Religious Groups: Social & Cultural Aspects

This book draws on a four-year ethnographic study conducted in the prisons and on the streets of Greater Manchester, England, to examine gangs and ...

Evangelical Christianity is often thought of as oppressive to women. The #MeToo era, when many women hit a breaking point with rampant sexism, has ...

Serving with a Heart: Securing the Future reflects and highlights Singapore's efforts on highlighting countering online radicalisation through the ...

The Habad school of hasidism is distinguished today from other hasidic groups by its famous emphasis on outreach, on messianism, and on empowering ...

In Religious, Feminist, Activist, Laurel Zwissler investigates the political and religious identities of women who understand their social-justice ...

In Religious, Feminist, Activist, Laurel Zwissler investigates the political and religious identities of women who understand their social-justice ...

In Intersectional Identities of Christian Women in the United States: Faith, Race, and Feminism, Amanda Hernandez explores the complex relationship...

Hasidism, a movement many believed had passed its golden age, has had an extraordinary revival since it was nearly decimated in the Holocaust and r...

Hasidism, a movement many believed had passed its golden age, has had an extraordinary revival since it was nearly decimated in the Holocaust and r...

Frames restorative justice as a form of moral and spiritual practice with the capacity to transform injustice In the United States restorative just...

Frames restorative justice as a form of moral and spiritual practice with the capacity to transform injustice In the United States restorative just...

Can we return to worlds destroyed by colonial violence? In a series of letters to her father, her great-grandmothers, and her children-and to think...

This open access book describes the worlds increasingly multicultural societies face the problem that more and more diverse lifestyles (LGBTQIA+ co...

The Affective Agency of Public Space explores the pivotal role that public spaces play in fostering social inclusion and community cohesion within ...

How are Western, mostly secular, societies handling religion in its increasingly pluralistic and complex forms? Here, the authors study the interac...

The on-going Eurozone crisis frequently makes front page news, but aspects of its deeper implications are more rarely discussed in media. In Crisis...