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Pakistan has witnessed the rise of a range of Islamic forces that claim to be defending Islam from what they imagine to be a deluge of incidents of blasphemy, a veritable moral panic organized around a set of blasphemy laws pertaining to the regulation and protection of Islam. The violence of blasphemy politics, which is disproportionately directed at sectarian and religious minorities, is predicated on the claim that is the duty and mandate of the state to enforce the blasphemy laws, and where the state fails, the onus falls on ordinary Muslims to fulfill the demands of Islam. In this article, I focus on the response to this blasphemy politics by Pakistani Tablighis, practitioners of the transnational Islamic piety movement the Tablighi Jamaat. Like other Islamic groups in Pakistan, Tablighis consider blasphemy to be a grave sin and a deep threat to the Islamic community, but Tablighis believe that the solution to the growing incidence of blasphemy is to spread virtue through their distinct form of face-to-face preaching (dawat). I show that these different ethical responses to blasphemy reflect different approaches to the relationship between Islam and state sovereignty. Specifically, I argue that blasphemy politics presupposes the sacralization of the state but Islamic piety among Pakistani Tablighis provides an alternative ethical framework for addressing the moral injury of blasphemy. (Asian Aff/GIGA)

Many people have spoken about organizational politics about corporate well-being. Employee performance is examined in the context of the COVID-19 epidemic as a result of high-performance work practices (training, empowerment, and incentives). The findings suggest that the chosen high-performance work practices of media employees during COVID-19 had a poor association. Having a negative association with performance nullifies the current evidence of empowerment. Public media administrators must design standard operating practices that take into account the current upheavals. Performance may be improved by using organizational resources and time in a manner that fosters trust between the employer and the employee. The links are examined in the context of the fourth industrial revolution. While studying high-performance work practices and media worker performance in a developing nation, this is a novel addition. The result shows a lack of trust among the media employees, which might lead to the abuse of authority. As a result, media organizations must put in place sufficient checks and balances before empowering their staff. Since the recent epidemic of COVID-19, employees may be more inclined to take advantage of the technology development.

Globalization promised to bring about a golden age of liberal individualism, breaking down hierarchies of kinship, caste, and gender around the world and freeing people to express their true, authentic agency. But in some places globalization has spurred the emergence of new forms of hierarchy-or the reemergence of old forms-as people try to reconstitute an imagined past of stable moral order. This is evident from the Islamic revival in the Middle East to visions of the 1950s family among conservatives in the United States. Why does this happen and how do we make sense of this phenomenon? Why do some communities see hierarchy as desireable? In this book, leading anthropologists draw on insightful ethnographic case studies from around the world to address these trends. Together, they develop a theory of hierarchy that treats it both as a relational form and a framework for organizing ideas about the social good