Religious Groups: Social & Cultural Aspects

Arlo and the Keep-Out Club teaches kids ages 37 about the danger of peer pressure, the benefits of doing right, and the joy of putting their trust ...

Religion, Modernity, and the Global Afterlives of Colonialism examines the tenacious, lingering impact of European colonial ideology on religion an...

Religion, Modernity, and the Global Afterlives of Colonialism examines the tenacious, lingering impact of European colonial ideology on religion an...

This book employs an experimental approach to critically re-examine the Catholic Churchs traditional teachings on homosexuality, heterosexual marri...

Scholars of religion have mostly abandoned the concept of syncretism in which certain apparent deviations from standard practice are believed to be...

Muslim Americans are at a political crossroads, write editors Brian Calfano and Nazita Lajevardi. Whereas Muslims are now widely incorporated in Am...

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER!A generation of American Christian girls was taught submitting to men is God's will. They were taught not to question the men...

Das Glossar bietet mit rund 30 zentralen Stichworten ein unverzichtbares Grundlagenwerk für den Alltag im Kulturmanagement und darüber hinaus.

Although demographically a minority in Kerala, India, Syrian Christians are not a subordinated community. They are caste-, race-, and class-privile...

The implementation of perestroika and the unexpected collapse of the USSR provoked unease that long-underlying ethnic tensions could erupt in strif...

In Stumbling Toward Utopia, author Tim Goeglein looks at the philosophies and policies that led to the societal earthquake of the1960s and how thos...

A new, unexpected generation of Jews made an appearance in Poland following the fall of the communist regime. Once home to the greatest Jewish comm...

This book centres on religious heritage-making where religion as a rich and diverse manifestation of culture and community empowerment lead to the ...

Return of the Jew traces the appearance of a new generation of Jews in Poland that followed the fall of the communist regime. Today more and more P...

In the wake of the Counter Reformation and more intensely after the French Revolution, religious communities of women sprang up with astonishing ra...

In I Grew Up in the Church: How American Evangelical Women Tell Their Stories, Bethany Mannon studies the diverse and complex voices of women who h...

What do our myths say about us? Why do we choose to believe stories that have been disproven? David M. Krueger takes an in-depth look at a legend t...

After World War II, Americas religious denominations spent billions on church architecture as they spread into the suburbs. In this richly illustra...

What do our myths say about us? Why do we choose to believe stories that have been disproven? David M. Krueger takes an in-depth look at a legend t...

Throughout history, the world's great religions have been profoundly shaped by their encounters with successive empires. Secular empires have provi...

The first comprehensive history of American Jewish philanthropy and its influence on democracy and capitalismFor years, American Jewish philanthrop...

The Problem of Orthodoxy: Evangelicals at the Crossroads of Truth and Power reexamines Christian orthodoxy, especially contemporary evangelicalism ...

This book provides the only comprehensive analysis of concordats, the international treaties of the Apostolic See in Rome. Identifying the 167 trea...

In this book, Juli Gittinger argues that Americas fascination (obsession?) with the apocalypse is a synthesis of religion, popular culture, and pol...

The author examines the role played by Syrian Christians in accelerating the forces of change in Muslim society at two junctures: the formative pha...

Stories centering on the lovelorn ghost (Mae Nak) and the magical monk (Somdet To) are central to Thai Buddhism. Historically important and emotion...

Ab den fünfziger Jahren entstand in Westdeutschland mit der neu geschaffenen documenta allmählich das Bild einer eigenständigen Westkunst. Unter ne...

In 2002, after an altercation between Muslim vendors and Hindu travelers at a railway station in the Indian state of Gujarat, fifty-nine Hindu pilg...

Howard S. Becker ist einer der vielseitigsten Soziologen der Gegenwart. In mehrfacher Hinsicht gilt er als Klassiker: Als Teil der sogenannten Seco...

This collection of essays attempts to speak to the past, as it does the future. It engages the dialectics in Christians and Muslims' responses to t...