The discussion in this study provides a statement, namely although the people west Manggarai Regency, more precisely Tangge Village, have different beliefs, but differences do not make look at it ways, that is what makes live harmony. Efforts to strengthen religious moderation can ritual traditions as strengthening relationship between religion and culture of local community. Just tradition man...

The Christian-Muslim frontier frequently acted as a barrier that separated religions, cultures, and societies from one another. But it was a permeable barrier in that ideas, commodities, and technology often passed through it. To demonstrate the precise mechanism of that permeability can be difficult to do. As Lynn White has remarked: ‘‘No medieval text documents with explicit words the amazing...

Louis Raphaël I Sako (Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Babylon and Head of the Chaldean Catholic Church): What Will Middle Eastern Societies Lose if Christians Flee? Louis Raphaël I Sako is the newly elevated Patriarch of the Chaldean Church and has a doctorate in history from the Sorbonne. In his keynote address, he demonstrates that Christianity is integral to the Middle East and played a pivot...

This paper reports the consequences experienced by Islam women attempting to reform gender relations among Muslim societies in northern Nigeria. The article also examines the problems encountered and its relation to the ideas, plans, and programs of gender and development (GAD) programs. In Muslim communities, few men or women disagree with the content of the GAD program aimed at addressing w...

BACKGROUND The pandemic of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa and the rise of epidemics in Asia to the previously unforeseen level are likely to have global social, economic, and political impacts. In this emergency, it is vital to reappraise the weight of powerful religious and cultural factors in spreading the disease. The role of Islam in shaping values, norms, and public policies in North Afric...

The article reports data from a study investigating the religious identity formation of young people in mixed-faith families. This involved parents Christian, Hindu, Sikh, and Muslim backgrounds, with spouse these four faiths. One ‘Muslim–non-Muslim’ families is considered here as case to shed light on social dimensions pertaining both children. parent has Muslim, other Christian background. ex...