This study examines understandings of misfortune among east London Bangladeshis, particularly with respect to the role of jinn spirits. It reports on the findings of ethnographic interviews among 40 members of this community. Appeal to jinn explanations is commonplace at times of psychological disturbance and unexplained physical symptoms. Resort to traditional healers is frequent. These explan...

the challenge to re-think post-modernity opens up if we see modernity in the light ef the phenomenological reduction. 5uspending belief in the central tenets of modern philosopf?y discloses that the so-called post• modernist pbilosopby mere!j extends the earlier projec: the failure o] calculative reason trumpeted by po-mo thinkers need not result in the end of the proiect ef rationality. rather...

At this fin-de-siècle, the “post” that was meant to mark off the modern, or perhaps to qualify it, has turned out to be a looking-glass of sorts, reviving engagements with the question of modernity. However, lurking in the shadows of this discourse is the “constitutive outside” that makes possible such narratives: tradition. In this article, I explore the question of modernity through the trope...

this study examines votes, ideologies and goals of iran’s cultural-intellectual currents after the islamic revolution in order to describe their scale and type impacts on women rights in iran. in the first section, a theoretical explanation of the relationship between social currents and legal demands based on social realism approach along with viewpoints of scholars who believe in the correlat...