Transnational Ideologies and Religious Local Wisdom

Transnational religious actors and international politics

This article generally examines the phenomenon of transnationa l religious actors and seeks to assess the claim that their activities can undermine state sovereignty. It starts from the premise that globalisation facilitates the growth of transnational networks of religious actors. Feeding off each other’s ideas and perhaps aiding each other with funds, they are bodies whose main priority is th...

Transnational conceptions of Islamic community: national and religious subjectivities

A conversation with a friend in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in 2007 evoked how much the idea of globalisation has permeated ideas of legitimacy in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Almost sharply, this friend said, ‘Don’t forget, the Prophet imagined Islam as global long before anyone was talking about globalisation.’ If being global has become the currency of neoliberal respect, ...

Transnational Identities and Religious Traditions: A Case of Religious Double Belonging in India

The psychological advantage of unfalsifiability: the appeal of untestable religious and political ideologies.

We propose that people may gain certain "offensive" and "defensive" advantages for their cherished belief systems (e.g., religious and political views) by including aspects of unfalsifiability in those belief systems, such that some aspects of the beliefs cannot be tested empirically and conclusively refuted. This may seem peculiar, irrational, or at least undesirable to many people because it ...

Socio-cultural factors, gender roles and religious ideologies contributing to Caesarian-section refusal in Nigeria

BACKGROUND The death of women from pregnancy-related causes is a serious challenge that international development initiatives, including the Millennium Development Goals, have been trying to redress for decades. The majority of these pregnancy-related deaths occur in developing countries especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. The provision of Emergency Obstetric Care (EmOC), including Caesarean sect...