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Islam and Online Piety in Bangladesh

open access: yesIJISH (International Journal of Islamic Studies and Humanities), 2020
Due to various social advancements, Bangladesh has become more welcoming to digital technologies. Thus, a significant online community is flourishing here. Almost half of the country’s entire population uses the internet.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman
doaj   +1 more source

“It’s Not Doctrine, This Is Just How It Is Happening!”: Religious Creativity in the Time of COVID-19

open access: yesReligions, 2021
Drawing on thirty in-depth interviews with faith leaders in the UK (including Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, and Sikhism), we examine the diverse ways religious groups reorient religious life during COVID-19.
Lea Taragin-Zeller, Edward Kessler
doaj   +1 more source

"Cyberising" God: A Theo-Phenomenological Investigation of Religion Online and Online Religion

open access: yesDINIKA : Academic Journal of Islamic Studies, 2016
A strong demand to rejuvenate the package of religion becomes inevitable consequence of current globalization era which is marked by the emerging of the giant network of networks, the Internet. By its high user and penetration number, the Internet creates some significant appropriations in the current society’s social and religious lives.
openaire   +1 more source

“It's Not Deterministic and It Will Never Be Deterministic”: A Qualitative Study on Stakeholder Perspectives of Polygenic Risk Score Testing for Post‐Traumatic Stress Disorder

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) causes significant mental and physical distress, yet only a small subset of individuals exposed to trauma develop the disorder. Scientists and clinicians are still unable to predict who will get the disorder or how it will manifest.
Brandy M. Fox
wiley   +1 more source

Angels and the Digital Afterlife: Death and Nonreligion Online

open access: yesSecularism and Nonreligion, 2019
This brief article aims to draw the attention of nonreligion researchers to a growing interdisciplinary research field: the study of death online. In digitally networked societies, the dead are remembered online, and their survivors can use digital ...
Tim Hutchings
doaj   +1 more source

Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source

FRAMING NEWS ON RELIGION AND LIVING ENVIRONMENT IN ONLINE MEDIA

open access: yesJurnal Komunikasi, 2019
In some decades, we have encountered complex and multi-global situation. The crisis has appeared more multifarious, time by time. Some authors and media indicate religion as the crucial factor should be involved to overcome this problem.
Vanesa Bella Sadmego, Muchammad Nasucha
doaj   +1 more source

The Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Workforce in Early Childhood Education: Findings From a National Survey of Australian Centre‐Based Services

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Culturally responsive early childhood education (ECE) environments can increase child and family participation, enhance service quality, and improve developmental outcomes for children. Educators from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds contribute to inclusive ECE and are crucial for addressing workforce shortages.
Sene Gide   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strengthening Treaty Understanding: The Role of Education in Building Durable Indigenous–State Agreements

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Education is a central mechanism for ensuring that Indigenous–State treaties are understood, supported and endure through political change. Public knowledge shapes the negotiation, acceptance, implementation and long‐term stability of agreements. In Australia, however, treaty knowledge remains fragmented.
Jacob Prehn, Harry Hobbs, Jessica Horton
wiley   +1 more source

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