Gender, and Religion: The Typology of Female Names in Sudan

The study investigated the Kamuə female personal names as socio-cultural identity of the Kamuə people using the anthroponomastic framework. Sampling of about 72 participants and 12 domiciles of elders is interviewed from 12 villages to collect data for the study. The study was able to identify various types of female personal names of the Kamuə people to include birth order names, female twins names, circumstantial Kamuə female names and the Kamuə maiden personal names. In addition, they are mostly sentential and proverbial in nature except for the birth order names. They display the historical and socio-cultural identity of the Kamuə people and the Kamuə language.

Since the publication of Bergin’s classic 1980 paper “Psychotherapy and Religious Values” in the Journal of Clinical and Consulting Psychology, an enormous amount of quality research has been conducted on the integration of religious and spiritual values and perspectives into the psychotherapy endeavor. Numerous empirical studies, chapters, books, blogs, and specialty organizations have emerged in the past 35 years that have helped researchers and clinicians alike come to appreciate the value of religion and spirituality in the psychotherapeutic process. While so much has been accomplished in this area of integration, so much more needs to occur in order for the psychotherapeutic world to benefit from the wisdom of the great religious and spiritual traditions and values. While state-of-the-art quality research has and continues to demonstrate how religious and spiritual practices and values can be used effectively to enhance the benefits of behavioral and psychological interventions, too often the field either gets overly focused on particular and perhaps trendy areas of interest (e.g., mindfulness) or fails to appreciate and incorporate the research evidence supporting (or not supporting) the use of certain religiously or spiritually informed assessments and interventions. The purpose of this article is to reflect on where the field integrating religion, spirituality and psychotherapy has evolved through the present and where it still needs to go in the future. In doing so I hope to reflect on the call for integration that Bergin highlights in his classic 1980 paper.

Teaching and Learning Guide for: Broadening the study of the Self: Integrating the Study of Personal Identity and Cultural Identity

Religious or spiritual values often influence health care decision-making by patients and their families, particularly in times of crisis. Though religious values might seem to be irrelevant where continuing treatment is judged to be "futile", such clinical assessments should instead serve to open a dialogue about values and beliefs. The six major religious traditions in Australia have some similar values and principles about death and provision of care for the dying, but differ in their processes of ethical reasoning, cosmologies, and key moral concepts. Engaging with religious traditions on the common ground of basic values (such as human dignity, care, the sacredness of human life, non-violence, compassion, and selflessness) promotes negotiation of the manner in which care is provided, even where conflicts exist.

This study examined the cognitive aspects and competencies of the Indonesian Muslim diaspora in Southeast Asia through a community empowerment program to preserve Islamic heritage. Muslim communities in Southeast Asia have a historical relationship in the process of da'wah, Islamic culture, and the transmission of knowledge. Historical heritage in the form of mosques, tombs, kingdoms, and religious ceremonies is a potential for halal tourism and a challenge for the cultural conservation process. In this regard, the Indonesian Muslim diaspora plays a significant role in efforts to maintain Islamic heritage in Southeast Asia due to their shared culture, traditions, and language. Enhancing the diaspora's cognitive aspects and competencies was a priority for assistance. Therefore, various activities were implemented to improve their ability to document relevant information about Islamic heritage. This endeavor employed a Participatory Action Research (PAR) methodology to support the Indonesian diaspora residing in Malaysia, Thailand, and Brunei Darussalam. The mentoring program included Focused Group Discussions about Islamic heritage and assistance in improving skills related to data collection and writing about Islamic heritage and Arabic Pegon writing. Following the mentoring activities, notable improvements were observed in the cognitive aspects of the assisted subjects concerning historical mosques and Islamic kingdoms (13.3%), Islamic museums (21.43%), Islamic traditions (35.71%), and Islamic arts (42%), tombs (38.46%), and haul ceremonies (84%). Additionally, there was increased competency in searching and writing Islamic heritage information (13.3%) and Arabic Pegon writing (28.57%) after the mentoring. To ensure program sustainability, the diaspora actively disseminates service outcomes through online directories. Furthermore, ongoing collaboration is fostered through community-based cultural initiatives, which contribute to preserving Islamic history.

