a search into the earlier tradition sources of the sunnīs indicates that part of them, entitled kitāb al-faḍā’il, address the excellences (faḍā’il) and virtues (manāqib) of individuals and groups. dedicating a separate chapter under this rubric along other chapters and sections of ḥadith collections reveals the importance of this issue and the endeavors of the compilers of sunnī ḥadith collecti...

Between 2001 and 2009, the Portuguese religious field faced a sequenced reconfiguration which put its power structure in perspective. Two decades after institutionalization of Committee on Religious Freedom, redefinition relationship between secular summoned debate State, traditions organizational secularities. In this article, case healthcare, namely governance religion hospitals, interrogates...

entrepreneurship is an emergent field in the recent decades which has been accompanied by very important efforts towards recognition of the grounds for its development. this research is conducted through a mixed method of questionnaire and interviews. the target group consists of students from the university of tehran, and shahid beheshti as well as the sharif university of technology who have ...

This article examines the socio-religious dynamics behind traditional sekaten held by two large palaces (keraton) of Javanese (Surakarta keraton and Yogyakarta keraton). phenomenon is unique. Sekaten a local cultural performance, which combines Islam with culture. The current acculturation make tourism opportunities. Using qualitative approach historical ethnographic methods, data were collecte...

this study explores how and to what extent recent developments in hermeneutical philosophy and methodology can be applied to religious studies, and particularly to questions that have a political focus. it begins from the assumption that it is possible to apply hermeneutics to interpreting the koran and religious questions. in addition, apart from relativist hermeneutics, other classical approa...

The purpose of this article is to introduce the theory interfaith learning and development scholarly community. Building on work others, authors adopted an interdisciplinary, equity-oriented approach developing theory, which also serves as basis for a framework intended guide inform practice. Development occurs through exposure participation in college experiences that help students achieve out...

Religious traditions with their universal intent on human salvation or well-being have de-territorialized themselves migrated from the place of origin along trade routes in company merchants, invaders, and colonizers [...]

  Every society has oriented itself towards a governing method concerning the socio-cultural conditions and with the inclusion of different historical-ideological periods and has accepted it as its governmental plan. Iranian society is not an exception to this general rule. Throughout different historical stages, such as the government of Safavid, the Constitution Movement, and despotic g...

Of all influences religion may have on health, the most intuitively plausible and uncontroversial concerns patients’ health-related habits and behaviors. At least part of the epidemiologic association between religious involvement and mortality is accounted for by inverse associations between religious involvement and detrimental health behaviors and less consistent positive associations betwee...