Culture & development
- The Hajj: responding to fact rather than fiction
- This brief estimates the impact on pilgrims of performing the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. The authors explain that accounts from pilgrims stress that the Hajj leads to a feeling of unity with fellow Muslims, but outsiders have sometimes feared that this could be accompanied by antipathy toward non-Muslims.
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- Changes in gender and generational relations: provoking anxiety about social status and material security
- ( S.C. White / International Development Department, University of Birmingham , 2009)
- This paper reflects on how people talk about religion and the family to explore the apparent paradox of a contemporary Bangladesh that is both “more modern” and “more Islamic”....
- Is there potential for democratic processes to influence discourses within religious communities?
- ( G. Mahajan;S.S. Jodhka / International Development Department, University of Birmingham , 2009)
- Religious identity remains the bedrock of social life and individual experience in India. Nevertheless, this paper deems that Indian democratic politics brings out new alignments, which surface repeat...
- Indigenous mobilisation in Africa
- ( N. Crawhall (ed) / Norwegian Church Aid , 2006)
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This paper argues that indigenous peoples’ mobilisation is related to the impact of globalised capitalism penetrating increasingly remote rural areas where indigenous modes of subsistence hav...
- Incorporating culture in development theory and practice
- ( M. Nowottny / Commonwealth Foundation , 2008)
- Putting Culture First is the product of extensive consultation with representatives from government, civil society, and the culture and development sectors across the Commonwealth, carried out between...
- How to promote gender equality through social, economic and cultural rights
- ( P. Eliadis;L. Farha;S. Aurora / Equitas- International Centre for Human Rights Education , 2008)
- Like all standards and aspirations, women's economic, social and cultural rights ultimately depend on the ability to enforce them.This handbook is intended as a specific tool for national human r...
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