Yassin-Kassab
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Ziauddin Sardar questions the question mark that is always placed in front of Pakistan, Robin...
Daoism in Modern China
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The modern history of Chinese temples and Daoism go hand in hand, and while both temples and Daoists...
Framing Sukkot: Tradition and Transformation in Jewish Vernacular Architecture
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The sukkah, the symbolic ritual home built during the annual Jewish holiday of Sukkot, commemorates...
Plotinus: Myth, Metaphor and Philosophical Practice
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Plotinus, the Roman philosopher (c. 204-270 CE) who is widely regarded as the founder of...
Questioning Play: What Play Can Tell Us About Social Life
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What is play? Why do we play? What can play teach us about our life as social beings? In this...
Ritual Gone Wrong: What We Learn from Ritual Disruption
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The discipline of religious studies has, historically, tended to focus on discrete ritual mistakes...
Sociocultural Boundaries, Assemblages and Regimes of Intersection
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Unequal life-chances became a key feature of cross-border migration to, and within, the enlarged...