The Need to Re-Conceptualize African ‘Traditional’ Religion

Poverty and Inequity in the Era of Globalization: Our Need to Change and to Re-conceptualize

Globalization and its Negative Consequences The peculiar current form of Capitalism rechristened as 'free market economics' goes by the motto of "trade, not aid", no matter how uneven the former may be, and despite the fact that equal relations between unequals simply reinforce inequality. In line with the above, Globalization – Capitalism's corresponding new flagship – is creating wealth for t...

Why Rangi Christians Continue to Practice African Traditional Religion

The Uganda/Tanzania Branch of SIL conducts an orientation course for new members coming to work in East Africa. One of the components of the course is a scheduled lecture about African Traditional Religion (ATR). In 2006, ten expatriates attended the course. There were also five Tanzanian nationals present. The Tanzanians fulfilled various roles such as interpreters, Swahili language teachers a...

Using Marketing Exchange Theory to Conceptualize Is Quality and Re-conceptualize the Is Success Model

In this research-in-progress paper, we investigate the theoretical inter-relationships among three important IS quality components: information quality, system quality, and service quality as well as their possible impacts. DeLone and McLean formulated information quality and system quality in their 1992 IS Success Model. Later, they (2003) added service quality to form a triumvirate. Unfortuna...

Traditional Medicine: The Need to Revive and Return to the Past amid the Outbreak of Coronavirus

Importance of this therapeutic method in Iran is more prominent than other countries in the world for two main reasons; the first one is plant richness, biodiversity, having 11 climates of 13 world-known climates, and diversity of 8000 plant species that are considered as an exclusive capacity in Iran. The second is considering the possibility of inadequate access to medicine at the internation...

Need for Religion