This study explored methods for integrating intangible cultural heritage (ICH) elements into modern furniture design, using Qianci as an example. Through symbolic semantics analysis, the cultural external layers of form, color, craftsmanship, and composition and the cultural internal layers of symbolic meaning, ideology, religious beliefs, and moral ethics of Qianci symbols were interpreted, extracting core design elements suitable for modern furniture design. Based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), a hierarchical model was established to integrate intangible cultural heritage symbols with furniture design, quantitatively analyzing the importance of key elements in the design process. The results indicate that cultural symbolism, form design, cultural element integration, decorative patterns, cultural heritage value, and environmental friendliness are key indicators in furniture design. Accordingly, two thematic furniture design proposals were developed and evaluated, confirming the innovative potential and application value of Qianci symbols in modern furniture design. This study provides new perspectives and practical examples for the revitalization of intangible cultural heritage elements and the diversification of furniture design.
ABSTRACT Environmental ethics is concerned with how humans use and relate to the environment, including its conservation and protection. In recent decades, works on Islamic environmentalism have increased multiplied with efforts to ground an ethics based on the resources of the Islamic scholarly tradition. In this article, I offer an approach to environmentalism that is based on a Qur’anic epistemology of divine names. Utilizing Said Nursi’s (d. 1960) Qur’anic commentary, the Risâle‐i Nur , I argue that waste ( isrāf ) occurs when the epistemic meaning carried by all of creation is not engaged with or read. An Islamic environmental ethics should look to how one interacts with the physical world in light of its relation to the Creator and how it serves to convey meaningful speech content through the manifestation of divine qualities.
Olalla García-Taibo, Salvador Baena-Morales, Arturo Cadenas
et al.
Today’s youth navigate a complex balance between traditional and modern values in a changing world. In this context, education plays a crucial role in transforming society and promoting values that align with the Sustainable Development Goals, such as justice and equality, with Ethics and Christianity supporting these principles. Moreover, Physical Education (PE) is highlighted as a tool for promoting moral development and social inclusion; however, gaps exist in studies focusing on the integration of Ethics and Christian values in PE and sports. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of an intervention in the subjects of Ethics and Christianity on social responsibility among university students in PE Sciences. The design of this study was quasi-experimental with quantitative pre- and post-test measures and three groups (one Control Group). The sample comprised 95 students who responded to the University Social Responsibility Scale. Experimental Group 1 participated in Christianity class, and Experimental Group 2 in Ethics class. A Mann–Whitney U, Wilcoxon test, and ANOVA were used. The effect associated with the group variable was confirmed. We have partially affirmed that ethical and religious intervention positively influences students’ perception and practice of social responsibility. Future studies should explore pedagogical models that effectively enhance social responsibility among university students.
Research Problem: The intersection of religion, civil society, and public policy is an increasingly relevant area of study, particularly in the context of environmental degradation. In Bangladesh, the impacts of climate change, industrialization, and globalization have created significant environmental challenges. These challenges necessitate a critical examination of the role of civil society, including religious organizations, in addressing environmental issues. The key question is: How effectively is civil society, in conjunction with religious institutions, contributing to the environmental movement and influencing policy reform in Bangladesh?
Research purposes: This paper aims to explore the role of civil society, including the influence of religious organizations, in the environmental movement in Bangladesh. It seeks to understand how civil society organizations engage in advocacy, lobbying, stakeholder pressure, environmental impact assessments, and grassroots mobilization. The goal is to evaluate how these efforts shape public policy on environmental governance in a religious and sociopolitical context.
Research methods: : This study uses a qualitative, review-based approach, relying on secondary data from existing literature, media reports, and policy documents. It critically examines the involvement of civil society organizations in the environmental movement, with a focus on how religious values and institutions intersect with public policy efforts in Bangladesh’s environmental governance.
