This study analyses discourses of Pakistan’s national curriculum textbooks for grades 9–12 in the context developing students’ belonging vis-à-vis inclusive education and global interdependence. Drawing on teachers’ interviews focus groups participatory tools, it also problematises classroom practices resulting responses this backdrop. Theorising as a discursive social practice, benefits from F...

Just as Islamic law has stated the various rights of people Islam and obliges government to ensure protection their lives, property, honor dignity, it also non-Muslims. The State is responsible for protecting non-Muslims who live in State. It responsibility ruler time not only protect property Muslims but non-Muslim minorities living his state. Non-Muslim have been granted complete religious fr...

Understanding the restrictions placed on religious institutions and associations, or freedoms that they are denied, is essential for understanding limits individual human rights more generally. This study uses Religion State round 3 (RAS3) dataset to track faced by organizations individuals between 1990 2014 explores how reduced institutional results in fewer freedoms. We find both common risin...

This article examines the relationship between Christian religiosity and the support for radical right parties in Western Europe. Drawing on theories of electoral choice and on sociopsychological literature largely ignored by scholars of electoral behaviour, it suggests and tests a number of competing hypotheses. The findings demonstrate that while religiosity has few direct effects, and while ...

This article analyses the determinants of asylum migration to Western Europe. Individuals in developing countries decide on whether to apply for asylum, balancing the costs of staying versus the costs of migrating. Results confirm that economic hardship as measured by income, growth and economic discrimination against ethnic minorities leads to higher flows of asylum seekers. Income and equity ...

Both individual experiences and community characteristics influence how much people trust each other. Using individual level data drawn from US localities we find that the strongest factors associated with low trust are: (i) a recent history of traumatic experiences; (ii) belonging to a group that historically felt discriminated against, such as minorities (blacks in particular) and, to a lesse...

Research on racial residential segregation has paid little attention to the role that social institutions play in either isolating or integrating racial and ethnic groups in American communities. Scholars have argued that racial segregation within American religion may contribute to and consolidate racial division elsewhere in social life. However, no previous study has employed national survey...

Popularly considered a great equalizer, death and the rituals around it nevertheless accentuate social distinctions. The present study focuses on a sample (N = 2554) of death announcements in a major Turkish daily newspaper (Hürriyet) from 1970 to 2006. Out of the liminal position of Turkish death announcements between obituaries and death notices emerges a large decentralized collection of pri...