To Count or Understand Muslim Young People?

Compassion or condemnation? South African Muslim students' attitudes to people with HIV/AIDS.

Given the dearth of literature on the influence of religiosity on attitudes toward people with HIV/AIDS, the present study surveyed these variables in a sample of South African Muslim university students using the Religious Orientation Scale (ROS) and an attitude to people with HIV scale. Gender differences in attitudes towards people with HIV were also examined. The sample comprised 90 male an...

Picasso the Muslim Or ,

ion in Byzantium and Its Exhibition,” Convivium 2, no. 2 (2015): 112–33. For a particularly problematic example, in which the analogical or comparative method often blurs into genealogical claims, see L. U. Marks, Enfoldment and Infinity: An Islamic Genealogy of New Media Art (Cambridge, MA, 2010). 9. For a rare exception, see J. Jakeman, “Abstract Art and Communication in ‘Mamluk’ Architecture...

Using Activity Theory to Understand How People

In a typical workplace in the United States, two knowledge -producing activity systems are in motion. Each produces knowledge about how to do the work of that workplace, but they are differently motivated: one toward productivity, and the other toward earning a living. The conflict between these two systems is addressed through the process of negotiation. A.N. Leont’ev’s insight on the power of...

Eating or Feeding Our Young: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Using Digital Stories to Understand the Lives of Alaska Native Young People

To better understand how young Alaska Native (Inupiaq) people are creatively responding to the tensions of growing up in a world markedly different from that of their parents and grandparents, the pilot study examined youthproduced digital stories as representations of their everyday lives, values, and identities. Two hundred and seventy-one youth–produced digital stories were examined and assi...