Bhangra, Bhajan, Bollywood – Religious Knowledge among Hindu Youth in Switzerland and Austria

Limacher, Katharina

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“…The existing research on SC connected it to religion and religious teachings and its impact on SC, be it Buddhism (Barker, 2007;Borup, 2019;Hardie, 2018), Christianity (O'Sullivan & Flanagan, 2012, 2016Vasconcelos, 2020), Islam (Golparvar, Darayi, & Khayyatan, 2015;Hefner, 2010), Hinduism (Budiasni, Ayuni, & Trisnadewi, 2019;Limacher, 2019;Sujana, Darmawan, & Dasim Budimansyah, 2021) or other religious traditions. The researchers have also looked at the SC and its link with economic development (Boettke, 2010;Keller & Helfenbein, 2008), and leadership and management especially in the finance, economics and business areas and how SC influence leadership and management skills (Middlebrooks & Noghiu, 2010;Stokes, Baker, & Lichy, 2016).…”

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Building Spiritual Capital through Language Teaching: Analysis of State-Mandated Elementary Language Textbooks in Pakistan

Khokhar

2023

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Pakistan has constantly been in the news since the September 9, 2001, attack in New York, USA, and its education system and curriculum have seen a lot of interest from academics, researchers, and civil society organizations, both locally and globally. These researchers explored many aspects such as the concept of Jihad and its connection with violence against religious minorities, the construction of ‘Us’ and ‘Them’, the national, religious, and cultural identity but the development, promotion, and preservation of spiritual capital (SC) remained unexplored. This study was undertaken to take stock of the SC considered worthwhile to be preserved and promoted through language textbooks prepared for elementary school children by the Government of Pakistan. The study used a qualitative interpretive/constructivist research paradigm and chose qualitative content analysis as the data analysis method. The data for this study was taken from language textbooks (12 English and 12 Urdu) and semi-structured interview data, collected using a focus group discussion data collection strategy. This study found a very strong link between pupils’ SC and the stories presented to them in the language textbooks showing the rootedness of pupils' SC in Islam, its teachings, and history. The study also showed pupils struggling to modify and expand their SC by including the global SC perspective in their already constructed set of SC. This study recommends that the textbook authorities should make the language textbooks' content inclusive and add global stories emphasizing universal SC.

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Building Spiritual Capital through Language Teaching: Analysis of State-Mandated Elementary Language Textbooks in Pakistan

Khokhar

2023

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“…Due to their age, young people's voices are often overheard or not taken seriously within offline religious communities. Being part of a religious minority can also limit access to offline sources of religious knowledge (Limacher 2019). Online, they can be part of vast networks of like-minded people that are not confined to a particular place or community (Mattes 2019).…”

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Religious “Bubbles” in a Superdiverse Digital Landscape? Research with Religious Youth on Instagram

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Religious activities are no longer confined to local religious communities, but are increasingly taking place online. In that regard, social media is of particular importance for young believers that connect with their peers via platforms such as Instagram. There are conflicting views on the functioning of social media platforms: they are either conceptualized as superdiverse spaces, in which social boundaries can be overcome, or as resulting in separate bubbles that foster exclusive exchanges between like-minded people sharing certain characteristics, including religious affiliation. This article assesses online religious activities based on qualitative research involving 41 young, urban, religious Instagram users of different faiths. We demonstrate how young believers’ interactions on social media produce thematically bound content bubbles that are considerably homogeneous when it comes to religion, but superdiverse in other areas. Religious activities online often have an affirmative effect on religious belonging. This is especially true for young people that perceive themselves in a minority position and search for like-minded people online. We have found that religious content bubbles are clustered around religious traditions. Interreligious exchange (e.g., between Christians and Sikhs) is largely absent, whereas intrareligious boundaries (e.g., between Lutherans, Catholics, and Pentecostals) become blurred. This suggests that differences within religious traditions are losing significance in a digitalized world, while interreligious boundaries remain.

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Bhangra, Bhajan, Bollywood – Religious Knowledge among Hindu Youth in Switzerland and Austria

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Building Spiritual Capital through Language Teaching: Analysis of State-Mandated Elementary Language Textbooks in Pakistan

Building Spiritual Capital through Language Teaching: Analysis of State-Mandated Elementary Language Textbooks in Pakistan

Religious “Bubbles” in a Superdiverse Digital Landscape? Research with Religious Youth on Instagram

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