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Begumpura Yatras: Constructing The Ravidassia Pilgrimage Tradition, Anna Bochkovskaya

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

The long-term conflict in the Sikh community involving lower castes - predominantly, Ravidassias, chamar (cobblers/tanners) followers of the medieval saint Ravidas - and Jats boiled into an open confrontation after the Vienna incident (May 2009), when one of the Ravidassia leaders was killed by radical Sikhs in a local gurdwara. In 2010, Ravidassias launched their own religion - the Ravidassia Dharam, set up their own scripture - the Amritbani Satguru Ravidas Maharaj, and proclaimed the ultimate place of pilgrimage for the community - the Varanasi-based Ravidas Janamsthan Mandir that bears the name of Begumpura (a city without sorrow), a term …

Travelling Through Caste, Raj Kumar

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

With its peculiar caste system, India is considered the most stratified of all known societies in human history. This system is ‘peculiar’ as it divides human beings into higher and lower castes and this division is backed by certain religious sanctions based on the sociological concepts of ‘purity’ and ‘pollution’. While the higher caste is associated with ‘purity’, the lower caste is associated with ‘pollution’. The people of the lower castes are not allowed to undertake religious journeys and yet are expected to enable the pilgrimages of the higher castes by playing the role of laborers. Radical Bhakti saint-poets like …

Pilgrimage, Politics And Surveillance: The Temple Of Jagannath And The Colonial State In Early 19th Century Orissa, Ujaan Ghosh

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

The temple of Jagannath became central to colonial politics as early as the first year of British rule in Puri. Throughout the 19th century, the temple was an essential concern for British administrators, both in the colony as well as in the metropolis. In this paper, I demonstrate how pilgrimage became a pivotal anchor surrounding which a convoluted narrative of colonial politics played out. I have looked closely at the concept of ‘itinerancy’ associated with pilgrimage, and have tried to explain how itinerancy in the early 19th century became a governmental hazard for the colonial overlords. The constant fear of …

Pilgrimage As Imagined Site: A Study Of Prayag Tirtha, Ankur Goswami

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

The notion of a holy place as an idea - consciously and deliberately constructed - is the topic of this paper. This notion of place is not inherent within the idea but is imagined and ascribed by people’s agency. Here, I will explore the construction of the sacred image associated with the major pilgrimage centre of Prayag (modern day Allahabad). I examine how the organisation of this particular space and the use of knowledge about it has had an impact on the pilgrimage to which it is linked. A preliminary study shows that often the notion of sacred space and …

Author Biographies Vol. 4(Vi)

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

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The Lumberjack, September 28, 2016, The Lumberjack Staff

2016

The student newspaper of Humboldt State University

I'M In Pain, But You Can't See It, Anonymous

SURGE

Two weeks after I returned home from my freshman year at Gettysburg, I suffered a nervous breakdown. I couldn’t get out of bed even though I was unable to sleep. I had no appetite and it felt like pins and needles were constantly poking at my hands and feet. I spent hours wishing for sleep so that I could get some relief, yet I felt so terrified of the possibility that dreams would follow unconsciousness that I turned lights on, played loud music, and sat at my desk in an attempt to do anything that would prevent me from falling …

A Neocolonial Warp Of Outmoded Hierarchies, Curricula And Disciplinary Technologies In Trinidad’S Educational System, Hakim Mohandas Amani Williams

Africana Studies Faculty Publications

I re-appropriate the image of a space-time warp and its notion of disorientation to argue that colonialism created a warp in Trinidad’s educational system. Through an analysis of school violence and the wider network of structural violence in which it is steeped, I focus on three outmoded aspects as evidence of this warp--hierarchies, curricula and disciplinary technologies--by using data (interviews, documents and observations) from a longitudinal case study at a secondary school in Trinidad. Colonialism was about exclusion, alienation, violence, control and order, and this functionalism persists today; I therefore contend that hierarchies, curricula and disciplinary technologies are all enforcers …

Resident Perspectives On Green Infrastructure In An Experimental Suburban Stormwater Management Program, V. Kelly Turner, Kimberly Jarden, Anne Jefferson

Cities and the Environment (CATE)

Municipalities are increasingly promoting green infrastructure in residential neighborhoods as a strategy to manage stormwater runoff, but the extent to which residents are willing to adopt these alternatives to conventional landscaping remains unclear. This study examines the West Creek Ecosystem Restoration Project in Parma, Ohio, a suburban green infrastructure demonstration site for a new regional stormwater management program in the Cleveland metropolitan region. Residents were offered free installation of green infrastructure (e.g., rain gardens, right-of-way bioretentions, and rain barrels) on their property. Through a mixed method case-study, we analyze the socio-cultural factors that influence participation including resident’s self-reported landscaping behaviors, …

The Influence Of Balance Within The Competing Values Framework And School Academic Success On Teacher Retention, Charisse Gulosino, Louis Franceschini Iii, Portia Hardman

