Religious pluralism

Understanding intersectionality is something that is important in the practice of social work. One must be able to understand and deal with one’s clients and their specific positions in life and understand how all of their different identities and places in society interact with each other. However, before one can understand intersectionality in others, one must examine the different areas of one’s own life and how they interact to form a unique identity. I will examine my specific roles in life…

Rawls’s emphasis on the distinction between ideal and non-ideal theory, his preoccupation with impartial justification and the strains of commitment, and his consecutive insistence on differentiating comprehensive and political moral doctrines all testify to his deep concern for offering a theory of justice which takes into account the constraints of real-world implementation. This concern is most clearly present in his claim to have constructed a “realistic utopia”. In his Law of Peoples,…

from this world. However, Allah will always protect Islam as a religion of Allah (al-deen) on this earth. As before in the olden days, currently Islam is facing various challenges from secularism, other religions, atheism, modernism, liberalism, pluralism, deviationists etc. The non-Muslims…

“ India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.” India is located on the South Asian. India is next to Myanmar, where I came from.It’s a small country compared to other countries. India is one of the busiest country in the world. They have a lot of traffic, population, small villages, and cities. As a result of the huge population most of Indian people are…

When we look back at individuals that are commonly known to have shaped the course of history, we often think of grand names of political leaders and conquerors such as Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, Napoleon, etc. It is easy to map out the differences they have made in the world because they are usually physical, actually altered geographical borders. However, we often fail to acknowledge the effect that lesser known names have had on the history of mankind, through ideas and…

having a caste or class base system (Coleman). Within such a system, working class citizens are oppressed, both financially and socially, while the upper class and elites control the economic and political aspects of the country. Rarely is there religious freedom or tolerance, elites attempt to limit change and maintain tradition, and governments assume that humans are imperfect (Heywood 70). As aforementioned, oppression begins when Conservative governments try to resist change and struggle to…

who were recent immigrants from the middle east. They left their native home to escape prosecution against their sufi minority status in a sunni-dominant area. One of my fondest memories I had while visiting Basheer 's home involved some of the religious practices his family engaged in, which was entirely new to me at the time. I found their customs, fresh from their homeland as they were recently assimilating, very interesting and eye-opening. The only point of reference I had to Islam, and…

realities of modern society is to separate ethnic identity from the state in the same way that the church should be separated from the state (Faulks 2000:88). A defense of cultural identity creates a hostile atmosphere to minorities and restrains pluralism and vibrancy of diversity. Therefore, Habermas and later particularly Jan-Werner Müller (2007) have developed an alternative basis for citizenship, which they call ‘constitutional patriotism’. They believed a nationalistic collective identity…

policy. It is projected they will remain as such over the next 50 years. This comes as a surprising, yet fearful revelation in a country that has seen an increase in immigration tension and alienation. A recent survey done by the Public Research Religious Institution found that many working class Americans have feelings of anxiety and pessimism (Anderson, 2010), and that they possess more hostile attitudes toward immigrants. “Compared to a few years ago, Americans report less tolerance when…

2.0 INTRODUCTION In chapter one, we introduce the theme and the major concepts this inquiry deals with. This chapter takes a critical look of these concepts—inequality, poverty, and violent extremism. It begins by providing a concise and comprehensive meaning more so as they apply to, and/or are used in this study. Furthermore, we engage available and relevant literature with the aim to discover various positions of scholars regarding these concepts in the past. This will guide as we navigate…