Religious Groups: Social & Cultural Aspects

The first classics in human historythe early works of literature, philosophy, and theology to which we have returned throughout the agesappeared in...

The Amish and ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities have typically been associated with strict religious observance, a renunciation of worldly things, ...

The Amish and ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities have typically been associated with strict religious observance, a renunciation of worldly things, ...

Perfect for Hallowe'en: haunting accounts of real-life exorcisms through the centuries, from ancient Egypt and the biblical Middle East to colonial...

Investigates how the Christian fundamentalist movement brings Creationism into the mainstream through a Kentucky museum In Creating the Creation M...

Since the Reformation, Catholics in Britain have been faced with an outsider status that has often given rise to conflict between their British nat...

Human dignity as a shared heritage of humanity functions as an anthropological key to the understanding of the person. Historically it became the f...

The shocking massacre of the Jews in York, 1190, is here re-examined in its historical context along with the circumstances and processes through w...

Analyses the complexities of Christian-Muslim conflict that threaten the fragile democracy of Nigeria, and the implications for global peace and se...

One of the most violent episodes of Chinas Boxer Uprising was the Taiyuan Massacre of 1900, in which rebels killed foreign missionaries and thousan...

Book & DVD. This book presents for the first time the complete chant repertory of an orally transmitted repertory of church hymns for the celeb...

Presents the experiences of two burgeoning cities and the Irish people that helped to establish Irish identity within them Provides an in-depth st...

A detailed look at how Amish women sustained family farming during the Great Depression.At the end of the Great Depression, the US Bureau of Agricu...

A heart-wrenching multigenerational family memoir by an excommunicated member of the Exclusive Brethren After coming out as gay, Craig Hoyle was ex...

Known in Pennsylvania Dutch as Brauche or Braucherei, the folk-healing practice of powwowing was thought to draw upon the power of God to heal all ...

Fifty years after its publication, Bryan Wilson's Religion in Secular Society (1966) remains a seminal work. It is one of the clearest articulation...