Muslims as Thailand's Largest Religious Minority

Main Street in Sarasota, Florida. A high-tech medical arts building rises from the east end, the county's historic three-story courthouse is two blocks to the west and sandwiched in between is the First Church of Christ, Scientist. A verse inscribed on the wall behind the pulpit of the church reads: “Divine Love Always Has Met and Always Will Meet Every Human Need.” This is the church where William and Christine Hermanson worshipped. It is just a few steps away from the courthouse where they were convicted of child abuse and third-degree murder for failing to provide conventional medical care for their seven-year-old daughter.This Article is about the intersection of “divine love” and “the best interests of the child.” It is about a pluralistic society where the dominant culture reveres medical science, but where a religious minority shuns and perhaps fears that same medical science. It is also about the struggle among different religious interests to define the legal rights of the citizenry.

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Conclusion

10.1093/oso/9780190850524.003.0008 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Jürgen Schaflechner

Keyword(s):

Second Step ◽

Identity Change ◽

Religious Minority ◽

Important Place ◽

The Way

The conclusion harmonizes the overarching themes of the book, providing a final look at the dramatic relationship between identity, change, and solidification for Pakistan’s largest religious minority at its most important place of worship today. The conclusion first sketches the site’s and the residing Devi’s history as well as the pilgrimage’s ancient origin. In a second step, the author summarizes how recent infrastructural and organizational developments caused the ritual journey to undergo significant changes resulting in novel practices performed on the way to and at the shrine. Finally he sums up how these alterations lead to a solidification of the Hinglaj tradition, which is directed toward establishing some kind of unity among the various narratives and practices occurring in the valley.

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Making of the New Constitution

10.1093/oso/9780199467099.003.0017 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

J.S. Grewal

Keyword(s):

Special Interest ◽

The Political ◽

Final Decision ◽

Official Language ◽

Religious Minority ◽

Constituent Assembly

Of special interest to the Sikhs in the making of a new constitution were political safeguards, the issues of language, and linguistic states. In 1947 it was decided to have proportionate reservations for minorities. However, the question of safeguards for the Sikhs was postponed. A sub-committee formed in February 1948 saw no reason to make an exception in their case. In May 1949, Sardar Patel reopened the question of reservations but decided to have no reservations for any religious minority. On the issue of the official language for India, the final decision was in favour of Hindi in Devnagri script. On the issue of linguistic states, the Constituent Assembly reluctantly formed a commission which recommended that there was no need of creating linguistic states. The Constitution adopted in 1950, thus, did not satisfy any of the political aspirations of the Sikhs as a community.

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Muslim and Jewish Immigrants’ Adjustment: The Role of Religious-American Harmony, Religious-American Identity Centrality, and Discrimination

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology ◽

10.1177/0022022121994328 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 52 (3) ◽

pp. 259-274

Author(s):

Sadie S. Amini ◽

Angela-MinhTu D. Nguyen

Keyword(s):

Religious Identity ◽

First Generation ◽

Perceived Discrimination ◽

Positive Association ◽

American Identity ◽

Muslim American ◽

Religious Minority ◽

Identity Centrality ◽

Dual Identities ◽

Jewish Immigrants

Religious-minority immigrants must negotiate both their religious and host cultural (e.g., American) identities; however, the duality of these identities is rarely examined in relation to adjustment. In this study, we tested whether a religious-American identity centrality could predict better adjustment over and above religious identity centrality and American identity centrality. Moreover, based on the Integrative Psychological Model of Biculturalism, we investigated whether the harmony perceived between one’s religious and American identities could mediate the relationship between religious-American identity centrality and adjustment, and between perceived discrimination and adjustment. With data from 130 first-generation Muslim American and Jewish American participants, we found support for most hypotheses. Although a more central religious-American identity predicted better adjustment, it did not predict better adjustment over and above religious identity centrality and American identity centrality. More importantly, religious-American harmony mediated the positive association between religious-American identity centrality and adjustment, and the negative association between perceived discrimination and adjustment. Implications of our findings for research on dual identities are discussed.

