{"id":16,"date":"2024-04-04T07:04:48","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T04:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/islam\/islam-religion-en\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T07:05:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T04:05:21","slug":"islam-religion-en","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/islam\/islam-religion-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Islam: religion, culture and a changing society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThis course aims to discuss Islam\u00a0including sensitive topics\u00a0and to describe the changes taking place in the societies of the Middle East, North Africa, and Arabia. The countries of the Middle East, North Africa, and the Arab world are facing political dilemmas. Many societal reforms are needed in different countries to bring them out of the economic crisis and promote education. In addition to the Islamic religion, these countries are usually associated with terrorism. The Islamic faith is spoken of as a violent religion. MOOC talks about the Islamic faith and shows how Islam is a religion that seeks harmony between nature and man. Islam is also an internally very diverse religion with very different backgrounds.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn the introduction to MOOC we ask:<br>\u2022 Why is talking about Islam a sensitive issue?<br>\u2022 What prejudices must be taken into account when talking about Islam?<br>\u2022 Background knowledge to consider when talking about Islam<br>\u2022 What is the purpose of the course? How to approach Islam as a sensitive issue?<br>\u2022 Introduction to Islam \u2013 what and how to talk about Islam?<br>\u2022 Politics, law, and religion: secularity in Islamic societies today \u2013 what are the challenges?<br>\u2022 Education and youth in Islamic societies \u2013 what does it mean to be young and go to school in Islamic society?<br>\u2022 Protecting the environment in Islamic societies \u2013 how does the Islamic faith protect nature?<br>\u2022 Muslim minorities in Islamic society \u2013 what does it mean to be a different Muslim than the majority?\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 This course aims to discuss Islam\u00a0including sensitive topics\u00a0and to describe the changes taking place in the societies of the Middle East, North Africa, and Arabia. The countries of the Middle East, North Africa, and the Arab world are facing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":240,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/islam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/islam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/islam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/islam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/islam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/islam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/islam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/islam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}