Religious Groups: Social & Cultural Aspects

Decolonial Judaism: Triumphal Failures of Barbaric Thinking explores the relationship among geopolitics, religion, and social theory. It argues tha...

Drawing on empirical research amongst both Muslim schools' students and parents, this timely book examines the question of 'self-segregation' and M...

Building Noah's Ark for Migrants, Refugees, and Religious Communities examines religion within the framework of refugee studies as a public good, w...

Through his ethnographic study of the fishermen and their religious beliefs, Webster speaks to larger debates about religious radicalism, materiali...

At the turn of the twenty-first century, Xiamens pursuit of World Heritage Site designation from UNESCO stimulated considerable interest in the cit...

Black Men Worshipping analyzes the discursive spaces where Black masculinity is constructed, performed, and contested in American religion and cult...

Al-Dawoody examines the justifications and regulations for going to war in both international and domestic armed conflicts under Islamic law. He st...

Following Vattimo's postmodern philosophy, Badiou's postmetaphysical ontology, and i ek's revolutionary style, the authors of this marvelous book i...

Developing directly from Fuller's recent book Humanity 2.0, this is the first book to seriously consider what a 'post-' or 'trans'-' human state of...

The first comparative study to examine the role of religion in the formation of Greek and Turkish nationalisms, this book argues that the shift to ...

The book charts the attempts of Islam's largest missionary movement, the Tablighi Jamaat, to build Europe's largest mosque in London. Key themes in...

In 1985, the Kairos Document emerged out of the anti-apartheid struggle as a devastating critique of apartheid and a challenge to the church in tha...

This book is a cultural and intellectual history of anti-Catholicism in the period 1840-1870. The book will have two major themes: trans-nationalis...

A story of the churchs transformation, told through the lens of a mid-American city. Indianapolis is demographically close to the median American c...

A story of the churchs transformation, told through the lens of a mid-American city. Indianapolis is demographically close to the median American c...

Viewing Iraq from the outside is made easier by compartmentalising its people (at least the Arabs among them) into Shi'as and Sunnis. But can such ...

ENG: Taiwan's Buddhist nuns are as unique as they are noteworthy. Boasting the greatest number of Buddhist nuns of any country, Taiwan has a much g...

Ecology, Spirituality, and Cosmology in Edwidge Danticat: Crossroads as Ritual employs nature, literary tradition, and the cosmogram to examine Dan...

Building on various feminist theories of ethos, the authors in this collection explore how North American Catholic women from various periods, race...

Religious Horror and the Ecogothic explores the intersections of Anglophone Christianity and the Ecogothic, the category of Gothic literature that ...

These are some of the most fundamental and enduring questions we have about the mysteries of religion, and they may well hold the key to humankinds...