Religious Groups: Social & Cultural Aspects

A passionate history of Judaism; a world unfolding across many continents and five centuries by one of our greatest and internationally bestselling...

This publication investigates new ways of understanding international churches. Based upon recent fieldwork, six migrant Christian communities in R...

The Journal of the International Qur'anic Studies Association (JIQSA) is a peer reviewed annual journal published on behalf of the International Qu...

Problems of integration, failed political participation, and requests for various kinds of accommodation seem to dominate the research on minorit...

Problems of integration, failed political participation, and requests for various kinds of accommodation seem to dominate the research on minorit...

Faith stories is an investigation of faith and belief systems in Australia and England. Drawing on ethnography, interviews, focus groups for adults...

Rhetoric, Race, Religion, and the Charleston Shootings: Was Blind but Now I See is a collection focusing on the Charleston shootings written by lea...

What does the Bible say about poverty and our responsibility toward the poor? This book examines the concept of “brother’s keeper” in both the anci...

In this book, Marta T. Topel utilizes anthropological research to analyze both macro and micro social processes among secular and Orthodox Jews in ...

For some historians, medieval Iberian society was one marked by peaceful coexistence and cross-cultural fertilization; others have sketched a harsh...

Explores the role of race and consumer culture in attracting urban congregants to an evangelical church The Urban Church Imagined illuminates the ...

Theodore Parker was one of the most controversial theologians and social activists in pre-Civil War America. A vocal critic of traditional Christia...

A history of Catholic social thought Many Americans assume that the Catholic Church is inherently conservative, based on its stances on abortion,...

Since the 1990s, most African economies and public spheres have been liberalised, and new civil society actors have emerged. As mapped out by Marie...

Demonstrating that similarities between Jewish and Christian art in the Middle Ages were more than coincidental, Cultural Exchange meticulously com...

It is impossible to understand Palestine today without a careful reading of its distant and recent past. But until now there has been no single vol...