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Islamic Public Administration in Practice: The Taliban's “Gender Apartheid” Governance in Afghanistan

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyzes the Taliban's post‐2021 governance model through the Islamic Public Administration (IPA) framework, focusing on justice, equality, and women's inclusion. It asks: (1) How does the Taliban's governance align with core IPA principles?
Parwiz Mosamim   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Administering an Islamic Public Value by a Non‐Muslim Agency: The UNHCR Refugee Zakat Fund

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The post‐Arab Spring conflicts generated large‐scale displacement across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), producing acute humanitarian needs among predominantly Muslim refugee populations. The United Nations High Commissioner to refugees responded by opening the Refugee Zakat Fund, to be used to mobilize the Islamic philanthropic ...
Abdulfatah Said Mohamed
wiley   +1 more source

Theology, imagination and Scottish literature [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Alison Jack uses works of Scottish literature, both classic and contemporary, as a way into McIntyre's exposition of faith, theology and imagination in a distinctly Scottish context.Publisher ...
Jack, Alison
core   +1 more source

Christian School Leaders' Perspectives on Student Mental Health: A Mixed Methods Study

open access: yesPsychology in the Schools, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This convergent parallel mixed methods study examined private Christian school leaders' perceptions of student mental health needs and their schools' capacity to address those needs. Participants included 164 private Christian school leaders who completed a survey; 10 of these leaders participated in semi‐structured interviews.
Madeline E. Pettit   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Discovery theology: reflecting people by the Tay [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
George Gammack’s paper emerges from the context of his ministry in the Whitfield area of Dundee. He describes a parish marked by significant levels of deprivation and seeks ways in which to forge a theology relevant to such an environment.
Gammack, George
core   +1 more source

Doing situated theology : Introductory remarks about the history, method, and diversity of contextual theology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The notion of “contextual theology” has a long history, beginning with its gradual introduction in the “Fund for Theological Education”. Theology takes place as doing theology within contexts.
Vähäkangas, Mika   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Madrasa Ideologies of English in Bangladesh: Questioning ELT‐Aid and Post‐9/11 De‐Islamization

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract External donors increasingly promote English as a notionally value‐neutral language of socioeconomic advancements in the Muslim South, overlooking local ideological diversities. Furthermore, national and Western forces deploy English as a tool to de‐Islamize madrasas (Islamic educational institutes) in the post‐9/11 world for global peace ...
Qumrul Hasan Chowdhury
wiley   +1 more source

Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
wiley   +1 more source

The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
wiley   +1 more source

Towards a Biblical Theology of Missions in Western Africa

open access: yesConspectus, 2023
This article suggests a paradigm for a biblical theology of missions in Africa. The research was prompted by the observation that previous theological designs and models have laid emphasis on effectiveness and issues of identity.
Jiofack Kana C. Jésus
doaj   +1 more source

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