Religious Groups: Social & Cultural Aspects

The Sunday Times Top 10 BestsellerThe incredibly moving and powerful memoir of an Auschwitz survivor who made headlines around the world. With a fo...

This edited volume analyzes the belief in supernatural gamekeepers and/or animal masters of wildlife from a cross-cultural perspective. It document...

This volume brings to the fore the intersections of religion, gender and sustainable development in 21st century Africa from an interdisciplinary p...

Warum und wie wird jemand zu einem sogenannten Islamisten oder zu einer Islamistin? Wieso, auf welche Weise und wann erfolgen Distanzierungen von s...

Die Kultur der Weimarer Republik begeisterte sich in besonderem Maße für solche religiösen Ideen, von denen man sich Hilfe beim Umgang mit den allg...

Yiddish culture was an important part of the cultural landscape of Eastern Europe from the Baltic Sea to the Danube, connecting the scattered Ashke...

The Habad school of hasidism is distinguished today from other hasidic groups by its famous emphasis on outreach, on messianism, and on empowering ...

This book, a revised version of Lundgrens PhD thesis, offers a deepened understanding of the changes in the governance of religious diversity and t...

This handbook articulates how sociology can re-engage its roots as the scientific study of human moral systems, actions, and interpretation. This s...

Religious freedom has become increasingly important across the global spectrum over the past decades but has remained a contested concept. This boo...

This edited volume brings together leading experts to explore the impact of disruptive technologies across a spectrum of Islamic countries and Musl...

The steady increase in economic, social, environmental and political hardships experienced by many around the globe has led, in recent years, to a ...

The first historical account of the dramatic growth of Christianity in Western Tanzania during the twentieth century and of the role of former slav...

The suburbs are home to the majority of Americans, including millions of evangelical Christians and thousands of evangelical congregations and orga...