aside from internal historical and intellectual factors contributing to the stagnation of the islamic civilization in the last two decades, this civilization has faced a challenge in the fast growing and spreading civilization of the west. islamic thinkers, in tandem with reconstructing religious thought, have made strenuous efforts to find an internal religious answer for the emancipation of i...

Governments around the world are uniting in trying to defeat terrorist movements. In this context, recent counter terrorism laws in the UK place public duties on all citizens to help prevent terrorism. Yet, the science of predicting rare events such as terrorist offending yields consistently poor results. There are ethical, clinical and scientific dilemmas facing the professions if we are to in...

This paper analayzes different FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas) elements and the related economic, political, technological and social effects. We will demonstrate that, in Latin America, noncooperative or competitive equilibria do not solve the conflicts between FFTA supporters (the government and exporters) and detractors (social, religious and academic movements.) Finally, we will show...

In recent years, new Pentecostal-style churches have proliferated around the world. Expanding at astonishing rates in Africa, Latin America, and Asia, the growth of Pentecostal-Charismatic Churches has shifted the global center of gravity of Christianity from the West to the global South. This dissertation takes a new approach to studying the impacts of such powerful new religious developments....

Abstract This study investigates the religious origins of American temperance and antislavery movements in New York State. We introduce new county-level longitudinal data between 1828 1838 to document onset growth societies during movements’ early stages. Data are compiled from numerous historical sources counts 55 counties years 1828, 1829, 1831, 1833, 1834; 1835, 1836, 1837, 1838. The across ...

Max Weber’s concept of routinization offers a useful framework for understanding the relationship between political economy and the organization of religious movements. Here, we apply this concept to a comparison of Hopewell and Mississippian, two of the most important religious movements in the precolonial Eastern Woodlands. We focus on two archaeological contexts in particular—Mound 25 at the...