scholarly journals Islam in New Zealand – A Mixed Reception: Historical Overview and Contemporary Challenges

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-170
Author(s):  
Abdullah Drury ◽  
Douglas Pratt
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Terrorist Attack ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
The Core ◽  
Muslim Minority ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City ◽  
Direct Attachment ◽  
Looking Back

Purpose: This research aims to discuss the history of Islam in New Zealand, together with some of the pressing issues and challenges Muslims have encountered along the way. Looking back at the history of early Muslim settlers and the emergence of Muslim organizations and allied enterprises, it is clear that the Muslim community in New Zealand has had a rather mixed reception in a land that, on the whole, is perceived to be benignly tolerant and accepting. Methodology: The research is based on a critical analysis of the available literature, both contemporary and historical. This paper explores complicated community developments, conversions to Islam, the violence experienced with defacement and destruction of mosques in reaction to overseas events over recent decades, ongoing Islamophobia, and the infamous 2019 terrorist attack on two mosques in the city of Christchurch. Findings: The research highlights the status of the New Zealand Muslim community and the extent and nature of their influence in the country. It constitutes a social hierarchy with a complex past and multiple internal issues. Accordingly, this paper concludes with a brief discussion of the migrant experience of Muslims. It also elucidates the necessity of further research in the future and emphasizes the need to study the culture, faith and history of New Zealand from various angles. Originality: This is illustrated in the direct attachment of the research to the core topic of religion. This is the first academic study to deal directly with both the history of the Muslim minority and contemporary issues such as Islamophobia following the 2019 massacre.

The status of Gideon Mantell's “first” Iguanodon tooth in the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

1997 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 397-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN C. YALDWYN ◽  
GARRY J. TEE ◽  
ALAN P. MASON
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Charles Lyell ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
Gideon Mantell

A worn Iguanodon tooth from Cuckfield, Sussex, illustrated by Mantell in 1827, 1839, 1848 and 1851, was labelled by Mantell as the first tooth sent to Baron Cuvier in 1823 and acknowledged as such by Sir Charles Lyell. The labelled tooth was taken to New Zealand by Gideon's son Walter in 1859. It was deposited in a forerunner of the Museum of New Zealand, Wellington in 1865 and is still in the Museum, mounted on a card bearing annotations by both Gideon Mantell and Lyell. The history of the Gideon and Walter Mantell collection in the Museum of New Zealand is outlined, and the Iguanodon tooth and its labels are described and illustrated. This is the very tooth which Baron Cuvier first identified as a rhinoceros incisor on the evening of 28 June 1823.

Use of the Delphi sorting technique to establish a core sexual history

2006 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 170-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Tideman ◽  
Marian Pitts ◽  
Christopher K Fairley
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Sexual Health ◽  
Delphi Technique ◽  
Health Centre ◽  
Sexual History ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Core ◽  
Current State ◽  
Sorting Technique ◽  
History Of

The objective of this study was to develop a core sexual history to be used as a supplementary tool to assist sexual health physicians assess new clients attending a sexual health centre. Eight experts in sexual health medicine employed the Delphi technique and sexual history items from a previous study to generate a core sexual history. The core history contained 15 questions for men and women, with three additional specific questions for men and five for women. The current state of the clients' sexual health was explored (rather than a client's history of sexual behaviour) and three months (compared with 12 months and lifetime) came out strongly as the preferred timeframe for asking clients' behavioural questions. This core history may be useful in many clinics in Australia and New Zealand as its development was based on expert clinical experience of respected authorities within the field of sexual health medicine.

scholarly journals Community insurance versus compulsory insurance: competing paradigms of no-fault accident compensation in New Zealand

Legal Studies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 499-516
Author(s):  
Simon Connell
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Specific Form ◽  
Accident Insurance ◽  
Personal Injury ◽  
Compensation Scheme ◽  
The Core ◽  
Accident Compensation ◽  
Compulsory Insurance ◽  
History Of

AbstractThis paper presents a history of New Zealand's accident compensation scheme as a struggle between two competing normative paradigms that justify the core reform of the replacement of civil actions for victims of personal injury with a comprehensive no-fault scheme. Under ‘community insurance’, the scheme represents the community taking moral and practical responsibility for members who are injured in accidents, while for ‘compulsory insurance’ the scheme is a specific form of compulsory accident insurance. Understanding the history of the scheme in this way helps explain both the persistence of the scheme and important changes made to it by different governments.

