Religious Groups: Social & Cultural Aspects

Shared sites, where members of distinct, or factionally opposed, religious communities interact-or fail to interact-is the focus of this volum...

Grieve well and you grow stronger. Anthropologist Rebecca Louise Carter heard this wisdom over and over while living in post-Katrina New Orleans, w...

Grieve well and you grow stronger. Anthropologist Rebecca Louise Carter heard this wisdom over and over while living in post-Katrina New Orleans, w...

In one of the true classics of twentieth-century political economy, R. H. Tawney investigates the way religion has moulded social and economic prac...

When Aatish Taseer first came to Benares, the spiritual capital of Hinduism, he was eighteen, the Westernized child of an Indian journalist and a P...

In September 1980, eight Catholic activists made their way into a Pennsylvania General Electric plant housing parts for nuclear missiles. Evading s...

Companion to the acclaimed PBS American Experience documentary.Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRLThe Amish have alw...

The current practice of the cult of Maria Lionza is one of the most important and yet unexplored religious practices in Venezuela. Based on long...

Marriage has not always meant just one man and one woman. For much of human history, over much of the globe, the most common alternative was polyga...

In Living Buddhism, Julia Cassaniti explores Buddhist ideas of impermanence, nonattachment, and intention as they are translated into everyday prac...

This is the moving story of how a Japanese lawyer and educational consultant from a conservative family of fan makers and merchants came to embrace...

In this work of qualitative sociology, Anna Strhan offers an in-depth study of the everyday lives of members of a conservative evangelical Anglican...

Gananath Obeyesekere calls his contribution to this volume a peon to 'foolishness'. But this is a fertile foolishness that implies a positive freed...

The cohabitation of different cultures and the rise of new cultural and social clashes in more or less wide contexts (nation-states, macro- areas, ...

Despite much of the world's attention turning to Scotland in 2014 in the year of its Independence Referendum, this is the only ethnographic study o...

Holmes County, Ohio, is home to the largest and most diverse Amish community in the world. Yet, surprisingly, it remains relatively unknown compare...

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In 2009, the Good News Club came to the public elementary school where journalist Katherine Stewart sent her children. The Club, which is sponsored...