Religious Groups: Social & Cultural Aspects

Christians in the Middle East have come under increasing pressure in recent years with the rise of radical Islam. In Egypt, the large Coptic Christ...

This book looks at a United States that continues to be driven by racial and cultural divisions, from the disproportionately high number of incarce...

This book explores the spiritual dimensions (political, racial, sexual, and violent) of Malcolm X's journey from Christianity to Islam, Julius Lest...

Leading sociologists outline the historical development of the discipline in Britain and document its continuing influence in this essential and co...

If the science of 'radical life extension' is realized and the technology becomes widely available, it would arguably have a more radical impact on...

Religion is playing an increasingly central role in African political and developmental life. This book offers an empirical and theoretical reflect...

This ground-breaking political history of the two Irish States provides unique new insights into the 'Troubles' and the peace process. It examines ...

Lisa Bellantoni argues that contemporary bioethics divides into two logically incommensurable positions: a cult of rights, which identifies the wor...

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 FELIX DENNIS PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION*** AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4**'Warsan Shire is an extraordinarily gifted poet ...

The United States has long thought of itself as exceptional--a nation destined to lead the world into a bright and glorious future. These ideas go ...

To Be Cared For offers a unique view into the conceptual and moral world of slum-bound Dalits (untouchables) in the South Indian city of Chennai. F...

Forgiveness is a lovely idea, wrote C. S. Lewis, and in recent decades it has been seen and admired in situations ranging from therapy to politics,...

This work seeks to provide a fresh examination of the relationship between religion, identity and security in a globalizing world, arguing that in ...

This open access book seeks to foster a multidisciplinary understanding of the ties between faith, financial intermediation, and economic progress ...

In high-Andean Peru, Rapaz village maintains a temple to mountain beings who command water and weather. By examining the ritual practices and belie...

Since its inauguration in 1960, Brazil's capital city, Brasília, has become an internationally recognized center for eclectic forms of modern mysti...

Since its inauguration in 1960, Brazil's capital city, Brasília, has become an internationally recognized center for eclectic forms of modern mysti...

Community. Its a word we are used to hearing everywhere from political speeches to fast-food advertisements. But can we really define it? Using her...

Using approaches from sociology, media and religious studies, David Herbert compares recent public controversies involving or implicating religion ...

This volume explores the variety of forms, strategies and practices of Islamic organizations in Europe and the United States. It focuses on the rea...

This book challenges some of the most basic assumptions underpinning the growing interest in religion, including: that religion is increasing and s...

This collection of essays by array of international scholars addresses some aspects of the issues of religious stereotyping, prejudice and discrimi...

This book examines constructions of 'national' citizenship in the context of perceived internal division, including devolution, multiculturalism, e...

This book explores the role of religion in the lives of Brazilian migrants in London and on their return 'back home'. Working with the notion of re...

Im Rahmen des cultural turn der Sozialwissenschaften hat sich die Religionssoziologie wieder zu einem nachgefragten Interessengebiet der Soziologie...

Both a scholarly and personal critique of current feminist Moroccan discourses, this book is a call for a larger-than-Islam framework that accommod...

This book examines the competing regimes of law and religion an offers a multidisciplinary approach to demonstrate the global scope of their influe...

This book examines the development of opposed Nationalist and Unionists identities as products of different economies, symbolically represented in ...

Making Space for Queer-Identifying Religious Youth charts young people's understanding of religion, investigating the experiences, choices and iden...

Exploring the interlinkages of political parties, religiosity, and women's leadership and nominations to public office, this book argues that as pa...

Religious life and public life are both passionately performed, but often understood to exclude one another. This book's array of voices investigat...

Providing a balance of empirical research and practical concerns, this book explores the definitions and historical context of spiritual abuse, out...

The Veil in Kuwait explores the complex reasons behind why women veil and how they are perceived by those that do not veil. Religion, culture, fami...

Since at least the high point of the civil rights movement, African American Christianity has been widely recognized as a potent force for social c...

Since at least the high point of the civil rights movement, African American Christianity has been widely recognized as a potent force for social c...

Die muslimische Frau ist in europäischen Gesellschaften Objekt politischer Sorge. Ihre vermeintlichen Lebensumstände werden emotional diskutiert, w...

Chaplains are America's hidden religious leaders. Required in the military, federal prisons, and Veterans Administration Medical Centers, chaplains...