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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Religious minorities"”.
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Religious freedom as a practice of the nation: religious minorities, Islamic revival and the emergence of defensive inclusion in Turkey
… relationship between the state and non-Muslim minorities in Turkey and show there are important reforms shifting state policies toward non-Muslim minorities after the Islamicly-oriented Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi or AK Party) government came to power in 2002. I …
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Religion and the Law in modern pluralist states: Towards a more balanced judicial approach to manifestation of belief in secular societies
… sub-discipline and is committed to enhancing religious freedom. It focuses on manifestation of belief and is dedicated to the legal protection of religious minorities. It highlights the difficulties of adjudicating conflicts related to religious symbols in modern liberal states and aims to …
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The role of the sociocultural context in explaining variance in incidence of psychosis and higher rates of disorder in minorities.
… I aimed to explain excess risk in ethnic and religious minorities using a theoretical sociocultural distance model I developed using literature from the social sciences. Here, I proposed that culturally distant minorities were particularly at risk of social exclusion, and this outsider …
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Violação à liberdade religiosa no Irã durante o governo Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: uma análise da perseguição
… Relations (IR), having as a case study the religious persecution of the religions Bahá'í Faith Christianity under the government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The former president belonged to the conservative wing of the country and succeeded a reformist president. In the face of constant reports …
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Imagining the Buddhist Ecumene in Myanmar: How Buddhist Paradigms Dictate Belonging in Contemporary Myanmar
… It also provides the rationale for othering of religious minorities, such as the Muslim Rohingya or the Christian Chin. Utilizing ethnographic, historical, and textual source material, I show how the Bamar of Myanmar understand their relationship with the State, with one another, and with …
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Egypt for Which Egyptians? Copts and the Egyptian Nationalist Movement, 1882-1919
… leaders attempted to incorporate Egypt's religious minorities in their struggle, yet they were mostly unsuccessful.For centuries, Coptic Christians have formed an integral part of Egyptian life; however, in this era when Egyptians began to envision their heritage via conceptions of …
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The role of Muslim identity on perceived workplace religious discrimination of Muslim women working in Kwa-Zulu Natal
… directly or indirectly, to meet the needs of religious minorities in the country. However, due to South Africa being a secular state and also having particular needs, many workplaces tend to adopt this approach which leads to a conflict between Muslims' religious obligations and the rules of …
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Locating Citizenship of Indian Christians
… whether people feel they truly belong. Many religious minorities, especially Christians and Muslims, often feel excluded or treated as outsiders. The research turns to stories, books, and films created by Christians to hear their own voices. These works haven't received much attention before, …
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Hidden Galleries, Silenced Communities: homegrown religious communities and the secret police in 20th century Romania
… secret police against two homegrown Romanian religious communities, the Old Calendarists and the Tudorists, and the manner in which they survived persecution by engaging in conscious acts of resistance. The creation of alternative narratives by these religious communities, narratives in which …
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The Effect of Racial Status and Other Core Characteristics on Collective Self-Esteem A Quantitative Test of Divergent Theories of Identity Valuation
… majority groups (racial, sexual, heterosexual, religious) in terms of (1) placing lower monetary values upon them and (2) being hypothetically more willing to change them. My hypothesis is that identity valuation will not be status dependent: minority status will not generally correlate to a …
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Religion, politics and the secular state in India
… Constitution recognizes not only ethnic but also religious minorities and has given them special rights to maintain educational institutions. Similarly caste based privileges were provided on the plea of 'backwardness'. Moreover, India continued to be a religious society although the state claimed …
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'Taking things personally' : young Muslim women in South Australia discuss identity, religious racism and media representations
… The Advertiser, this thesis looks at themes of religious racism, representation, identity, and resistance to racism. This thesis offers critiques of existing terminology used to describe negativity and hostility based on religious affiliation. It also offers strong arguments for the use of new …
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Prodigal daughters: Imprisoned women, reform, and the femine ideal in the British Isles, 1800-1877
… difference between them was the handling of religious minorities. Chapter three shows how women were perceived to be disruptive to prison order while chapter four shows how that perception shaped the prison system for women. The dissertation concludes with the refuges. These refuges for …
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Questions of Faith: Christianity, Conversion and the Ideological Origins of Political Theology in Colonial India, 1813-1907
… heated debates about the political valences of religious conversion in colonial India and explains how religious conversion, especially to Protestant Christianity, emerged as the most spectacular locus of public debate, social reform and anti-colonial resistance in colonial India in the …
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The Impact of Religion on the Civic Engagement of Immigrants
… improved the measurement of civic engagement and religious involvement. Religious involvement was measured as two main aspects: religiosity, and religious participation beyond worship. Civic engagement attitudes and behaviours were measured separately. The categorisation of latent political …
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The divine hand of the state? : how religion has influenced social policies for the poor in Iran
… emancipation-of the state from the religious sphere constitutes the conventional understanding of how social policies are to be planned and implemented-a notion contrary to theocratic ideals. There exists a marked disparity between this secular understanding of social policy and the …
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Mapping Istanbul’s Istiklal Avenue: Uncovering the traces of female ethnicity in Turkish film, architecture and sound through fine art practice
… problematic representations of women from ethnic minorities in the context of Turkey. It questions the ways in which Turkish cinema conceals the ‘other’ ethnic and cultural differences and represents female identity. It seeks to address this problem through newly created artworks: a series of …
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Legacies of Colonial History: Region, Religion and Violence in Postcolonial Gujarat
… idea of Gujarat, I argue that violence against religious minorities is an effect of both secular nation-building and of religious nationalist mobilization. Given this entanglement, I suggest that we rethink the oppositional relationship between religion and the secular in analyzing violence …
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Conceptualising educational inclusion: interrogating education policies and headteachers’ perspectives in a Pakistani context
… while girls, students with disabilities and from religious minority groups also experience diverse forms of marginalisation within schooling, often made more acute by underlying poverty. However, perspectives were not uniform across the various markers. Thus, while girls’ enrolment was …
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Frankish-Muslim Diplomatic Relations and the Shared Minority Discourse in the Eastern Mediterranean, 517-692 AH/1123-1293 AD
… relations and the conditions of confessional minorities in the medieval Eastern Mediterranean. It begins with a preliminary analysis of the legal and ideological frameworks that guided Christian and Muslim rulers in their policies towards minorities. It then surveys how these rulers involved …
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