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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Why do some women choose to submit to their husbands in marriage? In anthropology, the paradox of ‘chosen submission’ has famously been explored by Saba Mahmood. Her work amongst Egyptian women donning the veil in the Islamic da'wa movement spotlights the notion of ‘piety’ to explore how devotion to God can act as a powerful motivator of human ...
Naomi Richman
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AIDS: A theological and pastoral response
Koers : Bulletin for Christian Scholarship, 1990 The anticipated A.I.D.S. crisis in Southern Africa presents an opportunity for the Christian church to respond positively rather than merely to react negatively. This requires both a theological understanding and a pastoral response. Theologically, A.I.D.
G. G. Miller
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Wounded healing and rape survivors in South Africa: Converting social pain to healing
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological StudiesGender-based violence (GBV), particularly rape, continues to be a deeply entrenched crisis in South Africa, with one in three women experiencing sexual or physical abuse in their lifetime.
Boitshepo A. Maine +2 more
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Anti‐Protestantism was one of the reasons for the revival of missions during the interwar period. By the 1960s, however, Protestants were less and less often mentioned as a threat to missionary efforts, and the decline in inter‐confessional tensions was increasingly considered a relic of the past.
Giacomo Canepa
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article develops the concept of environmental statecraft to study changing urban environmental politics in China and beyond. Our review of existing conceptions reveals a growing need to account for temporal and geographical complexity. Neoliberal conceptions of eco‐state restructuring are increasingly strained by contemporary geopolitical
Handuo Deng, Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang
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Marriage preparation practices in black South African churches: Experiences of married Christians
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological StudiesThe alarming disparity between South Africa’s marriage and divorce rates highlights a critical need for effective premarital counselling (PMC), especially given the research gap concerning the specific approaches used within the South African church ...
Gugu E. Ndlovu, Vhumani Magezi
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The Normative Turn: Back to Hobhouse?
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Supporters of a recently announced normative turn in sociology acknowledge that what they recommend is by no means entirely new. However, they have given little attention to an early precursor: the British sociologist Leonard Hobhouse. He focussed on the role of the normative in social life and insisted that sociology could, and must, play an ...
Martyn Hammersley
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A comparative demographic study of three Sahelian populations : marriage and child care as intermediate determinants of fertility and mortality. [PDF]
The literature on the demography of pastoral populations tends to consider pastor~lism as an independent determinant of the levels and patterns of fertility ~nd mortality. Despite a general lack of adequate data, there is a preoccupation with the low
Randall, Sara Claire
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Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Between 2018 and 2021, the Identification and Documentation of Immovable Heritage Assets (IDIHA) Project recorded over 19,000 rock art panels in the AlUla (al‐‘Ulā) region of north‐western Saudi Arabia. This study presents a chronological assessment of the corpus, drawing on superimpositions, datable motifs, inscriptions, and varnish formation,
Maria Guagnin +3 more
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, 2022 The lecture probes the state of contextualising Practical Theology and pastoral care in an African context against the background of persisting Western epistemologies and the decolonisation discourse.
Brunsdon, Alfred Richard
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