The Oxford Handbook of American Islam

2014 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Religious Identity ◽  
Initial Growth ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Politics And Government ◽  
Islam In America ◽  
Youth Movements ◽  
Religious Formation ◽  
American Islam ◽  
Islamic Dress ◽  
Relationship Of

This Handbook offers an up-to-the-minute analysis of Islam in America by 30 of the best scholars in the field. It covers the initial growth of Islam in the US from the earliest arrivals through the beginnings of African American Islam, as well as the waves of pre- and post-WWII immigrants when Muslims had little sense of religious identity in relation to their American compatriots. Providing basic information about Sunni, Shi‘ite, sectarian and Sufi movements in America, the volume considers the role of ethnic and racial identity in religious formation. Special attention is given to the role and status of women, marriage, and family. The rise of religious and educational institutions, leadership and youth movements, along with the expansion of Islam through outreach in prisons and through volunteerism, have served to give cohesion and a growing sense of what it means to be part of American Islam. The final section of the book deals with the component pieces of contemporary Islam in America such as politics and government, intellectual life and interfaith endeavors. The process of integration and assimilation that has been intensified as a response to 9/11 has brought about a creative response in which Muslims are eager to be Muslim and American at the same time. The volume concludes with elements of Muslim culture that are part of the current creative response to the reality of American Islam, including Islamic dress and fashion, art and architecture, film and filmmaking, health and medicine, politics, and Muslim-Christian relations. Bracketing these articles on integration and assimilation are thorough investigations of both the effects of the war on terror and the continuing Islamophobia that it has engendered, and of the relationship of American Islam to international Islam.

An Interview with Judy G. Barber: Prenuptial Agreements, Intimacy, Trust and Control

1997 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Drew S. Mendoza ◽  
Sharon P. Krone
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Good Chance ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Family ◽  
Emotional Commitment ◽  
The One ◽  
And Control ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

A business-owning family and a soon-to-be-wed couple often face two mutually exclusive goals that seem impossible to reconcile. On the one hand, a couple considering marriage wants to believe that love alone will keep them together. On the other hand, statistics today say there is a good chance the relationship will not last. A prenuptial agreement provides the protection an individual or the family may want against a possible divorce, but the process by which the document is introduced and negotiated can deplete the relationship of intimacy. How can a woman from a wealthy business-owning family express and reinforce the emotional commitment and trust she has for her partner while presenting a prenuptial agreement] How can a son administer a prenuptial agreement to his fiancee without controlling the process or outcome of his spouse's financial welfare] How can a family require a prenuptial agreement without jeopardizing their future relationship with the newlyweds] In the following interview, Judy Barber, a consultant and licensed marriage and family counselor specializing in the psychology of money, outlines several recommendations for families and couples who are considering a prenuptial agreement.

Emotional Intelligence and the Counselor: Examining the Relationship of Trait Emotional Intelligence to Counselor Burnout

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 187-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Gutierrez ◽  
Patrick R. Mullen
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Trait Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Counselor Burnout ◽  
Family Counselors ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Marriage And Family Counselors ◽  
Variance Explained

Given the intimate and emotional nature of counseling, counselors are often highly susceptible to counselor burnout. Scholars have reported on how important it is for counselors to find strategies that mitigate stressful scenarios and prevent burnout. Emotional intelligence could be a preventative factor. This article describes a correlational investigation that examined the relationship of practicing mental health and marriage and family counselors' (N = 539) emotional intelligence to their degree of burnout. The results from this study indicate that participants' level of emotional intelligence negatively predicted their level of burnout (r = −.62, p < .001; 38% of the variance explained). This article provides a description of our findings, suggestions for future research, and implications for counselors.

