Purpose: This study aims to analyze the authority of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) in providing halal label guarantees following the implementation of Law Number 33 of 2014 concerning Guarantees ...for Halal Products. Theoretical framework: The research employs a normative legal approach, utilizing data from statutory regulations, court decisions, and legal literature to assess the legal standing of the MUI post-implementation of Law Number 33 of 2014. Results and discussion: Findings reveal that despite changes introduced by the law, the MUI's authority remains pertinent and enforceable. The MUI plays a crucial role in issuing fatwas and recommendations on product halal status, complementing government agencies' responsibilities in halal certification. The law delineates specific boundaries for the MUI's jurisdiction, emphasizing collaboration with governmental bodies and affiliated organizations for effective halal product certification and labeling. Method: This research adopts a normative legal methodology, analyzing legal texts, court precedents, and scholarly works to assess the continuity and scope of the MUI's authority post-Law Number 33 of 2014. Originality/value: This study contributes by delineating the evolution of the MUI's authority in the context of halal certification pre- and post-Law Number 33 of 2014. It highlights the MUI's transition from sole authority to a collaborative partner in certifying halal products, underscoring the significance of halal certification for consumers, regulatory compliance, and religious principles.
When it comes to large-scale public housing in the United States, the consensus for the past decades has been to let the wrecking balls fly. The demolition of infamous projects, such as Pruitt-Igoe ...in St. Louis and the towers of Cabrini-Green in Chicago, represents to most Americans the fate of all public housing. Yet one notable exception to this national tragedy remains. The New York City Housing Authority, America's largest public housing manager, still maintains over 400,000 tenants in its vast and well-run high-rise projects. While by no means utopian, New York City's public housing remains an acceptable and affordable option.The story of New York's success where so many other housing authorities faltered has been ignored for too long.Public Housing That Workedshows how New York's administrators, beginning in the 1930s, developed a rigorous system of public housing management that weathered a variety of social and political challenges. A key element in the long-term viability of New York's public housing has been the constant search for better methods in fields such as tenant selection, policing, renovation, community affairs, and landscape design.Nicholas Dagen Bloom presents the achievements that contradict the common wisdom that public housing projects are inherently unmanageable. By focusing on what worked, rather than on the conventional history of failure and blame, Bloom provides useful models for addressing the current crisis in affordable urban housing.Public Housing That Workedis essential reading for practitioners and scholars in the areas of public policy, urban history, planning, criminal justice, affordable housing management, social work, and urban affairs.
This book features a learned and fascinating debate between two great Bible scholars about the New Testament as a reliable source on the historical Jesus. Bart Ehrman, an agnostic New Testament ...scholar, debates Craig Evans, an evangelical New Testament scholar, about the historical Jesus and what constitutes "history." Their interaction includes such compelling questions as: What are sound methods of historical investigation? What are reliable criteria for determining the authenticity of an ancient text? What roles do reason and inference play? And, of course, interpretation? Readers of this debate—regardless of their interpretive inclinations and biases—are sure to find some confirmation of their existing beliefs, but they will surely also find an honest and well-informed challenge to the way they think about the historical Jesus. The result? A more open, better informed, and questioning mind, which is better prepared for discovering both truth and contrivance. The debate between Ehrman and Evans along with Stewart's introductory framework make this book an excellent primer to the study of the historical Jesus, and readers will come away with a deeper appreciation for the ongoing quest for the historical Jesus.
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Situating journalism as a cultural practice charged with delivering valid accounts of the world necessitates a theory of metajournalistic discourse to explain how meanings around journalism ...develop. Through metajournalistic discourse, various actors inside and outside of journalism compete to construct, reiterate, and even challenge the boundaries of acceptable journalistic practices and the limits of what can or cannot be done. Based on the premises that journalism is variable, reliant on context, and produced through social relationships, this article develops a theory of metajournalistic discourse that connects three components—actors, sites/audiences, and topics—to processes of definition making, boundary work, and legitimation.
Stakeholder engagement practices are on the rise in regulatory governance. This raises an important question regarding implications for regulatory legitimacy. Engagement mechanisms are not by default ...legitimizing: Even when initiated to tap into an array of 'benevolent' desiderata, unless carefully balanced and built-for-purpose, they can become conduits for de-legitimation. Much like Schrödinger's cat, neither dead nor alive, so too can stakeholder engagement be, in principle, a source of legitimation and de-legitimation. We suggest three distinct sets of explanatory factors to assess the (de-)legitimizing nature of stakeholder engagement: contextual determinants, the institutional design of specific engagement arrangements, and organizational rationales and individual preferences. Taken as a whole, the documented broadening and deepening of engagement in regulatory governance, points at a more encompassing transition of the regulatory state, away from its traditional legitimizing tenants. Unless carefully tailored, this transition risks eroding the distinguishing features that underpin the regulatory state's very claim to authority. We highlight that addressing contemporary societal challenges and many of the regulatory conundrums associated with them calls simultaneously for independent expertise necessarily grounded in the much-needed (but carefully-balanced) audience support that sustains regulatory authority.
Censorship and self-censorship in translation have been associated with oppressive regimes, although they are encountered in democratic systems as well. The agents and mechanisms behind these ...phenomena play a key part in spreading a certain ideology, which serves the interests of the ones in positions of power, be it political, economic or religious. The main purposes of this article are to analyse the criteria of censorship in translation, to illustrate the strategies used for censoring the potentially “dangerous” texts, to present case studies inspired by the realities of communist Romania and the contemporary American society, and to give examples of censorship agents, objectives and techniques.
At least there has been a development regarding the constitutional authority of the Constitutional Court in four ways based on its decision. It is also true that the Constitutional Court's decision ...is final and binding, but not in the sense of not being examined further. This study uses normative research methods. The results revealed four developments in the constitutional authority of the Constitutional Court in three ways: passive, active, and passive-active methods. Furthermore, it was also revealed; that there are also development efforts that have occurred more than once in the same matter. Therefore, in the future when the Constitutional Court decides on cases related to its authority, ideally by observing the limiting signs of the previous decision and considering the three basic characteristics of constitutional interpretation. Likewise, in the future there is another development regarding the constitutional authority of the Constitutional Court. In that case, it is appropriate to also pay attention to the three basic characteristics of constitutional interpretation.
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In this paper, I argue that materiality and sociality should be considered essential features of everything that exists; that is, two ways by which any being gives itself to be experienced. ...Insisting on the sociality of anything amounts to focusing on the relations that sustain its existence and identity, while insisting on its materiality consists of highlighting what this thing is made of, which also leads us to acknowledge its relationality. This relational ontology invites us to analyze the multiple ways by which communication constitutes our world. It shows, in particular, how human beings should also be understood as media through which other beings communicate, whether the latter are policies, ideologies, passions, situations, organizations, other people, or ecosystems.
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