Results and Discussion: The findings suggest that civil society organizations, including those with religious affiliations, play an important role in influencing environmental policy in Bangladesh. Through advocacy, lobbying, and public mobilization, these organizations have brought attention to critical environmental issues, facilitating public participation in environmental governance. However, challenges remain, including political biases and limited resources, which affect their ability to fully shape policy. Religious organizations have also been shown to contribute moral and ethical dimensions to environmental activism, aligning their values with sustainable development goals.
Research Implications and Contributions: The research underscores the importance of integrating religious organizations into the broader framework of civil society engagement in environmental governance. It highlights how religious values can complement public policy efforts, contributing to a more holistic approach to sustainable development. The paper provides recommendations for policymakers to strengthen collaboration between civil society, religious institutions, and government bodies to make environmental policy more effective and inclusive, aligning with the journal’s scope of exploring the intersection of religion and public policy.
This research aims to develop an Islamic education model for preventing sexual bullying using a sociolinguistic approach. This approach analyzes language use and social interactions within Islamic education to understand and mitigate sexual bullying behavior. The main issue highlighted is the lack of understanding regarding the integration of sociolinguistic principles into these models. A qualitative research method was employed, involving 5 respondents from Islamic educational settings, 2 sociolinguistic experts, and 3 Islamic religious teachers. Data were collected through interviews, observations, and document analysis, with social integration theory applied in the data analysis. The findings indicate that educational models such as communication etiquette training, social skills development, the teaching of law and ethics, Islamic religious education, and shared responsibility learning play crucial roles in preventing sexual bullying. They support the formation of a positive social identity and strengthen interpersonal relationships. The uniqueness of this research lies in integrating sociolinguistic and Islamic approaches to address sensitive issues like sexual bullying. In conclusion, Islamic education models based on sociolinguistic principles have significant potential to reduce incidents of sexual violence in educational environments.
ABSTRACTBarnett responds to three articles that put the thought of Søren Kierkegaard in conversation with modern popular media. He argues that each of these pieces demonstrates that Kierkegaard's criticism of the burgeoning free press remains relevant today, particularly in the areas of journalistic practice, mental health, and political responsibility. At the same time, however, Barnett wonders if the radical nature of the Dane's critique has been fully considered. For Kierkegaard, in other words, it is not just that popular media have flaws in need of correction; it is that the media constitute “the evil principle in the modern world.”
Research Problem: This research aims to explore the main obstacles hindering Pakistan's democratic transition, including weak economic policies, structural imbalances, and military interference, all of which have led to insecurity, conflict, and the oppression of civilian rule. In addition, this research also aims to understand Pakistan's political culture which combines autocratic and democratic ideologies, as well as how political satisfaction with different regimes impacts the acceptance of military regimes and the inability of marginalized groups to express their opinions under authoritarian rule.
Research purposes: The aim of this research is to identify and analyze the main challenges facing Pakistan's democracy, including issues of partisanship and segregation practices, as well as to understand historical and current issues that can help identify changes needed to strengthen democracy in Pakistan.
Research methods: This research uses a descriptive-analytical approach by collecting data through literature reviews and analysis of official documents, such as government reports and international agency reports. Interdisciplinary analysis is used to understand the impact of historical and socio-cultural factors on the development of democracy in Pakistan.
Results and Discussion: The research results show that the main challenges to Pakistan's democracy include fraudulent electoral processes, political centralization, segregation, and biased party politics. The lack of a dynamic civil society and military domination of civilian government are contributing factors to the failure of democracy in Pakistan. Discussions of history and current issues also provide insight into the changes needed to improve democracy in the country.
Research Implications and Contributions: This research has important implications for policymakers and stakeholders interested in improving democracy in Pakistan. By understanding and identifying the challenges faced, this research can provide guidance for developing appropriate strategies and measures to strengthen democracy and promote political inclusion in Pakistan.
In the context of the religious structure of Indonesian society, Islamic education has an important role in shaping the character and character of the nation. Islamic education has the function of actualizing Islamic values in the midst of changes in people's lives which are full of shifts and clashes of current values. In fact, the implementation of Islamic religious education, which takes place at various levels of education, is still less successful in working on the attitudes and behavior of religious subjects of students and building the nation's morals and ethics. For this reason, this paper will discuss the reformulation of the pattern of integration of Islamic values in Islamic education. Keywords: Integration, Islamic Values, Islamic Religious Education.
