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Community-Society Equilibrium: Religious Organizations in the Service of a Secular State
Religious enclaves have a long history of relying on internal organizations to care for the vulnerable. Yet very occasionally they avail themselves...
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Mount Fuji vs the Megastructures of Tokyo
This chapter traces the relationship between Tokyoites and their borrowed monument Mount Fuji with various lines of flight taking us over the...
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Political Economy of Chisa Livelihoods in Rural Zimbabwe
This chapter provides a comprehensive examination of the livelihoods of the ‘Shangane’ nation (and specifically the Chisa of Gotosa) in south-eastern...
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Development of Spiritual Poverty Measurements of an Urban Population Based on the Concept of Purifying the Self (Tazkiyah Al-Nafs)
This paper aims to develop a measurement of spiritual poverty for an urban residents based on the spiritual concept and practice of purifying of the...
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Ethnic Journalism as a Social Mission: An Exploration of Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation’s (ZBC) National FM Radio Station
This chapter explores the impact of ethnic journalism as a social mission in Zimbabwe. National FM is one of Zimbabwe Broadcasting Cooperation’s...
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Place Names and Natural Disasters in Japan
Since the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami and a couple of major landslides such as the Hiroshima landslides of 2014, many popular books and...
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Placing the Blame: What If “They” REALLY Are Responsible?
The new coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19, has resurrected a number of historical and sociological problems associated with naming and blaming...
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Place Names and Natural Disasters in Japan
Since the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami and a couple of major landslides such as the Hiroshima landslides of 2014, many popular books and...
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National Jewish Organizations
This chapter provides lists with contact information (name, address, phone number, website) for about 800 national Jewish organizations. The purpose...
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Integrating Awqaf and Zakat: A Case Study of Land Development for the Poor in State Islamic Religious Councils Terengganu, Malaysia
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the integration of awqaf land and zakat fund for the various purposes of development and assistance to...
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If I Am Only for Myself, Who Am I?
Volunteer work in Jewish tradition has much in common with voluntary work in other contexts but it also has its own distinguishing features. One such...
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Jewish Institutions
This chapter provides lists with contact information (name, address, phone number, website) for over 140 Jewish Federations, about 220 Jewish...
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Jewish Institutions
This chapter provides lists with contact information (name, address, phone number, website) for over 140 Jewish Federations, about 220 Jewish...
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The “Dirty” Material and Symbolic Work of “State” Building in Madagascar: From Indigenous State-Crafting to Indigenous Empire Building to External Colonial Imposition and Indigenous Insurrection
The term, ny tany sy ny fanjakana, “the land and the rule,” is the traditional designation for the “state” in Madagascar. We begin by examining the...
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“The Painter in Two Frames”: An Archaeological Investigation of Kamal-ol Molk’s Agency in the Field of Art and Politics
An agent’s actions in different fields and its changes can leave material traces. Therefore, archaeology in its broadest methodological meaning...
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Jewish Institutions
This chapter provides lists with contact information (name, address, phone number, website) for over 150 Jewish Federations, about 220 Jewish...
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The African Traveller and the Chinese Customs Official: Ethnic Minority Profiling at Border Check Points in Hong Kong and China?
Stronger government-to-government relations between Africa and China in the first two decades of the twenty-first century have led to an increasing...
