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Religion, Male Bisexuality and Sexual Risk in Lebanon
(Routledge, 2019-05-10)
The social position of bisexual men in Lebanon and in other Arab Middle Eastern societies is complex – on the one hand, bisexuality as a practice is silently tolerated but, on the other hand, bisexuality as an identity is ...
Israel in the Iranian Media: Demonizing the "Zionist Regime"
(2013)
Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, The Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) has espoused an official policy of anti-Zionism, which is frequently punctuated with blatant anti-Semitism. This paper examines the discursive manifestation ...
“Arabic is the language of the Muslims - that’s how it was supposed to be”: exploring language and religious identity through reflective accounts from young British-born Asians.
(Taylor and Francis, 2010)
This study explores how a group of young British-born South Asians understood and defined their religious and linguistic identities, focusing upon the role played by heritage languages and liturgical languages and by ...
Language and identity among British South Asians: a theoretical review.
(Springer, 2010)
Given the pervasiveness of language in social life and the implications that language use can have for one’s individual and collective identities, attempts were made to explore the theoretical and empirical advantages in ...
Public perception of shale gas extraction in the UK: How people's views are changing
(2013)
Global energy consumption is forecast to increase at an average annual rate of 1.6 % over the next two decades with total consumption rising from 504.7 to 769.8 quads between 2008 and 2035, according to EIA figures.1 ...
Metaphors we die by? Geoengineering, metaphors and the argument from catastrophe
(Taylor and Francis, 2012)
Geoengineering the climate by reflecting sunlight or extracting carbon dioxide from the atmo- sphere has attracted increasing attention from natural scientists, social scientists, policy makers and the media. This article ...
Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism in Iran
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
Anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism constitute two important ideological building blocks of the Islamic Republic of Iran, yet there is no existing research into the psychosocial motives underlying the institutional manifestation ...
Coping with perceived ethnic prejudice on the gay scene
(Taylor and Francis, 2017-02-02)
There has been only cursory research into the sociological and psychological aspects of ethnic/racial discrimination among ethnic minority gay and bisexual men, and none that focuses specifically upon British ethnic minority ...
Coping with religious and cultural homophobia: emotion and narratives of identity threat from British Muslim gay men
(Ashgate, 2012)
The chapter begins with an overview of identity process theory (Breakwell 1986), a socio-psychological theory of identity construction, threat and coping, and the conceptual inter-relations between religious/cultural ...
The Experience of Relationship Dissolution among British Asian Gay Men: Identity Threat and Protection
(Springer, 2014-12-09)
Relationship dissolution has generally been associated with decreased psychological well-being, but little is known about how ethnic and religious minority gay men experience and cope with relationship dissolution. This ...
