Religious Groups: Social & Cultural Aspects

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is one of the international religions that have arrived from abroad to find adherents in Ireland. D...

Nonwhite women primarily appear as marginalized voices, if at all, in volumes that address constructions of race/ethnicity and early Christian text...

This volume addresses key questions about the puzzle of human origins by focusing on a topic that is largely unexplored thus far, namely, the evolu...

One of the biggest challenges for relations between religions is the view of the religious Other. The question touches the roots of our theological...

Through ethnographic research, Killian examines vitality in Philadelphia and Berea, two Christian Intentional Communities whose participants live i...

Why is the Golden Rule so central in almost every culture and religion? What is it that drives human beings to do good to others? Are altruism, com...

The explosive growth of Pentecostalism has radically transformed Latin America’s religious landscape within the last half century or so. In a regio...

In the thousand years before the rise of Islam, two radically diverse conceptions of what it means to say that a law is divine confronted one anoth...

Winner of the Herbert G. Gutman Prize from the Labor and Working-Class History Association In Spirit of Rebellion, Jarod Roll documents an alternat...

This book carries an ethnographic signature in approach and style, and is an examination of a small Brooklyn, New York, African-American, Pentecost...

This is a sparkling collection of essays by one of Britain's best-known and acute commentators of the church scene and of contemporary religious li...

Rather than reconsidering contemporary culture in light of secularization, much of the western church operates with a degree of nostalgia. She has ...

Theodore Martin Hesburgh, C.S.C. (1917-2015) was the most widely recognized priest and university president of the twentieth century. His tenure as...

This book will deal with arguments that analyze the Vatican policies of Francis, during the first seven years of his pontificate, in relation to so...

Every human being is born and has gone through a process of birth. Yet the topic of birth remains deeply underrepresented in the humanities, oversh...

This book uses the 2015 Charleston shooting as a case study to analyze the connections between race, rhetoric, religion, and the growing trend of m...

The world’s “great” religions depend on traditions of serious scholarship, dedicated to preserving their key texts but also to understanding them a...

The world’s “great” religions depend on traditions of serious scholarship, dedicated to preserving their key texts but also to understanding them a...

Congolese Social Networks: Living on the Margins in Muizenberg, Cape Town is a closely researched ethnography that focuses predominantly on the liv...

This book explores the notion of interreligious friendship. Friendship is one of the outcomes as well as conditions for advancing interfaith relati...