Wayang becomes one of evidences of Indonesians history in a cultural transformation. Wayang stories become more various by the Hindu’s stories influences which are Ramayana and Mahabharata. Both of Hindu’s stories influence on creating new wayang stories, but the old stories are not discarded. A thought about grandeur values of human life with its excellence and weakness symbolizes three choices of values hierarchy of the wayang story. First, matter values concerning about worldly pleasure. Second, spiritual values, they are truth, goodness, and beauty values. Three, religious values, they are holiness and eternity values. A consideration based on the needs of values hierarchy and way of thinking is that a modernization process does not need to eliminate the roles of spiritual and religious values. Religious values are brought into being sources of reference to settle life problems. Spiritual values are kept being put in a hierarchy which is more glorious than worldly values. An urgent problem in the framework of developing nation identity is the ideal type of Indonesian in the future. The ideal type of Indonesian should has three dimensions: bio individual, social organizational, and theological dimension. Keyword: Wayang, values hierarchy, modernization.

To gain a better understanding of the Omani family, the paper first presents an overview of significant attributes that characterize Omani society and its people which include: the foundation of the Omani state, the strong influence of Arabic and Islamic heritage, the influences of tribalism, the emergence of modern Oman, and the challenges that confront the Omani family today. Through analysis of field research and relevant literature on measures of cohesiveness, the authors establish that the Omani family can be considered to be highly cohesive. As well, they assert their confidence that the power of the Islamic and Arabic traditions and heritage will continue to support and sustain the Omani family, thus enabling it to confront both current and future challenges.

Religion is a central and comprehensive identity for billions of people all over the world. Politicians and other political actors recognize the vitality of religion and use it for political purposes, deliberately signaling religion, religiosity, or religious values and connecting them to political outcomes or behaviors in an effort to influence the political preferences of religious practitioners. The most efficient way to make the connection between religion and politics is through religious cues. Religious cues create information shortcuts linking religious identity or values with a political candidate or issue. Religious cues are used by political and religious actors in secular and religious contexts and are typically one of two general types: identity cues, which engage an individual’s religious identity and activate an in-group/out-group effect, and linkage cues, which link religious values or beliefs with an issue or candidate. Identity cues are particularly tricky to use in secular contexts because they have been shown to have strong alienating effects on nonreligious people, thereby defeating the intended purpose of the cue sender. For this reason, coded religious language called “implicit cues” is used with greater frequency in political discourse where only the religious cue receiver recognizes the religious cue for what it is. This strategy allows a political candidate to reap the benefits of the cue without risking alienation. While scholars have made substantial progress in using experimental methods to disentangle the ways religious cues influence political behavior, there is ample opportunity for more research exploring different types of religious cues and the way they interact with other forms of cues and identities. Furthermore, most of the research on religious cues has focused on Christian cues in the United States, and a more diverse range of religions and contexts should be explored to understand the way religious cues influence political behavior. Researchers should also expand the definition of “religious practitioners” to explore how religious cues influence the growing number of people who do not affiliate with a religion or engage in practices traditionally associated with religiosity but do identify as religious. This would help to expand conceptualization of political behavior to more accurately reflect lived political experiences. Embracing these opportunities will allow the scholarly community to gain a better understanding of the varied political dynamics of religious cueing, which offers insights into how fundamental identities and attitudes are linked, thereby shedding more light on the complex dynamics of political behavior.

The purpose of this study is to examine if Turkish people prefer their leaders with spiritual leadership characteristics. The findings reveal that Turkish people prefer their leaders with spiritual values and characteristics. In addition, Turkish people in both the East and West part of Turkey, after spiritual leadership values and characteristics, want to see their leaders with religious values. However, the magnitude of preferences of religious values in the East part of Turkey is higher than in the West part of Turkey.These results can be implemented training the high ranked government officials such as bureaucrats and district governors to empower them with spiritual leadership values and characteristics; therefore, they could provide better services for the benefits of people. Also, political parties can bring spiritual leadership values to their agenda. They can emphasize on these values in their party programs and to raise awareness among the party leaders and members to inspire and sustain people.