Host-parasite relationship of Angiostrongylus cantonensis 1. Intracranial transplantation into various hosts

1979 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald C. Ko
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Angiostrongylus Cantonensis ◽  
Initial Growth ◽  
Fourth Stage ◽  
Host Parasite Relationship ◽  
Parasite Relationship ◽  
Recipient Animal ◽  
Host Parasite ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Brain

ABSTRACTVarious stages of Angiostrongylus cantonensis recovered from the brain of experimentally infected mice were transplanted intracranially into rats. Third and fourth-stage worms recovered 2–7 days postinfection were able to develop normally after transplantation into recipient rats. The fifth-stage worm obtained 14–15 days postinfection would enter the brain tissue of rats but died shortly afterwards. However, the same stage of worms recovered from rats, after a similar transplantation, were found to develop normally in the recipient animal. Young fifth-stage worms, from the subarachnoid space of rats, which were ready for the pulmonary migration were also transplanted into rabbits but the worms failed to reach the lungs. In the control rat-to-rat transplantation, the worms successfully completed the pulmonary migration. The morphogenesis and initial growth rate of A. cantonensis were similar in both mice and rats but in the former host the worms started to grow at a markedly slower rate after the last moult and gradually degenerated.

scholarly journals THE STUDIES OF GENDER IDEOLOGY OF THE YOUTH: THE REVIEW OF FOREIGN PUBLICATIONS

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. A. Gurko ◽  
M. S. Mamikonian ◽  
E. K. Biyzhanova
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Gender Ideology ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Gender Ideologies ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Female Population ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
The Impact

The article presents the results of foreign studies of gender ideology of students for a number of valuable social demographic variables. In the first part of publication the studies describing dynamics of gender ideology in various countries are analyzed. In the process of modernization of the Eastern Asia (China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan), India and Indonesia female population is involved in work outside of home, a trend of egalitarianisation of gender relationship and spreading of families with two breadwinners. During transition from socialist to liberal states in the countries of the Eastern Europe the impact of religious conservative family’s values on the youth is less significant than that of Western ideas of individualization and permissiveness. In the developed countries (USA, Europe, Australia, Canada) gender revolution resulted in diversity of gender ideologies. At least in the European countries five models are fixed empirically: egalitarian, egalitarian essentialism, intensive parenthood, moderate conservative ideology. The second part of article presents the analysis of studies of attitudes of students in areas of gender and marriage and family relationships carried out in various countries that established that gender and religious identity are the major differentiating variables. The other characteristics such as urban rural origin, structure of parents' family, coeducation and separate education are less significant. The attitudes of the youth concerning social roles of males and females and future marriage are changing effected by peers, mass culture and personal experience. The conclusion is derived that in spite of more conservative attitudes of male youths factually in all countries, a slow convergence of views of male and female youths among well-educated strata. The denominational membership remains the main differential factor

RELATIONSHIP OF CARDIOVASCULAR RISK MARKERS IN CHILDREN SGAAND AGA

2021 ◽  
pp. 15-17
Author(s):  
Anand Shanker Singh ◽  
G . Radhika ◽  
R . Praveen Kumar ◽  
Ankita Singh ◽  
Debarshi Jana
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Cardiovascular Risk ◽  
Fasting Glucose ◽  
Initial Growth ◽  
Fasting Insulin ◽  
Growth Faltering ◽  
Risk Result ◽  
Hs Crp ◽  
Preterm Born ◽  
Relationship Of

