Religious Groups: Social & Cultural Aspects

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...

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...