Religious Groups: Social & Cultural Aspects

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...

When we think of Catholicism, we think of Europe and the United States as the seats of its power. But while much of Catholicism remains headquarter...

When we think of Catholicism, we think of Europe and the United States as the seats of its power. But while much of Catholicism remains headquarter...

This book traces the steady decline in Irish Catholicism from the visit of Pope John Paul II in 1979 up to the Cloyne report into clerical sex abus...

This exploration of one of the most concentrated immigrant communities in Britain combines a fascinating narrative history, an original theoretical...

This concise book provides readers with a comprehensive overview and critical assessment of the key issues and varied strands of research relating ...

This book shows how the individual constructs a self from the thousands of colloquial identities provided by a society's culture, and reveals how t...

Are most white American Christians actually committed to a Religion of Whiteness? Recent years have seen a growing recognition of the role that Wh...

The voices of second-generation Korean Americans echo throughout the pages of this book, which is a sensitive exploration of their struggles with m...

Foreword INDIES 2023 Book of the Year Award (GOLD Winner for Religion) 2024 Midwest Book Award Winner (Religion & Philosophy) Heartfelt, inci...

Catholic Womens Rhetoric in the United States: Ethos, the Patriarchy, and Feminist Resistance examines the rhetoric of Roman Catholic women. Focusi...

Places of worship are important anchor institutions in communities, helping to create social capital through discussion groups, soup kitchens, and ...

Places of worship are important anchor institutions in communities, helping to create social capital through discussion groups, soup kitchens, and ...

Is it possible to identify the positive and negative effects of globalization on religious tourism or to estimate the transformation of the interna...

Between the 1920s and the 1940s, 10,000 traditionalist Mennonites emigrated from western Canada to isolated rural sections of Northern Mexico and t...

Until recently, policy-makers and academics generally saw religion as something that would disappear as countries made economic progress. But we no...

In Zeiten beschleunigten gesellschaftlichen Wandels lassen sich komplexe Aufgabenstellungen immer weniger mit herkömmlichen Methoden und Mitteln be...

Between the 1920s and the 1940s, 10,000 traditionalist Mennonites emigrated from western Canada to isolated rural sections of Northern Mexico and t...

Is African Christianity a religious marketplace now dominated by only two big players, the Catholic Church and Pentecostals? There is an important ...

The place of religion in the public realm is the subject of frequent and lively debate in the media, among academics and policymakers, and within c...

Faithonomics uses economic theory to provide a new and unorthodox view of religion in today's world. Drawing on state-of-the-art research and on ca...

In The Halal Frontier Johan Fischer shows that halal (literally lawful or permitted) is no longer an expression of esoteric forms of production, tr...

Jeffreys explores the spiritual consequences and ethics of modern solitary confinement and emphasizes how solitary confinement damages our spiritua...

This book develops creative imagining of traditional doctrines. Chapters show the effectiveness of Latina/mujerista, evangélica, womanist, Asian Am...

Decolonial Judaism: Triumphal Failures of Barbaric Thinking explores the relationship among geopolitics, religion, and social theory. It argues tha...

Drawing on empirical research amongst both Muslim schools' students and parents, this timely book examines the question of 'self-segregation' and M...

Building Noah's Ark for Migrants, Refugees, and Religious Communities examines religion within the framework of refugee studies as a public good, w...