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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Religious minority"”.
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Treatment of Religious Expresssion and Belief in Utah Public Schools: Perspectives of the Religious Minority
… concerns and challenges that members of Utah's minority religions may face in public schools. Semi-structured interviews, designed to elicit rich, detailed information, were conducted with 48 participants (13 leaders, 17 parents, 18 students) from seven different minority religions in Utah. Each …
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Intimate Subversions: Minority women encountering laws and patriarchy
… multiple laws collude with patriarchy to define minority women’s positions in the state, society, and the community? And How do religious minority women in a postcolonial context selectively seek, apply, and subvert these multiple laws to achieve their own objectives? Broadly speaking, this …
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Intimate Subversions: Minority women encountering laws and patriarchy
… multiple laws collude with patriarchy to define minority women’s positions in the state, society, and the community? And How do religious minority women in a postcolonial context selectively seek, apply, and subvert these multiple laws to achieve their own objectives? Broadly speaking, this …
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Redefining Resiliency, Resistance, and Oppression: A Case Study of the Bahá'i Underground University in Iran
Iran's Bahá'í community is the country's largest religious minority and has been systematically oppressed since its founding in 1844. Bahá'ís are barred from higher education in Iran and the Bahá'í community has responded to this formal exclusion by establishing their own underground university …
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Identifying ‘Immigrants’ through Violence: Memory, Press, and Archive in the making of ‘Bangladeshi Migrants’ in Assam
… 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 looking into the colonial archive which introduced the …
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The experience of motherhood within the Orthodox Jewish community
… being over the age of one. All participants were religious Orthodox Jews and had been married in accordance with Jewish law. Existing research into this ethnic and religious minority is scarce. The literature review explores the notion of motherhood and how it is relevant to the Orthodox Jewish …
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Jewish converts, their communities and experiences of social inclusion and exclusion in post-apartheid South Africa
Set in a small minority community in South Africa, the Orthodox Jewish com-munity in Johannesburg, this study explores why a person would actively and volun-tarily seek minority status by converting into an ethnic-religious minority group. Taking a social constructionist approach to understanding …
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Spiritual beliefs, practices, and shadows of the Ahmadiyya Jama’at in Fiji
… of Fijian Ahmadis - members of a transnational religious minority who self-identify as Muslims under the spiritual leadership of the Khalifa based in London, UK. The global Ahmadiyya Jama’at positions its adherents as divinely appointed bearers of the truest form of Islam, uniquely entrusted …
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The relationship between Jewish ethnic and religious identity
… adults perceive themselves ethnically and/or religiously Jewish and how a range of personal characteristics, attitudes and practices related to the importance of ethnic and religious identity. A random sample of 540 individuals was taken from the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver's …
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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 …