🏺 Archaic Religions 🏛 Pre-Modern Epidemics 🦠 Computational Historiography 🧮 Historian of religion & PhD student @municedrr.bsky.social. Also QA/QE.
Anestis Karasaridis
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A new encyclical dropped just a few days ago 🔥
Funny how it condemns the idolatry of profit while still calling unemployment a "grave evil". If AI can do the work better, but forced unemployment is a "grave evil," how much profit-seeking is actually acceptable?
💸 Unlike hazards or pandemics, economic downturns offer almost no cohesive phase. They immediately expose and widen inequalities (asymmetries), making them systematically detrimental to social cohesion from the start.
Eifert landed just 12 punches in the whole fight with Bivol 🫢
www.ringmagazine.com/events/bivol...
🪖 Wars create the most extreme polarization: they forge the strongest bonds of in-group solidarity out of pure survival necessity, but simultaneously generate the most destructive divisions through outgroup hostility and internal suspicion.
you guys know that not recognizing them doesn't make them disappear? 🤭
🌋🦠 Natural hazards and pandemics tend to follow a similar trajectory, initially bringing people together due to immediate shared threats, but ultimately drive them apart as the crisis drags on and resources or patience wear thin.
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New paper by @martinlangcz.bsky.social et al.!
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Atop El Castillo, Chichen Itza's largest pyramid, stand two ruined columns that once portrayed the feathered serpent deity K’uk’ulkan. 3D-imaging technologies have identified scattered fragments of these columns, enabling digital reconstruction.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
Antiquity Journal
Can distant conflict increase religiosity?
Led by R. Chvaja, we found that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was associated with increased religious engagement in nearby countries, but in different groups: mainly among the religious in Czechia, and among the non-religious in Poland.
shorturl.at/euxSh
Martin Lang
New Perspective in the journal:
Social cohesion in crises depends on how much people depend on each other and the government, the (un)equality of these dependencies, and whether people’s interests conflict or align.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
This Perspective puts forward the view that social cohesion in crises depends on how much people depend on each other and the government, the (un)equality of these dependencies, and whether people’s i...
