Religions and Economic Justice
Economic inequality refers to the disparity of wealth or income between individuals or between the different groups in…
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Religion and Social Change
he debate over religion’s role in social change has been raging for centuries. The interpretation and perception of…
Occupying Our Human Rights
Four of the world’s greatest religions – Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, and Judaism – open their stories of man…
Consanguineous Marriages Perspectives from Social Taboos, Religion, and Science
There is a great deal of suspicion about consanguineous unions in the world. Whether this suspicion relies on…
Significance of Philanthropic Institutions in Ottoman Social Life
“Waqf 1 is a social, legal and religious institution which played an important role in social, cultural and…
The Optimizing Man
In 1881, F. Edgeworth defines the first principle of economics such that every agent is motivated only by…
Bringing the Soul Back In: A Spiritual Conception of Human Nature for the Social Sciences
The development of the modern social sciences has been intimately bound up with the Enlightenment belief that scientific…
Microfinance for the Poor: Burden or Blessing?
Microfinance, which has become well known since its leading advocates Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh…
Crime in the Mind of Dostoyevsky
The theoretical study of crime, due to its potential to provide us with a way to understand the…
In Search of Freedom
Throughout the ages, people have given different meanings to freedom. Every scholar has defined it in their own…
Economic Development via Human Development
Think about two South African children born on the same day in 2000: Nthabiseng and Pieter. Nthabiseng is…
Rhetoric-An Eloquent Invention: Two Examples from the Present Time
Rhetoric is traditionally defined in literature as the “verbal art” of speaking and writing effectively. In our daily…
Rethinking Globalization
Although globalization is a helpful category, there is considerable disagreement about its precise meaning. Many commentators, while conceding…
Social Capital: An Important Power Resource For National Progress
Each nation or community has the desire and potential to establish a civilization on its own land, one…
Islam and Globalization
The relationship between Islam and globalization has been open to much interpretation and acrimonious debate. At the crux…