A Critical Period in American Catholicism

1973 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 523-536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay P. Dolan
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Critical Period ◽  
American Catholicism ◽  
Madison Avenue ◽  
The Past ◽  
Age Of Discovery ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City ◽  
Looking Back ◽  
Area Of Study

Historians are fond of looking back over the panorama of the past and writing about periods of cultural change that altered the continuity of history. The age of discovery and the rise of the city are phrases that describe such pivotal epochs. These are not Madison Avenue-inspired book titles, but legitimate interpretative descriptions of past ages that provide a key to understanding the development of American civilization. Although the history of American Catholicism does not lend itself to such epochal descriptions, interpretative concepts are applicable in this area of study as well and they can provide useful keys to the analysis of the past.

scholarly journals Māori

2018 ◽  
pp. 591-612
Author(s):  
Jeanette King
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Language Revitalization ◽  
Indigenous Language ◽  
Endangered Languages ◽  
History Of ◽  
Looking Back

Te Reo Māori, the Māori language, the indigenous language of New Zealand, is one of the most well known of the languages classified as being endangered. With revitalization efforts starting in the early 1980s, initiatives such as kōhanga reo (“language nests”) have inspired other indigenous revitalization efforts worldwide. This chapter gives an overview of the history of the decline of the Māori language and charts the development of Māori language revitalization efforts which initially focused on the education and broadcasting sectors. However, since 2000 there has been a concerted focus at both government and tribal levels on strengthening the use of the Māori language in the home and community. Looking back over thirty-five years of revitalization efforts and their many phases this chapter provides information that may be of use in the revitalization efforts of other endangered languages.

Twenty-Five Years of Recusant History

1976 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 153-156
Author(s):  
A.F. Allison ◽  
D.M. Rogers
Keyword(s):  
General Term ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Similar Process ◽  
Rich Variety ◽  
Extended Space ◽  
January Issue ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
Looking Back

Fifteen years ago the present writers published a survey entitled ‘Ten Years of Recusant History’ (January issue, 1961). That article briefly described how this journal had evolved during its first ten years from a publication designed to supplement existing biographical works into ‘a periodical that would lay the foundations of a general history of Catholicism in these islands since the Reformation’.This is a statement of aims which, from the vantage point of a quarter of a century’s experience, we see no reason to alter. While much excellent material, derived mainly from local records of all sorts, now appears in the flourishing crop of county recusant periodicals which have sprung up in our wake, the pages of Recusant History continue to offer extended space for the publication of long articles, or even series of articles, treating specific topics in full depth. We still believe that definitive studies of this sort, with full apparatus of sources and references, must form the necessary groundwork for any reliable general histories to be written in the future.Such topics as we surveyed in 1961, for example biographies, family histories, recusant bibliography, and those wider questions concerning the status and fortunes of the whole Catholic body, have continued to be well represented in our pages during the ensuing fifteen years. But there has been growth as well as continuity. Looking back over the whole corpus of material published between 1961 and the end of 1975, we observe with pleasure that the previously under-cultivated period from 1700 onwards has received an amount of scholarly attention which fifteen years ago we did not dare to expect. Indeed, it has now been generally accepted that the boundaries of recusant history as a subject stretch onwards in time beyond those centuries when recusancy was a crime on the statute book. By a similar process the connotation of the word ‘recusant’ has been widened. It is perhaps not too much to claim that, by the expanded range of its subject matter, this journal has gone far towards validating the use of the word ‘recusancy’ as a general term covering post-Reformation English Catholicism even in its widest ramifications. It remains our aim to continue to explore and document its history and culture in all their rich variety.