The recent anthropology of ethics has sought to look beyond rules to themes such as the cultivation of the virtuous self. Anthropology generally has grown impatient with what Bourdieu called ‘the fallacies of the rule’ as a key term for describing the social. But rules remain a crucial dimension of ethical practice in many contexts, including religious ones. This article focuses on British Muslim conceptions and practice of the religious rules of Islam in order to highlight the complexity, diversity, and subtlety of everyday practices of rule-following. Sticking to the rules, even in the non-Muslim majority setting of the UK, is important to many, although what it means to follow the rules and how to do so are not always straightforward. By going beyond stereotypes of ‘mere’ ‘rigid’ rules, blindly followed or boldly evaded, I demonstrate both the necessity and the possibility of a thicker description of religious rules.
Keywords: Rules; piety; ethics; morality; Islam; Shia; sharia
Sleep is a very important activity for human life, sleep itself is a state in which the spirit is grasped by God and returned when he awakens, and has similarities with the death that is both held by God. In the Qur'an there are many verses about sleep that equate to death. This study discusses sleep as a small death perspective of the Qur'an using his analysis Fakhr al-Di@n al-Ra>zi@ in the book of Mafa>ti@h{ al-Ghayb. The author found that there are two verses that are in accordance with the research, namely in surat al-An'a>m verse 60 and az-Zumar verse 42. From the results of the study revealed that sleep is a condition in which a person's sense of taste is lost from the body so that the sense of birth does not perform activities. And sleep is also a state in which God grasps the spirit of a person who sleeps and is restored upon awakening. Sleep is a type with dead that distinguishes is if the person who sleeps his spirit is cut off imperfectly, while when in a dead position his spirit is cut off perfectly. According to other mufassir that sleep is a condition in which his spirit can meet with other spirits it is not separated from god's will. Related to all that is a super natural thing that must be believed. While the implication of the interpretation is a person who is in a state of sleep he is still burdened with abomination, and doing it is when he has awakened. And there is no obligation to compensate when someone is in a sleep condition doing damage.
ABSTRACTShaul Magid's Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical (2021) has the potential to urge American and Israeli Jews to “own” Meir Kahane and hold him up as a mirror reflecting the toxic and tragic dimensions of modern Jewish history. Such a look in the mirror can only happen once Jews see Palestinian suffering as central to the building of the state of Israel and also how they are complicit and implicated in such suffering.
AbstractBioregionalism is an environmental movement that attempts to create decentralized, self‐determined communities connected to landscape and ecological features. Activists and scholars have used the phrase “becoming native” to describe the process of belonging to place. Despite its cultural appropriation, not only do bioregional writers still use the metaphor, but it has also been defended within religious studies. Instead of relying on these arguments to address ethical issues, claims to place need a decolonial framework. Looking at various voices within bioregionalism through Indigenous critiques displays both the movement’s issues as well as decolonial processes for local adaptation. Wendell Berry exemplifies the problems of bioregional ethics but also shows bioregionalism's capacity for decolonization.
AbstractPolitical philosophers have long disagreed on the issue of whether churches should exercise restraint in the appeal to religious reasons in public discussion and political mobilization. Exclusivists defend the restraint, whereas inclusivists reject it. Both sides, however, assume the existence of a democratic government. In this essay, I discuss whether churches should exercise restraint in a non‐democratic, authoritarian society. I defend inclusivism and believe that churches should not restrain themselves, especially when doing so can promote democracy and prevent severe injustices. First, I argue that two exclusivist arguments which justify the restraint cannot be applied in an authoritarian society. Second, I defend inclusivism because religious reasons are effective in cultivating active citizens that strengthen the democratic movement. Finally, I use the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong as an example to show how inclusivism can enhance democratic movements under authoritarianism.