INTRODUCTION: Children born preterm usually experience an initial growth restriction, suggested to be caused by the immature organs and an inadequate nutritional intake.After this initial growth faltering, healthy preterm born children, and especially those born after 32 gestational weeks, usually fall back to the reference growth curve, following that of term born babies. For children born SGA, 80 % will experience a relative catch-up growth within the rst 6 months of life. OBJECTIVE: Role of different risk proles for children being born preterm vs being born SGA and early iron supplementation affect later cardiovascular risk RESULT: In Placebo group, 4.6(0.5) patients had Fasting glucose (mmol/L), 2.9(2.3-3.5) patients had Fasting insulin(µU/mL), 0.59(0.4-0.7) patients had HOMA-IR, 4.5(0.7) patients had Cholesterol(mmol/L), 0.58(0.2) patients had Triglyceride(mmol/L), 2.8(0.6) patients had LDL(mmol/L), 1.5(0.3) patients had HDL(mmol/L), 0.63(0.4) patients had ApoB(g/L and 0.20(0.1-0.6) patients had hs-CRP(mg/L). In Iron supplements group, 4.4(0.5) patients had Fasting glucose(mmol/L), 2.7(2.0-3.8) patients had Fasting insulin(µU/mL), 0.54(0.4-0.8) patients had HOMA-IR, 4.3(0.8) patients had Cholesterol(mmol/L), 0.59(0.3) patients had Triglyceride(mmol/L), 2.8(0.6) patients had LDL(mmol/L), 1.5(0.4) patients had HDL(mmol/L), 0.61(0.3) patients had ApoB(g/Land 0.24(0.2-0.8) patients had hs-CRP(mg/L). CONCLUSION: This literature showing that there is progression of these risk factors as children enter early adolescence. Further longer longitudinal studies are needed to elucidate the mechanisms responsible for progression of cardio-metabolic risk factors from infancy to adolescence in SGAand LGAsubjects.

Persistence and Change: Marriage and Family Among the Overseas Indians in the Caribbean

2021 ◽  
pp. 186-192
Author(s):  
Kiran Jha
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Indian Culture ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Mutual Cooperation ◽  
Foreign Land ◽  
Kinship Relations ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Selection Of

Indians came to the Caribbean under the system of indenture to augment the labour shortage in the plantations around the middle of the nineteenth century. Rather than returning after the contractual period, many Indians stayed on, accepting the Caribbean as their new found home. Thus began a symbiotic relationship of the Indian culture with the Caribbean society in the new habitat. This paper outlines the lives of the overseas Indians with reference to aspects of marriage, including the selection of spouses, different kinds of marriage and its dissolution. The paper also discusses the institution of family and its internal mechanisms in terms of patterns of authority, inheritance, conflicts, the position of women and the system of kinship. The overseas Indians moved from tradition to modernity, and from custom to legality. There was also resistance to change and deviations as some values struggled to be reinforced, while others were discarded. On the whole, kinship relations remained of vital importance for the sake of mutual cooperation and social intercourse in a foreign land. Interpersonal relations helped to regulate and standardize behaviour. In providing these accounts, this paper seeks to portray the persistence and change of traditional Indian social intuitions and customs among the overseas community in the Caribbean.

Growth and Characterization of Pb-Based Ferroelectric Oxide Thin Films by Mocvd

1995 ◽  
Vol 401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masaru Shimizu ◽  
Tadashi Shiosaki
Keyword(s):  
Thin Films ◽  
Memory Device ◽  
Initial Growth ◽  
Epitaxial Relationship ◽  
Pzt Thin Films ◽  
Atomic Force ◽  
Device Applications ◽  
Switching Characteristics ◽  
Plzt Thin Films ◽  
Relationship Of

AbstractUsing the MOCVD process to produce Pb(Zr, Ti)O3 (PZT) thin films, control of the film stoichiometry and crystalline phase was achieved. The PZT films obtained showed good step coverage, 67%. Uniform PZT and PLZT thin films with a variation of film thickness of less than ±1.5% were successfully obtained on a 6–8 inch silicon wafer. For the evaluation of the crystallinity and epitaxial relationship of the PZT thin films, the total reflection X-ray diffraction (TRXD) method was used for the first time. Using TRXD, the in-plane orientations of PZT and Pt in PZT/Pt/MgO were evaluated. The growth mechanism of PbTiO3 and PZT thin films at the initial growth stage was also investigated using an atomic force microscope (AFM). The switching characteristics of PZT capacitors using Ir and IrO2 electrodes for memory device applications were also investigated and a PZT capacitor with no fatigue up to a switching cycle of 1011 was obtained.

