Revisiting the Religious Openness Hypothesis in a Migration Context: The Case of Muslims with a Turkish Migration Background in Germany

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Sarah Demmrich ◽  
Havagül Akçe
Keyword(s):  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Migration Background ◽  
Ambiguity Tolerance ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Acculturation Strategies ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Negative View ◽  
Islamic Tradition ◽  
Per Se ◽  
First Time

Abstract The religious openness hypothesis, which states that religious traditions have the potential to integrate faith with intellect, is examined in this study within a migration context for the first time. Based on two lines of research, our central question is whether the sociological context or the Islamic tradition per se explains the (in)compatibility of faith and intellect orientation and their relation to psychological openness. Religious openness, psychological openness (ambiguity tolerance and acculturation strategies) and religiosity were measured among Muslims with a Turkish migration background in Germany. Our findings show a non-significant relationship between faith and intellect orientation and we therefore propose that the secular context is the crucial explaining factor. Religious reflection also moderates the link between different forms of religiosity and ambiguity tolerance. Finally, heterogeneous religious rationalities were uncovered that challenge the negative view of Muslims as fanatic, closed-minded people which prevails among the German majority society.

Ethnicity, Sex and Snoring

1997 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 585-586 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. Hicks ◽  
Kristy Lucero-Gorman ◽  
Patrick Ching
Keyword(s):  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Unique Feature ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Report Data ◽  
Self Report Data ◽  
University Undergraduates ◽  
First Time

The associations of the incidence of snoring with ethnicity and sex were measured using self-report data collected from 1098 university undergraduates. Both the relationships were significant. The unique feature of these data is that for the first time, a significant relationship between ethnicity and snoring has been reported.

scholarly journals A place too crowded to study: The impact of student cohort growth on the probability of university dropout

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-212
Author(s):  
Andrea Diem ◽  
Stefan C. Wolter
Keyword(s):  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
The Other ◽  
University System ◽  
Pronounced Increase ◽  
The Us ◽  
University Dropout ◽  
The Impact ◽  
First Time ◽  
Course Of Study

Introduction: This study examines the influence of major fluctuations in the number of students enrolling at university on the probability of dropout or a switch to a different course of study. Findings from the US show that a pronounced increase in student numbers leads to more dropouts. Materials and methods: This article provides an analysis of this relationship for the first time outside the US and for an entire university system. We use administrative data for all the students who started studying at Swiss universities between 1980 and 2001. Results: The results suggest a significant relationship between positive cohort growth and the probability of dropout. A reduction in student numbers, on the other hand, does not increase the probability of persistence. Discussion: Despite the negative influence of a big cohort on the probability of persistence, no statistically significant relationship exists, by contrast, between the change in student numbers and the probability of a student switching to a different course of study.

Hermeneutic Theory and Practice Theory in the Study of Cultural, Legal, and Religious Traditions

2019 ◽  
pp. 21-64
Author(s):  
Aria Nakissa
Keyword(s):  
Practice Theory ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
The Past ◽  
Islamic Tradition

This chapter discusses hermeneutic theory and practice theory, situating them with respect to the work of Geertz and Asad. It then clarifies precisely how hermeneutic theory and practice theory can be brought together in the analysis of cultural, legal, and religious traditions, giving special attention to the Islamic tradition. One of the chapter’s central claims is that knowledge of Sharīʿa rules can be conceptualized as knowledge of a mind (i.e., God’s mind). Moreover, knowledge of a mind can be inferred from signs/effects of that mind. In the Islamic tradition, these signs/effects include: (1) the Qurʾan, (2) the reported actions of the Prophet Muḥammad (Sunna), (3) the reported actions of religious scholars from the past, and (4) the observed actions of present-day religious scholars.

Dreambooks

2020 ◽  
pp. 50-73
Author(s):  
Bronwen Neil
Keyword(s):  
Primary Concern ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Near Eastern ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Special Training ◽  
Islamic Tradition ◽  
The Many ◽  
Good And Evil ◽  
Early Islamic

This chapter on dreambooks from our three main religious traditions concentrates on the differences between reported male and female dreaming, and the different interpretative strategies that were applied in these sources to men’s and women’s dreams. It starts by considering where dreambooks or dream key manuals began in the Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman traditions. The importance of generic context is again paramount. Dreambooks were written as manuals for interpreters but eventually came to be used by laypersons without any special training. The problem of discernment between good and evil dreams, and their causes, was not the primary concern of dreambook writers or those who used them, nor did they worry about how dreams related to a future that was governed by providence. They were simply concerned with what a specific dream meant for the present and future: was it good or bad? Dream interpreters attempted to lend scientific credibility to the profession by laying out in detail the many factors that could influence the interpretation of a dream. One of these variables was the gender of the dreamer, as seen in a survey of dream symbols from the Oneirocriticon of Artemidorus, the Book of Blessings, Byzantine dreambooks, and the early Islamic tradition.

