Academic Study of Feasibility Coexistence Between 5G Candidate Bands and Existing Service in Indonesia

The controversy over Penguin India withdrawing Wendy Doniger's book, announced in February 2014, provides an occasion to consider the problems and possibilities within the academic study of religion. As the controversy centered on representations of what both Doniger and her opponents termed Hinduism, the problems with adjudicating contested definitions of religions or the category religions becomes apparent. Rather than assuming that we can present a normative definition of any of these terms, I argue that scholars should avoid applying these contested labels themselves and recognize instead whose application of contested labels that they use. This approach facilitates a more robust analysis of the ways these terms enter the negotiation of various conflicts and the interests and assumptions behind them, making religious studies more relevant to contemporary society.

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Editor’s Corner: Critics or Caretakers?

Bulletin for the Study of Religion ◽

10.1558/bsor.v44i3.26866 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 44 (3) ◽

pp. 38-39

Author(s):

Philip Tite

Keyword(s):

Religious Studies ◽

Religious Traditions ◽

Short Piece ◽

Short Essay ◽

Academic Study

A short essay, in responding to an online roundtable (the Religious Studies Project), explores the role of progressive ideology in the academic study of religion, specifically with a focus on debates over Russell McCutcheon's distinction between scholars functioning as cultural critics or caretakers of religious traditions. This short piece is part of the "Editor's Corner" (an occasional section of the Bulletin where the editors offer provocative musings on theoretical challenges facing the discipline).

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Continuous Decisions

10.31234/osf.io/y47p3 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Seng Bum Michael Yoo ◽

Benjamin Hayden ◽

John Pearson

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Control Theory ◽

Hierarchical Structure ◽

Action Planning ◽

Extended Period ◽

Microeconomic Theory ◽

Engineering Control ◽

Over Time ◽

Academic Study

Humans and other animals evolved to make decisions that extend over time with continuous and ever-changing options. Nonetheless, the academic study of decision-making is mostly limited to the simple case of choice between two options. Here we advocate that the study of choice should expand to include continuous decisions. Continuous decisions, by our definition, involve a continuum of possible responses and take place over an extended period of time during which the response is continuously subject to modification. In most continuous decisions, the range of options can fluctuate and is affected by recent responses, making consideration of reciprocal feedback between choices and the environment essential. The study of continuous decisions raises new questions, such as how abstract processes of valuation and comparison are co-implemented with action planning and execution, how we simulate the large number of possible futures our choices lead to, and how our brains employ hierarchical structure to make choices more efficiently. While microeconomic theory has proven invaluable for discrete decisions, we propose that engineering control theory may serve as a better foundation for continuous ones. And while the concept of value has proven foundational for discrete decisions, goal states and policies may prove more useful for continuous ones.

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The Academic Study of Sufism at American Universities

American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences ◽

10.35632/ajiss.v24i3.423 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 24 (3) ◽

pp. 24-45 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Marcia Hermansen

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Current Situation ◽

Muslim World ◽

Western Thought ◽

Academic Institutions ◽

Academic Context ◽

American Universities ◽

Islamic Studies ◽

Academic Study

This article provides an overview of the history and current situation of the academic study of Sufism (Islamic mysticism) at American universities. It examines Sufism’s place within the broader curriculum of Islamic studies as well as some of the main themes and approaches employed by American scholars. In addition, it explains both the academic context in which Sufi studies are located and the role of contemporary positions in Islamic and western thought in shaping its academic study.1 Topics and issues of particular interest to a Muslim audience, as well as strictly academic observations, will be raised. In comparison to its role at academic institutions in the traditional Muslim world,2 Sufi studies has played a larger role within the western academic study of Islam during the twentieth century, especially the later decades. I will discuss the numerous reasons for this in the sections on the institutional, intellectual, and pedagogical contexts.

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Herman Beyle and James McCamy: Founders of the Study of Public Relations in Public Administration, 1928-1939

Public Voices ◽

10.22140/pv.489 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 26 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Mordecai Lee

Keyword(s):

Public Relations ◽

Public Administration ◽

Historical Inquiry ◽

Government Public Relations ◽

Academic Study

This article is an historical inquiry into the two scholars whose work served as the foundation of the academic study of public relations in public administration. Herman Beyle’s Governmental Reporting in 1928 and James McCamy’s Government Publicity in 1939 were seminal in their impact. Beyle explored the democratic purposes of government public relations, and McCamy, its pragmatic uses. In retrospect, both Beyle and McCamy had had an extraordinary insight, namely that the communication of information was an essential and increasing aspect of government. Since then, the subfield of government public relations has had its ups and downs, but may be on the rise again.

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Life in a ‘No-go Area’

10.1093/oso/9780190656546.003.0006 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Nida Kirmani

Keyword(s):

Everyday Life ◽

International Politics ◽

Robin Hood ◽

Geographic Mapping ◽

Academic Study

This chapter by Nida Kirmani offers a rare academic study on Lyari. It historicizes Lyari’s development as a contradictory ‘no-go’ site of resistance, protest and gang warfare. This perspective is organized around two of Lyari’s most notorious protagonists, Rehman Dakait and Uzair Baloch. Drawing on narratives of fear that comprise and interweave into everyday life in Lyari, she analyzes the persistent question of the extent to which gang war constitutes politics, rather than being separate to or an obstacle to politics. Through a portrait of Rehman as a community ‘Robin Hood’ figure, Kirmani’s analysis describes a geographic mapping of the paradox of ‘military-humanitarianism’ at the level of local gang warfare. This both mirrors, and also provokes, some original insights into ways these projects are inextricably linked in national and international politics.

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