scholarly journals Cultural and Religious Beliefs and Practices Abusive to Children With Disabilities in Zimbabwe

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
A. T. Mukushi ◽  
J. C. Makhubele ◽  
V. Mabvurira
Keyword(s):  
Support Groups ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Children With Disabilities ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Continuous Training ◽  
Descriptive Case Study ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Frontline Workers

This study sought to explore religious practices and beliefs that violate the rights of children with disabilities in Zimbabwe. The authors employed a qualitative approach in exploring cultural and religious beliefs and practices abusive to children with disabilities. Authors used exploratory-descriptive case study design and purposive sampling in selecting participants. Data collection took place in Dzivarasekwa, a high-density suburb in Harare among children who were receiving rehabilitation services at Harare Hospital and their caregivers. The study established that children with disabilities who come from some apostolic families are disadvantaged, as their parents believe that demonic spirits causes disability. This then leads to heightened levels of discrimination. The study also found out that there are remedial but harmful cultural and religious practices. The study recommends that rigorous awareness raising is needed for communities to support people with disabilities, formation of support groups amongst people with disabilities themselves, introducing holistic interventions that address issues of cultural and religious beliefs and continuous training for frontline workers to keep in touch with current best practices, policies and laws around disabilities.

The True Covenant People: Ethnic Reasoning in the Epistle of Barnabas

2010 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Kok
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Roman Period ◽  
Christian Identity ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Etude De Cas ◽  
Étude De Cas ◽  
Social Praxis

There was no abstract conception of religion in antiquity, but religious beliefs and practices were closely intertwined with ethnicity in the Graeco-Roman period. Building on the groundbreaking studies of Denise Kimber Buell, I investigate the use of ethnic reasoning in centrist Christian identity formation with the epistle of Barnabas as a specific case study. The epistle of Barnabas utilizes ethnic reasoning to construct a distinct Christian ethnic identity and to manufacture sharp differences between Christian and Judaean social praxis. In order to promote the idea of a homogeneous Christian ethnic identity with pure origins, Barnabas re-appropriates the legacy of Israel while representing the ‘‘Judaean’’ as an adversaral foil. Il n’y avait pas de conception abstraite de la religion dans l’antiquité, mais les croyances et pratiques religieuses étaient étroitement entrelacées à l’ethnicité dans la période gréco-romaine. En me basant sur les études innovantes de Denise Kimber Buell, je recherche l’utilisation du raisonnement ethnique dans la formation de l’identité chrétienne avec l’épitre de Barnabas comme étude de cas. L’épitre de Barnabas utilise le raisonnement ethnique pour construire une identité chrétienne distincte et pour créer une nette différence entre les coutumes chrétiennes et judaïques. Afin de promouvoir l’idée d’une identité chrétienne homogène avec des origines pures, Barnabas rétablit l’héritage d’Israël tout en représentant le christianisme et le judaïsme comme des adversaires.

Bridging a Divide: A Faith-Based Perspective on Anti-Discrimination Law

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-78
Author(s):  
Mark Bell
Keyword(s):  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract High-profile litigation in various jurisdictions has drawn attention to situations where conflict arises between the requirements of anti-discrimination law and the religious beliefs and practices of individuals and organizations. Although these disputes reflect genuine disagreements, this article argues that, in addition to litigation, other facets of the relationship between faith and anti-discrimination law need to be considered. Taking Catholic Social Teaching as a case study, the article explores anti-discrimination law through a theological lens. In this example, it identifies significant common ground where religious beliefs are congruent with anti-discrimination law, even if areas of divergence are also present. The article concludes that further exploration of law and theology could make a contribution to fostering a more constructive relationship between faith and anti-discrimination law.

NADIA ABU-ZAHRA, The Pure and the Powerful: Studies in Contemporary Muslim Society (Reading, Berkshire, U.K.: Ithaca Press, 1997). Pp. 340. $45.00 cloth, $21.00 paper.

2002 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 174-175
Author(s):  
Vincent F. Biondo III
Keyword(s):  
Religious Practices ◽  
Common People ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Patron Saint ◽  
Muslim Society ◽  
Intellectual Elites

The Pure and the Powerful, the second book by the Oxford-based anthropologist Nadia Abu-Zahra, is a case study of the rituals performed at the Cairo shrine of al-Sayyida Zaynab, patron saint of women, during the anniversaries of her birth and death. Considered by many to be the granddaughter of the Prophet Muhammad, al-Sayyida Zaynab is the epitome of purity and has the power to heal the sick. Abu-Zahra sees religious practices at the shrine as a demonstration of Islam and Egyptian society's “integrated wholeness.” In short, the beliefs and practices of common people, intellectual elites, men, and women are more analogous than previously thought.

