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Aboagora - Between Arts and Sciences

open access: yesApproaching Religion, 2011
The editorial note presents the journal and the current issue. The purpose of this e-journal is to contribute to the plurality of voices in the academic discussion on religion.
Ruth Illman
doaj   +1 more source

Managing the environmental crisis in Ghana: The role of African traditional religion and culture—A case study of Berekum traditional area [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This thesis examines the connection between traditional religio-cultural beliefs and practices and environmental problems in Ghana using Berekum Traditional Society as a case study.
Awuah-Nyamekye, Samuel
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What works in internal alternative provision? A salutogenic analysis

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Schools across England are setting up ‘internal alternative provision’ to meet the social, emotional and mental health needs of increasing numbers of pupils at risk of suspension, exclusion and absence. However, there is little guidance about what good practice looks like.
Emma Simpson
wiley   +1 more source

Bad Religion as False Religion: An Empirical Study of UK Religious Education Teachers’ Essentialist Religious Discourse

open access: yesReligions, 2018
We argue that there is a well-intentioned—yet mistaken—definitional turn within contemporary cultural discourse in which ‘true’ religion, being essentially loving and peaceful, is distinguished from ‘false’ religion ...
David R. Smith, Graeme Nixon, Jo Pearce
doaj   +1 more source

The Salman Rushdie controversy, religious plurality and established religion in England [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
This thesis argues that the Salman Rushdie controversy has a range of "entails" which focus and contribute to the need for a reconsideration of the complex constitutional nexus of religion, society and state currently embodied in the establishment of ...
Weller, P.G., Weller, Paul Gareth
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Is the well‐known phrase ‘small is beautiful’ true of small transnational education institutions?

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The purpose of this research is to consider the potential attractiveness of operating a small international branch campus (IBC). Drawing upon resource‐based and legitimacy theories, we examine the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats associated with the business model that is based on having a small institution size.
Stephen Wilkins, Joe Hazzam
wiley   +1 more source

Online Religion as Lived Religion. Methodological Issues in the Study of Religious Participation on the Internet [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
In his article Christopher Helland proposes a more comprehensive framework for his theoretical distinction for online religion and religion online. When he developed this typology in 1999, Helland recognized a clear distinction between religious Web ...
Helland, Christopher
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Hong Kong's non‐local undergraduate recruitment: Policies, institutional practices and student perspectives

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Beneath the Hong Kong government's enthusiasm for recruiting non‐local undergraduates—including students from the Chinese Mainland and other international regions—lies a longstanding gap in understanding the core meanings and drivers shaping the territory's expanding focus on inward international student mobility (ISM).
Fang Gao   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Teaching Asian Religions through the Internet—How Online Representations Interact with Dynamics of Eurocentrism, Orientalism, and Confessionalism in the Case of Italian Teaching of Catholic Religion

open access: yesReligions
The religions of South and East Asia resist Eurocentric interpretations, such as the so-called World Religion Paradigm. However, they are subjected in various ways to hetero- and auto-orientalist representations that respond to Western ideals and ...
Giovanni Lapis
doaj   +1 more source

Review of Religion and Friendly Fire [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This is a review (5 pages) of D.Z. Phillips' book "Religion and Friendly Fire. Examining Assumptions in Contemporary Philosohpy of Religion", Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004, written by request from Ars ...
Appelros, Erica,, Lund University.
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