The Qur’anic Calf Episode Between Orientalism and Islamic Tradition

2020 ◽  
pp. 265-317
Author(s):  
Michael E. Pregill
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
The West ◽  
Biblical Story ◽  
Golden Calf ◽  
Islamic Tradition ◽  
Western Scholarship ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Radical Revision

This chapter discusses the qur’anic Golden Calf episode as it is traditionally interpreted in both Muslim exegesis and Western scholarship. The qur’anic references to the image worshipped by the Israelites are usually understood as depicting the Calf as alive or at least possessing some semblance of life—as ? lowing image of a calf, as the Qur’an puts it. Further, the Qur’an seems to posit that the Calf was made and animated by a character called al-sāmirī—the “Samaritan”—and not Aaron as in the biblical story. Western scholars and traditional Muslim commentators have always agreed on this interpretation of the qur’anic version of the episode. However, this chapter shows that Western scholars have generally relied upon the explanation of the episode in Muslim exegesis or tafsīr, misunderstanding the role that early Muslim commentators played in introducing a radical revision of the story that was quite different in major details from the account found in the Qur’an itself. This can be demonstrated by examining historical translations of the Qur’an in the West, beginning with some of the earliest translations and commentaries of the medieval and early modern periods in Europe. In the specific case of the Calf narrative, Western scholars’ reliance on tafsīr has typically been motivated not by a desire to validate the claims of Muslim authorities, but rather by the assumption that Islam is at its root thoroughly dependent upon Judaism. This assumption has colored not only the overarching approach to the qur’anic narrative per se, but also the characterization of a number of rabbinic traditions that have been cited as the sources of that narrative.

A new chapter in the law of sexual harassment in Malaysia: The emergence of the torts of harassment and sexual harassment

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 191-207
Author(s):  
Abdul Majid ◽  
Sri Yogamalar ◽  
Audrey Kim Lan Siah ◽  
Jane L Y Terpstra-Tong ◽  
Luc Borrowman
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Federal Court ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
Per Se ◽  
The Law ◽  
First Time

In a landmark case in 2016, Malaysia’s apex court, the Federal Court, explicitly recognised for the first time, the common law tort of sexual harassment. Actually, the Federal Court did more than that; its recognition of the common law tort of sexual harassment is built on its recognising the common law tort of harassment. The recognition of the tort of harassment has escaped notice because attention has been concentrated on the tort of sexual harassment. This article analyses the Federal Court’s exposition of the tort of sexual harassment to reveal that the exegesis itself acknowledges the existence of the tort of harassment per se. The tort of harassment that the Federal Court sent out into the world is largely a creature of its English common law ancestry.

Wilfred Bion's Letters to John Rickman (1939–1951)Introduction

2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitris Vonofakos ◽  
Bob Hinshelwood
Keyword(s):  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Group Work ◽  
Military Hospital ◽  
Profound Influence ◽  
Wilfred Bion ◽  
The Social ◽  
Analytical Work ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Post War ◽  
First Time

This is a collection of 29 letters, 27 from Wilfred Bion to John Rickman, one addressed to Mrs Rickman and one from Rickman to Bion. These letters have been fully transcribed, annotated and published for the first time and offer a rare glimpse into the blossoming relationship between the two men and the gradual emergence of Bion's intellect through his work in War Office Selection Boards (WOSBs), the Northfield Military hospital and the exploratory groups at the Tavistock Clinic.Through this material it becomes evident that Bion's fascination with the work undertaken at WOSBs had more to do with the social ramifications of the principles and ideology applied there rather than with particular techniques per se, such as ‘leaderless groups’. Furthermore, the reader becomes witness to Rickman's profound influence on Bion's analytic work and in cultivating his interest in therapeutic institutions, ultimately leading to their groundbreaking work at Northfield Military hospital. While Bion's descriptions of his post-war group work at the Tavistock Clinic offer the first signs of his unique theory and technique on the exploration of group dynamics. The continuation of their correspondence until Rickman's untimely death is a testament to their strong collegial and personal relationship which transcended analytical work and other professional engagements.

