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Boundaries and Crossings: Religious Fluidity in Twenty-first Century India

PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 2022
Following Partition, newly independent India adopted a constitution based on secularism and rights for minorities. In recent years, under the Bharatiya Janata Paty government, this model of society has been steadily eroded and supplanted by one ...
Lola Sharon Davidson, Devleena Ghosh
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Saplings of significance: Nurturing cultural value of new tree plantings through participatory opportunities

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Tree‐planting initiatives are a crucial part of international sustainability and climate action efforts. Yet, many of these initiatives fail to achieve their long‐term sustainability and climate goals. The role of community value is an often‐overlooked factor in promoting the success of new tree plantings.
Claire L. Narraway, Eline van Remortel, Sophie B. Cowling, Divya Kumar, Hanna Mroczka, Emilija Rudzinskaite, Georgina Sturgeon, Sasha Woods, Daniel B. Hayhow   +8 more
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Diasporic Identity of Sikh Youth Among Jakarta's Multicultural Society

Sustainable Business and Society in Emerging Economies, 2023
Purpose: The presence of the Sikh religion in Indonesia, particularly in Jakarta, is a group of ethnic minorities among Jakarta's multicultural society. Recognizing Sikh followers is seen in their identity, which is distinguished by the use of 5K.
Erita Riski Putri, Dody S. Truna, Alamsyah   +2 more
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Can an Animation Improve Parents' Knowledge and How Does It Compare to Written Information? Development and Survey Evaluation of an Animation for Parents About Prenatal Sequencing

Prenatal Diagnosis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To develop and evaluate an animation for parents about prenatal sequencing. Methods A total of 428 participants who had been pregnant, or whose partner had been pregnant, in the past 24 months. Parents, patient organisation representatives and clinicians co‐designed the animation describing prenatal sequencing (pS). Participants were
Morgan Daniel, Hannah McInnes‐Dean, Wing Han Wu, Jane Fisher, Caroline Lafarge, Kerry Leeson‐Beevers, Celine Lewis, Sophie Peet, Dagmar Tapon, Sarah L. Wynn, Lyn S. Chitty, Melissa Hill, Michelle Peter   +12 more
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Shared Religious Soundscapes: Indian Rāga Music in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Devotion in South Asia

Religions, 2023
Music has played a central role in Indian religious experience for millennia. The origins of Indian music include the recitation of the sacred syllable OM and Sanskrit Mantras in ancient Vedic fire sacrifices.
Guy L. Beck
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Grace in Sikhism [PDF]

, 2010
As in all other religions there are two contrary streaming in Sikhism too. One teaches that meaning and value of human existence depends on the human works which we call the operative model.
Weber, Edmund
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Unlocking Financial Inclusion: The Dynamics of Bank Account Ownership in Urban Slums

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Financial inclusion is a key driver of sustainable development, contributing to poverty reduction (SDG 1), gender equality (SDG 5), and reduced inequalities (SDG 10). Despite extensive financial‐inclusion policies in India, residents of urban slums remain largely excluded from formal banking systems.
Davide Moro, Sivia Trentin, Lucia Dalla Pellegrina, Paolo Landoni   +3 more
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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What makes you not a Buddhist? : a preliminary mapping of values [PDF]

, 2012
This study sets out to establish which Buddhist values contrasted with or were shared by adolescents from a non-Buddhist population. A survey of attitude toward a variety of Buddhist values was fielded in a sample of 352 non-Buddhist schoolchildren aged ...
Adamson J., Andolina M. W., Assanangkornchai S., Banks J. A., Berliner D. C., Brewer J. D., Carnap R., Chakravarti S. S., Chamorro-Premuzic T., Choompolpaisal P., Clifford J., Clifford J., Cohen L., Cooper C., Crosby K., Cush D., De Silva P., Delmonico N., Denzin N. K., Erickson F., Fane R. S., Francis L. J., Francis L. J., Francis L. J., Francis L. J., Francis L. J., Furlong J., Garrison J. W., Glaser B. G., Glock C. Y., Hartas D., Hofstede G., Hood R. W., Hubbard J., Jackson R., Jackson R., Kay W. K., Kelly G. J., Kemp S., Khyentse D. J., Kluckhohn C., Loundon S., Loundon S., Maltby J., Pennington D., Phra Nicholas Thanissaro, Popper K. R., Pupatana S., Qualifications and Curriculum Authority [QCA], Rogers P., Scotton B. W., Smart N., Smart N., Smith D. L., Smith W. C., SPSS Inc, Thananart M., Thanissaro P. N., Thanissaro P. N., Thanissaro P. N., Thanissaro P. N., Thanissaro P. N., Tooley J., Tori C. D., Wallace B. A.   +64 more
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South Asian Bodies at British Borders in the 1970s: From the Ugandan Asian ‘Stateless Husbands’ to ‘Virginity Testing’

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘virginity test’ performed on Mrs K at Heathrow Airport in 1979.
Antara Datta, Jinal Parekh
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