Religious Groups: Social & Cultural Aspects

Cultural history tends to elude positive definition. It deals in some sense with culture, and with history, combined in a creative and often critic...

The Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Religion series serves undergraduate students and interested lay readers who have had little or no expos...

Based on the National Study of Youth and Religion--the same invaluable data as its predecessor, Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives o...

Imagining Religious Communities tells the story of the Gupta family through the personal and religious narratives they tell as they create and main...

Each year, 200 million of us embark on a pilgrimage of some kind. We have been making ritual journeys for millennia, ever since our ancient ancesto...

The issues special report looks at religion and freedom of expression as well as religious offence. When is the right to religious freedom suppress...

How do young African Americans approach their faith in God when continued violence and police brutality batters the news each day? In The Spiritual...

There has been a revolution. The God who ruled over us for five hundred years has been overthrown. The soul of England has been transformed, almost...

Silver Winner of the 2008 Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award, Religion Category Before he began his recent travels, it seemed to Phil Zuckerm...

From Justin Bieber, to Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann, to the controversial documentary Jesus Camp (2006), the New Apostolic Reformation's inf...

All religions describe spiritual experience as pleasant, and the goal of the religious pursuit as profoundly joyful. But many religions also condem...

All religions describe spiritual experience as pleasant, and the goal of the religious pursuit as profoundly joyful. But many religions also condem...