Religious Groups: Social & Cultural Aspects

In this work of qualitative sociology, Anna Strhan offers an in-depth study of the everyday lives of members of a conservative evangelical Anglican...

Why do people go to church? What about a congregation attracts new members? What is it that draws women and men differently into diverse types of c...

'A deeply humane memoir of immense power - there is nothing more affecting than a first-hand experience finely told' - PHILIPPE SANDS'A fabulous me...

What happens to people's sense of belonging when globalisation meets with proclaimed regional identities resting heavily on conceptions of religion...

Memoirs of Jewish life in the east European shtetl often recall the hekdesh (town poorhouse) and its residents: beggars, madmen and madwomen, disab...

This is a case study of one congregation within the Unity Fellowship Church Movement that relies on therapeutic religion, a form of religion that s...

The United States is one of the most highly educated societies on earth, and also one of the most religious. In The God Problem, Robert Wuthnow exa...

The contributors to this volume treat pluralism as a concept that is historically and ideologically produced or, put another way, as a doctrine tha...

Exploring why food aid exists and the deeper causes of food poverty, this book addresses neglected dimensions of traditional food aid and food pove...