Religious Groups: Social & Cultural Aspects

Drawing upon extensive fieldwork and suggesting novel ways of approaching the phenomenon of European Islam and the continent's Muslim communities, ...

Early Christians sought miracles from Michael the Archangel and this enigmatic ecumenical figure was the subject of hagiography, liturgical texts, ...

Iwuchukwu examines the perennial conflicts in different parts of northern Nigeria and why they are popularly called Muslim-Christian clashes. Speci...

The South Asian diaspora is a diverse group who settled in different parts of the world, often concentrated in developed countries. This volume exp...

While globalization undermines ideas of the nation-state in the Mediterranean, conversions reveal how religion can unsettle existing political and ...

This book is about Black women's search for relationships and encounters that support healing from intimate and cultural violence. Narratives provi...

Dance has proliferated in movies, television, Internet, and retail spaces while the spiritual power of dance has also been linked with mass consump...

With a religious re-emergence in international relations, this book provides an introduction to the role religions play within the global political...

By tracing an arc of thought and action from both historical and religious figures up through modern microfinance practitioners, Looft illustrates ...

This book uses ethnography as theological practice, yielding a theology constructed at the intersection of church, academy and everyday life. Drawi...

An investigation of the postsecular in International Relations and how an increasingly postsecular international politics is contributing to the em...

This book engages a complex subject that mainline theologies avoid, Indigenous Australia. The heritages, wisdoms and dreams of Indigenous Australia...

Two powerful and interrelated transnational cultural expressions mark our epoch, Charismatic spirituality and global city. This book demonstrates h...

Exploring the work of William Blake within the context of Methodism the largest 'dissenting' religious group during his lifetime this book contri...

The book discusses the changing relationship between American Catholic Bishops and civil authorities in the United States, as civil authority has e...

Offering a theology of migration, Cruz reflects on the Christian vision of 'one bread, one body, one people' in view of the gifts and challenges of...

This book explores Israeli Religious Zionism and US Christian Zionism by focusing on the Messianic and Millenarian drives at the basis of their pol...

This book covers arguments made by various sides of the political-religious divide from the past 30 years, showing what the actual differences are ...

As we listen to Psy's music are we laughing at him or with him? This book responds to this question from historical and theological perspectives an...

A discourse on the historical emergence of African American Churches as dynamic cultural presences which occurred in the aftermath of the Civil War...

This book project traces the thought of several Roman Catholic Modernists (and one especially virulent anti-Modernist) as they confronted the intel...

This book investigates an African diaspora Christian community in Calgary, Alberta, and explores the ways in which the church's beliefs and practic...

A period of great change for Europe, the thirteenth-century was a time of both animosity and intimacy for Jewish and Christian communities. In this...

This edited collection addresses the relationship between diaspora, religion and the politics of identity in the modern world. It illuminates relig...

This book proposes that the drive for religiosity and experiences of the sacred are far from lost in contemporary western societies. The contributo...

This book studies how religion influences the way people in Colombia remember a massacre of 79 civilians that occurred in a Catholic church in 2002...

In Kerala, Vakkom Moulavi motivated Muslims to embrace modernity, especially modern education, in order to reap maximum benefit. In this process, h...

Grau reconsiders the relationship between logos and mythos as a precondition to opening theological hermeneutics to discourse from other cultures a...

Hamed El-Said investigates Counter-de-Rad programmes in Muslim majority and Muslim minority states. This multifaceted book provides a new approach ...

Hamed El-Said investigates Counter-de-Rad programmes in Muslim majority and Muslim minority states. This multifaceted book provides a new approach ...

What is the place of pluralism in the context of a dominant religion? How does the perception of religion as tradition and culture affect pluralism...

The culmination of a trilogy that began with T.S. Eliot, Lancelot Andrewes, and the Word, and continued with T.S. Eliot: The Poet as Christian, thi...

Examining the connection between the concept of authority and the transformation of the Ismaili imamate, Authority without Territory is the first s...

Explores current debates around religious extremism as a means to understand and re-think the connections between terrorism, insurgency and state f...

Clements provides a detailed study of religious beliefs in British society, using a broad range of opinion poll and social survey data. Examining p...

Economics of Faith examines the role of religious leaders in the development of poor relief institutions in early modern Europe. As preachers, poli...

This book examines the experiences of veiled Muslim women as victims of Islamophobia, and the impact of this victimisation upon women, their famili...

This book tackles unanswered questions on British Muslims and political participation: What makes religion a salient 'political' identity for young...

Catholic or Protestant, recusant or godly rebel, early modern women reinvented their spiritual and gendered spaces during the reformations in relig...

Development was founded on the belief that religion was not important to development processes. The contributors call this assumption into question...

This book explores what becomes of faiths when seen as social capital. In the grip of the current debt crisis, where the social and capital seem in...

 Religion's persistent and new visibility in political life has prompted a significant global debate. One of this debate's key features concerns th...

What makes sounds religious? How are communities shaped by the things they hear, play, or listen to? This book foregrounds connections between soun...

We live in a world shaped by secularismthe separation of numinous power from political authority and religion from the political, social, and econo...

On Stony Ground presents a historical ethnographic account of a generation of Mennonites from the Soviet Union who, following Russias revolution an...