Ethnic groups and multicultural studies Books

Book SynopsisThis volume details the intersectional engagement of Muslim healthcare professionals and community members living in a minority context with the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. The multidimensional and multidisciplinary account provided describes the challenges they faced and how they traversed them, with a specific focus on the interplay between religious values, public health mandates, social structures, and communal life.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Aasim I. Padela and Aminah Al-Deen 1 Aligning Public Health Mandates with Religious Goals: Developing Islamic Bioethical Guidance During the COVID-19 Pandemic  Aasim I. Padela and Shafiq W. Ahmed 2 Examining the Intersection of Healthcare Advocacy, Religion, and Community During a Global Pandemic  Anam Tariq, Marium Husain and Sana Syed 3 Effects of COVID-19 on the Healthcare Coverage of Immigrant Populations  Ummesalmah Abdulbaseer, Maham Mirza, Moina Hussain, Aisha Zafar, Urooj Rehman and Fatema Mirza 4 Muslim Healthcare Workers in the Time of COVID-19  Aminah Al-Deen and Constance Shabazz 5 Religiosity, Coping, and Mental Health: An Empirical Analysis of Muslims Across the COVID-19 Pandemic  Osman Umarji, Aafreen A. Mahmood, Leena Raza and Rania Awaad 6 African-American Muslims’ Reflections on the Pandemic  Diane Ameena Mitchell 7 COVID-19 and US Islamic Schools: Responsive, Resourceful, and Resilient  Shaza Khan 8 An Examination of Ramadan Fasting and COVID-19 Outcomes in the UK  Karim Mitha, Salman Waqar, Miqdad Asaria, Mehrunisha Suleiman and Nazim Ghouri 9 An Islamic Ethico-Legal Framework for Pandemics: The Case for COVID-19  Rafaqat Rashid Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisThe critical, emotional and intellectual change which every immigrant is obliged to endure and confront is experienced with singular intensity by immigrant writers who have also adopted another language for their literary expression. Concentrating on European authors of the second half of the twentieth century who have chosen French as a language for their literary expression, and in particular the novels by Romain Gary, Agota Kristof, Milan Kundera and Jorge Semprun, with reference to many others, European Literary Immigration into the French Language explores some of the common elements in these works of fiction, which despite the varied personal circumstances and literary aesthetics of the authors, follow a similar path in the building of a literary identity and legitimacy in the new language. The choice of the French language is inextricably linked with the subsequent literary choices of these writers. This study charts a new territory within Francophone and European literary studies in treating the European immigrants as a separate group, and in applying linguistic, sociological and psychoanalytical ideas in the analysis of the works of fiction, and thus represents a relevant contribution to the understanding of European cultural identity. This volume is relevant to French and European literature scholars, and anyone with interest in immigration, European identity or second language adoption.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 : Language Chapter 2 : Europa Chapter 3 : Libertinism and Utopia Chapter 4 : Doubling and incest Conclusion Appendix 1 – Plot summaries Appendix 2 – Biographical outlines Appendix 3 – Diagram of relationships in La Montagne blanche Bibliography Index Table of contents

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Book SynopsisEste libro recopila los mitos y leyendas de origen mapuche más importantes que se conservan hasta hoy. Más de cincuenta fascinantes relatos en torno a acontecimientos extraordinarios, fantásticos y trascendentes relativos a lo cósmico, a la creación y destrucción del mundo y del ser humano, donde intervienen dioses y semidioses. Narraciones que combinan elementos reales y comprobables con otros maravillosos e imaginarios: por qué un lago del sur es salado, de dónde proviene el nombre de una flor, cómo se extinguió un volcán o de qué manera un espíritu poderoso ayudó a la comunidad.En estas páginas no solo se habla de lugares o personas específicas que los protagonizan, sino de un mundo mágico y a veces remoto, poblado de espíritus que colaboran con la gente o se enfrentan a ellas. También de seres humanos que consiguen una profunda relación con la naturaleza, al punto que terminan transformados en piedras, ríos o árboles.Grandes creadores de los epew (cuentos), los mapuche fueron consolidando allí un vívido universo poblado de seres fantásticos; animales monstruosos, ríos y mares que cobran vida; entes sobrenaturales que conviven con la gente, flores y árboles sanadores; brujos y chamanes, ánimas tutelares, diluvios, terremotos y maremotos que cambian la fisonomía del lugar y volcanes indómitos habitados por espíritus que transforman su entorno.Estas lecturas ayudan a comprender la cosmovisión de un pueblo que ha sido base de nuestro crecimiento como nación. Muchos de estos relatos tienen influencias de la cultura occidental, pero adquieren un renovado fulgor y fuerte originalidad marcados por el particular entorno geográfico, las costumbres y rituales mapuche y su coherente religiosidad.

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