Terror in Christchurch: Here comes the ‘Peace Train’

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-157
Author(s):  
Lindsay Neill ◽  
Nigel Hemmington ◽  
Andrew Emery
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Terrorist Attack ◽  
The United States ◽  
Geographic Isolation ◽  
Safe Haven ◽  
White Supremacist ◽  
Road Map ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
History Of

On 15 March 2019, a white supremacist gunman shot dead 50 Muslim worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, Aotearoa, New Zealand. His actions changed forever the safe haven known as ‘God’s Own’. New Zealanders were shocked that such an event had happened here. Many Kiwis believed the nation to be safe, given its geographic isolation from the terrorist targets of Europe and the United States of America. However, the atrocity has exposed an unhealthy underbelly that has long permeated New Zealand’s socio-culture. Racism and discrimination have forefronted ensuing conversations. This article explores the nation’s history of discrimination preceding the terrorist attack. In doing so, we expose something subtly denied: that New Zealand is not the egalitarian land of milk and honey that many Kiwis believed it to be. We suggest that the terrorist attack not only highlighted the nation’s discrimination but also provided its liminal moment. Part of that liminality was Cat/Yusuf Steven’s performance, in Christchurch, of ‘Peace Train’. We compound our exploration of Aotearoa New Zealand’s history of discrimination by asking how the lyrics of ‘Peace Train’ provide a way to view our past and provide an opportunity to perceive a way forward for the nation, given the tragedy of terrorism. We suggest that ‘Peace Train’ is a metaphorical illumination of the nation’s liminality, and that it provided a road map of unity that helped to guide many Kiwis in understanding and coming to terms with not only what had happened but also a future view of how Kiwis might see themselves.

scholarly journals From the History of the Yekaterinburg Merchant Family of the Agafurovs: New Discoveries

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-260
Author(s):  
Aleksey N. Starostin
Keyword(s):  
Family Members ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Russian Revolution ◽  
State Archive ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Charity Work ◽  
The City

The Agafurovs were the well established Russian Tatar merchants. Before 1917 the Agafurov family had significantly contributed to the cultural development of the city of Yekaterinburg and its Muslim community. The family was actively involved in charity work, financially supported the city «House of worship», the Russian-Tatar public library as well as several schools. The biographies of the some Agafurov family members are rather well researched on the basis of the sources preserved in the Ural libraries. However, researchers still lack a knowledge about what did happen to them since they have left Russia after the 1917 Russian revolution. The article is an attempt to fill in this gap. It deals with what happened to the Agafurov family members during their emigration to China (Harbin) in 1920 – 1940es. The present research is based on the hitherto unknown documents from the former Russian Emigrants in the Manchurian Empire Bureau, which are currently preserved in the State Archive of Khabarovsk Region (Khabarovskii Krai).

scholarly journals Vision but flaws mar needed editing textbook

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 234-235
Author(s):  
James Hollings
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
History Of ◽  
Looking Back

This timely publication by two lecturers at AUT University's journalism school is aimed at putting that imbalance right, and more importantly passing on some of the craft built up over generations of subediting in New Zealand. There is a nice introduction looking back at the history of newspaper production, which sets the tone for the whole book; chatty and easy to read, if a little long-winded in places. 

scholarly journals Image of the city and modern architecture in the Polish feature films of the 1960s’

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (31) ◽  
pp. 135-144
Author(s):  
Adam Nadolny
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Feature Films ◽  
Film Image ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The City

This article focuses on the inter-dependencies between the film image and architecture. The author has attempted to define what sort of historical background preconditions the film image to gain the status of a source for research on the history of Polish urban planning and post-war architecture, with particular emphasis placed on the 1960s.

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