Though Muslims have been living in Nepal from the 15th century, they have started practicingtheir religious activities freely only after enactment of new civil code in 1963. This paper aims to explore the potentials and problems on the existing mosques, perception of the religious structures by Muslim community and analysing of existing legal and institutional framework before drawing a conclus...

Within China, government leaders are using information technology to drive efforts both to accelerate decentralized public administration and at the same time to enhance government’s ability to oversee key activities. The concurrent pursuit of these two seemingly paradoxical objectives is, in turn, motivated by an explicit desire to modernize and make more competitive the Chinese economy. Consi...

Why did conversion to Christianity take place in some Asian areas and not others? What happened when sacred and religious texts from Abrahamic traditions, especially Christianity, were translated into Chinese? What were the effects when the secular and the religious were asserted to be separate realms? What were the consequences for ideas about the private, the public, and the state? How did re...

Patient-centred system of care is essential in managing many disorders such as diabetes mellitus. The cultural and religious context can influence the involvement of patients and their families in such a care. We intend to discuss patient-centred care in diabetology in view of Islam. For more clarification, we will take into consideration a few illustrative lines of argument in detail about sit...

IN 1839, Dr. Henry Maunsell addressed the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland on what he termed "political medicine". He chided "the leading medical men of the day [for] having abandoned the higher and more honourable walks of their professions to pursue, exclusively, the less exacted, though more profitable trade of the empirical curing of disease".1 If governmental attempts to provide clean ...

Religious elites are active for peace in many violent conflicts. Normative explanations of‐ ten do not suffice to explain their engagement. In this paper we draw on the findings of social‐movement research to identify the factors that induce rationally acting religious el‐ ites to be active for peace. It is their relationships to the government, other religious elites, and believers that c...

PPKM Darurat (the implementation of community activity restrictions) is one the policies implemented by Indonesian government to control spread COVID-19. received opposition from ulama (Islamic religious leaders) because all places worship had be closed. Our qualitative study explores forms, factors, and impacts ulama’s resistance closing during COVID-19 pandemic. This research data were collec...

The study investigated the effects of communal crises on selected crops production among farmers in Langtang North local Government Area of Plateau State, Nigeria. Multi-stage sampling technique was adopted; four local government areas were selected in each of the local government selected, four villages affected by communal crises were selected purposively. In two of the villages selected, 24 ...

UNLABELLED The trend of extended life expectancy along with a sedentary lifestyle is typical in Western cultures. OBJECTIVE To explore adherence to physical activity recommendations in older adults in Israel. METHODS A random sample of 1,536 Jews and 316 Arabs age 65+ were interviewed and divided into sufficiently active, insufficiently active, and inactive groups based on official guidelin...