The Delphic Oracle: Belief and Behaviour in Ancient Greece—and Africa

1965 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. R. Whittaker
Keyword(s):  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Modern Trend ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
The Real ◽  
Cultural Institution

Until comparatively recently writers on religion were absorbed by questions concerning the origins of religious beliefs and practices. They endowed primitive man with a kind of rational logicality in his belief, or, like Frazer, they saw his religious practices as simply the application of erroneous reasoning. The modern trend is to try to view the religious or cultural institution as an essential part of society, existing because of the needs of that society. This is the theme, for instance, of Malinowski when he says that “religion is not born out of speculation or reflection, still less out of illusion or misapprehension, but rather out of the real tragedies of human life, out of the conflict between human plans and realities.”

Engaging with the Guru

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 201-224
Author(s):  
Kristina Myrvold
Keyword(s):  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Semantic Content ◽  
Social World ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
The Social ◽  
Spiritual Authority ◽  
Sacred Scripture

The Sikhs have perhaps taken the concept of a sacred scripture much further than any other religious community by treating the Guru Granth Sahib as a living guru. This essay analyzes various religious beliefs and practices by which contemporary Sikhs construct and maintain conceptions of their scripture as a guru with spiritual authority. A distinction is made between religious practices that serve to mediate and interpret the semantic content of the scripture, performative acts that are enacted to transform the social world, and rituals that aim to give the scripture a careful ministration and celebrate different stages of its worldly life. The various ritualized uses of Guru Granth Sahib can be approached as external strategies by which the Sikhs personify their scripture and make it socially alive as a living guru.

Body Modifications, Sexual Activity, and Religious Practices

2010 ◽  
Vol 106 (2) ◽  
pp. 467-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark G. Rivardo ◽  
Colleen M. Keelan
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Activity ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Liberal Arts College ◽  
Body Modification ◽  
Sexual Partners ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Body Modifications

Relations among body modifications (i.e., tattoos and piercings), sexual activity, and religious practices and beliefs were examined. In previous studies, Koch and colleagues found the type of body modification seemed to interact with sex to predict sexual activity; but only weak, negative correlations were found between tattoos and religious beliefs and practices. In a sample of 236 students ( M age = 20.1 yr.) from a small Catholic liberal arts college, numbers of tattoos and sexual partners were correlated statistically significantly. Other results differed by t sex: men with piercings were more likely to have had premarital intercourse, and women who had had premarital intercourse had more piercings than women who had not. There were no statistically significant correlations among body modifications and religious variables.

“Pen and tongue” untied: Lillias Hamilton's uncensored view of ʿAbd al-Rahman Khan

Afghanistan ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Namatullah Kadrie
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The 19Th Century

Many Europeans went to Afghanistan in the 19th-century and entered the service of ʿAbd al-Rahman Khan, the Amir of Afghanistan (r. 1880–1901). Almost all of the Amir's employees abstained from publishing anything while inside the country; but upon leaving or escaping Afghanistan wrote voluminously about their experiences, which were critical of the Amir. Taking Lillias Hamilton, who served as court physician to ʿAbd al-Rahman from 1894 to 1897 as a case study, this paper argues that Hamilton practiced self-censorship, not only in Afghanistan, but after fleeing the country. Although Hamilton published a book and a large number of articles, and presented numerous talks after leaving Afghanistan, her publications and lectures intentionally eschewed any analyses of the Amir and focused instead on trivial matters. Only after the Amir's death in October 1901 did Hamilton do away with the mantle of self-censorship, and begin to express her polemical views of the Amir. These revelations, which include the Amir's despotic rule and unorthodox religious beliefs and practices, were not divulged while the potentate was alive lest it might bring about harm to her European counterparts who were still living in Kabul.

Religious Orientations in the Lives of Indian Entrepreneurs: Three Case Studies

2012 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-108
Author(s):  
ALINA BAKUNINA
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Religious Orientations ◽  
Economic Elite ◽  
Urban Indian ◽  
Business Setting ◽  
Religious Elements

AbstractThis paper aims to demonstrate how ‘the religious’ is conceptualized and practiced among urban Indian entrepreneurs. It investigates a continuum of religious sentiment and practice, including non-religious elements, rather than a fixed repertoire of belief and ritual. These religious orientations range from the incorporation of certain Hindu religious practices into the business setting to a denial of any substantive role religion may play in the lives of entrepreneurs and the imbuing of religious dispositions with secular meaning. I argue in this paper that the religious and quasi religious practices of India's new social and economic elite are geared primarily towards the enhancement of their ‘flexible’ lifestyles. The study also makes a claim that modern urban Hinduism accommodates hybrid secular-sacred religious beliefs and practices.

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