Abstract Tafsir studies, due to its focus on reception history and tradition rather than the origins of Islam, may be a locus fruitful cooperation between new field Islamic theology ‘regular’ studies that transcends problematic dichotomy insider/outsider perspectives. Redefining normativity as negotiating future Islam’s discursive tradition, arguably shared concern theologians Islamicists, alth...

This paper examines discourse on serodiscordant relationships in interviews with 16 HIV-positive and 3 HIV-negative gay men living in Scotland. Drawing on critiques concerning love, reason and HIV serostatus normativity, this paper supplies a much-needed insight into how gay men in serodiscordant relationships negotiate HIV prevention. Among other matters, some HIV-negative men were said to kno...

Over-imitation, which is common in children, is the imitation of elements of an action sequence that are clearly unnecessary for reaching the final goal. A variety of cognitive mechanisms have been proposed to explain this phenomenon. Here, 48 3- and 5-year-olds together with a puppet observed an adult demonstrate instrumental tasks that included an unnecessary action. Failure of the puppet to ...

This article explores ‘bad’ sex in an age of same-sex marriage, through analysis the ‘homoradical’ as a rejection both hetero and homo-normativities. Drawing on qualitative data from 29 LGBTQ interviewees, considers resistance to discursive privileging marriage context Gayle Rubin’s theories respectability sexual hierarchies. These hierarchies constitute ‘charmed circle’ accepted practices whic...

Good governance reforms aim at transforming African state bureaucracies into efficient, transparent, and accountable institutions. These policies are inserted into the national administrative apparatus by means of conditions attached to the financial support of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Although the conditions exactly match the priorities of these international f...