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The Vicissitudes of the Nafs: Madness, Paralysis, and the Work of Transgression in Sufi Ethics
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How should we theorize Sufi ethics when the practice of zikr (remembrance) that leads to spiritual enlightenment (tazkiyya) might also bring one to the brink of majzubiyat (madness)? What forms of regulation or restraint are imagined or enacted by practitioners to prevent spiritual boundlessness from perverting into its underside of paralysis (
Muhammad Osama Imran
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Caring for piety: doing Muslim among Hui people in contemporary China
Journal of Contemporary East Asia StudiesThis study examines how Hui Muslims have attempted to become pious Muslims under the influence of rapid social change and the Islamic revival in the post-Mao era, focusing on their practices of piety in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China.
Masashi Nara
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Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Contemporary rural change in Southeast Asia is shaped by complex, intersecting forces that defy simplistic narratives. Researchers must therefore develop new ways to grasp nuanced, non‐linear, and locally specific processes to understand how transformational shifts may occur (or not) in the region.
John F. McCarthy +2 more
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The Role of Religion in Personal and Public Beh avior of Students of Sharif University [PDF]
Islām va ̒ulūm-i ijtimā̒īMany sociologists believe that the process of modernization in developing countries leads to secularization of individuals and religion, that is, religion loses its social role in shaping and normalizing affairs of public domain and enters into the ...
Mohammad Hossein Badamchi
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Acta PsychologicaFilial piety is widely recognized as a key family value in Chinese society, less is known about how it relates to adolescents' prosocial behaviour.
Xiaoling He +4 more
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, 2019 First I will briefly touch upon Aquinas use of moral examples inside and outside the Summa. Second I will make the argument that moral exemplars contribute to our understanding of moral action in general, and we will note earlier scholarship to making this case. Here insights from sociology corroborate the claims of theologians.
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The Biblical World, 1915 genial atmosphere that have involved it in grave difficulties. By thrusting an opaque world between God and man it has, in a measure, screened God off from us and made him seem remote and inaccessible, whereas the Bible and the old theologians bring God near and make him vital and warm to us, our very breath and life.
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Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the experiences of children who live in skipped generation households because of parental migration. Drawing on our matched interviews with 34 children and 20 grandparents from 19 skipped generation households in rural Hunan, central China, we examine what the children wanted significant adults to know about their care ...
Rachel Murphy, Li Mi, Xiaoyan Huang
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Bioethics and the World Order: A Curious Coincidence Between Chinese and African Approaches
Developing World Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The post‐1945 world order is standardly pictured as a Westphalian system, in which each state is equal under the law with sovereign authority over its territories. This paper argues that the Westphalian system is changing and examines the implications for bioethics. We show that cross‐border health, economic, ecologic, and sociopolitical risks
Nancy S. Jecker +2 more
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