This was an unstable and volatile mixture that cried out for a clarifying philosophy to provide guidance through the thicket of ideological possibilities and the agendas for personal and communal identity-formation and life-praxes that each proffered with greater or less coherence and veracity.
This emergent urban-oriented, coastal-based and state-managed political economy was driven by the modernizing nation-building imperatives of the new state, which entails, among other tasks, (a) the recruitment of institutional cadres for the local governance of a communal polity in-formation, and (b) the preparation of a productive labour force for a modernizing economy.
communal living; communalism". .
Objective: The new paradigm that chronic infections are caused by bacterial biofilms prompted us to study the relationship between bacterial pathogenicity, biofilm formation and bacterial communal cooperation.
Even where the mode of obtaining food necessitates solitude and therefore dispersal, there is a tendency for reassembly at the end of the day which is followed by a flight in formation to a communal roost.
The New Age movement has been centered around rebuilding a sense of community to counter social disintegration; this has been attempted through the formation of intentional communities, where individuals come together to live and work in a communal lifestyle.
Paying close attention to the role of memory and narrative in the formation of individual and communal selves, Sizgorich identifies a common pool of late ancient narrative forms upon which both Christian and Muslim communities drew.
For a Muslim, there is a unique aspect to our spiritual formation which includes the communal practice of an activity so that inner pietism reaches a stage of participation that encourages not just individual transformation,but the movement of a whole group of people towards self-improvement.
This research attempts to investigate factors affecting the formational pattern of cultural landscape and the formation of urban settlement resulting from the shifting communal needs in the historical and theoretical facets.
His research studies early Islam in dialogue with other late antique religions, focusing on the ways that rituals related to relics, pilgrimage, and healing were tightly interwoven with the formation, self-understanding, and performance of communal membership among early Muslims.
