This study explores the anthropological study of Islam through an ethnographic analysis of the Tablighi Jama`at--a transnational piety movement. Recent anthropological writings on Islam have approached Islam as a discursive tradition and, drawing heavily on the work of Michel Fo…
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Each of the three papers comprising this dissertation deals with a different research question. The first paper explores the role of religion in the making of Turkish modernization and secularization, and critiques idealist accounts that treat Turkish secularism as an ideology t…
These nine original essays examine the moral and philosophical implications of developments in the science of ethics, the growing movement that seeks to use recent empirical findings to answer long-standing ethical questions. Efforts to make moral psychology a thoroughly empiric…
This thesis examines the media-foreign policy nexus through a specific focus on the moral framing of conflict and interventionism within British media and policy discourses. While morality has been identified as a frequently used frame through which we may understand issues, the…
Colombia's protracted civil war between Marxist insurgencies and the state has brought grave consequences for the civilian population and the prospects for constructing a viable political community in the country. With up to 5 million internally displaced people, rampant impunit…
Within contemporary American political discourse, the right is understood as ‘owning’ morality, which allegedly confers a rhetorical and partisan power that the left lacks due to its religiously diverse and partly areligious constituency and unwillingness to make universal state…
The nature and limitations of human freedom have been discussed for millennia and continue to be widely and enthusiastically debated today. This is not surprising, as our sense of freedom is felt to be an essential part of what it is to be human and many fundamental issues, such…
Video games are increasingly becoming a part of people’s daily lives. More importantly, digital games have been increasingly built as products that challenge the player morally and ethically. Video games do not only demonstrate their moral and ethical influence, they also influe…
O paradigma atual da biologia da conservação reconhece a importância da inclusão da vertente das ciências sociais no planeamento, gestão e avaliação de medidas de conservação. A sua integração deixou de ser apenas um complemento e tornou-se numa componente vital de intervenções …
This study explores the events of the Dronfield school strike of 1914. In doing so it considers the personal experiences of those centrally involved and the impact of events on them. The core aim of the study is to consider how much the Dronfield events were initiated and driven…
Is it possible for a corporation to own a color? This dissertation shows the surprising answer to be yes as it traces color’s assimilation into the intellectual property regime over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Beginning with the invention of synthetic dye production …
Ashrey is a village in North India that is made up of one tribal community that was once nomadic, racialized, and criminalized under British rule, but has been reclassified as a Scheduled Caste (also sometimes known as “untouchable”) and permanently settled in this village since…
Divination is a universal phenomenon in the ancient world. It once assumed the roles of philosophy and science in providing guidance on how to live. In our present time, this ancient practice is reduced to a mere form of irrationality, magic, or superstition and this suggests th…
This dissertation analyzes diverging conceptions of Islam in the writings of Necip Fazıl Kısakürek (1904-1983) and Nurettin Topçu (1909-1975), and ensuing differences in their critiques of Turkish modernization and their views on the relationship between Islam and politics. It p…
İktisadi örgütlenmenin bir biçimi olarak ortaya çıkan kapitalist sistemin en temel önermesi bireylerin bireysel çıkara göre hareket ettiğini ve tercihlerini de bireysel çıkara göre yaptığını kabul etmesidir. Özellikle Aydınlanma dönemi sonrası gelişen ve yaygınlaşan, sonrasında …
David Hume discusses the notion of liberty and necessity in both his Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40) and his Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (1748). While scholars generally agree that Hume’s treatment of this subject has amounted to an important contribution to compat…
Values are inherent within cultures, relationships, and many other systems, however, little study has been done on the extent to which individuals may explicitly agree with the metaphysical assumptions that much of psychological science relies upon. Psychological science, which …
Extant research has investigated the response to moral exemplars primarily from an emotion perspective, with a focus on either positive or negative reactions. By contrast, the present project, articulated across four studies (N=1,814) in the US and UK, captured simultaneously th…