The recent deaths of two children from parental decisions to rely on faith healing rather than medical treatment raises fundamental questions about the extent and limits of religious liberty in a liberal democratic society. This essay seeks to identify and critically examine three central issues internal to the ethics of religious communities that engage in faith healing regarding children: (1)...

the respected author believes that true faith is actually a logical assertion of faith [within] or entrenched certainty towards the objects of faith. naturally this logical assertion can only be considered as faith while it doesn’t accompany denial of the objects of faith. he believes that the freedom to choose faith is related to the freedom to choose when faith first comes about and whether i...

In this paper I have the pleasure of responding to three insightful commentaries to my paper, Bridging the gap between politics and techniques: On the next practices of participatory design (Kyng 2010). The commentaries are by Ellen Balka (2010), Helena Karasti (2010) and Dan Shapiro (2010). They deserve more in depth consideration than time and space allow. Hopefully the authors and I, as well...

________________________________________________________________________ Jane L. Kenney is an Associate Professor, in the Department of Professional and Secondary Education, and Ellen Newcombe, Director, College of Education Technology Center at West Chester University. Jane L. Kenney can be reached at [email protected]. Flipping Instruction in an Undergraduate Education Course: Findings from a...

In this paper I focus on a distinctive kind of sociological ethnography which is particularly, though not exclusively, adopted in applied research. It has been proposed that this branch of ethnography be referred to as focused ethnography. Focused ethnography shall be delineated within the context of other common conceptions of what may be called conventional ethnography. However, rather than b...

whenever we are discussing the nature of faith, we often have a classification based on the object of faith. accordingly, faith is generally either propositional or non-propositional. it means that if faith belongs to one or several propositions, its nature is also propositional and a kind of knowledge. but if the object of faith is a real thing or person, the nature of faith is related to such...

observation which I label peopled ethnography. I contrast this to two alternative ethnographic approaches, the personal ethnography and the postulated ethnography. In a peopled ethnography the text is neither descriptive narrative nor conceptual theory; rather, the understanding of the setting and its theoretical implications are grounded in a set of detailed vignettes, based on field notes, in...

study of the works of rumi and kierkegaard shows that both thinkers in some principles like faith and morality, faith and leap, and also in relation between devil and faith, and destiny and faith, come to a common point. both of them believe that human’s duty is to surrender to god’s will, and the devil is an obstacle against faith. they also put emphasize on the matter of leap in faith. moreov...