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Dancing Ambiguity: Nora and the Politics of Cultural Nationalisation in Southern Thailand

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines Nora, a traditional dance‐drama from southern Thailand, through its designation as UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage (2021) and the Thai government's recognition of its performers as National Artists (2018, 2021). It situates these actions within Thailand's cultural nationalisation.
Goeun Kim
wiley   +1 more source

Transparent Artificial Intelligence in Theology Classrooms: Ethical and Pedagogical Insights of the Apertus Model for Religious Education

open access: yesTeaching Theology &Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how openness in AI design influences theological learning in religious education (RE). Drawing on Zizioulas's theology of personhood and Floridi's information ethics and aligned with the Greek upper‐secondary RE curriculum, an open‐source multilingual model (Apertus) is compared with a proprietary system (GPT‐5).
Christos Papakostas
wiley   +1 more source

Distorting Extremism through Acceptability and Exploring Hindu Cultural Celebrations in Jember, Indonesia

open access: yesJournal of Islamic Civilization
Religious extremism poses a significant threat to peace and social stability, particularly in Indonesia, where religious intolerance and violence are on the rise.
Nurul Widyawati Islami Rahayu   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A TRADITION OF INTERFAITH NYADRAN AS A MODEL OF PERSERVING SOSIAL HARMONY

open access: yesJournal of Asian Orientation in Theology, 2022
This qualitative research with a phenomenological approach aims to describe nyadran as a tradition that is a means for the community to preserve a harmonious life together. Used observation and interview methods to collect data related to the nyadran ceremony. Observations were carried out to get an idea of the process of the nyadran ceremony.
openaire   +1 more source

Interfaith Espousal: Islamic Appraisal of Religio-cultural and Socio-economic Compatibility [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Islam proscribes marriage with non-believers but approves interfaith marriage of a Muslim man with a woman of the book: Christian and Jewish. Primarily, marriage in Islam is considered an instrumental tool that regulates affairs between sexes in favor of
Dr. Kosar Niazi
core   +1 more source

Validation of the Marital Offense‐Specific Forgiveness Scale (MOFS): Invariance Measurement Across Christian and Muslim Couples in Germany

open access: yesPersonal Relationships, Volume 33, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Forgiveness is a critical factor in marital stability and satisfaction, particularly within religiously diverse societies where interpretations of relational offenses may differ. This study assessed the measurement invariance of the Marital Offense‐Specific Forgiveness Scale (MOFS) across Muslim and Christian adults in Germany.
Arezoo Ziaei   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Managing socio-religious expectations in an intimate space : examining Muslim-interfaith marriage amongst working class communities in Cape Town [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This study investigates how marriage norms are negotiated and constructed in the context of Muslim-interfaith marriage amongst those from primarily working class communities in Cape Town.
Abrahams, Naasiha
core   +1 more source

Conflict Management Strategies Among Cohabiting Undergraduate Students in Ilorin, Nigeria

open access: yesConflict Resolution Quarterly, Volume 44, Issue 1, Page 5-17, Fall 2026.
ABSTRACT Conflicts among cohabiting partners are often more complex or intractable because their relationships are not formalized culturally or institutionally. The inability to resolve conflicts among cohabiting partners may threaten their safety and well‐being.
Lanre Abdul‐Rasheed Sulaiman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Defining Reconciliation Studies: Theoretical and Practical Dimensions

open access: yesConflict Resolution Quarterly, Volume 44, Issue 1, Page 89-100, Fall 2026.
ABSTRACT Reconciliation studies (RS) has become increasingly influential in understanding alternative views to ending conflict and dealing with the aftermath. As a discipline or field, however, it is not well defined. The actual usefulness of reconciliation (as a concept), or of RS (as a discipline), is debated, and due to its growing usage, it is ...
Colleen Alena O’Brien
wiley   +1 more source

Building social and religious harmony for students in Indonesia: study of interfaith harmony forum’s role of Malang, East Java [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Social conflict between students from a number of universities in Malang city 2014-2016, due to lack of awareness of the values of religious harmony, i.e.tolerance, equality, and cooperation.
Sumbulah, Umi, Purnomo, Agus
core   +5 more sources

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