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This book analyzes contemporary challenges and solutions to problems facing rural communities. The idea of reinvention is offered as a description of how rural communities adapt by changing focus to alternative economic development strategies and by focusing on improved quality of life. The image of rural given is one of dynamism and resiliency.

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An inspiring collection of portraits of young rural Australians, whose visions for the future of our country may just change our nation s destiny.

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This book examines language ideologies and market exploitation in the television industry. Television networks owned by large media conglomerates are trying to reach U.S. Latino viewers with English-language programming. As these networks enter Hispanic television, they redefine the Latino audience to closely resemble the mainstream population.

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This work is a study of the role of mass media in political change, specifically the recent changes in the Soviet Union. The use of the media to define the new Russia is shown. Those involved in Russian studies, media studies, international studies, and similar fields should be interested in this work.

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Relational Engagements of the Indigenous Americas critically examines our current understanding of relational theory and the ontological turn in archaeological studies of the pre-contact Americas.

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This collection explores technologies and the broad relations they form with the world and how such relational technologies of our datafied and biometric lifeworlds intersect with and redefine our embodied selves.

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Proposes a new set of disciplines for a human science, based on a relativistic view of knowledge and a naturalist view of human nature. The author addresses the major current issues in the philosophy of social science and designs his theory for cross-cultural application.

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States that Americans have never been more religious than they are at the dawn of the twenty-first century. This book features essays by major scholars from the fields of anthropology, history, literary criticism, and religion in order to enrich critical discourse about religion and culture.

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This study refutes both the Western dominant paradigm of modernity and the Eurocentric stereotype of traditional Muslim culture, and demonstrates that rural Egyptians have their own paradigm of secular modernism that does not negate religious or sacred orientations.

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A series of essays discussing the portrayal of religion on prime time entertainment TV.

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Dress provides a window for viewing the culture of a community, because it visually attests to its salient ideas, fundamental concepts and categories. This text examines how the metaphor of appearance is used within religious groups in the USA, to express religiosity, ethnicity and gender norms.

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Dress provides a window for viewing culture, because it visually attests to the salient ideas, concepts and categories fundamental to that culture. This text examines how the metaphor of appearance is used within religious groups in the USA, to express religiosity, ethnicity and gender norms.

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This book presents a portrait of a congregation that blends therapy and religion, producing a therapeutic religion in which the role and meaning of religion are open to interpretation, religious identities are shaped by life experiences, and healing of the person is underscored. The book also highlights some of the tensions this produces.

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This book explores the emergence and expansion of global kosher and halal markets with a particular focus on the UK and Denmark. -- .

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Based on fieldwork, interviews and surveys conducted in the aftermath of the 2014 Gaza War, this book explores what is it like to come of age as a secular millennial in Israel after the failure of the Oslo peace process, when Palestinian and Israeli leaders have used ethnicity and religion to divide. It sheds new light on why peace may be further than ever.

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Religious and Ethical Perspectives on Global Migration examines the complicated social ethics of migration in today's world. Editors Elizabeth W. Collier and Charles R. Strain bring the perspectives of an international group of scholars toward a theory of justice and ethical u...

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Religion plays a key role in everyday affairs in Indonesia - including governance at the local, regional and national level. This book investigates local governance landscape of the world's largest Muslim majority state, Indonesia, and its local governance landscape by providing a detailed account of local communities and religious authority on the eastern Indonesian island of Lombok.

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This book examines the condition of religious organizations or teachings within a different culture where one or more indigenous religions are already present.

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This book shows how contemporary religious groups arrange very different sorts of rituals in order to achieve collective encounters with the spirit. Mixed-methods analysis of rituals across a diverse range of religious traditions shows how Randall Collins interaction ritual theory opens new pathways for the sociology of religion.

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This book shows how contemporary religious groups arrange very different sorts of rituals in order to achieve collective encounters with the spirit. Mixed-methods analysis of rituals across a diverse range of religious traditions shows how Randall Collins interaction ritual theory opens new pathways for the sociology of religion.

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