Religious Groups: Social & Cultural Aspects

The Sikh World is an outstanding guide to the Sikh faith and culture in all its geographical and historical diversity. Written by a distinguished t...

An emotional slow burn romance of forbidden love, intense chemistry and second chances for fans of Colleen Hoover and Lucy Score ...

A leading journalist's intense, riveting and personal investigation into the worlds and minds of cults At a new age festival in Byron Bay, journali...

The emergence of religious fundamentalism in a globalized, post-colonial world poses a significant challenge to the End of History narratives commo...

This volume presents the findings of a number of empirical and theoretical studies on education about religions and worldviews (ERW) conducted in t...

Originally published in 1911, this edition published in 1920, this text comprises of an excerpt from Carpenters Adams Peak to Elephanta, originally...

Historische Verletzungen zwischen Angehörigen von Großgruppen verblassen nicht einfach über die Zeit hinweg. Am empirischen Fallbeispiel der alevit...

This volume takes a global perspective on intersectionality embodied by Muslim women. It addresses questions such as balancing multiple identities,...

For generations, religion and music have been regarded as universals, yet despite the fact that they have been frequently linked throughout history...

This book seeks to reframe debates on the conflicting scientific and spiritual traditions that underpinned the Nazi worldview, showing how despite ...

The Sunday Times top 10 bestsellerThe incredibly moving and powerful memoir of an Auschwitz survivor who made headlines around the world. With a fo...

This book synthesizes perspectives on how place is deeply intertwined with our spirituality and well-being. Split into three sections, this book br...

For generations, religion and music have been regarded as universals, yet despite the fact that they have been frequently linked throughout history...

St. Josephs Church in Greenwich Village relates the life of a local faith community to the larger religious and secular world of which it is a part...

An in-depth account--grounded in new archival discoveries--of the most consequential development in Mormon history since the end of polygamy On ...

Amidst the religious fervor of the Second Great Awakening, John Humphrey Noyes, a spirited but socially awkward young man, attracted a group of dev...

Hebrew Union College Annual is the flagship journal of Hebrew Union College Press and the primary face of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of ...

Every hundred years, as the story goes, two angels wonder out loud whether the bees are still swarming. For as long as the bees are swarming, the a...

When the Bell Telephone Company built their new research facility in 1957, they did not opt for a functional box but for a cathedral of glass, stee...

This book diversifies the fields of digital religion studies and Africana religious studies by considering the nuanced intersections between digita...

This edited collection harnesses a diversity of interpretivist perspectives to provide a panoramic view of the production, experiences, contexts, a...

Bhakti, a term ubiquitous in the religious life of South Asia, has meanings that shift dramatically according to context and sentiment. Sometimes t...

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

How can qualitative research methods be a tool for social change? Echoing the 'scandal of particularity' at the heart of the Christian tradition, t...

The volume presents the most current empirical research in the field of Islamic religious education. Its findings are an important contribution to ...

More than half a century ago, sociologist J. Milton Yinger remarked about religion, There are few major subjects about which men know so little, ye...

This book proposes a broad synthesis of the state of the art regarding the debate on the phenomenon of Emergence. Discussing from a theoretical and...

Chronic Hindu-Muslim rioting in India has created a situation in which communal violence is both so normal and so varied in its manifestations that...

More than 20 percent of Americans are Catholic, and overall membership in the Catholic Church has remained relatively steady even as increasing num...

More than 20 percent of Americans are Catholic, and overall membership in the Catholic Church has remained relatively steady even as increasing num...