AbstractThis ethnography explores the aesthetic dimension of religion and the sensational ways in which it contributes to shaping ordinary ethics on Long Street in Cape Town, South Africa. In the context of everyday social life on Long Street, homeless peoples’ claim of an ethical character is denied recognition. Long Street is a public space of conviviality and differences, a hybrid social reality marked with growing urbanization, globalization, and neoliberalism, and overseen by a continuous presence of security units. It is a street saturated with ever‐increasing social problems resulting from a revival of class differences. Ordinary ethics on Long Street is complex, unpredictable, dynamic, and vulnerable, and stands the risk of potential breakdown. Against this backdrop, this ethnography recounts the ways in which aesthetic formations of religion stimulate technologies of imaginations that offer homeless people sensory experiences of refuge, recognition, being, and belonging amidst social exclusion and a harsh lived experience. Aesthetics of religion are ethics made visible in public life.
Der vorliegende Beitrag beinhaltet eine Sichtung der islamischen Primärquellen
Koran und Prophetenüberlieferungen (Hadith). Während der Koran
den Muslim:innen als die wörtliche Offenbarung Gottes gilt (vgl. Çınar
2017), zählen prophetische Überlieferungen in der islamischen Frömmigkeit
als einschlägigste Quelle vorbildlicher Religionspraxis (vgl. Schimmel
1989). Beide Quellen sind daher höchst relevant in Bezug auf die islamische
Religionspraxis und enthalten eine enorme Bandbreite an speiseethischen
Vorgaben. Anhand jener Inhalte werden Sinn und Zweck der islamischen
Speiseethik beleuchtet, Kategorien definiert und gegenwartsbezogene
Auswirkungsdimensionen erfragt.
Approaching a dietary ethics in Islam according to the Qur’an and hadith.
A categorical examination of the primary scriptures to determine the relevance
of food traditions today
This article presents a review of the primary Islamic scriptures, the Qur’an and
hadith (reports of statements or actions of the prophet Muhammad). While
Muslims believe the Qur’an to be an oral revelation from God (cf. Çınar 2017),
the prophetic accounts of hadith constitute the primary source of devout religious
practices (cf. Schimmel 1989). As such, both texts define and shape Islamic
practices. They also describe a plethora of dietary rules. The examination of
scriptural sources will reveal the reasoning and purpose behind Islamic dietary
ethics, relevant categories will be defined and their impact on today’s practices
will be investigated
This research is a semantic study that aims to uncover the underlying meanings and relational meanings of the word al-qitāl and al-harb contained in the Koran. Lafadz al-qitāl and its derivation are repeated 65 times, while the phrase al-harb and their origin are only repeated nine times. With this semantic approach to the word, it is expected to be able to provide a deeper understanding and provide a world view of the Koran. This study also aims to find out how the sources, methods, and interpretations of Wahbah Az-Zuhaili are interpreted in Al-Munir so that they can find out and explore the various characteristics of their understanding of the words al-qital and al-harb in that interpretation. The method used in this research is a descriptive-analysis method to describe and analyze data. The type of data used in this study is qualitative. In contrast, the primary data source used in this study is Al-Munir's interpretation supported by other sources relevant to the object of this study. The results of this study indicate that in terms of the origin of understanding Wahbah Az-Zuhaili tries to combine the interpretation of bil ma'tsur and the interpretation of bil ma'qul (ar-ra'yi), with the style of language and contemporary approaches Wahbah Az-Zuhaili works to present a solutive analysis and under the conditions of the times.
This article aims to examine and describe the influence of guidance and counseling management on learning discipline. The method used in this research is descriptive analysis method using survey techniques. Data collection techniques that used are documentation studies and field studies. Moreover, the data analysis technique that has been used to answer the research hypothesis is statistical analysis with a path analysis model. The location of the study was at the Ciledug Vocational High School Al-Musaddadiyah Garut, with 85 respondents taking part in the survey. The results of the discussion show that guidance and counseling management has a positive and significant effect on the discipline of learning