While ideologies and elites change, patronage politics remains the preferred strategy of Central Asia’s autocrats. Aspiring presidents-for-life distribute wealth to handpicked appointees who reciprocate by implementing, to varying degrees, executive policy. Shared strategies of rule, however, do not translate into shared state capacity. The trains do not always run on time, and in many places i...

There are two popular suggestions as to how the prosperity gospel emerged in Nigeria. The first school of thought posits that phenomenon was exclusively an American ideology imported into Nigeria, while second view holds it entirely African nurtured with ingredients and popularised on soil. has been little literature actively adequately explored Nigerian a combination Pentecostal revivalism. Th...

Japan and the United States are both post-industrial societies, characterised by distinct trajectories of dying. Both contain multiple "cultural scripts" of the good death. Seale (Constructing Death: the Sociology of Dying and Bereavement, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998) has identified at least four "cultural scripts", or ways to die well, that are found in contemporary anglophone ...

This research explores the development and influence of Islamic revivalism movement at Hasanuddin University, South Sulawesi. Employing an in-depth case study, this study focuses on three student groups: Kesatuan Aksi Mahasiswa Muslim Indonesia (KAMMI), Gema Pembebasan (GEMAPEM), Salafi group within Campus Da'wah Institute. The found that these groups act as learning communities active agents i...

Modernity is a global condition of an ongoing socio-cultural, economic, and political transformation human experience, with tradition or religion having no significant role to play. It the gradual decline in modernity through implementation principles secularism which has, according Islamic revivalists, plunged world into crisis jahiliyya (unGodliness). Revivalists sociologists such as Anthony ...