Religious Groups: Social & Cultural Aspects

Die rechtliche Gleichstellung ist weit gehend verwirklicht. Bis zur gelebten Chancengleichheit bleibt ein langer Weg. Um ihn zu gehen, braucht es b...

In den letzten Jahren hat die wissenschaftliche Beschäftigung mit Religion erheblich zugenommen. Sehr häufig fehlt den Forschenden jedoch das dafür...

Science and faith are often seen as being in opposition. In this book, award-winning sociologist Elaine Howard Ecklund questions this assumption ba...

The author looks at conflicts between human rights for women and religious integrity, through family religious ideology and questions of relativism...

Discrimination against Muslim Americans has soared over the last two decades with hostility growing especially acute since 2016 - in no small part ...

Rape Culture and Religious Studies: Critical and Pedagogical Engagements stages a critical engagement between religious texts and the problem of se...

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In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were tempted to take a bite out of an apple that promised them the knowledge of good and evil. Today, a shiny a...

After the Great War some texts by British Army veterans portrayed the Anglican chaplains who had served with them in an extremely negative light. T...

This volume addresses what happens to Christian theology when it follows its traditional habit of excluding religious others from the theological c...

Although demographically a minority in Kerala, India, Syrian Christians are not a subordinated community. They are caste-, race-, and class-privile...

Exploring the interactions of the Buddhist world with the dominant cultures of Iran in pre- and post-Islamic times, Vaziri demonstrates that the tr...

Based on interview material with a wide range of Protestant clergy in Northern Ireland, this book examines how Protestant identity impacts on the p...

This book is an exploration of contemporary Jewish-Muslim relations in the United States and the distinct ways in which these two communities inter...

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 volume analyzes changing relationships between religion and national identity in the course of European integration. Examining elite discourse...

Spirits without Borders is an ethnographic study of the transnational and multicultural expansion of Vietnam's Mother Goddess Religion and its spir...

This book presents a cutting-edge critical analysis of the trope of miscegenation and its biopolitical implications in contemporary Palestinian and...

Wie wir alle wissen, sollte man zwei Themen unbedingt vermeiden, wenn man ein harmonisches Beisammensein unter Freunden genießen will: Politik und ...

That Americans take to sports with a spiritual fervor is no secret. Athletics has even been called a civil religion for how it permeates our daily ...

This volume of Political Power and Social Theory includes a selection of papers exploring Obama and the Politics of Race & Religion. Chapters e...

This book presents a study of the rise of American neoliberalism in the aftermath of the modern Civil Rights movement, paying particular attention ...

Talk about Prayer is an experiment in writing ethnography, a commentary on a conversation with Mama Régine Tshitanda, the leader of a Charismatic p...