Religious Groups: Social & Cultural Aspects

Sunni and Shia in Iran, Iraq, or Syria. Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland. Afrikaners and black churches in South Africa. The rising ti...

Trans Formations is not a book about trans and non-binary Christians it is a book by trans and non-binary Christians. Who they are, what they exper...

To Be Cared For offers a unique view into the conceptual and moral world of slum-bound Dalits (untouchables) in the South Indian city of Chennai. F...

A riveting, inspiring memoir from the star of Netflix's My Unorthodox Life'Haart is a hustler, a born entrepreneur, charismatic enough to attract i...

Es handelt sich um die einbändige Ausgabe der 18. Auflage des zuerst 1810/12 und 1815 von dem Hallenser Alttestamentler und Orientalisten Wilhelm G...

The image of a rough frontier where working men were tempted away from church on Sundays by more profane concerns was perpetuated by postwar chur...

Although the origins of Christianity lie in the Near East, Europe and Christianity have an exceptional relationship, since most Europeans perceive ...

Values-rich journeys can be described as pilgrimage, spiritual travel, personal heritage tourism, holistic tourism, and valuistic journeys. There a...

This powerful book reimagines discipleship by begging us to acknowledge that racism exists in the Church-and offers the hopeful message that we can...

Through two years of ethnographic fieldwork at a megachurch, sociologist Sarah Diefendorf investigates the ways in which the evangelical church is ...

In This Place Called Prison offers a vivid account of religious life within an institution designed to punish. Rachel Ellis conducted a year of eth...

When scholarship presents the histories, belief systems, and ritual patterns of specific religious groups, it often privileges victorious and elite...