The article analyzes the composition of male and female personal names of Ternopil in the second half of the twentieth century, taken from act records and journals of birth certificates of the city department archive of civil registration of Ternopil City Department of Justice; the statistical organization of the names of the twentieth century is determined, their analysis is carried out. A continuous study of personal names of a certain territory, carried out over a long period of time, allows to identify diachronic changes in the name of a certain territory, the main trends in this case, to trace the patterns of development and functioning of the national directory as a whole. The processes of formation and evolution of person existence are closely connected with the customs and peculiarities of the spiritual culture of the people, their history. The system of our own names, which has developed over the past centuries, reflects various aspects of social, cultural and linguistic activity of the people at different historical stages. One of the most pressing problems of Ukrainian linguistics is the comprehensive study of anthroponymy, in particular the collection of specific anthroponymic material. The name of the city of Ternopil as one of the historical and cultural regions of Ukraine has not previously been the subject of in-depth research. The lack of a comprehensive study of the directory of this region, which would be based on the analysis of relevant material and reveal the dynamics of the naming system, determines the relevance of the chosen topic. The purpose of the work is to investigate male and female personal names of Ternopil in the second half of the XX century. This goal involves the following tasks: - to find out the composition and statistical organization of the name of the city of Ternopil in the second half of the twentieth century; - to trace changes in the repertoire of names, to characterize the composition of the noun of the studied period; - to carry out its analysis of personal names of Ternopil of the second half of the XX century. The source base of our study were birth records and birth certificates. The object of the study are male and female names of newborns in Ternopil in the second half of the twentieth century. The subject of analysis is the qualitative and quantitative composition of the anthroponymicon of Ternopil in the second half of the twentieth century. We emphasize that the term "anthroponymicon" is used to define, first, a dictionary or list of anthroponyms, which is usually compiled separately for personal names (patronymics), for surnames, nicknames, obsolete non-canonical names; secondly, the repertoire of the names of a certain people or society in a certain period. Same as a directory. In our study, we are guided by the second definition. To achieve the goal and solve the tasks we use such basic methods as descriptive, statistical (by a continuous sample of names). The paper involves the method of chronological sections and quantitative-qualitative method, introduced by VD Bondaletov. The technique of chronological sections is that the names are divided into groups, the socalled chronological sections for decades. We resort to the quantitative-qualitative method to determine widely used and underused names. The article systematizes and generalizes scientific ideas about personal names as signs of individualization and identification of the person, analyzes the personal male and female names of Ternopil in the second half of the twentieth century by V. Bondaletov qualitativequantitative method.

The aim of this research is to examine the influence of cultural and religious values in engineering ethics education, which has been largely adopted from Western ideologies among engineering undergraduates in Malaysia. Data were elicited from open-ended interviews involving a group of engineering students of a higher education institution in Malaysia. The findings revealed several themes showing that prevailing cultural and religious values have an important place in engineering ethics education by influencing ethical decision making among future engineers. The findings of this study would provide practitioners with considerable insight into the understanding of the immense impact of religious and cultural values on Malaysian engineering ethics education among engineering undergraduates. Conformity to such religious and cultural values was prevalent among engineering undergraduates, suggesting the need to factor in such values in the development of engineering ethics education model that helps strike a proper balance between local social ideologies and Western ethical principles.

The Role of the Modern Ukrainian Family in the Formation of Cultural Identity

Introduction. Identifying the criteria of civic identity is one of the important and high-priority tasks in the formation of a linguistic personality. In scientific literature, many factors are described that can influence its formation, and each of the factors can affect it in different ways. The regression model can help to establish a relationship between these factors and identify how they influence the development of the civic identity of a linguistic personality, which can be useful for further studies and the development of relevant programs and policies. The aim of the study is to identify the factors influencing the development of the civic identity of a linguistic personality and to build a mathematical model describing the dynamics of the level of formation of the civic identity of a linguistic personality depending on these factors, with regard to the impact of the multicultural environment of a higher education institution. Materials and methods. To build a model of the formation of the civic identity of a linguistic personality with regard to the impact of the multicultural environment of a higher education institution, the data obtained through the survey of students of the Financial University were used. More than 500 students from 8 faculties participated in the survey. Based on the survey, 30 factors were selected that influence the formation of the civic identity of a linguistic personality. Statistical and mathematical methods were used to analyze the impact of these factors on the formation of the civic identity of a linguistic personality. Two regression models were built, which made it possible to identify the dependence of these indicators on the formation of the civic identity of a linguistic personality with regard to the impact of the multicultural environment of a higher education institution. Results and discussion. The constructed models are of high quality and well describe the dependence of the dynamics of the level of formation of the civic identity of a linguistic personality on the selected factors and components of the multicultural environment of a higher education institution. At the same time, the quality of the first model is higher: its coefficient of determination (0.8855) is higher than that of the second model (0.8239); the standard error of the first model (5.4873) is smaller than that of the second model (6.6934). Conclusion. The study identified factors that can influence the formation of the civic identity of a linguistic personality. The constructed regression models made it possible to identify these factors with regard to the impact of the multicultural environment of a higher education institution. The results of the study can be effectively used in a targeted way in the management of the educational process, which will make it possible to improve both the quality of education and the image of the university.

