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of the Atlantic - Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to identify … populations in the receiving countries, both in Europe and in the United States; and (b) while in the United States the … religiosity of immigrants serves as a bridge between the immigrants and the local population, in Europe it has mainly the function …
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We add to the current debate on ethno-religious discrimination by studying to what extent discrimination in the wedding venue business is based on religious or ethnic grounds. Do the two reinforce each other? Does the explicit mentioning of a non-religious wedding help to reduce ethnic...
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countries of England and the Netherlands and the remaining parts of Europe, which were more stagnant. We contribute to this …
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Natela remembers her femininity as an expression of a long Georgian national tradition that seems to be threatened by a new, market-oriented order. On the contrary, Dela is determined to take advantage of the emerging need for luxury goods and fashion trends among the female consumers in modern...
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The belief in occult forces is still deeply rooted in many African societies, regardless of education, religion, and …'éducation, de la religion, et la classe sociale des personnes concernées. Selon de nombreux Africains son incidence est encore …
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their religious closenesses and against applicants signaling closeness to the Muslim religion, regardless of their national …
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This paper studies the characteristics of the workers in the informal economy and whether internal migrants treat this sector as a temporary location before moving on to the organised or formal sector to improve their lifetime income and living conditions. We limit our study to the Indian urban...
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Much is known historically about the formal place for religion and spirituality in various countries. Less is known … sociologically about the actual ways religion and spirituality are present in public institutions or about the conceptual and … methodological assumptions that underlie how scholars approach the study of religion within public institutions. We conceive of …
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Each of the essays presented enters the conversation about religion in public institutions through a different analytic … consider: the centrality of religion to the organizational identity or to organizational goal achievement, the effect of a … specific aspect of the institution's organizational structure on religion, and the relevance of larger cross …
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This study investigated the impact of Muslim Holy Days on daily stock returns of Asian financial markets for a period of 2001-2014. These markets include Pakistan, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey. The study has tried to isolate the effect of Gregorian calendar anomalies from Muslim Holy Days...
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