Discusses Islamic finance, which is based on principles of ¿shariah,¿ or ¿Islamic law.¿ Major principles of ¿shariah¿ are a ban on interest, a ban on uncertainty, adherence to risk-sharing and profit-sharing, promotion of ethical invest. that enhance society, and asset-backing. The international market for Islamic finance has grown between 10% to 15% annually in recent years. Critics of Islamic finance express concerns about possible ties between Islamic finance and political agendas or terrorist financing and the use of Islamic finance to circumvent U.S. economic sanctions. Proponents argue that Islamic finance presents significant new business opportunities and provides alternate methods for capital formation and economic development. Graph.
Financial institutions seeking to offer shariah-compliant products typically have a
shariah supervisory board (or at a minimum, a shariah counselor). The shariah
board would review and approve financial practices and activities for compliance
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"Deniers of climate change have benefited from political strategies developed by conservative think tanks and public relations experts paid handsomely by the energy industry. With this book, environmental activists can benefit from some scholarly attention turned to their efforts. This book exhibits the best that public scholarship has to offer. Its authors utilize sophisticated rhetorical theory and criticism to uncover the inventional constraints and possibilities for participants at various sites of the Step-It-Up day of climate activism. What makes this book especially valuable is that it is not only directed to fellow communication scholars, but is written in a clear and accessible style to bring the insights of an academic field to a broader public of activists committed to building an environmental social movement." - Prof. Leah Ceccarelli, University of Washington "This is an unusually interesting volume grounded in a sustained and coordinated analysis of the Step It Up campaign. Generating a multifaceted and shared archive for analyzing the SIU campaign on global warming, the volume's multiple authors critically examine intersecting dimensions of the SIU campaign-its persuasive strategies, organizational dynamics, and political practices for everyday citizens-with an eye on implications for enhancing the larger environmental movement. Readers with a practical and theoretical interest in social and political movements will find this book engaging and leavened with heuristic value." - Professor Robert L. Ivie, Indiana University, Bloomington
Political protest and social movements are ubiquitous phenomena. This book focuses on the current theoretical approaches that aim at explaining them: the theory of collective action, the resource mobilization perspective, political opportunity structure theory, the identity approach, the framing perspective, and the dynamics of contention approach. The book has three objectives: (1) Many basic concepts like political opportunities or identity are not clearly defined. It is further often a matter of interpretation what factors are supposed to affect which phenomena. The first aim is therefore to provide a detailed introduction to and a clear restatement of the theories. Only then is it possible to assess and improve them. (2) For each theory the major strengths and weaknesses are discussed, and various modifications and extensions are suggested. (3) Building on these analyses, it is shown how the theories can be integrated into a single theoretical paradigm: the structural-cognitive model.
This book focuses on the current theoretical approaches that aim at explaining them: the theory of collective action, the resource mobilization perspective, political opportunity structure theory, the identity approach, the framing ...
The Social Movements Reader, Second Edition, provides themost important and readable articles and book selections on recentsocial movements from around the world. With selected readings and editorial material this bookcombines the strengths of a reader and a textbook Reflects new developments in the study of social movements,both empirical and theoretical Provides original texts, many of them classics in the field ofsocial movements, which have been edited for the non-technicalreader Sidebars offer concise definitions of key terms as well asbiographies of famous activists and chronologies of several keymovements Requires no prior knowledge about social movements or theoriesof social movements
An odd silence marks recent discussions of social movements. If writers in the
past sometimes glorified armed struggle, treating it as the highest stage of
resistance to colonial authority (Fanon 1968), in the last twenty years social
movement ...
Redefining the field of social movements.
Scott A. Hunt Robert D. Benford David A. Snow Two related but theoretically
unconnected sets of concepts have influenced recent social movement theory
and research. One set focuses on framing processes that affect the interpretive
schema ...
This cutting-edge research volume advances the perspective that cultural factors are key influences in movement trajectories, organizational forms, recruitment, strategies, and ideologies. Hank Johnston brings together international experts in cultural an
This cutting-edge research volume advances the perspective that cultural factors are key influences in movement trajectories, organizational forms, recruitment, strategies, and ideologies.
