Against the background of the HIV epidemic and the intense public controversy on homosexuality in African societies, this article investigates the discourses of academic African Christian theologians on homosexuality. Distinguishing some major strands in African theology, that is, inculturation, liberation, women’s and reconstruction theology, the article examines how the central concepts of cu...

During the nineteenth century, Muslims of India suffered from severe political decline, as Mughal Empire was abolished in wake Great Revolt 1857. The British started a process modernization institutions well that social setup. Muslim theologians realizing it serious threat to their religio-cultural values and norms resisted through militant struggle, setting up educational institutions, making ...

Baiqi is a place recognized in Fujian, a coastal province in south China, for its Hui ethnicity. However, the ethnic identity of its citizens was not really established until recent decades. As scholars have noted, though the Hui identity in south Fujian has been constructed under a preferential policy carried out by the state, it was impossible for it to have come into existence without its so...

This article examines how Latin American liberation theology has changed in the past decade. It begins with a major challenge posed to by Clodovis Boff, an important author on methodology theology. The then theologians at time and since have responded of making more theological. They done this against backdrop two events that had positive impact theology’s standing. first negative event ...

Chaudhary, Latika, and Rubin, Jared—Reading, writing, and religion: Institutions and human capital formation In this paper, we empirically test the role that religious and political institutions play in the accumulation of human capital. Using a new data set on literacy in colonial India, we find that Muslim literacy is negatively correlated with the proportion of Muslims in the district, altho...

Heights and weights of five subgroups of Asian (545) and European children (685) were recorded after birth, at 1 year, 2 years, and at 5 years. Asian children were divided into Muslim Gujarati, Muslim Pakistani, Muslim Bangladeshi, Hindu, and Sikh. Although the Europeans were significantly the heaviest at birth (3.42 kg boys and 3.26 kg girls) when compared with any of the other groups, it was ...

OBJECTIVE To measure bone turnover in Muslim women with vitamin D deficiency. DESIGN A cross-sectional study of a random sample of Muslim women aged 20-65 years, evaluated over a 6-month period from November 1999 to April 2000. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS 146 women living in an urban community in south-western Sydney with adequate opportunities for sun exposure. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Bone tu...

In a world where we are constantly bombarded with countless images of Islamic terrorism, violence, and danger, it is not surprising that we have come to associate all aspects of Islamic society with malevolence. This destructive way of thinking has impacted the way we—as Westerners— think about, portray, and perceive Muslim men and women. While Muslim men are often depicted as hostile, cruel, a...