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Is There a Right to Choose a Religious Jurisdiction over the Civil Courts? The Application of Sharia Law in the Minority in Western Thrace, Greece

Religions, 2019
The minority in Western Thrace, Greece, has long enjoyed a special status where family and inheritance matters were subject to Sharia law and religious jurisdiction (Mufti). After judicial controversy for many years over the compulsory character of this &
Eleni Kalampakou
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Challenges to effective and autonomous genetic testing and counseling for ethno-cultural minorities: a qualitative study

BMC Medical Ethics, 2020
Background The Arab population in Israel is a minority ethnic group with its own distinct cultural subgroups. Minority populations are known to underutilize genetic tests and counseling services, thereby undermining the effectiveness of these services ...
Nehama Cohen-Kfir, Miriam Ethel Bentwich, Andrew Kent, Nomy Dickman, Mary Tanus, Basem Higazi, Limor Kalfon, Mary Rudolf, Tzipora C. Falik-Zaccai   +8 more
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Confessional Coexistence in the Habsburg Netherlands

BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, 2021
For decades, early modern historians have stressed the religious differences between the Dutch Republic and the Habsburg Netherlands. The former is usually represented as a tolerant Reformed state, while the latter is represented as a repressive ...
Roman Roobroeck
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Muslim Minority in Yogyakarta: Between Social Relationship and Religious Motivation

, 2019
This study aimed to investigate the relationship between minority Muslim families and those of non-Muslims in Banjarasri, Kalibawang, Kulon Progo Yogyakarta; and to find out the religious diversity motivation of the Muslim families.
Idi Warsah, Yusron Masduki, I. Imron, Mirzon Daheri, Ruly Morganna   +4 more
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Constitution, Policy and Religion: Theorizing Non-Economic Dimension of Exploitation in Religious Minorities

Genealogy
This study developed a model of non-economic exploitation using Marxian theory and Bourdieusian methods. A survey of 275 respondents from Hindu, Sikh, and Christian minorities in Pakistan assessed religious, cultural, and social exploitation.
Shahzad Farid, Muhammad Fareed, Majid Raza, Ahmad Faizuddin   +3 more
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Conceptualization of Religious Belonging of Christian Youth in Higher Education

Journal of Islamic Thought and Civilization, 2019
A phenomenological study was conducted to explore the lived experience of Christian students in HEC recognized private Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to find out how the religious belonging of Christian youth influences their lives within their ...
Amna Farooq, Tayyaba Sohail
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Positive and negative religious coping as predictors of distress among minority older adults

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2018
The study replicated and extended previous findings by investigating relationships between positive and negative religious coping and psychological distress in minority older adults.
Brittany O'Brien, S. Shrestha, M. Stanley, K. Pargament, Jeremy P. Cummings, M. Kunik, Terri L. Fletcher, J. Cortés, David J Ramsey, A. Amspoker   +9 more
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Poland and the Silesians : Minority rights à la carte? [PDF]

, 2013
The Silesians are an ethnic or national group that coalesced in the nineteenth century. During the subsequent century, they survived repeated divisions of their historical region of Upper Silesia among the nation-states of Czechoslovakia (or today its ...
Kamusella, Tomasz Dominik
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Protecting Civil Rights Amidst Rising Illiberalism in Indonesia’s Democracy: State’s Response to Sharia-Based Violence Against Shi’a Groups

Ulumuna, 2020
This article examines the local government and state representation in response to religious violence against Shi’a minority groups. Intensive scholarly debates on this issue have ignited, especially on what made the government showed an exclusive ...
M Khusna Amal
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The Future Relations between the Majority and Minority Religious Groups, Viewed from Indonesian Contemporary Perspective: A Case Study of the Coexistence of Muslims and the Towani Tolotang in Amparita, South Sulawesi

, 2019
The topic of relations of several religious groups in the world from different perspectives has been a hot issue among researchers and stakeholders.
H. Jubba, M. Pabbajah, Zainuddin H. Prasodjo, Zuli Qodir   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source