Feelings Within the UK Bahá’í Faith About the Potential Contribution of Their Faith to the Unity of Humankind. [PDF]
This paper is an investigation conducted with members of the Bahá’í Faith (BF) community in the UK. The contributor is not a Bahá’í but has researched Bahá’í literature and practice over the past 8 years and has close links with regional and national ...
Bigger, Stephen
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The U.S. Coptic Diaspora and the Limit of Polarization [PDF]
After briefly presenting the main characteristics of the Coptic diaspora in the United States and of its attempts at gaining political clout since the 1990s, the article examines the impact of the election of President Obama and of the 2011 Egyptian ...
Marzouki, Nadia
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The New Urban Spiritual? Tentative Framings for a Debate and a Project [PDF]
, 2011 AHRC-funded project 'The Urban Spiritual: Placing Spiritual Practices in Context' (AH/H009108/1), Working Paper ...
Cadman, Louisa +2 more
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Faith, Community and Civic Action: Reflections on the Organized Religion Initiative [PDF]
, 2006 Evaluates how well six California faith-based institutions used community organizing to pull immigrant and low-income communities into more active involvement with political and civic leadership and participation activities, between 1996 ...
David Scheie, Nan Kari
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Aldous Huxley: a beginner's guide
, 2012 Author of Brave New World and The Doors of Perception, and inventor of the term 'psychedelic', Aldous Huxley was a global trend-setter ahead of his time.
O'Hara, Kieron
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Visualisation, Story And Metaphor As Tools To Build Self-Belief And Moral Awareness. An Ethnographic Case Study With Disengaged Pupils. [PDF]
This case study of the Swindon Youth Empowerment Project 2001-2007, explores personal and social transformations when young people are encouraged to talk through their life choices conceptually using visualisation, symbol and metaphor.
Bigger, Stephen
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Unveiling the Veil Ban Dilemma: Turkey and Beyond [PDF]
, 2013 This article examines Turkey’s veil ban policy, which has been in place since the 1980s. The dilemma is whether Muslim-veil bans impinge on the rights of expression and religion at both national and international levels or, whether states may legally ...
Piatti-Crocker, Adriana, Tasch, Laman
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China’s Religious Danwei: Institutionalising Religion in the People’s Republic [PDF]
, 2009 This article is a study of the continuities and changes in the state-led institutionalisation of religion in the PRC from 1979 to 2009 and their effects on the structuring of China’s religious field.
Palmer, DA
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A Socio Religious Analysis of Suicides and its Impact on Economic Development [PDF]
The aim of this paper is to gaining deeper insight into the reasons and consequences of condemned suicidal act from the socio-religious point of view and its impact on the economic development of a society.
Aijaz Ali Wassan +2 more
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Politics of Religious Freedom: Contested Genealogies [PDF]
, 2014 Danchin, Peter G, Mahmood, Saba
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