This paper describes the process of religification through which assumed religious affiliation, rather than other identifications, becomes main category identity that Norwegian society uses to identify Turkish women living in Norway. Depending on semi-structured, in-depth interviews with 41 first-generation migrants Drammen and Oslo, first demonstrates variety belief, identification, adherence ...

Indonesia receives a high religious harmony index every year; however, intolerance and radicalism threaten this harmony. Moderate Islam (Islamic moderation) has become national policy as solution to prevent radicalism. In study, we aimed determine the factors influencing moderation. We examined variables of religiosity demographics, which play essential roles in forming A total 578 students at ...

In recent years, there has been a global growing demand for Islamic knowledge by both Muslims and non-Muslims. This has brought about a number of automated applications that ease the retrieval of knowledge from the Holy Book, being the major source of Knowledge in Islam. However, the current retrieval methods in the Quranic domain lack adequate semantic search capabilities; they are mostly base...

After Christians, Muslims represent the largest religious grouping in the UK. According to census statistics, there are approximately 1.6 million Muslims in the UK, approximately 54% of who were born outside of the UK. There has been emerging interest in the use of traditional healers by South Asians in the UK. Early studies by Aslam3 and Healey & Aslam4 focused upon health seeking behaviour am...

Postmortem examinations have recently become common practice in Western medicine: they are used to verify the cause of death and to obtain additional scientific information on certain diseases, as well as to train medical students. For religious people of the monotheistic faiths postmortems present several ethical questions even though the advantages attributed to postmortems in the West are al...