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AUTHOR
Frank Jacob
Religion and Politics
Religious beliefs often determine the life within communities. Therefore, religion often also has political implications and the interrelationship between politics and religiously motivated considerations play an important role for the daily life of many people around the globe. Very often, political leaders also tie their own measures and their respective interpretation to some kind of religious mission or interpretation of the past as well as the future. It is therefore more than important to take a closer look at the intertwined relationship between religion and politics. This issue of Global Humanities intends to do that and therefore spans different geographical and chronological conte…
Food Porn
Global Humanities, a biannual, interdisciplinary, and peer-reviewed journal in the humanities that is now available for open access (https://altija.com/global-humanities/) is calling for paper proposals for Volume 6, which will deal with food porn, a phenomenon mostly related to social media and the idea of sharing images of food with friends and the broader world. The phenomenon of food porn offers multiple approaches for the humanities, why we are interested in, but not limited by, the following topics: food porn semiotics food porn identities food porn practices food porn and class consciousness historical perspectives on food porn (pre-social media) food porn and social media