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Administrative Traditions of the Majority World: A Commentary and Future Research Agenda
Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Decolonising public administration is an urgent and necessary endeavour. In this short article we argue that we cannot, however, settle for shallow decolonialisations. We argue that the specific iterations of bureaucracy evidenced in post‐colonial states across the majority world can be conceptualised through the lens of administrative ...
Ibrahim Bornoma +2 more
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Against Freedom of Commercial Expression [PDF]
, 2006 An article that announces itself in the title as “against freedom” has a heavy burden of persuasion to carry. At this time and in this place, it seems almost un-American to be “against freedom,” (however much our civil liberties have in fact been ...
Piety, Tamara R.
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Australian Journal of Islamic Studies, 2023 Much has been written about Islamic piety from anthropological and sociological perspectives. However, Islamic impiety has yet to be theorised, which is interesting given how widespread it is in Muslim-majority countries. This article argues that it is essential to examine and theorise impiety because the lives of believers constitute pious and impious
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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
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Engellilerin Engelliliğe Bakışı ve Dine Yaklaşımları
Cumhuriyet İlahiyat Dergisi, 2018 Sanayileşme, nüfus artışı ve yaşlılık gibi olgular engelliliği daha görünür hale getirmiştir. Engelliler ile ilgili toplumsal duyarlılığın oluşması ve bizzat engellilerin bu konudaki düşüncelerinin öğrenilmesi önemlidir.
Vehbi Ünal
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Socrates, Piety, and Nominalism [PDF]
, 2009 The argument used by Socrates to refute the thesis that piety is what all the gods love is one of the most well known in the history of philosophy. Yet some fundamental points of interpretation have gone unnoticed.
Rudebusch, George
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The Non-Aristotelian Virtue of Truth from the Second-Person Perspective [PDF]
, 2013 The claim has been made that when Aquinas speaks about the virtue of truth and its opposing vices in the Summa theologiae 2-2.109-113, he regards himself as speaking of the same virtue of truth as found in the Nicomachean Ethics 4.7.
Pinsent, Andrew
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Anthropologists, in common with social theorists more generally, have often understood social life as an emergent phenomenon grounded in practices of creativity and improvisation. Where stasis and continuity feature, these are often presented as illusory manifestations of underlying processes of ‘invention’, or as external impositions upon otherwise ...
Paolo Heywood, Thomas Yarrow
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Vekkelser i et samfunnsperspektiv [PDF]
Norsk Tidsskrift for Misjonsvitenskap, 2019 Revivals in a political-cultural perspective. The pietistic revivals in Norway, beginning with the lay preacher Hans Nielsen Hauge just before the 19th Century, were structured by the religious policy of the king of Denmark-Norway.
Bernt Torvild Oftestad
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Mapping Muslim Moral Provinces: Framing Feminized Piety of Pakistani Diaspora
Religions, 2021 Over the last two decades we have seen a proliferation in the number of self-proclaimed Islamic scholars preaching piety to Muslim women. An emerging few of these scholars gaining prominence happen to be women, feminizing what is predominantly a ...
Maryyum Mehmood
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