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(Dis)Locating Meaning: Toward A Hermeneutical Response In Education To Religiously Inspired Extremism, Farid Panjwani
(Dis)Locating Meaning: Toward A Hermeneutical Response In Education To Religiously Inspired Extremism, Farid Panjwani
Institute for Educational Development, Karachi
A key epistemological assumption in the ideologies of many of the groups termed extremist is that there is an unmediated access to a Divine Will. Driven by this assumption, and facilitated by several other factors, a range of coercive actions (including violence) to force others into submission to the perceived Will of God are seen as justified by some of these groups. A consideration of how religion is discussed in various contexts, from seminaries and schools to media and policy discourses, shows that this assumption about unmediated access to Divine Will is widely shared and that most children grow up …
Light And Enlightenment, Jan-E-Alam Khaki
Light And Enlightenment, Jan-E-Alam Khaki
Institute for Educational Development, Karachi
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Muslim Vs Islamic, Jan-E-Alam Khaki
Muslim Vs Islamic, Jan-E-Alam Khaki
Institute for Educational Development, Karachi
No abstract provided.
Sects And Sectarianism, Jan-E-Alam Khaki
Sects And Sectarianism, Jan-E-Alam Khaki
Institute for Educational Development, Karachi
No abstract provided.