Religious Groups: Social & Cultural Aspects

Transformational festivals, from Burning Man to Lightning in a Bottle, Bhakti Fest, and Wanderlust, are massive events that attract thousands of pa...

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...

What would happen if I accepted an invitation to Bible Study from Jehovahs Witnesses? What would attending a Kingdom Hall meeting involve? And if I...

To some, Christianity and hip hop seem antithetical. Not so in Kenya. There, the music of Julius Owino, aka Juliani, blends faith and beats into a ...

How evangelical activism in England contributes to the secularizing forces it seeks to challengeOver the past two decades, a growing number of Chri...

What does becoming American have to do with becoming religious? Many immigrants become more religious after coming to the United States. Taiwanese ...

In the mid-1980s, a radio program with a compelling spiritual message was accidentally received by listeners in Vietnams remote northern highlands....

As president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Utah's first territorial governor, Brigham Young (1801-77) shaped a religion, a...

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...

The medieval theory of the caliphate, epitomized by the Abbasids (750-1258), was the construct of jurists who conceived it as a contractual leaders...

In easy-to-understand language and engaging images, this storybook shows children ages 37 the freedom that comes through confessing sin rather than...

From the perspective of historical sociology, Richard N. Juliani traces the role of religion in the lives and communities of Italian immigrants in ...

On an otherwise ordinary Sunday morning in 1964, millions of Roman Catholics around the world experienced history. For the first time in centuries,...

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For roughly two thousand years, the veneration of sacred fossil ammonites, called Shaligrams, has been an important part of Hindu and Buddhist ritu...

All religions are experiencing rapid changes due to a confluence of social and economic global forces. The modern world threatens the foundations o...

The ubiquity of friendship in human culture contributes to the fallacy that ideas about friendship have not changed and remained consistent through...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

A detailed study of the Teutonic Knights in the Holy Land, covering both their military and administrative affairs. The Teutonic Order was founded...

Americans love religious freedom. Few agree, however, about what they mean by either religion or freedom. Rather than resolve these debates, Finbar...