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Religious Minority Rights and their Satisfaction in Pakistan

International Journal on Minority and Group Rights ◽

10.1163/15718115-bja10044 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-15

Author(s):

Muhammad Akram ◽

Asim Nasar ◽

Abid Rehman

Keyword(s):

Rural Areas ◽

Freedom Of Expression ◽

Pearson Correlation ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Government Policies ◽

Religious Minority ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Citizenship Rights ◽

Religious Minorities ◽

Muslim Majority

Abstract The study investigates the satisfaction of religious minorities in Pakistan subject to government policies and attitudes of the Muslim majority. A cross-sectional study design was used to collect data from 120 respondents living in rural areas in Pakistan. Descriptive statistics and the Pearson correlation coefficient were used to measure the relatedness of essential factors of freedom of expression, opportunity in government services, security of unprotected assembly, prejudice in relationship with Muslims and welcomeness in Muslim neighbourhoods. Yeh’s Index of Satisfaction was used to measure the satisfaction level of religious minorities with government policies and attitudes of the Muslim majority. The study findings revealed that religious minorities are least satisfied with their citizenship rights in Pakistan, which poses various questions to government policies and legislation. Further, they were also least satisfied with the attitudes of the Muslim majority with whom they must interact in their everyday life.

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Religious Minority Students at HBCUs

Underserved Populations at Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Diversity in Higher Education ◽

10.1108/s1479-364420180000021007 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 107-120

Author(s):

Yoruba Taheerah Mutakabbir

Keyword(s):

Minority Students ◽

Religious Minority

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Morbidity and Irish Catholic descent in Britain: An ethnic and religious minority 150 years on

Social Science & Medicine ◽

10.1016/s0277-9536(96)00302-4 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 45 (1) ◽

pp. 3-14 ◽

Cited By ~ 33

Author(s):

Joanne Abbotts ◽

Rory Williams ◽

Graeme Ford ◽

Kate Hunt ◽

Patrick West

Keyword(s):

Religious Minority

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Taking it to the Grave: Gender, Cultural Capital, and Ethnicity in Turkish Death Announcements

OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying ◽

10.2190/om.60.2.e ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 60 (2) ◽

pp. 175-197 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Murat Ergin

Keyword(s):

Cultural Capital ◽

Social History ◽

Turning Points ◽

Minority Status ◽

Daily Newspaper ◽

Religious Minority ◽

Self Image ◽

Great Equalizer

Popularly considered a great equalizer, death and the rituals around it nevertheless accentuate social distinctions. The present study focuses on a sample ( N = 2554) of death announcements in a major Turkish daily newspaper ( Hürriyet) from 1970 to 2006. Out of the liminal position of Turkish death announcements between obituaries and death notices emerges a large decentralized collection of private decisions responding to death, reflecting attitudes toward gender, ethnic/religious minority status and cultural capital, and echoing the aggregate efforts of privileged groups to maintain a particular self-image. Class closures lead to openings for traditionally under-represented minorities, such as Jewish Turkish citizens and citizens of Greek or Armenian origin. Results reveal that signs of status and power in announcements are largely monopolized by men of Turkish-Muslim origins. Although the changes in the genre-characteristics of death announcements are slow, they correspond to major turning points in Turkish social history.

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Synagogue and State in the Israeli Military: A Story of “Inappropriate Integration”

Law & Ethics of Human Rights ◽

10.1515/lehr-2016-0008 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 223-294 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Karin Carmit Yefet

Keyword(s):

Multiple Identities ◽

Religious Community ◽

Minority Women ◽

Religious Minority ◽

Liberal Democratic ◽

Majority Group ◽

Minority Member ◽

Group Members ◽

The Military ◽

Female Soldiers

Abstract The encounter between synagogue and state in Israel’s military context raises a variety of complex questions that defy conventional paradigms. While religious liberty continues to occupy a special place in most liberal democratic thought, the legal and philosophical literature pondering its various dimensions has largely lost analytic sight of the fascinating intersection of military and religion. This article embarks on analyzing the appropriate integration between loyalty to God and to country, and between religious male and secular female soldiers. Evaluating examples of synagogue-state tensions and accommodationist policies, this article explores the manner and extent to which the Israeli military (IDF) responds to the observant soldier’s multiple identities as a religious minority member and a faithful citizen of the larger secular polity. Against this backdrop, the article analyzes the vexed challenges posed to multicultural theory by the equivocal status of the Orthodox community as a numerical minority but “power majority” within the military, and by the IDF’s unique exercise of multiculturalist protection, termed herein “external restrictions,” imposed on majority group members. It concludes that the ongoing “religionization” of the IDF through the 2002 “Appropriate Integration” regulation has served as a powerful counterforce to gender equality, fostering a growing practice of female exclusion through which women are disenfranchised from core, non-negotiable protections of citizenship. The article identifies as the prime casualty of this aggressive multicultural accommodation not only secular women’s hard-won equality of opportunity, but also the very rights and status of minority women within their own religious community.

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