This study examines the continuing efforts to integrate secular and religious sciences in Islamic secondary religious schools in Malaysia. It explored the differences that exist among the three stakeholders: the Ministry of Education, the scholars of education, and the teachers …
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This study examines Islamic and national education in Malaysia--their philosophical assumptions, aims, and practices--and seeks a synthesis between them. The study traces the dualistic education system to the introduction of Western, liberal, secular education during the British…
Successful terrorist organizations use asymmetric warfare to achieve their goals, and the only way for conventional armies to defeat terrorist organizations is through the use of asymmetric warfare. Asymmetric warfare is not just finding unconventional methods to wage war, but a…
While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdo…
Can art, religion, or philosophy afford ineffable insights? If so, what are they? The idea of ineffability has puzzled philosophers from Laozi to Wittgenstein. In Ineffability and its Metaphysics: The Unspeakable in Art, Religion and Philosophy, Silvia Jonas examines different w…
Can art, religion, or philosophy afford ineffable insights? If so, what are they? The idea of ineffability has puzzled philosophers from Laozi to Wittgenstein. In Ineffability and its Metaphysics: The Unspeakable in Art, Religion and Philosophy, Silvia Jonas examines different w…
This dissertation study explored the campus climate of Penn State University for religious, secular, and spiritual identities through use of Strange and Banning’s Educating by Design theoretical framework. Specifically, it employed use of case study methodology to qualitatively …
This study is the first chronologically inclusive history of the Unification Church in Canada for the period 1965 to 1991. The principal motive is to compile, as precisely as possible, an historical record of the activities of Unificationists in Canada, from their initial presen…
The 2014 Ebola virus epidemic in the West Coast of Africa was a historically unprecedented epidemic with a sustained spread in multiple West African nations, including Sierra Leone. The World Health Organization (WHO) classified Sierra Leone as a high Ebola-affected country as i…
The study addressed the problem of high relapse rates among Malay drug addicts in Singapore. It compared successfully rehabilitated with relapsed ex-addicts. Four groups of factors (familial, individual, religious, and social support) were selected as predictor variables. Likert…
Since 9-11 there has been increased attention toward the Muslim community in the United States. Researchers report that hate crimes and discrimination against Muslims increased in the United States following 9-11. These incidents have been explained through the construct called …
This study explores the ideological complexity in Modern Orthodoxy and the factors involved in healthy religious development of Modern Orthodox adolescents. The purpose of this study is to look at the relationship between religious action and belief amongst Modern Orthodox adole…
There is a hazard in using statistically derived means when dealing with data that essentially involve self-reportage. Using those to come to diagnostic conclusions based on data normed on a dominant population has an added potential for bias. This is especially true where those…
This thesis explores the conversion experiences of the Buda, an ethnic Sasak minority in northern Lombok-Indonesia, long primitivized by dominant Sasak Muslim groups for practicing non-religious rituals prior to their formal conversion to Buddhism at the outset of the New Order …
Despite an identified need for treatment in this population, there continues to be a significant underutilization of formal mental health services among Muslim youth and families in the United States, due to a range of cultural, religious, and socioeconomic barriers. Consequentl…
This dissertation examines Islamic collective action and patterns of mobilization in Jordan. Some Islamic movement groups mobilize through formal, grassroots organizations in civil society, while others operate through informal social networks. I argue that the differing pattern…
This thesis investigates the activities of the Majlisul Islamil A`la Indonesia (MIAI), an Islamic federative organization of pre-independent Indonesia, elaborating in particular on the federation's socio-religious and political stance. Operating for only six years (1937-1943), t…
This thesis looks at religious school funding in Ontario from both a legal and policy perspective. Specifically, this thesis argues that religious minority communities are constitutionally entitled to government support for religiously based independent schools. This entitlement…