abst r act The last number of yearshasseen themushroomingof African Pentecostal churches, especially Prosperity Gospel churches, in the post-recession industrial landscapes of Ireland. This article aims to explore the growth of African Pentecostalism in Ireland from both the perspective of embodied and affective religious experience and the conditions for the possibility of those religious expe...

This paper presents a critical evaluation on the global riskscape following COVID-19 pandemic. The coronavirus disease spread around globe questioning priorities in public health policies as well economic adaptability to prevention measures. Spreading with social, political and costs societies, issue of pandemic exceeds limits being identified problem, becomes be catalyst new paradigm consid-er...

that gained speed in the nineteenth and twentieth century in the western world, a typical modernist practice of technology politics emerged. The concepts of modernization and modernity need to be handled with care, of course, since their use may easily lead to an identification with modernizers, actors who have invented and used these labels to advance their cause. In addition, using these conc...

For Niklas Luhmann the body seems to almost disappear in modernity. Modern society, he argues, is a system comprised of a number of operatively closed and functionally distinct sub-systems such as economics, science, law, the mass media and so on. Each system is autonomous and observes the world in its own terms via its internal communications. Thus, Luhmann’s sociology is generally characteriz...

The purpose of this study is to analyze the degree of globalization of important indicators of education system in Iran including teaching approaches, educational tools and facilities, curriculums and contents, and education management. Findings suggest that the situation of Iranian education system has some distance with the globalized level and post modernism and is more aligned with traditio...

This article peruses the discourse concerning European public sphere initiated by Habermas in early 1960s and assessments of arguments a variety commentators who have drawn attention to globalisation its multiplicity. In this context I suggest that notion must be understood relation concept 'viral modernity' including viral open media on one hand, technologies post-truth other which systematica...

THE VALUABLE EMPHASIS ON MODERNITY in colonial and postcolonial African studies has profoundly divided precolonial African history from what comes after. But the depth and complexity of African aspirations for moral community and the forms of collective action they inspire, often in the face of severe material constraints, exceed the explanatory power of narratives of modernity oriented toward ...

The point of departure is that the activities associated with the Internet are organizational and societal activities taking place within a given historical context. As such they can profit from sociological theories such as postmodemism. Postmodemism can be seen as a reaction to some signal failures of modernism and the modernity project. It is very much a socio-cultural and philosophical syst...

During the last two decades, discourses over the transition process shifted toward a theoretical diversity and a deeper understanding of ‘how modernity was reworked in postsocialist context’. It was widely argued that changing social relations were shaped not only by norms and institutions of Neoliberal capitalism, but also by established networks, institutional and regulatory structures and ac...