Religious Groups: Social & Cultural Aspects

Natural disasters in Asian countries have brought global attention to the work of local Buddhist communities and groups. Here, the contributors exa...

Although there has emerged a huge interest in the Muslim communities in Britain since 9/11 and 7/7, few academic studies have focused on the politi...

Melanie L. Harris dives into the spirituality and life work of Alice Walker, literary genius and poet. Through the lens of Womanist ethics, Harris ...

This book examines the various Christian responses to Islam in Nigeria. It is a study of the complex, interreligious relationships in Nigeria. Usin...

Decolonial Judaism: Triumphal Failures of Barbaric Thinking explores the relationship among geopolitics, religion, and social theory. It argues tha...

Many have used the term 'tragic' to refer to African American religious and cultural experience. After a studied meditation on and articulation of ...

In The Halal Frontier Johan Fischer shows that halal (literally lawful or permitted) is no longer an expression of esoteric forms of production, tr...

This book questions the 'role model' status of the Turkish Republic with respect to the advancement of female agency in a secular context by using ...

This collection of essays by major scholars analyze the religious diversity in Chinese religion, bringing together topics from traditional and cont...

Through his ethnographic study of the fishermen and their religious beliefs, Webster speaks to larger debates about religious radicalism, materiali...

The events of 9/11 prompted questions as to the origins, nature and purpose of international jihadist organisations. In particular, why had they ch...

This book provides a fresh perspective on the emergence of public Muslim identities, traversing issues of Muslim-state engagement across government...

Social thinkers in all fields are faced with one unavoidable question: What does it mean to be human in the 21st century? This ambitious and ground...

The continued prominence of Islam in the struggle for democracy in the Muslim world has confounded Western democracy theorists who largely consider...

The continued prominence of Islam in the struggle for democracy in the Muslim world has confounded Western democracy theorists who largely consider...

This book examines the leading role of the Quaker American Friends Service Committee in the United Nations relief program for Palestine Arab refuge...

According to Max Weber, charisma is opposed to bureaucratic order. This collection reveals the limits of that formula. The contributors show how ch...

Examining modern Muslim identity constructions, the authors introduce a novel analytical framework to Islamic Studies, drawing on theories of succe...

Examining modern Muslim identity constructions, the authors introduce a novel analytical framework to Islamic Studies, drawing on theories of succe...

This book addresses the increasing role of queer politics within forms of Islamophobia, both by exploring the framing of lesbian, gay, bisexual, an...

Twelve scholars from the biblical, historical, theological, and philosophical disciplines engage in a conversation on the transforming work of the ...

This concise introduction to science and religion focuses on Christianity and modern Western science (the epicenter of issues in science and religi...

This concise introduction to science and religion focuses on Christianity and modern Western science (the epicenter of issues in science and religi...

In the early 1900s the Catholic Church appealed, for the first time in its history, directly to women to reassert its religious, political and soci...