The role of Islamic Educational Institutions in Achieving Intellectual Unity among Muslims in Cameroon: دور المؤسسات التربوية الإسلامية في تحقيق الوحدة الفكرية بين المسلمين في الكاميرون

Unity is one of the fundamental tools for social security in human life and Islamic Educational institutions in Cameroon are not excluded. The present study aimed at identifying the main roles and Educational needs of Islamic Educational institutions in Cameroon in bringing about Intellectual unity. The descriptive analytical approach was used as a research methodology. The research has come up with the following findings: The spread of misconceptions among individuals is the main cause of weak and limited results of educational work. Due to this, the relationship between those institutions and the society in its formal framework remains negative. The Islamic Educational institutions in Cameroon have been playing an important role in the service of religion and society in order to preserve peace and unity, but despite its tangible achievements they still face challenges in some aspect, such as academic challenges, scientific developments, and Educational supervision, which were identified as obstacle to functional integration. In conclusion, it is recommended to develop a strategic and effective programs in which all the Islamic Educational institutions of Cameroon are involved in order to erase the misconceptions causing intellectual disunity. These should involve dissemination of pure Islamic values, modern technical and professional educational courses, besides promoting solidarity, religious and cultural cohesion in order to address the diverse challenges of the enemies of religion and society.

Recovering the unity of theology by means of mariology

This paper argues that Western theology has lost a certain intellectual unity by becoming divided between dogmatic theology (or doctrine) and moral theology (or ethics). The history of theological reflection on Mary illustrates this, because it has become confined to dogmatic theology and has hardly ever been discussed in the context of morals. However, mariology can help us to understand the doctrinal foundations that must support any adequate moral theology. By helping us to see how morals depend on dogma, mariology can help us to recover the unity of theology.

El liberalismo visto desde la revista del Ateneo franquista (1952-1955)

Resumen: En 1952 sale a la luz la revista Ateneo como órgano de difusión cultural dependiente de la Dirección General de Información. Su misión era la de motivar la unidad intelectual de España, concitar la adhesión al régimen de los intelectuales y promocionar los valores de la monarquía católica leal a los principios del Movimiento. En consonancia con el pensamiento reaccionario tradicional, Ateneo criticó cualquier manifestación y herencia del pasado régimen parlamentario y liberal. Este artículo estudia cómo se materializaban esas críticas en servicio y exaltación de los valores políticos subyacentes bajo el franquismo.Palabras clave: Ateneo, liberalismo, franquismo, nacional-catolicismo, revistas culturales.Abstract: In 1952 the journal Ateneo is published for its first time. It will have a role as a medium to spread the official cultural values as part of the governmental Information Agency. They will have the mission to promote Spanish intellectual unity by encouraging intellectuals to support Franco’s regime and promoting the values of a Catholic Monarchy loyal to the principles of the Movement. In tune with the traditional reactionary thought, Ateneo criticised any manifestation and inheritance of the past liberal and parliamentarian regime. This paper analyses how this criticism was materialised and used to praise the underlying political values of Francoism.Keywords: Ateneo, liberalism, Francoism, national-Catholicism, cultural journals.

Worker-intellectual unity: Trans-border sociological intervention in Foxconn

What are the implications for global public sociology and labor studies when more than a score of Foxconn workers jump to their death and when a wave of protests, riots and strikes occur in their wake? This article documents the formation of a cross-border sociological intervention project and illustrates how sociological research fueled regional campaigns that gradually developed into a global campaign. This experience confirms the premise that 'social science' should never be separated from 'politics.' The authors also shed light on how social and economic injustice was creatively challenged by combining the strengths of workers, researchers and transnational movement activists. The study uses both quantitative (semi-structured questionnaires) and qualitative (in-depth interviews and participation observation) methods to gain insights concerning the experiences, world views and collective agency of Chinese workers who are struggling to make sense of the global production regime they inhabit and to contest the forces that shape their working and social lives.

Carl Friedrich and Political Science

IT IS PERHAPS A SIGN OF THE GREATER MATURITY OF THE discipline of political science today that the ‘great debate’ of the immediate postwar period on the essential nature of the subject has now died down. The vast quantities of ink that were spilled (and not a little blood) did not result in a victory for either of the two great camps - the traditonalists or the behaviourists - but in a recognition, however reluctant, that the subject of the study of politics was too great, and too complex, to be approached only from this angle or that, but required the application of many different methods, and of many different kinds of minds, if progress was to be made towards the better understanding of the ways in which man provided for his own overnance. However, if the students of political thought, of constitutions and institutions, now work alongside the practitioners of ‘empirical’, and indeed of quantititive, techniques for the study of politics, it is in large part due to the efforts of Carl Friedrich, who saw the need to maintain the intellectual unity of a subject which, since the time of Aristotle, had progressed, as indeed all subjects can only progress, by the continual interaction between those who contemplate its theoretical underpinnings and those who are knowledgeable about the data by which, in the end, the theories must be tested. The normative dimension of the study of man and his political activities, is an additional complication, but it does not absolve the theorist from the need to relate his theory to perceived reality, nor the empiricist from the necessity of placing his observations within a context which alone will give them significance.

Islamic Thoughts On Societal Planning & Management

This conference has undertaken to examine The Islamic Approach to Technological Development. Technological development has two dimensions - the hardware and the software. I have chosen to look into the realm of Islamic 'software' in terms ofdevelopment particularly societal development.The 'software' here would include some of the basic tenets of Islam, and social thoughts ofsome Muslim scholars as inspired by the Islamic ideology.I cannot claim to be an original researcher on Islamic tenet, principles and values. nor do I dare offer any new interpretation ofthose. Much of the materials in this paper are based on absorbing works of other Muslim scholars. What I have tried to achieve in this paper is to present a platform consisting ofthoughts ofsome of the prominent Muslim thinkers of the past and the present, which appeal to me as very relevant for societal planning, and on which other Mus lim thinkers, leaders, and planners may like to give further thoughts. Whenever I have referred to Islamic tenets on my own accord,are those which, I trust, are common knowledge to all Muslims.My hopes and aspiration in writing this paper has been that Muslims by faith are members of one community; - we should not land ourselves into any controversy, rather on the contrary - this conference should serve as one of the sources of intellectual unity, and pave the way for us to forge ahead as a world community of harmony, peace, progress and leadership.