Religious Groups: Social & Cultural Aspects

In Stumbling Toward Utopia, author Tim Goeglein looks at the philosophies and policies that led to the societal earthquake of the1960s and how thos...

A new, unexpected generation of Jews made an appearance in Poland following the fall of the communist regime. Once home to the greatest Jewish comm...

This book centres on religious heritage-making where religion as a rich and diverse manifestation of culture and community empowerment lead to the ...

Return of the Jew traces the appearance of a new generation of Jews in Poland that followed the fall of the communist regime. Today more and more P...

In the wake of the Counter Reformation and more intensely after the French Revolution, religious communities of women sprang up with astonishing ra...

In I Grew Up in the Church: How American Evangelical Women Tell Their Stories, Bethany Mannon studies the diverse and complex voices of women who h...

What do our myths say about us? Why do we choose to believe stories that have been disproven? David M. Krueger takes an in-depth look at a legend t...

After World War II, Americas religious denominations spent billions on church architecture as they spread into the suburbs. In this richly illustra...

What do our myths say about us? Why do we choose to believe stories that have been disproven? David M. Krueger takes an in-depth look at a legend t...

Throughout history, the world's great religions have been profoundly shaped by their encounters with successive empires. Secular empires have provi...

The first comprehensive history of American Jewish philanthropy and its influence on democracy and capitalismFor years, American Jewish philanthrop...

The Problem of Orthodoxy: Evangelicals at the Crossroads of Truth and Power reexamines Christian orthodoxy, especially contemporary evangelicalism ...

This book provides the only comprehensive analysis of concordats, the international treaties of the Apostolic See in Rome. Identifying the 167 trea...

In this book, Juli Gittinger argues that Americas fascination (obsession?) with the apocalypse is a synthesis of religion, popular culture, and pol...

The author examines the role played by Syrian Christians in accelerating the forces of change in Muslim society at two junctures: the formative pha...

Stories centering on the lovelorn ghost (Mae Nak) and the magical monk (Somdet To) are central to Thai Buddhism. Historically important and emotion...