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    L. (ed) (1984) Islam and Politics. Syracuse N.Y.: Syracuse University Press Hourani‚ A Juergensmeyer‚ M. (2003) Terror in the Mind of God (3rd Edition). Berkeley‚ Ca.: University of California Press Lawrence‚ B.B Moussalli‚ A.S. (1998) Islamic Fundamentalism: Myths and Realities. Reading : Garnet/Ithaca Press Rabasa‚ A Roy‚ O. (2004) Globalised Islam. London: C. Hurst & Co Ruthven‚ M Turner‚ B.S. & Ahmed‚ A. (2003) Islam: critical concepts in sociology. London: Routledge Weber‚ M

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    Taliban By Ahmed Rashid Ahmed Rashid’s Taliban was the best book on the history and ideology of the Taliban when it was first published in 2000. It still is. In three sections that read easily and fluidly‚ Rashid oulines the ideological and historical origins of the Taliban‚ the Taliban’s interpretation of Islam‚ and the Taliban and Afghanistan’s place in "the new great game‚" a competition between regional and western powers for that region of the world. Fanaticism Resurgent In 2000‚ the Taliban was

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    Per capita income Definition The total national income divided by the number of people in the nation Another definion Per capita income means how much each individual receives‚ in monetary terms‚ of the yearly income generated in the country. This is what each citizen is to receive if the yearly national income is divided equally among everyone. ... Formula of per capita income per capita income= national incomepopulation Per capita income of pakistan The economic survey of Pakistan 2009-2010

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    this essay I plan on explaining the reason for why we do and why we don’t need new sociological theories in postmodern society. Postmodern society is rich in choice‚ freedom and diversity‚ this has caused society to fragment and this has led to secularisation. Postmodernity has caused things such as globalisation. Globalisation refers to the growing interconnectedness of societies. As we are now living in a postmodern society many sociologists believe that we need new theories as traditional theories

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    Who are we? We are who we are. We define ourselves. We make our own decisions. Our influences have great impacts on our lives. For example‚ vertical influences‚ as in families‚ want their offspring to be more like them. Our horizontal influences‚ as in society and foreign traits not given by a parent‚ drift one’s offspring away from the world they know. Is it possible to become exactly as we are expected to be by our parents and society? No. It is impossible to know the outcome of our identities

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    Why was prohibition introduced in America in the 1920? When federal prohibition was introduced in America with the 18th Amendment to the constitution in 1919 and the Volstead Act in 1920‚ it was often termed ‘The Nobel Experiment’. It didn’t take long for most people to recognise that the experiment had gone terribly wrong and that it was fostering what it was supposed to eradicate‚ crime‚ excess and corruption. But the question is why it was introduced in America in 1920 and to understand this

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    Expressionism‚ Persian miniature painting and shadow puppetry in the form of a Pastiche. It’s an experimentation with the traditional form of novel and literary forms. We see irony‚ humour and play when Marjane criticizes social practices‚ religious fundamentalism and Capitalistic ideology prevalent in Iran through this graphic novel. History is usually a serious subject but in Persepolis it has been dealt with in a comic way. Metafiction: Persepolis is a Metafiction as it involves self-reflexivity

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    In the monologue‚ ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’‚ written by Mohsin Hamid‚ the protagonist is Changez‚ a Pakistani moves to America to pursue his Princeton degree‚ traces his journey of his adaption to American society‚ including his college life‚ his job at Underwood Samson‚ and his connection to an American girl. The assertion that “I was‚ in four and a half years‚ never an American; I was immediately a New Yorker” is not a valid point because he begins with defining himself as an American at the

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    birth. If the vantage point is faith it could be religious in nature‚ but if the vantage point is rationality and philosophically then religion is just a psychological projection. Psychological projection is not a religious mindset at all. Unlike fundamentalism‚ mysticism and apologetics‚ psychological projection denies the existence of God as an objective‚ rational and existing being. God‚ according to this view‚ is just a human construct. This argument was supported by great thinkers like Karl Marx

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    on the use of a controversial method. Journal of Organisational Behaviour‚ 15(5)‚ 385-392. Rothschild‚ K. Z.‚ Abdollahi‚ A.‚ Pyszczynski‚ T. (2009). Does peace have a prayer? The effect of mortality salience‚ compassionate values‚ and religious fundamentalism on hostility toward out-groups. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology‚ 45‚ 816-827.

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