Reviewed by: Environmental Wisdom for Planet Earth: The Islamic Heritage, Rev Ed. by Bakar Osman Rosnani Hashim, Independent Scholar Environmental Wisdom for Planet Earth: The Islamic Heritage, rev. ed. bakar osman University Malaya & Islamic Book Trust, 2022, 114 pages It is no secret that the ecological health of our planet Earth has declined rapidly in the last century, as human lives are beginning to be affected more deeply by global warming and climate change. If nothing is done to arrest the deterioration, then humans and all other creatures are going to be doomed. This book is an attempt to highlight this issue by examining its causes and proposing a solution from the wisdom found in the Islamic tradition, but not excluding those of other religious traditions. It is a revised and expanded version of the first edition, which was published in 2007. To accomplish its objective, the author looks in chapter 1 at the modern route to ecological wisdom, and then he contrasts it with ecological wisdom in the Islamic experience, past and present. For the present, he focuses on the Malaysian experience in Islamic finance, which is such a great success that even non-Muslims patronize Islamic banks. However, it has not been easy to do the same for an environmental policy that was formulated a bit later. He asserts that "long-term solutions to environmental problems necessarily involve changes to some aspects of our current attitudes toward development, our extravagant lifestyle and our understanding and appreciation of the natural order. It is not easy to change people's attitudes, habits, and thought patterns" (p. 12). He suggests that the best hope for a positive change in our environmental thinking would be through education, in particular the subjects of Islamic studies and science. He posits how environmental and ecological consciousness is central to Islam and expounds that the modern West discovered their ecological consciousness the bitter way. By this, he meant that they just realized this after witnessing the damages wrought to our planet Earth as evident from air and water pollution, and numerous environmental hazards through their science and technology (S&T), of their own doing, which in most cases are irreversible. He asserts that modern S&T is the product of modern Western attitudes toward the natural environment that tended to be secular and materialistic. The philosophy is one of a reductionistic vision of the natural order and S&T as value-free. Basically, spirituality has been removed from modern S&T. [End Page 118] This contrasts very much with Islamic civilization, which cares for ecology and the environment based on the sources of its worldview—the Qur'an and the Prophet's Tradition, and also their early scholars such as ibn sina and ikhwan al-safa. As a result, they were able to advance human lives through S&T without destroying our Earth, unlike the way of modern science. Consequently, the author explains that the centrality of environmental consciousness in Islamic teachings is based on the principle of al-tawhid, that is, the Unity of God from which springs the ecological principle of the "Unicity of Nature." This unicity conveys the ideas of interrelatedness, interconnectedness, interdependence, and unity. The more the scientists know about Nature, the more they discover the glaring truth of its unicity, which further proves the truth of Divine Unity. The author describes it well: "al-tawhid inspires science, and science, in turn affirms al-tawhid." He argues that due to the intrinsic link between the idea of Divine Unity and the ecological principle of the Unicity of Nature, ecological consciousness in Islam is necessarily religious and is part of Muslim religious consciousness. Islam teaches Muslims, first, to view nature as a sacred book that complements the revealed Qur'an and contains spiritual messages for man's constant reflection so that he will know its Author and Creator. second, Islam teaches human beings to use nature in accordance with the Laws God has laid down in His last book, the Qur'an. He has the right to use Nature but in accordance with the moral and ethical principles ordained by God. In chapter 1, the author highlights wisdom from the Islamic intellectual heritage...

This article aims to explain the concept of civility, legal problems in Indonesia that reflect uncivilization, and the idea of civilized law based on Islamic spiritual values. A secular understanding that separates law from good religious and spiritual values is an exciting background for research. This research uses a literature study method with a legal philosophy approach. Research data comes from literature and scientific works related to the research theme. The research results show that civility is related to good moral ethics by religious values. Research shows that legal problems originate from legal actors' wrong actions or moral ethics. Apart from that, the research results also explain the concept of civilized law with the principles of Islamic spiritual values, which are relevant to forming legal, moral ethics. So, it can be concluded that the concept of civilized law for Indonesia is to the current legal situation, which requires changes in the behavioral attitudes of legal actors by strengthening Islamic spiritual values. This research contributes as a behavioral guideline for policymakers and law implementers to present a more moral and ethical law based on morals and ethics (adab) based on spiritual values. This includes the formulation of professional ethics based on spiritual values. To present civilized legal behavior in Indonesia.