Religious Groups: Social & Cultural Aspects

Foreword INDIES 2023 Book of the Year Award (GOLD Winner for Religion) 2024 Midwest Book Award Winner (Religion & Philosophy) Heartfelt, inci...

Catholic Womens Rhetoric in the United States: Ethos, the Patriarchy, and Feminist Resistance examines the rhetoric of Roman Catholic women. Focusi...

Places of worship are important anchor institutions in communities, helping to create social capital through discussion groups, soup kitchens, and ...

Places of worship are important anchor institutions in communities, helping to create social capital through discussion groups, soup kitchens, and ...

Is it possible to identify the positive and negative effects of globalization on religious tourism or to estimate the transformation of the interna...

Between the 1920s and the 1940s, 10,000 traditionalist Mennonites emigrated from western Canada to isolated rural sections of Northern Mexico and t...

Until recently, policy-makers and academics generally saw religion as something that would disappear as countries made economic progress. But we no...

In Zeiten beschleunigten gesellschaftlichen Wandels lassen sich komplexe Aufgabenstellungen immer weniger mit herkömmlichen Methoden und Mitteln be...

Between the 1920s and the 1940s, 10,000 traditionalist Mennonites emigrated from western Canada to isolated rural sections of Northern Mexico and t...

Is African Christianity a religious marketplace now dominated by only two big players, the Catholic Church and Pentecostals? There is an important ...

The place of religion in the public realm is the subject of frequent and lively debate in the media, among academics and policymakers, and within c...

Faithonomics uses economic theory to provide a new and unorthodox view of religion in today's world. Drawing on state-of-the-art research and on ca...

In The Halal Frontier Johan Fischer shows that halal (literally lawful or permitted) is no longer an expression of esoteric forms of production, tr...

Jeffreys explores the spiritual consequences and ethics of modern solitary confinement and emphasizes how solitary confinement damages our spiritua...

This book develops creative imagining of traditional doctrines. Chapters show the effectiveness of Latina/mujerista, evangélica, womanist, Asian Am...