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Of Malls and Mosques
by theoryforthemasses Classical sociologists, Karl Marx, Max Weber, and Emile Durkheim, all suggested that as societies modernized, religion would begin to lose its influence on individuals and become...
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Getting to Know One Another
by rbobbitt Racism takes many forms, constantly shifting in expression in order to brace against the ever widening borders of contact between foreign cultures and ethnicities. Race has once...
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Muslim Identity, Cultural Trauma, and the Racialized Backlash
Jeffrey Alexander writes that “cultural trauma occurs when members of a collectivity feel they have been subjected to a horrendous event that leaves indelible marks upon their group consciousness,...
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The Push and Pull of Multiculturalism in Western States
Saturday, February 5th, British Prime Minister David Cameron spoke at a security conference in Munich. In light of the growing evidence that the United Kingdom has become a “safe haven” for Islamic...
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The Other (Religious) Dimensions of Sexuality
(Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Religious_items#/media/File:Fastentuch.jpg) One of the main ideologies of religion, which Ninian Smart has pointed out, is that of the ethical,...
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