Journal of Organizational & Educational Leadership

The primary aim of this study is to use the survey items from the TELL Tennessee Survey (2013) using the Competing Values Framework (CVF) to determine whether teachers' observations about a set of topically organized school climate dimensions and school performance levels are associated with their immediate professional plans. Using a three-by-two-level Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA), we find that the effect of CVF “balance” and school performance level explain much of the variation in the percent of teachers who intend to stay at their current school, independent of the school’s student demographic characteristics. Specifically, the effect of having a balanced …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 92, No. 11, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Student Dies in Car Crash on Sunday – Stephanie Campbell
• Ares, Nicole. Graveyard Goats – Goat Browsers, Covington Cemetery
• Kast, Monica. Regents Debate RFP for Sports Complex
• Collins, Emma. U.S. Senate Candidate Jim Gray Visits Bowling Green
• Miller, Callie. Mocking Banners Gain National Attention – Vanderbilt University
• Kast, Monica. Regents Give Gary Ransdell Life-long Emeritus Position
• King, Jennifer. Editorial Cartoon re: Kentucky Senate Election Debate
• Demand Debate: Rand Paul, Jim Gray Need to Debate Sooner than Later
• Winstead, John. In Wake of Tragedy, Values Matter More than Facts – …

Cljc Hosts Law School Administers Practice Lsat During Lsaturday, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

Gispens Create Endowment To Support Croft Institute, Bill Dabney

University of Mississippi News

No abstract provided.

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne

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September 27, 2016, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

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Total Youth Arrests For Violent Crime Still Falling Nationwide, Jeffrey A. Butts

Publications and Research

Youth arrests for violent crime are declining across the country. Using Federal Bureau of Investigation data, this databit details trends from 1980 to 2015 and demonstrates how the nation is still seeing a 20-year decline in violent youth crime.

List Of Awards By State (1989): Report 01

List of Awards by State (1989)

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Book Reviewed By Ezekiel Joubert Iii: Lam, K. D. (2015). Youth Gangs, Racism, And Schooling: Vietnamese American Youth In A Postcolonial Context. New York, Ny: Springer. 179 Pp. $47.45 (Hardcover). Isbn: 978-1-137-47558-9., Ezekiel Joubert Iii

Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement

Book Reviewed by Ezekiel Joubert III: Lam, K. D. (2015). Youth Gangs, Racism, and Schooling: Vietnamese American Youth in a Postcolonial Context. New York, NY: Springer

Book Reviewed By Yvonne Y. Kwan: Katharya, Um. (2015). From The Land Of Shadows: War, Revolution, And The Making Of The Cambodian Diaspora. New York And London, Ny: Nyu Press. 329 Pp. $28.00 (Paperback). Isbn: 978-1-4798-0473-3., Yvonne Y. Kwan

Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement

Book reviewed by Yvonne Y. Kwan: From the land of shadows by Katharya Um

Natural Law Norms, Brendan F. Brown

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.

Cseas Weekly Bulletin (September 26, 2016), Center For Southeast Asian Studies

CSEAS Bulletin

No abstract provided.

The Statesman, V. 60, I. 05, Stony Brook University

Stony Brook Statesman-Sucolian

v. 60;i. 05

Rotunda - Vol 95, No. 5 - Sep. 26, 2016, Longwood University

Rotunda

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400 Predictions: The Search Sea Ice Outlook 2008–2015, Lawrence C. Hamilton, Julienne Stroeve

Sociology

Each Arctic summer since 2008, the Sea Ice Outlook (SIO) has invited researchers and the engaged public to contribute predictions regarding the September extent of Arctic sea ice. The public character of SIO, focused on a number whose true value soon becomes known, brings elements of constructive gamification and transparency to the science process. We analyze the performance of more than 400 predictions from SIO’s first eight years, testing for differences in ensemble skill across years, months and five types of method: heuristic, statistical, mixed, and ice-ocean or ice-ocean-atmosphere modeling. Results highlight a pattern of easy and difficult years, corresponding …

The New Hampshire, Vol. 106 [107], No. 07 (Sep. 26, 2016), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 106, but it is the 107th volume in the series.

University Of Northern Iowa Faculty Senate Meeting Agenda, September 26, 2016, University Of Northern Iowa. Faculty Senate.

Documents - Faculty Senate

Meeting agenda from the Faculty Senate of the University of Northern Iowa.

University Of Northern Iowa Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, September 26, 2016, University Of Northern Iowa. Faculty Senate.

Documents - Faculty Senate

Meeting minutes from the Faculty Senate of the University of Northern Iowa.

Faculty In The News: September 26, 2016, University Of Dayton

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

Julius Amin discusses America's ignorance about Africa in a contribution to "The Conversation," and other highlights of recent media coverage of College of Arts and Sciences faculty research, scholarship and commentary.

African American Early Literacy Development: An Integrative Review Of The Research, Tiffany A. Flowers

Journal of Research Initiatives

An integrative review of the research literature was conducted in order to explore plausible explanations of the achievement gap. Research articles were analyzed for this review of the research literature. The findings of this integrative review were included and the educational implications for practice are delineated.

Case Study: Applying Communities Of Practice In Graduate Enrollment Management For A Cultural Interpretation Of Workplace Learning, Dean Campbell, Nadielka Bishop, Sanjiv Sarin

Journal of Research Initiatives

This paper undertakes a cultural interpretation of the roles professional expertise play in the workplace with a community of post-secondary administrators at one institution. To better understand and evaluate Wenger’s (1998) concept of communities of practice, this case study explored boundaries, intersections, and learning communities in communities of practice in graduate enrollment management (GEM). The paper examined communities of practice at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The study defined the following interventions as indicators of a community of practice in graduate enrollment management: a) boundaries of position; (b) constellations of communities; and (c) learning communities. The paper also considered implications …