Studia ethnologica Croatica, Vol.30 No.1
Published: December 2018.
Category: English
Studia ethnologica Croatica, Vol.30 No.1
Published: December 2018.
Migration and Ethnic Themes, Vol.34 No.2
Published: August 2018.
Migration and Ethnic Themes, Vol.34 No.2
Published: August 2018.
How to Download the Divine
The Chinese born spiritual teacher “Dr. Zhi Gang Sha” makes up part of a growing global healers market and provides various techniques of purported ancient Chinese origin in his centres in Canada and in Europe. Most of his teachings belong t…
Discovering Buddhism Online
The study investigates how tenets, meanings and practices of Tibetan Buddhism are re-contextualized by non-Tibetan students of online courses offered by a major Tibetan Buddhist organization. The research adopts transcultural and translocal …
VR Mediated Content and Its Influence on Religious Beliefs
This article discusses technical features and perspectives of current “Virtual Reality” (VR) technologies and their potential impact on religious beliefs. The arising questions should be assessed in regard to the use of hard- and software de…
Cloud Strife: The Intertestamental Hero
This article focuses on the differentiation between the two representations of Cloud Strife in Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. Investigating the presentation of the imagery of the hero, this article uncovers the asp…
Video Games Facilitating Discussions of Good and Bad Religion
Religion has often been a theme involving contradictory positions in popular culture. Whether we comprehend religion as explicit implications within products of popular culture, such as recognizable characters from known religions or through…
“Black-eyed Bastard”
Dishonored is not only one of the most popular and original game series on the market, but from a religious point of view it has one of the most complex and original fictional belief systems. A character that particularly stands out is the O…
Etnološka istraživanja, No.23
Izdano: prosinca 2018.
Etnološka istraživanja, Vol. No.23
Izdano: prosinca 2018.
CAES Vol. 4, № 4
Editor’s foreword Articles: Comparing Çatalhöyük with the palace of Knossos by matrix-vector method Alexander Akulov Çatalhöyük and the palace of Knossos look much alike: they both seem to be samples of the same architectural tradition. Matrix-vector method represents the plan of any building as a 3D vector and allows estimating degree of resemblance of any […]
Migration and Ethnic Themes, Vol.34 No.1
Published: April 2018.
Migration and Ethnic Themes, Vol.34 No.1
Published: April 2018.
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19 | 2018 – Caste-Gender Intersections in Contemporary India
Introduction. Debating Intersectionalities: Challenges for a Methodological Framework [Full text]
Supurna Banerjee and Nandini Ghosh
Towards a Horticultural Society: Class, Caste and Masculiniti…
19 | 2018 – Caste-Gender Intersections in Contemporary India
Introduction. Debating Intersectionalities: Challenges for a Methodological Framework [Full text]
Supurna Banerjee and Nandini Ghosh
Towards a Horticultural Society: Class, Caste and Masculiniti…
Beyond Utopia: Building Socialism Within and After Capitalism
The article focuses on several figures who are particularly interesting in terms of identifying a radical critique of capitalism that does not shrink from the possibility of designing and imaging a different future. Following Michael Löwy, in our study…
After Work: Anticipatory Knowledge on Post-Scarcity Futures in John Barness Thousand Cultures Tetralogy
What would happen if we could create societies with an abundance of goods and services created by cutting-edge technology, making manual wage labour unnecessary – what has been labelled societies with a post-scarcity economy. What are the pros and cons…
Marginalized Bodies of Imagined Futurescapes: Ableism and Heteronormativity in Science Fiction
This article aims to contribute to an understanding of marginalized bodies in science fiction narratives by analyzing how physical disability and homosexuality/bisexuality have been depicted in popular science fiction film and television. Specifically,…
Hopeful Extinctions? Tesla, Technological Solutionism and the Anthropocene
Over thirty years since Jean-Francois Lyotard declared the death of metanarratives, we currently find two apparently incompatible discourses that dominate imagined planetary futures. On the one hand, we encounter a metanarrative of technological progre…
On the Pending Robot Revolution and the Utopia of Human Agency
A hallmark of modernist thought is the belief in science and technology as a socially revolutionary force. Consequently, new technologies have often been sequenced by pictures of another world to be. The birth of electronic data processing (EDP) was no…
Critical Future Studies – A thematic Introduction
Our 2017 essay “Beyond Capitalist Realism – Why We Need Critical Future Studies” (Goode & Godhe 2017), published in this journal, was intended as both a provocation and an invitation to scholars concerned with the ways in which cultural texts not o…
Life, but not as we know it: A.I. and the popular imagination
Advances in artificial intelligence (A.I.) are prompting a growing chorus of both excitement and anxiety. A.I. is widely perceived as a significant emerging and future-shaping technological field that is developing at an accelerating rate. As such, fut…