Psychosocial Factors in Early Release from Psychiatric Hospitalization

1971 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 251-257
Author(s):  
Maurice Korman ◽  
Donald W. Giller
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Hospitalization ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Early Release ◽  
Presenting Symptoms ◽  
History Of ◽  
Male Patients ◽  
Severe Pathology ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Extensive demographic and psychometric information was collected on 813 consecutively admitted psychiatric patients. Those male patients who were discharged with medical advice in 75 days or less tended to show less severe pathology on admission together with a history of some stability and interpersonal success, yet saw themselves as troubled in a number of areas and in need of help. While a more favorable diagnosis was equally predictive of early release in females, measures reflecting the significance of marriage and family were featured prominently. Males and females differed markedly, however, with regard to the relationship of presenting symptoms (as derived by the Cornell Index) to early release from hospitalization.

The Father, the Son, and John on Location in the Farewell Discourse

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-29
Author(s):  
Harry O. Maier
Keyword(s):  
Religious Identity ◽  
Social Geography ◽  
Spatial Location ◽  
Dynamic Relationship ◽  
Farewell Discourse ◽  
The World ◽  
John's Gospel ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Spatial Identity ◽  
Edward Soja

AbstractUsing the tools of social geography, specifically those developed by Edward Soja, Henri Lefebvre, and Oliver Sacks, this article explores the Gospel of John’s spatial reference to place as it appears in Jesus’ Farewell Discourse (John 14–17) and the ways it uses narrative to create places for the practices and conceiving of religious identity. Although application of spatial study to John’s gospel is relatively rare in Johannine studies, it promises a great deal of insight, especially because John’s gospel is filled with numerous references to place and a rich variety of prepositional phrases. Through narrative, John offers a spatial temporalization (following Soja, a ‘thirdspace’) for audiences to inhabit and interpret the world around them. John’s Father-Son-Paraclete language of unity (which the Christian tradition has interpreted metaphysically and soteriologically without reference to time and space) creates a place for Johannine discipleship in which listeners reenact the dynamic relationship of its three divine actors. John establishes a particular mode of spatial identity by presenting Father, Son, and Paraclete, together with the narrative’s antagonists and protagonists in particular spaces with a set of behaviors associated with each location. The Johannine reference to Jesus going to prepare a place for his disciples after his death (John 13:36), and the reference to a mansion with many room (John 14:2–4) is traditionally interpreted as a reference to the afterlife or a heavenly domain. Scholars have debated whether this represents a futurist or a realized eschatological teaching. A spatial application offers new insights by viewing it from a social geographical perspective as a spatial location “in the world,” lived out locationally “in” the Paraclete, in rejection by the “world.” Metaphysical unity language refers to a narrative of rejection and suffering, which reveals the identity of Johannine believers “in but not of the world.” In this regard, John reflects sapiential themes found in the Hebrew Bible and the intertestamental period that tell of wisdom dwelling on earth and also being rejected.

scholarly journals Ecclesiastical Economies: The Integration of Sacred and Maritime Topographies of Late Antique Cyprus

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 989
Author(s):  
Catherine T. Keane
Keyword(s):  
Religious Identity ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Sacred Landscapes ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Cultural Networks ◽  
Pragmatic Aspects ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Productive Landscapes ◽  
The Church

This article focusses on the relationship of the church with productive landscapes and coastal topographies within numerous Cypriot contexts of the 4th–8th centuries. Through synthesising the archaeological research and architectural remains of these aspects and categories, the coastal settlements of the island are recontextualised in terms of their mercantile, religious, and cultural networks, on inter- and intraregional scales. The advantages of researching late antique insular societies on local, individual scales and within economic contexts are therefore highlighted. These integrative approaches can illuminate the constructions of religious identity across many coastal contexts, particularly in larger islands with micro-regions and trans-Mediterranean connectivity, like Cyprus. By considering the importance of the administrative and economic roles of the late antique church within these maritime topographies, future archaeological research can integrate both the monumentality and pragmatic aspects of sacred landscapes.

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