Transnational religious organization and practice : a contextual analysis of Kerala Pentecostal churches in Kuwait /
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In Transnational Religious Organization and Practice Stanley John provides the first in-depth analysis of a migrant Christian community in the Arabian Gulf. The book explores how Kerala (South India) Pentecostal churches in Kuwait organize and practice their Christian faith, given the status of their congregants as temporary economic migrants and noting that the transient status heightens their transnational orientation toward their homeland in India. The research follows a twofold agenda: first, examining the unique sociopolitical and migrational context within which the KPCs function, and second, analyzing the transnational character and structural patterns that have emerged in this context. The ethnographic research identifies and analyzes the emerging structures and practices of the KPCs through three lenses: networks, agents, and mission. This study concludes with a proposal for an interdisciplinary theoretical framework to be employed in the study of transnational religious communities.
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1 online resource (228 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004361010 :
1876-2247 ; :
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Male domination, female revolt : race, class, and gender in Kuwaiti women's fiction /
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This book investigates various forms of women's resistance to male domination, as represented in Kuwaiti women's fiction. Drawing on Marxist-feminist literary theory, it closely analyses selected texts (published between 1953 and 2000), which reflect the effects of patriarchal culture and tradition on race, class, and gender relations in Kuwait and the Arabian Gulf region in general. It argues that the selected texts portray the pre-oil generations of Kuwaiti/Arabian Gulf women-born before or in the first half of the twentieth century-as resistant and/or revolutionary figures, contrary to the common notion of their stereotypical passivity and submissiveness. This book demonstrates how Kuwaiti women writers have used literature to work for, and contribute to, social change.
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Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Edinburgh, 2005. :
1 online resource. :
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9789047442677 :
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Taqrīr shāmil ʻan al-ḥafrīyāt al-atharīyah fī Jazīrat Faylakā, ʻām 1958-1963 = Archaeological investigations in the Island of Failaka, 1958-1964.
: At head of title : Ministry of Guidance and Information. Department of Antiquity & Museums. : ca. 75 leaves of plates, [24] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Papers presented to the first International Conference on Islamic Medicine celebrating the advent of the fifteenth century Hijri /
: "Under the auspices of His Highness the Amir of Kuwait, Shaikh Jabir al-Ahmed al-Sabah." : 509 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm. : Includes bibliographical references. : wafaa.lib.
Islamic art & patronage : treasures from Kuwait /
: "Published on the occasion of the exhibition Islamic Art and Patronage : Treasures from Kuwait, a loan exhibition from the al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, organized by the Trust for Museums Exhibitions, Washington, D.C." -- title pages verso. : 316 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 31 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-310) and index.