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This study took place in three high schools in rural Northern Pakistan. The participants comprised four experienced high school teachers, three men and one woman. Using predetermined criteria, I had identified them as “improvement-oriented teachers” (IOTs), more ready and determ…

This study comprises a series of thematically-linked essays on the social history of popular music in Turkey. They are interrelated by an overarching concern with the intersection of the experience of popular music (for its practitioners and its audience) with the more 'invisibl…

This study is concerned with the issue of the forces of social change in general and the Muslim world in particular. My point is that change in the Muslim world stems from Islamic concepts, which are deeply rooted in Islamic history and culture. Western social scientists have st…

This Dissertation offers significant insights in understanding a peasant church in Madiri Puram village (pseudonym), South India. Researches from ecclesial perspectives are very rare. When the gospel entered the village it brought remarkable changes in faith, community life, hea…

This dissertation examines how a group of rural Muslim women in Western India are negotiating tradition and identity against a backdrop of dramatic change. The Mutwa are a small Muslim naat, an endogamous group claiming common descent. Originally from Sindh, for the past 8-10 ge…