Objective/Context: This paper examines the arguments of Constitutional Court Colombia in a sentence declaring that Pentecostalism represents threat to indigenous cultures and country’s cultural diversity. The was issued 1998, few years after political Constitution (1991) declared is pluralist nation protects diversity country right religious freedom. Methodology: A qualitative hermeneutical stu...

This essay will discuss the combined seminars presented in book “The Greek Imaginary: from Homer to Heraclitus” by Cornelius Castoriadis. In these he dissects Ancient culture, politics, and religion an investigative analytic way. Through ancient mythology Homeric texts a lot of information can be derived regarding everyday lives, ideology, philosophy time; all aforementioned explicated as well ...

Do mundane daily choices, such as what brands people buy in a supermarket, reflect aspects of values and ideologies? This article presents a large-scale field study performed to determine whether traits associated with a conservative ideology, as measured by voting behavior and religiosity, are manifested in consumers' routine, seemingly inconsequential product choices. Our analysis of market s...

We develop a dynamic, 2-party citizen-candidate model in which candidates are distinguished by both their ideology and their valence. We provide sufficient conditions under which (i) the median voter is decisive and (ii) there exists a unique symmetric, stage-undominated, stationary perfect Bayesian equilibrium. In our dynamic setting, reputational concerns endogenize incentives to compromise. ...

The ideology of one nation, one race, and one language has been constructed and reinforced in the Korean mind over the course of its history. However, a recently growing number of migrants in South Korea have challenged this ideology, and the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development (MEHRD) announced the Educational Support Plan for Children from Multicultural Backgrounds (ESP) in ...

Introduction: The Kalash are the only non-Muslim ethnic group living in three small and beautiful valleys of district Chitral. They are the last tribe of the Kafirs of the Hindu Kush. The Kalash exhibit, perhaps, one of the ancient and unique primitive traditions and cultures. They are living with the Muslims in this region for a long period of time, and had been under Muslim rule most of this ...

This paper examines the influence of political ideology on economic growth in the French democracy since 1871. It does so by addressing three main issues: the property and the reliability of a political ideology index in the long-run, the robustness of the relationship between ideology and growth and the specific channels through which political ideology affects economic performance. The main c...

Lala Lajpat Rai was a prominent figure of the Arya Samaj, influential nineteenth-century Hindu socio-religious reform movement. He is also seen as having sown seeds nationalism in first decade twentieth century. Exploring Rai’s thought between 1880s and 1915, this article traces how felt imperatives nation-building impelled him to regularly re-define Hinduism. These prompted articulate ‘thin’ H...

Abstract This article is about Islamism (or political Islam) as a challenge for contemporary liberal democracies. portrayed an ideology that favors one specific religion supreme and threat to freedom of speech. The author makes plea distinguishing a. the Islam, b. Muslims group, c. Islamism. Regarding dangers Islamism, some sociological research convictions discussed (Koopmans, Esposito) most r...