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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Hindus"”.
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Understanding Hindus' and Muslims' solutions for peace in Gujarat, India
… of peace and their solutions for peace between Hindus and Muslims in Gujarat, India. The study also focused on peacebuilding efforts after the Hindu-Muslim violence in Gujarat in 2002.Members of a local NGO collaborated on the project by acting as gatekeepers in the field. Semi-structured …
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The politics of representation in Indian media: implications of the portrayal of Hindus and minority groups
… ideology, demanding a Hindu nation for Hindus. In its endeavor to understand this complex issue it focuses on India’s two national news networks – Aaj Tak in Hindi, the country’s most popular news broadcaster, and Headlines Today, a leading English-language network – locating their ways …
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Anointing the airwaves : the influence of Charismatic televangelism on the Protestant church and Hindu community in contemporary, urban India
… dress code and western dancing. The high-caste Hindus are resistant to any form of Christian evangelism including televangelism. Besides caste, class, language and gender, televangelism faces cultural barriers in reaching Indians. The prosperity, success and healing doctrines of Charismatic …
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Paul’s Gospel Approach to the Athenians: A Missional Implication for Contemporary Nepalese Hindu Contexts
… for believers is how to witness to Nepalese Hindus. As a former Hindu, I found that Paul’s gospel approach to the pantheistic Athenians (Acts 17:16–34) can be applied to the contemporary pantheistic Hindu context. Like Paul, the gospel workers today must hold to sound doctrine but should also …
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Rape Attributions in India: The Influence of Attitudes Towards Women, Violence, and Communities
… this study help to understand how Muslims and Hindus construe and interpret sexual VAW in contexts of inter-ethnic strife. Findings also identify specific attitudes that predict whether Muslims and Hindus diffuse responsibility to victims from their own community or the other community, and …
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The Muslims of Kathmandu: A study of religious identity in a Hindu Kingdom
… not only intervened in communal clashes between Hindus and Muslims but also showed its support for Muslims at a time of crisis, which then affirmed the loyalty of the Muslims to the state. However, the acquiescent attitude of the Muslims towards the Hindus does not hide the subtle attempts to …
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Abrogated identity : Muslim representation in Hindi popular cinema 1947-2000
… the two major Indian religious communities, Hindus and Muslims through an analysis of popular films. It identifies an imbalance in representations of Muslim life where few films show Hindus and Muslims as sharing social and cultural life or where Muslims are represented as modern subjects: an …
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Being Hindu in the American South: Hindu Nationalist Discourse in a Diaspora Community
… to a recent Pew poll approximately 97% of all Hindus live in the countries of India and Nepal. However, there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Hindus living in other parts of the world. Across the United States, Hindu temples are joining the religious landscape of the country. …
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Three tellings, four models and differing perceptions : the contruction of female sexuality in the Rāmāyaṇa
… used as a model for appropriate behavior for Hindus throughout the world. Hinduism, like many other religions, uses examples of morality derived from divine sources. The two epics, the Mahabharata, and Ramayan[dotbelow]a, occupy a unique position in the lives of Hindus. They serve, in effect, …
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Nature, History, and the Sacred in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi
… century palace in the center of modern Delhi, Hindus and Muslims from various castes and communities come to deposit photocopies of letters petitioning saintly jinn (superhuman spirits) for fulfillment of their personal and spiritual needs, many of them forming relationships with each other …
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Islam's bloody borders?
… to separate from primarily Orthodox Christians, Hindus, and Atheists. Several variables are studied for their impact on the level of violence in each conflict. This thesis concludes that Islam is hijacked by various groups within the separatist cause and is manipulated to justify violent actions. …
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Breve história da trigonometria
… trigonometry in the middle Ages with the Hindus and Arabs, to the present day in analytically. The research methodology is an approach of qualitative analysis, which was developed as the main part of the development and application of a questionnaire in order to investigate the students' …
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Semi-structured capture and display of telephone conversations
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1992.
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Identifying ‘Immigrants’ through Violence: Memory, Press, and Archive in the making of ‘Bangladeshi Migrants’ in Assam
… preexisting lens of communal violence between Hindus and Muslims in India. Here, conflict between a religious minority and an ethnic one is investigated in its locality and this investigation highlights the complex history of the region and its part in shaping this antagonism. It does so by …
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Work-family balance and religion: a resource based perspective
… Specifically, religious involvement, among Hindus living in the United States, as a predictor of resource gain and loss was examined. Working within a Conversation of Resources framework, it was then expected that this resource gain/loss would influence coping strategies, and perceptions of …
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Studies in the Regulation of Gastric Acidity
… demon became angered. | On the other hand the Hindus were of the opinion that humors, "Vata", "Pitta”, and "Kafa” resided in the body and directed its digestive processes, assisted by "Pachaka" (Fire of digestion) which separated the nourishing portions from the rejected ones. And so it was …
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The Lokamanya and the Sardar : two generations of Congress 'communalism'
… religious communities and particularly between Hindus and Muslims has become a recurring feature of the public sphere in South Asia. This antagonism fed a steady growth of Muslim separatism in British India which led to the creation of Pakistan in 1947. The purpose of this thesis is to explore …
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The Mangrove Walks: An Econometric Analysis of Climate Migration Drivers from Coastal Bangladesh and their Geopolitical Impacts
… has the greatest correlation with migration. Hindus migrate less frequently, but do so with more education and more permanently. Muslim populations tend to migrate cyclically, taking low-paying agriculture work. Muslim minorities in the study area exhibit characteristics of being a trapped …
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