Interpretasi Hijrah dalam Rebranding Normativitas Islam

Rebranding Breastmilk: Social Marketing in South Africa

It is difficult to attribute causality in studies about the effect of breastmilk on babies, because of the complexity of the confounding variables. The behaviours of a mother who breastfeeds may be typically different to one who feeds a baby commercial infant formula;1 these behaviours may affect the child in other physical and psychological ways than are direct results of the breastmilk. There...

Islam Almasri_TOCSJ

Recently, a number of methods have been proposed to improve image retrieval accuracy by capturing context information. These methods try to compensate for the fact that a visually less similar image might be more relevant because it depicts the same object. We propose a new quick method for refining any pairwise distance metric, it works by iteratively discovering the object in the image from t...

Islam in local contexts: Localised Islam in Northern Pakistan

As Clifford Geertz remarked in his Islam Observed (1968), the idea of a ‘changing’ religion is a contradiction in terms, as religion is fundamentally concerned with what is permanent and eternal. Still, one way to come to terms with religious change is to consider the many ways that religion is interpreted, by laymen and scholars alike. Social anthropologists like myself have naturally found a ...

Islam in the West: From Immigration to Global Islam

Rebranding exercise: closing the gap between values and behavior

BACKGROUND Behavior can only be understood by identifying the goals to which it is attached. Superordinate-level goals are linked to individuals' values, and may offer insights into how to connect exercise with their core values and increase participation in sustainable ways. METHODS A random sample of healthy midlife women (aged 40-60y) was selected to participate in a year-long mixed-method...