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This book shines a light on the issues of governance, rights and
the injustices that are meted out to an ever growing and vulnerable
sector of the global migrant community - women. Whilst much of the
current literature continues to focus on the issues of remittances
and brain drain, there has been very little that examines concerns
regarding governance and rights for female workers. This is
especially true of the case of women who are particularly
vulnerable and have been subject to sexual abuse. Such an omission
is pressing given the fact that, as of 2009, only 42 countries have
signed the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights
of Migrants and Members of their Families. The authors thus
demonstrate that migrants moving within the Global South are at a
greater risk of being subject to social injustices on account of
less developed welfare systems.
1) Religious studies as a subject has grown in popularity in
Australian university over recent years, however there has not been
a text focusing on the Australian experience for over 10 years. 2)
The authors are internationally respected as authorities in this
field and have published widely on the subject 3) The book will
include the findings from the 2016 Census together with recent
insights into the role of spirituality and religion in the lives of
Indigenous Australians, the standardisation and securitisation of
religion and the impact of religious extremism
The study of Islam since the advent of 9/11 has made a significant
resurgence. However, much of the work produced since then has
tended to focus on the movements that not only provide aid to their
fellow Muslims, but also have political and at times violent
agendas. This tendency has led to a dearth of research on the wider
Muslim aid and development scene. Focusing on the role and impact
of Islam and Islamic Faith Based Organisations (FBOs), an arena
that has come to be regarded by some as the 'invisible aid
economy', Islam and Development considers Islamic theology and its
application to development and how Islamic teaching is actualized
in case studies of Muslim FBOs. It brings together contributions
from the disciplines of theology, sociology, politics and
economics, aiming both to raise awareness and to function as a
corrective step within the development studies literature.
The study of Islam since the advent of 9/11 has made a significant
resurgence. However, much of the work produced since then has
tended to focus on the movements that not only provide aid to their
fellow Muslims, but also have political and at times violent
agendas. This tendency has led to a dearth of research on the wider
Muslim aid and development scene. Focusing on the role and impact
of Islam and Islamic Faith Based Organisations (FBOs), an arena
that has come to be regarded by some as the 'invisible aid
economy', Islam and Development considers Islamic theology and its
application to development and how Islamic teaching is actualized
in case studies of Muslim FBOs. It brings together contributions
from the disciplines of theology, sociology, politics and
economics, aiming both to raise awareness and to function as a
corrective step within the development studies literature.
David Tittensor offers a groundbreaking new perspective on the
Gulen movement, a Turkish Muslim educational activist network that
emerged in the 1960s and has grown into a global empire with an
estimated worth of $25 billion. Named after its leader Fethullah
Gulen, the movement has established more than 1,000 secular
educational institutions in over 140 countries, aiming to provide
holistic education that incorporates both spirituality and the
secular sciences. Despite the movement's success, little is known
about how its schools are run, or how Islam is operationalized.
Drawing on thirteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in Turkey,
Tittensor explores the movement's ideo-theology and how it is
practiced in the schools. His interviews with both teachers and
graduates from Africa, Indonesia, Central Asia, and Turkey show
that the movement is a missionary organization, but of a singular
kind: its goal is not simply widespread religious conversion, but a
quest to recoup those Muslims who have apparently lost their way
through proselytism and to show non-Muslims that Muslims can
embrace modernity and integrate into the wider community. Tittensor
also examines the movement's operational side and shows how the
schools represent an example of Mohammad Yunus's social business
model: a business with a social cause at its heart. The House of
Service is an insightful exploration of one of the largest
transnational Muslim associations in the world today, and will be
invaluable for those seeking to understand how Islam will be
perceived and practiced in the future.
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