Religious Groups: Social & Cultural Aspects

Are reports of the 'death of deviance' premature? This collection brings together leading international scholars to analyse uses of the 'deviance' ...

This collection demonstrates a constructive potential in reimagining with doctrines, which unlocks them from centuries of patriarchal constraint. I...

In this unique collection, theologians born and formed during the Cold War offer their insights and perspectives on theological relationships with ...

This volume is the product of scholars of various backgrounds, specialties and agendas bringing forth their most treasured findings regarding the C...

In this dynamic and wide-ranging collection of essays, prominent scholars examine the condition of church-state relations in the United States, Fra...

This book draws upon theory and theology to consider how religious institutions engage with post-conflict statebuilding and why they would choose t...

Colonial Contexts and Postcolonial Theology focuses on what postcolonial theologies look like in colonial contexts, particularly in dialogue with t...

Drawing on interviews and fieldwork in Kuwait and throughout the Arabian Peninsula, this book explores what cultural elites in the Arab Gulf region...

This study explores the idea voiced by journalist Henry McDonald that the Protestant, Unionist and Loyalist tribes of Ulster are 'the least fashion...

The interest of this book lies at the very center of a recent deployment of homosexual liberation on a larger scale. The reader will be able to und...

For a millennium and a half in China, Christianity has been perceived as a foreign religion for a foreign people. This volume investigates various ...

In this comprehensive study, Adis Duderija examines how Neo Traditional Salafi thought (NTS) and progressive Muslims interpret the normative concep...

Having destabilized dominant assumptions about the nature of religion, there is now a need to develop new ways of thinking about this ever-present ...

This volume addresses what happens to Christian theology when it follows its traditional habit of excluding religious others from the theological c...

While there are a growing number of researchers who are exploring the political and social aspects of the global Renewal movement, few have provide...

This book brings Christian, Jewish and Muslim scholars from different fields of knowledge and many places across the globe to introduce/expand the ...

Ecology, Spirituality, and Cosmology in Edwidge Danticat: Crossroads as Ritual examines the form and function of ritual in four of Danticat's ficti...

Addressing the specific contexts of communal leadership, educational policy, inter-communal relations, legal reform, media production, public disco...

Does theism dominant the language and practices of public life in the United States? This volume explores this question from a humanist perspective...

New religious movements both read the Bible in creative ways and produce their own texts that aspire to scriptural status. From the creation storie...

Finnish Women Making Religion puts forth the complex intersections that Lutheranism, the most important religious tradition in Finland, has had wit...

A candid exploration of sadomasochistic practices driving contemporary culture, covering the demoralizing socioeconomic and political conditions th...

Religion and social action is both empowering and limiting for women. This study shows the Guadalupanas' awareness of themselves as agents for chan...

Anatomy of Dissent in Islam is an interdisciplinary study of political and legal dissent in Islamic civilization from the seventh century on. (7th ...