as turkey is officially a secular state and it adopts swiss civil code, thestate implements secular legal system. however, as people in turkey are predominantlymuslim and theyare born and raised in a traditionally muslim environment,people generally and especially women live under the influence of these two sometimescontradictory and inconsistent legal systems and customs. as a result, thereare...

Historically, Vietnamese approaches to religion are highly inclusive, with flexibly overlapping religious traditions and ritual practices built on a substratum of ancestor worship. As Vietnam was colonized became independent, politicized, institutionalized, separated from the “secular” state, which sought bring in line new state orthodoxies. With understanding “religion” predicated Christian mo...

BACKGROUND There is a huge interest by faith-based organizations (FBOs) in sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere in HIV prevention interventions that build on the religious aspects of being. Successful partnerships between the public health services and FBOs will require a better understanding of the conceptual framing of HIV prevention by FBOS to access for prevention intervention, those concepts t...

In the 2016 Bir Zeit University elections Hamas’ women launched two videos in which un-veiled, western-dressed young girls urged viewers to vote for Hamas. The sparked a passionate debate: Religious forces accused of being ‘westernized’ and abandoning norm Islamic modesty; while secular them promoting form women’s empowerment linked their success accommodating religious values ones. debate mirr...

Between 2001 and 2009, the Portuguese religious field faced a sequenced reconfiguration which put its power structure in perspective. Two decades after institutionalization of Committee on Religious Freedom, redefinition relationship between secular summoned debate State, traditions organizational secularities. In this article, case healthcare, namely governance religion hospitals, interrogates...

This paper explores resonance-driven secular evolution between a bar and dark-matter halo using N-body simulations. We make direct comparisons to our analytic theory (Weinberg & Katz 2005) to demonstrate the great difficulty that an N-body simulation has representing these dynamics for realistic astronomical interactions. In a darkmatter halo, the bar’s angular momentum is coupled to the centra...

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