Contextualizing Muslim Religious-Only Marriages

Dynamics of inter-religious and inter-caste marriages in India

Caste and religion are integral components of Indian society since the time immemorial. These two systems create water tight compartment between communities and bring division, hatred and tension among various social groups. Marriages within the same caste and same religion is the norm of the Indian society. To think of marriages between different castes and different religions is a difficult a...

Explaining for Contextualizing and Contextualizing for Explaining

This paper proposes a view on the relationships between explanation and context. First, we install the background of our proposal. This background comprises two parts: the consideration of explanations in knowledge-based systems, and a preliminary observation of relationships between explanations and context. We comment briefly previous works on explanations in order to point out what is reusab...

Islam in an Era of Nation-States POLITICS AND RELIGIOUS RENEWAL IN MUSLIM SOUTHEAST ASIA

Explaining the Muslim employment gap in Western Europe: individual-level effects and ethno-religious penalties.

It is well-documented that Muslims experience economic disadvantages in Western European labor markets. However, few studies comprehensively test individual-level explanations for the Muslim employment gap. Using data from the European Social Survey, this research note briefly examines the role of individual-level differences between Muslims and non-Muslims in mediating employment differences. ...

Tolerance, Religious Competition and the Rise and Fall of Muslim Science

This paper investigates how medieval Islam encouraged scienti…c innovation. By granting non-Muslims a degree of religious freedom, Muslim law created competition between religions for converts and social standing. Institutionalized tolerance, coupled with initial disadvantages in the number of adherents and sophistication of theological scholarship, encouraged Muslim religious elites to promote...