Over the past two decades, tens of thousands of migrant domestic workers in Kuwait have developed new-found ‘Islamic piety’. Occurring in a much maligned and understudied region*the Arabian Peninsula*this widespread phenomenon has either been elided, cynically dismissed or the motivations for these conversions and their sociohistorical conditions of possibility assumed. Domestic workers’ own ar...

The remains of Thomas Corbyn (1711-91), wholesale and manufacturing chemist and druggist, lie in a copper coffin at Bunhill Fields, London. No inscription marks his burial place, nor has any portrait ofhim been found. Vanities ofsuch a kind would not have been to his taste, since he was not only a Quaker, but one ofthe plainest Friends of his day, not only in dress--he wore clothes of a uniform...

Patriotism refers to a good value that benefits the country as whole. Every citizen must be patriotic ensure survival of country. They need understand and appreciate dimension patriotism first is well understood best possible. However, some scholars discuss pros cons affect understanding meaning. Therefore, this paper aims in detail dimensions avoid confusion regarding actual meaning patriotism...

This article unravels China’s united front work in dealing with civil society, using the case of Hong Kong after the political handover since 1997. While it has been widely analyzed by scholars that state corporatism characterizes the state-society relations in China, including the state’s relations with its autonomous regions, Hong Kong as a special administrative region, however, shows that t...

introduction: this research is planning to observe the influence of sense of social security on doctors’ social health in tehran. therefore, it seems that there is a meaningful relationship among doctors’ social health as a dependent variable, and sense of social security of doctors as the main independent variable. also, piety, life satisfaction, social morality and assessing by others as the ...