Religious Groups: Social & Cultural Aspects

When the Bell Telephone Company built their new research facility in 1957, they did not opt for a functional box but for a cathedral of glass, stee...

This book diversifies the fields of digital religion studies and Africana religious studies by considering the nuanced intersections between digita...

This edited collection harnesses a diversity of interpretivist perspectives to provide a panoramic view of the production, experiences, contexts, a...

Bhakti, a term ubiquitous in the religious life of South Asia, has meanings that shift dramatically according to context and sentiment. Sometimes t...

One of the most violent episodes of Chinas Boxer Uprising was the Taiyuan Massacre of 1900, in which rebels killed foreign missionaries and thousan...

How can qualitative research methods be a tool for social change? Echoing the 'scandal of particularity' at the heart of the Christian tradition, t...

The volume presents the most current empirical research in the field of Islamic religious education. Its findings are an important contribution to ...

More than half a century ago, sociologist J. Milton Yinger remarked about religion, There are few major subjects about which men know so little, ye...

This book proposes a broad synthesis of the state of the art regarding the debate on the phenomenon of Emergence. Discussing from a theoretical and...

Chronic Hindu-Muslim rioting in India has created a situation in which communal violence is both so normal and so varied in its manifestations that...

More than 20 percent of Americans are Catholic, and overall membership in the Catholic Church has remained relatively steady even as increasing num...

More than 20 percent of Americans are Catholic, and overall membership in the Catholic Church has remained relatively steady even as increasing num...