This paper argues that Vidya (education), Veda (religion) and Varna (caste) are inter-linked in India. It examines whether, and to what extent, the enrolment of children at school in India is influenced by community norms such those of religion (Hindu or Muslim) or caste (Scheduled or nonScheduled). The econometric estimates are based on unit record data from a survey of 33,000 rural households...

OBJECTIVES We explored Muslim women's attitudes to self-sampling for human papillomavirus (HPV) in the context of cervical cancer screening and their responses to two self-sampling devices. SETTING A Muslim community centre in north-east London. METHODS Following a talk given on the subject of cervical cancer and HPV at the community centre, 28 women were recruited to take part in three foc...

BACKGROUND 1 in 4 people experience mental health problems at some point during their lives and Muslims are no exception. Exacerbating the morbidity and mortality associated with mental health problems in Muslims is Islamophobia. Stigma and shame are major barriers to accessing and using mental health services and many Muslims with mental health problems do not receive the treatment they need. ...

BACKGROUND Canada has observed significant decreases in incidence and mortality of cervical cancer in recent decades, and this has been attributed to appropriate screening (i.e., the Pap test). However, certain subgroups including Muslim immigrants show higher rates of cervical cancer mortality despite their lower incidence. Low levels of screening have been attributed to such barriers as lack ...

providing analytical and social tools, critical discourse analysis (henceforthcda) can be used to unravel the hidden ideologiesas well as biases in the websof discursive practices involved in texts. in this paper, the van leeuwen’s (1996)cda framework is used to analyze an article from a british broadsheet newspaper,the guardian. to have a more detailed analysis, eleven elements are chosen from...

Consanguinity ("blood relation", from the Latin consanguinitas ) is the property of being from the same kinship as another person. In that aspect, consanguinity is the quality of being descended from the same ancestor as another person. Consanguineous marriage is frequent in many populations. In fact, it has been recently estimated that consanguineous couples and their progeny suppose about 10....

This study examines the effects of spouses’ prior marital status and socio-demographic characteristics on the risk of divorce of 1762 Muslim marriages recorded in 1982-83 in Teknaf, Bangladesh. Grooms' prior marital status was categorized into never married, divorced, widowed or polygynous (already cohabiting with one or more wives) and brides’ prior marital status was categorized into never ma...

This paper reflects on the role of mass media in the social reproduction of one form of racism: Islamophobia. Firstly, the article focus on the dominant representations of “Muslim women” in the western media in general and in Spanish media in particular, in order to highlight the specific characteristics of the image of the female Muslim “other” and, likewise, in order to analyse— from a gender...

To characterize genetically the Muslim population of Punjab, a north–west Indian state, a biochemical genetics investigation using red cell enzyme markers was planned. For this, blood samples from a total of 992 Muslim subjects, belonging to the Sunni (803) and Shia (189) endogamous sects inhabiting Malerkotla town were collected. Haemolysates were analysed for the phenotypes of seven different...