The objective of this research was to develop a screening inventory for Thai Muslims spouses at risk of domestic violence behaviors in Satun Province. The study was conducted with the subject group of 1,140 households consisting of 2,280 people recruited through multi-stage sampling. The data were analyzed using the R program to find out the indexes of item-objective congruence, t-values, corre...

Since September 11, 2001, Muslims have been stereotyped and the message and image of Islam have been tarnished. Self-proclaimed leaders have given new and twisted meanings to the message of Islam. Explanations of complex issues have been reduced to sound bites on television. No issue has been in this regard more profaned than jihad, a sacred term for Muslims, There is no dearth of explanations ...

This paper briefly reviews earlier as well as recent approaches of Indian Social Stratification System and there relevance in present era. Much of what is known about Social Stratification in India is based on studies conducted in early and middle part of the 20 th century. There is a lot of literature available on the theme of social stratification in India. In fact, the most researched area i...

Non-Muslims in Malaysia have a lower participation rate takaful insurance. The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors that influence acceptance level insurance products among non-Muslims Malaysia. In paper, independent variables: awareness, attitude, service quality and relative advantage were examined using Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) model analyze effect dependent variable: non-...

the encounter between the west and the east is historically regarded a s crucial i n the european chronicles. i n the 16th century, the politics of queen elizabeth i towards muslims was dualistic: on the one hand, her state united with muslims to stand against imperial spain, and on the other hand, after the defeat of the spanish armada in 1588 by the english, her state’s policy changed into a ...

This study examines the relationships among religiosity, affiliation with Islam, and attitudes toward wife beating. A series of individual- country-level mixed modeling is performed on a sample 45,268 subjects in 37 countries. The derived from World Values Survey. results show that Islam related to an accepting attitude beating regardless demographics; Muslim’s gender inequality; or country’s a...

Existing evidence seems to indicate that Muslims in Scotland have constructed hyphenated or hybrid identities that draw on religion, ethnicity and nationality. However, minor attention has been given to the differences in importance, meanings, and strengths of these identities, or the significance of their identity markers. Ethnic minority people can be identified with both their ethnic groups ...