The recent years have seen a growing interest of scholars in the history right (non-revolutionary) wing Narodnichestvo (Populism), which was engaged cultural and educational activities interests people, personalities its prominent representatives. One such figures well-known publicist sociologist, researcher Old Believers sectarianism, who also studied state popular reading primary public educa...

Saudi Arabia and Iran are engaged in a strenuous competition the Middle East to protect promote their respective spheres of influence, each other’s detriment. This qualitative study traces structural sources this while taking cue from history. It argues that demise Saddam Hussein, Iraq’s plunging into civil war, Arab Spring leading violent movements Syria, Libya, Bahrain, Yemen accentuated Saud...

Abstract The early 17th-century Plantation of Ulster, in which the English Crown sought to plant loyal British colonists north Ireland, is commonly understood as overtly religious intent and action, viewed foundation for today’s divide between Protestant Catholic communities Northern Ireland. Archaeological documentary evidence complicates this straightforward narrative by demonstrating conside...

Abstract This article problematizes the study of religious nationalism, which lacks conceptual, religious, and nationalist “seriousness.” These problems “seriousness” obscure nature nationalism as they overstretch do not justice to concepts religion, respectively. Seeking for a path it is suggested that later writings İsmet Özel, well-known poet public intellectual in Turkey, make an emblematic...