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Madrasa Ideologies of English in Bangladesh: Questioning ELT‐Aid and Post‐9/11 De‐Islamization
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract External donors increasingly promote English as a notionally value‐neutral language of socioeconomic advancements in the Muslim South, overlooking local ideological diversities. Furthermore, national and Western forces deploy English as a tool to de‐Islamize madrasas (Islamic educational institutes) in the post‐9/11 world for global peace ...
Qumrul Hasan Chowdhury
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Laity and participation: a theology of being the church [PDF]
, 2002 The basic assumption of this thesis is that there should be a theology of the laity that is truly positive, ecumenical and catholic. The prime concern, therefore, is less with specific contents and more an exploration of the dimensions such a new ...
Höbel, Thomas
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Missionalia: Southern African Journal of Missiology, 2015 This article explores the relationship between kairos theology and public theology, placing a particular emphasis on kairos aspects such as contextuality, criticality and change.
Le Bruyns, CLint
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Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract This Forum Article integrates a range of four contributions which are all underpinned by the conviction that the rediscovery of the humanities may be beneficial to the field of public administration. The first piece examines the contribution that philosophy, as a key discipline of the humanities, can provide to the field of public ...
Edoardo Ongaro +5 more
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A Theology More Useful: Public Theology as Edification
International Journal of Public Theology, 2019 Abstract The article argues that Richard Rorty’s idea of edification should be adopted as the central approach of public theology. It begins by outlining Rorty’s definition of edification before exploring the argument in Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature which led to this definition.
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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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How should a public way of doing theology be approached?
, 1993 CITATION: Conradie, E. M. 1993. How should a public way of doing theology be approached?. Scriptura, 46:24-49, doi:10.7833/46-0-1637The original publication is available at http://scriptura.journals.ac.zaIn an attempt to discern some guidelines for the ...
Conradie, Ernst
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.In June 2023, the Laje River, located in the traditional territory of the Wari’ Indigenous people in Rondônia, Brazil, was declared a legal entity, an earth being, with rights, following the co‐ordinated action of an indigenous councillor and non‐indigenous activists.
Aparecida Vilaça
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Theology for Life: Doing Public Theology in Romania
Journal of Humanistic and Social Studies, 2017 This paper builds on my previous work, “God in Public: A Prolegomena to Public Theology in the Romanian Context,” where I made an argument for the need of public theology in the Romanian context and offered a brief introduction to
Corneliu Constantineanu
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
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