Religious Groups: Social & Cultural Aspects

Alltagsdinge und Artefakte rücken im Kontext der Forschung zur materiellen Kultur zunehmend in den Fokus der Praktischen Theologie. Der vorliegende...

Rape Culture and Religious Studies: Critical and Pedagogical Engagements stages a critical engagement between religious texts and the problem of se...

Hillsong, an Australian megachurch founded in 1983, is now a global phenomenon. It has branches in most global cities and award-winning worship ban...

Hillsong, an Australian megachurch founded in 1983, is now a global phenomenon. It has branches in most global cities and award-winning worship ban...

This is the first anthropological monograph of Muslim and Hindu lives in contemporary Myanmar. In it, Judith Beyer introduces the concept of we-for...

In The Uses of Idolatry, William T. Cavanaugh offers a sustained and interdisciplinary argument that worship has not waned in our supposedly secula...

The first book to look at the connections between religion, policy and education and offer a concrete framework for religious literacy work, arguin...

In The Uses of Idolatry, William T. Cavanaugh offers a sustained and interdisciplinary argument that worship has not waned in our supposedly secula...

In Marx 's Experiments and Microscopes: Modes of Production, Religion, and the Method of Successive Abstractions, Paul B. Paolucci examines how Mar...

The Bible has inspired Western art and literature for centuries, so it is no surprise that Christian iconography, characters, and stories have also...

The Bible has inspired Western art and literature for centuries, so it is no surprise that Christian iconography, characters, and stories have also...

Every hundred years, as the story goes, two angels wonder out loud whether the bees are still swarming. For as long as the bees are swarming, the a...

In den Bänden dieser Reihe werden erstmalig detailliert die wichtigsten Strömungen und Themen der ungemein fruchtbaren Periode der Soziologie der Z...

The first history of all the English cathedrals, from Birmingham and Bury St Edmunds to Worcester and York Minster   Englands sixty-two Anglican an...

In this timely book, an interdisciplinary group of scholars investigates the recent resurfacing of White Christian nationalism and racism in populi...

In this timely book, an interdisciplinary group of scholars investigates the recent resurfacing of White Christian nationalism and racism in populi...

Many Catholic priests, nuns, and brothers in the United States take a strong interest in US policies that affect their 'brothers and sisters' abroa...

Many Catholic priests, nuns, and brothers in the United States take a strong interest in US policies that affect their 'brothers and sisters' abroa...

The current refugee crisis sweeping Europe, and much of the world, closely intersects with largely neglected questions of religion. Moving beyond d...

Embodied Idolatry: A Critique of Christian Nationalism is an examination of the effect of Christian nationalism on Christian practice in the United...

Coalbrookdale in the parish of Madeley, Shropshire is seen as the birthplace of the industrial revolution while remaining one of the last examples ...

In this compact collection of essays on contextual theology, the reader is offered fresh voices from the United States, Latin America and Oceania. ...

Die großen Kirchen sind bedeutende zivilgesellschaftliche Akteure: Auch im Angesicht sinkender Mitgliederzahlen und erhöhter gesellschaftlicher Plu...

Baptizing Business sifts through popular perceptions regarding the relationship between business and religion and the agenda of conservative Christ...

This volume is both a study of the history of Polish Jews and Jewish Poland before, during, and immediately after the Holocaust and a collection of...

Bridging the gap between cognition and culture, this handbook explores both social scientific and humanities approaches to understanding the physic...

Drawn from extensive, new and rich empirical research across the UK, Canada and USA, Queer Spiritual Spaces investigates the contemporary socio-cul...

Religion is usually thought of as inconsequential to contemporary Canadian politics. Religion and Canadian Party Politics takes a hard look at just...

This is the first reader to gather primary sources from influential theorists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries in one place, presenting th...

More than a decade ago, a group of researchers began to study the religious and spiritual lives of American teenagers. They tracked these young peo...

This edited collection harnesses a diversity of interpretivist perspectives to provide a panoramic view of the production, experiences, contexts, a...

Fables in Jewish Culture catalogues almost 400 Jewish scrolls and books from the collection of Jon A. Lindseth that contain animal stories with mor...

In this book, faith leaders, scholars and activists from around the globe provide their perspective on faith and abortion. They reflect on examples...

A fascinating exploration of the breadth of social, emotional, and spiritual experiences of atheists in America Self-identified atheists make up r...

A fascinating exploration of the breadth of social, emotional, and spiritual experiences of atheists in America Self-identified atheists make up r...

Despite the UK's long history of racial injustice, people from minoritised groups have fought back, engaging in advocacy, activism, and every-day a...

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER!Journalist Sarah Stankorb outlines how access to the internet-its networks, freedom of expression, and resources for deeply r...

Der demographische Wandel und seine gesellschaftlichen Konsequenzen haben die gerontologische Forschung in den Fokus des gegenwärtigen interdiszipl...

The worlds great religions depend on traditions of serious scholarship, dedicated to preserving their key texts but also to understanding them and,...

Since the beginning of the War on Terror, Israel has become increasingly salient to imperial strategy and ever more aggressive in its policies towa...