Islamic intellectualism is an unfailing source of revealed wisdom for addressing all the issues that may keep arising till judgment day. History has preserved works several exceptional individuals who formulated effective answers in light this knowledge to challenges their times. In age, modernity and its pernicious impacts on different aspects human life pose a new challenge which drawn undivi...

Julio Cammarota is an assistant professor and Augustine Romero is a graduate student in the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology and the Mexican-American Studies and Research Center at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. Latina/o students often experience coursework that is remedial and unchallenging––benign at best, a dumbing-down at worst (Solórzano & Yosso, 2001). This potentia...

Is it possible to talk about God without either misrepresentation or failing to assert anything of significance? The article begins by reviewing how, in attempting to answer this question, traditional theories of religious language have failed to sidestep both potential pitfalls adequately. After arguing that recently developed theories of metaphor seem better able to shed light on the nature o...

Trust is a critical aspect of social interaction. One might predict that individuals trust religious out-groups less than religious in-groups, and that costly signals performed by members of religious in-groups increase trust while costly signals performed by members of religious out-groups decrease trust. We examined how Christian participants perceived the trustworthiness of Muslim and Christ...