purpose- the aim of this essay is to attempt to explain the impact of religion and family structure on consumer decision-making style within a muslim country. this paper wants to demonstrate how and why husbands/wives with eastern culture and islamic norms use different decision-making styles. design/methodology/approach- literature reviews on consumer decision-making, religion and family struc...

In this paper I look at religious identifications and affiliations in the Balkans as instrumental political resources for ascertaining hierarchical relations among social groups and individuals, with extensive use of gendered metaphors, referring to different categories of people as either effeminate or truly manly, and actual women often used as a currency of exchange. A Gendered Ethno-Religio...

The aim of this paper is to reveal how misconceptions—or using the concept of Arkoun, “the crisis of meanings”—about the role and position of Islam in Europe is impacting on the discourse on sport, Islam, and immigration. France is selected as a case study for this paper as it is in this country where the debate on religion in general and Islam in particular seem to be more contentious in relat...

BACKGROUND Traditionally, suicide rates were low in Islamic countries. However, the process of modernization can erode the ties of the individual to society and lead to questioning of religion and weakening of faith. Therefore, a cross-national study with the null hypothesis that there will be no relationship between general population suicide rates and the percentage of adherents of Islam was ...

This study tries to assess the effects of culture and religion on fertility after accounting for a country's socioeconomic standing. Analysis of covariance models are estimated for 128 countries with time-series covering the period 1950-1975. The dependent variable is the gross reproduction rate; independent variables are the infant mortality rate, an aggregate indicator of female educational...

The overall aim of this paper is to highlight a transcendental usage of the Religion of Islamin the Qur’an. I will show that the notion of Islamas a unitary Religion is used in the Qur’an as a genus for religions (adyan) which have appeared throughout human history. This usage will show that there is a sense of Religion which guarantees the essential unity of all religions and...

the phenomenon of conversion to islam in the territories conquered by the muslim arabs, is one of the ambiguous and controversial topics in the studies of islamic history. major part of the social transformation of copts in islamic egypt returns to their conversion from christianity to islam. gradual changing of the majority to a minority group under muslim rule was a complex process, because m...