Religious Groups: Social & Cultural Aspects

Altruismus scheint im Alltagsverständnis seinen uneingeschränkt positiven Ruf als ebenso wünschenswerte wie seltene Tugend verloren zu haben und du...

A comparative, whole-of-society approach to the Boko Haram insurgency that offers a more nuanced understanding of the risks, resilience and resolut...

A comparative, whole-of-society approach to the Boko Haram insurgency that offers a more nuanced understanding of the risks, resilience and resolut...

In this book, Leah E. Robinson discusses the Covid-19 pandemic as it was viewed in the theological community, both professionally and politically. ...

Disenchantment is a key term in the self-understanding of modernity. But what exactly does this concept mean? What was its original meaning when Ma...

This work delves into the fundamental issue of Otherness, from both sacred texts and communal experiences. While the title adopts the dyad of inclu...

This volume outlines various religious practices followed across the global south and highlights their correlation to sustainability. It features m...

In this book, Dr. Anthony Nicholls uses a series of in-depth interviews to investigate how young Jews talk about their Jewishness, Britishness, and...

This book explores the evaluations made by religious groups and individuals about the potential of public spheres for religious practice, focussing...

Inspired by Charles Mackay's 19th-century classic Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, William Bernstein engages ...

What is your conscience? Is it, as Peter Cajka asks in this provocative book, A small, still voice? A cricket perched on your shoulder? An angel an...

Supermarktketten produzieren jedes Jahr zu Weihnachten eigene Werbespots. Diese greifen aktuelle gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen auf und inszeniere...

This volume offers the first systematic philosophical study of esotericism and late modern philosophy. It addresses fundamental philosophical quest...

This book offers a timely insight into ideas of belonging in multicultural society from a Jewish perspective, one which is largely missing from the...

In recent years, the relevance of religious freedom has spread well beyond academia, becoming a reference point for international relations, multi-...

To me, hard times are like hide-and-seek: where is the solution, where is the hope? We can never give up looking for these things because they are ...

To me, hard times are like hide-and-seek: where is the solution, where is the hope? We can never give up looking for these things because they are ...

Clothing, dress, and ornamentation are crucial parts of individual and communal religious life and practice, yet they are too often overlooked. Thi...

Clothing, dress, and ornamentation are crucial parts of individual and communal religious life and practice, yet they are too often overlooked. Thi...

Drawing on history, art history, literary criticism and theory, gender studies, theology and psychoanalysis, this interdisciplinary study analyzes ...

The term moral has had a chequered history in sub-Saharan Africa, mainly due to the legacy of colonialism and Apartheid (in South Africa). In contr...

In this book, Riitta Hujanen explores temporality in the context of Catholic enclosed contemplative traditions. It investigates, based on literatur...

For some four hundred years, Hindus and Christians have been engaged in a public controversy about conversion and missionary proselytization, espec...

Popular author, speaker, and pastor of Zoe Church in Los Angeles, Chad Veach tackles one of the Christian's greatest foes: an obsession with self. ...

Labor Evangelicals studies theologically conservative working class evangelicals in the United States who resist the common preconception that they...

Religion ist ein gesellschaftliches Feld, das starken Dynamiken unterworfen ist: Religion und Religiosität reagieren sensibel auf sozialen Wandel, ...

Pentecostalism is one of the most significant modern movements in global Christianity today. A mixture of ecstatic expression and earnest piety, me...