Merck

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carsten Burhop ◽  
Michael Kißener ◽  
Hermann Schäfer ◽  
Joachim Scholtyseck
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Pharmaceutical Chemical ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Chemical Company ◽  
Technology Firms ◽  
Global Corporation ◽  
Global Leader ◽  
Long Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Time

Merck is the oldest pharmaceutical-chemical company in the world. It developed into a global corporation from a Darmstadt pharmacy that Jacob Friedrich Merck received the pharmacist’s license for in 1668. This book tells the 350-year history of the company for the first time in its entirety and on the basis of all the available sources, as well as the newest research in business history. For a long time, family-owned companies were regarded as a dying breed. The future seemed to belong to jointstock companies with an anonymous stockholder structure. Yet there are numerous successful counterexamples in Germany, such as Bosch, C&A and Bertelsmann. Merck, too, counts among them. How did the Merck family manage to keep the company in its possession for 13 generations through all the political ruptures and historical crises and turn it into a global leader among science and technology firms? With this as their central question, four acclaimed historians recount the fascinating history of the Merck company between 1668 and 2018, embedding it in the eventful course of world history.

Individualism/Collectivism and Organizational Citizenship Behavior: An Integrative Framework

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (10) ◽  
pp. 1633-1643 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcia A. Finkelstein
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Citizenship ◽  
Organizational Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Role Identity ◽  
Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Strongly Correlated ◽  
Integrative Framework ◽  
Individualism And Collectivism ◽  
Per Se ◽  
First Time

In this study individualism and collectivism are, for the first time, incorporated into a conceptual model of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). I asked whether individualism and collectivism show systematic differences in their relationships with OCB, its motives, and the development of a citizen role identity. Collectivism most strongly correlated with OCB motivated by concern for coworkers. A concept of self as one who helps others at work was also associated with collectivism. Individualism was associated more with a commitment to the well-being of the institution per se rather than to its employees. Individualism and collectivism were related positively, suggesting that these seemingly opposing attributes are complementary; which of these traits predominates may depend on which citizenship behavior is needed at a given time. Overall, the findings suggest that it is not in amount of citizenship that individualists and collectivists differ, but in why they serve and how they perceive the experience.

scholarly journals The Great Theft

2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 96-98
Author(s):  
David L. Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Bombings ◽  
Islamic Tradition ◽  
The Face ◽  
Per Se

Written creeds, which always come much later than the original revelation,invariably seek to define theological “orthodoxy” over and against the perceivedheresies of competing sects. Thus, in Islam, the Fiqh Akbar I stoodagainst the Kharajites, the Wasiyat Abu Hanifah against the Qadarites andthe first Mu`tazilites, and the Fiqh Akbar II against the later Mu`tazilites.Later on, such theological treatises as al-Ash`ari’s Al-Ibanah and `Abd al-Qahir al-Baghdadi’s Kitab Usul al-Din appeared.In The Great Theft, Khaled Abou El Fadl revives this tradition by statingthat in the wake of numerous “acts of ugliness” committed by Muslims,the ummah has reached a grave theological crossroads. Muslims are nowdivided along a spectrum between two extremes. Fundamentally, this schismis one between “moderates” (the extreme being defined by those most willingto reinterpret the Islamic tradition in the light of contemporary realities)and “puritans,” who, on the basis of a selective reading of Islam’s strictestschool of law (Hanbali), claim that 90 percent of human affairs are alreadycovered by God’s law (the Shari`ah). At the heart of these diametricallyopposed worldviews, he claims, is a theological decision regarding creationand the Shari`ah’s meaning.Significantly, the book’s first part is devoted to an analysis of the presentcrisis. In the first chapter (“Islam Torn between Extremism andModeration”), Abou El Fadl describes the split that divides the Islamic communityand helpfully defines the terms moderate (as opposed to modernist,progressive, or reformist) and puritan (not fundamentalist, militant, extremist,radical, or jihadist). From the beginning, he lays aside the commonMuslim objections in the face of suicide bombings or beheadings: “the problemis with Muslims, not Islam per se.” Unfortunately, he argues, all sidesclaim that they are following the precepts of Islam. What is needed is a ...

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