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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Popular movement"”.
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Muslim common religious practices at the Cape : identification and analysis
… examines the side by side existence of Popular Islam, or Muslim Common Religious Practices, with Official Islam in the Cape of today. Our task is thus primarily to identify the popular movement as no systematic documentation in this field has to date been attempted. Almost all approaches …
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The role of the Tehran Bazaaris in protest events under the first government of Mosaddeq in Iran (29 April 1951 - 21 July 1952)
… oil industry, supported by a massive popular movement. The National Front, which led the movement, mainly consisted of three social groups: the clergy (<em>ulama</em>), secular intellectuals, and the bazaaris (merchants, guilds, and artisans). Despite its importance, the role of the …
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The State of Culture: Institutional Patrimony in Post -Revolutionary Mexico
… as a governmental claim, a pursuit of popular allegiance and affiliation that while rhetorical has nevertheless solidified into ""truth."" The murals on permanent display in the Palacio de Bellas Artes (Palace of Fine Arts) are presented as representatives of a coherent and legible …
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Brazilian, Feminist Non-Governmental Organisations - a Force for Change: Constructing Citizenship through Health Sector Reform and Delivery of Reproductive Rights
… democracy (1985-95) to represent the mass social movement of women - have played in transition politics, where their aim has been to invoke the notion of ‘citizenship’ to address marginality and instigate constitutional change to deliver health services to women. <br></br><br></br> The …
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Discourse, Practices and Historical Representations in Two Guerrilla Groups: the Eln and the Mpla, Colombia-Angola, 1956-1986
… of Liberation, 1963) and the MPLA (Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola/Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, 1956). The goal is to provide an interpretation of the rise, transformations and uses of specific forms of historical representations. In the form of discourses and …
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Locally grown : statewide land use planning in northern New England
A popular movement against urban sprawl and its attendant problems has emerged in the U.S. over the last several years. The problems associated with sprawl are caused, at least in part, by local government fragmentation and uncoordinated land use decision making. Recognizing that local control has …
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Women's contemporary yoga lifestyles: An embodied ethnography of becomings
… of this study are navigating an increasingly popular movement culture that has foundations in ancient texts from India, I illustrate how today’s Yoga lifestyles are a cumulative expression of ancient and contemporary knowledges. Moving alongside women practitioners throughout an embodied …
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Novel faiths: nonsecular fiction in the late-nineteenth-century U.S.
… late-nineteenth-century America’s outpouring of popular religious fiction. For many scholars, the novel form and the period after the Civil War share a defining trait: they are uniquely modern, and that modernity rests in part upon their secularity, or turn away from shared religious worldviews. …
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Jorge Eliécer Gaitán y la Restauración Moral de la República: análisis de su visión política en la campaña presidencial 1944-1946
… Eliécer Gaitán, uno de los líderes políticos y populares más influyentes de Colombia y Latinoamérica en la primera mitad del siglo XX. A través de sus discursos orales, escritos y del periódico Jornada, diario oficial del gaitanismo, se analiza la campaña por la "Restauración Moral de la …