Religious Groups: Social & Cultural Aspects

This book demonstrates that numerous prominent artists in every period of the modern era were expressing spiritual interests when they created cele...

This book demonstrates that numerous prominent artists in every period of the modern era were expressing spiritual interests when they created cele...

The Dialectics of the Religious and the Secular: Studies on the Future of Religion contains the work of 15 international scholars who have wrestled...

'A deeply humane memoir of immense power - there is nothing more affecting than a first-hand experience finely told' - Philippe Sands, author of Th...

Based on extensive analysis of surveys from recent decades, this book provides a detailed study of the attitudes of religious groups in Britain. It...

This book is a social critique of the cultural taboo of the female virginity in the Middle East. It highlights the unobtainability of this cultural...

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...

Studies of Northern Ireland's ex-combatants ignore religion, while advocates of religious interventions in transitional justice exaggerate its infl...

This book brings together prominent voices from the global North and South to present brief analyses of liberation theology's future. It includes l...

The Muslim-majority nations of Malaysia and Indonesia are known for their extraordinary arts and Islamic revival movements. This collection provide...

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

Atheist Secularism and Its Discontents takes a comparative approach to understanding religion under communism, arguing that communism was integral ...

Drawing substantially on the thoughts and words of Catholic writers and cultural commentators, Villis sheds new light on religious identity and pol...

The book questions the popularity of the notion of tolerance in Turkey, and argues that the regime of tolerance has been strengthened in parallel w...

Black Muslims in the U.S. seeks to address deficiencies in current scholarship about black Muslims in American society, from examining the origins ...

Dialectical Democracy through Christian Thought offers an accessible yet theologically groundbreaking intervention into the battle over the role of...

How are time-honored tenets of faith, different ritual sensibilities, and newly emerging eschatological imaginaries articulated with other normativ...

Spirit possession involves the displacement of a human's conscious self by a powerful other who temporarily occupies the human's body. Here, Seligm...

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

This book analyzes the interaction of religion, society, and governance in China - suggesting it is much more subtle and complex than common conven...

This collection explores whether and how religious and secular worldviews and political ideologies held by scientists, citizens, decision-makers an...

MSIA, the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness, has been called the Cadillac of cults. Those interested in new religions may only know of MSIA fro...

Religious Representation in Place brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from the Humanities and Sciences to broaden the understand...