Religious Groups: Social & Cultural Aspects

Hillsong, an Australian megachurch founded in 1983, is now a global phenomenon. It has branches in most global cities and award-winning worship ban...

This is the first anthropological monograph of Muslim and Hindu lives in contemporary Myanmar. In it, Judith Beyer introduces the concept of we-for...

In Orthodox Judaism, Halachathe legal code derived from the Torah and the Talmudconstructs and determines Jewish life, informing not only practices...

In The Uses of Idolatry, William T. Cavanaugh offers a sustained and interdisciplinary argument that worship has not waned in our supposedly secula...

This book presents a crisis of religion and belief literacy to which education at every level is challenged to respond. As understanding different ...

In The Uses of Idolatry, William T. Cavanaugh offers a sustained and interdisciplinary argument that worship has not waned in our supposedly secula...

In Marx 's Experiments and Microscopes: Modes of Production, Religion, and the Method of Successive Abstractions, Paul B. Paolucci examines how Mar...

The Bible has inspired Western art and literature for centuries, so it is no surprise that Christian iconography, characters, and stories have also...

The Bible has inspired Western art and literature for centuries, so it is no surprise that Christian iconography, characters, and stories have also...

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...

In den Bänden dieser Reihe werden erstmalig detailliert die wichtigsten Strömungen und Themen der ungemein fruchtbaren Periode der Soziologie der Z...

The first history of all the English cathedrals, from Birmingham and Bury St Edmunds to Worcester and York Minster   Englands sixty-two Anglican an...

In this timely book, an interdisciplinary group of scholars investigates the recent resurfacing of White Christian nationalism and racism in populi...

In this timely book, an interdisciplinary group of scholars investigates the recent resurfacing of White Christian nationalism and racism in populi...

Many Catholic priests, nuns, and brothers in the United States take a strong interest in US policies that affect their 'brothers and sisters' abroa...

Many Catholic priests, nuns, and brothers in the United States take a strong interest in US policies that affect their 'brothers and sisters' abroa...

The current refugee crisis sweeping Europe, and much of the world, closely intersects with largely neglected questions of religion. Moving beyond d...

Embodied Idolatry: A Critique of Christian Nationalism is an examination of the effect of Christian nationalism on Christian practice in the United...

This book provides evidence that the emergence of Asian new religious movements (NRMs) was predominantly the result of anti-colonial ideology from ...

This book collects a multidisciplinary range of contributions focusing on the prolific and seminal work of Willem Drees in the fields of philosophy...

Coalbrookdale in the parish of Madeley, Shropshire is seen as the birthplace of the industrial revolution while remaining one of the last examples ...