The presentation focuses on three aspects of applying advanced information communication technologies (ICT) in the field of cultural heritage: preservation, dissemination, and training on ICT in case of countries in transition Lithuania is one of such countries. The aim is to specify economic and social conditions for ICT development in such countries and to show how advanced ICT provide equal ...

The nationwide effort to reduce bullying in U.S. schools can be regarded as part of larger civil and human rights movements that have provided children with many of the rights afforded to adult citizens, including protection from harm in the workplace. Many bullied children find that their schools are hostile environments, but civil rights protections against harassment apply only to children w...

Defining the relationship between displaced populations and the nation-state is a fraught historical process. The Partition of India in 1947 provides a powerful example. However markedly little attention has been paid to the refugee communities produced (Ansari, 2005). Using the case of the displaced ‘Urdu-speaking minority’ in Bangladesh this article considers what contemporary discourses of i...

The strengthening of political identities, including the use Islamic populism, has widely been used to explain electoral victories and defeats candidates at municipal, provincial, national levels. However, no study found investigate this phenomenon in village elections (pilkades) Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Our research, conducted ten villages, did not find a tendency populism. Rather, two villages—...

My aim in this paper is to carve out a political understanding of the Muslim identity. The Muslim identity is shaped within a religious mold. Inseparable from this religious understanding is a political one that is valuable in its own right in order to secure any sustainable possibility of participating politically as Muslims within a democratic liberal democracy, such as the United States. Her...

France and the United States are both secular Western countries that are founded upon similar Enlightenment ideals. By virtue of these similarities, one might expect these countries to have similar relationships between church and state. In actuality, however, the secularism that France and the United States both value is a very loosely defined concept whose interpretation and application can w...

Abstract Introduction Sexuality-based stigma is prevalent in the USA and is, part, based on religious gender norms. In South—compared to other regions—religiosity more salient, norms are conservative, sexual reproductive health (SRH) inequities prevalent. Methods Guided by a stakeholder Advisory Committee, researchers conducted 20 in-depth interviews with Protestant leaders Georgia from 2018 20...

In 1984, Pakistan’s military ruler General Zia-ul-Haq passed an executive Ordinance that made it a criminal offence for members of the heterodox Ahmadiyya community, a selfdefined minority sect of Islam, to refer to themselves as Muslims and practice Islam in public. Ahmadis challenged the 1984 Ordinance in both the Supreme Court and the Federal Shariat Court in Pakistan – in the former on that...

The aim of this article is to contribute the development minority theology by actualizing, developing and assessing a set analytic tools. We strive fulfil pursuing three parallel paths. Firstly, we relate our discussion other kinds studies in order benefit from theoretical perspectives empirical findings provided disciplines. Secondly, because consequence religious diversity, explore how concep...

Childhood asthma is highly prevalent, affecting approximately nine million children in the United States. Negative effects of pediatric asthma are disproportionately experienced by ethnic minorities living in low-income, urban settings. Given the great diversity in families’ ways of addressing children’s asthma symptoms, sociocultural factors underlying asthma disparities must be examined. The ...