Religious Groups: Social & Cultural Aspects

Ab den fünfziger Jahren entstand in Westdeutschland mit der neu geschaffenen documenta allmählich das Bild einer eigenständigen Westkunst. Unter ne...

In 2002, after an altercation between Muslim vendors and Hindu travelers at a railway station in the Indian state of Gujarat, fifty-nine Hindu pilg...

Howard S. Becker ist einer der vielseitigsten Soziologen der Gegenwart. In mehrfacher Hinsicht gilt er als Klassiker: Als Teil der sogenannten Seco...

This collection of essays attempts to speak to the past, as it does the future. It engages the dialectics in Christians and Muslims' responses to t...

When we think of Catholicism, we think of Europe and the United States as the seats of its power. But while much of Catholicism remains headquarter...

When we think of Catholicism, we think of Europe and the United States as the seats of its power. But while much of Catholicism remains headquarter...

This book traces the steady decline in Irish Catholicism from the visit of Pope John Paul II in 1979 up to the Cloyne report into clerical sex abus...

This exploration of one of the most concentrated immigrant communities in Britain combines a fascinating narrative history, an original theoretical...

This concise book provides readers with a comprehensive overview and critical assessment of the key issues and varied strands of research relating ...

This book shows how the individual constructs a self from the thousands of colloquial identities provided by a society's culture, and reveals how t...

Are most white American Christians actually committed to a Religion of Whiteness? Recent years have seen a growing recognition of the role that Wh...

The voices of second-generation Korean Americans echo throughout the pages of this book, which is a sensitive exploration of their struggles with m...