Religious Groups: Social & Cultural Aspects

The Sunday Times Top 10 BestsellerThe incredibly moving and powerful memoir of an Auschwitz survivor who made headlines around the world. With a fo...

This edited volume analyzes the belief in supernatural gamekeepers and/or animal masters of wildlife from a cross-cultural perspective. It document...

This volume brings to the fore the intersections of religion, gender and sustainable development in 21st century Africa from an interdisciplinary p...

Warum und wie wird jemand zu einem sogenannten Islamisten oder zu einer Islamistin? Wieso, auf welche Weise und wann erfolgen Distanzierungen von s...

Die Kultur der Weimarer Republik begeisterte sich in besonderem Maße für solche religiösen Ideen, von denen man sich Hilfe beim Umgang mit den allg...

Yiddish culture was an important part of the cultural landscape of Eastern Europe from the Baltic Sea to the Danube, connecting the scattered Ashke...

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

This book, a revised version of Lundgrens PhD thesis, offers a deepened understanding of the changes in the governance of religious diversity and t...

This handbook articulates how sociology can re-engage its roots as the scientific study of human moral systems, actions, and interpretation. This s...

Religious freedom has become increasingly important across the global spectrum over the past decades but has remained a contested concept. This boo...

This edited volume brings together leading experts to explore the impact of disruptive technologies across a spectrum of Islamic countries and Musl...

The steady increase in economic, social, environmental and political hardships experienced by many around the globe has led, in recent years, to a ...

The first historical account of the dramatic growth of Christianity in Western Tanzania during the twentieth century and of the role of former slav...

The suburbs are home to the majority of Americans, including millions of evangelical Christians and thousands of evangelical congregations and orga...

Uncover the ways the Christian church has changed in recent years-from the decline of the mainline denominations to the mega-churchification of Ame...

This international and interdisciplinary handbook offers a comprehensive and an in-depth overview of contemporary research, theory, and practice in...

This Handbook explores the ways in which religion among the African people has been applied in situations of conflict and violence to contribute to...

This edited book explores examples of different ways in which societies and individuals have dealt with the concepts of religious diversity, tolera...

This book tells the story of the children and youth of the charismatic new religious commune Knutby Filadelfia in Sweden. It recounts the history o...

Family, Sex, and Faith is the first systematic examination of what the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) teaches and how believers respond to its messa...

This book is a comprehensive study of the intersection of religion, Indigenous culture, and community life, featuring an in-depth examination of th...

This book questions whether the best way to deal with religious diversity is to equalise upwards or downwards, what the obstacles to a more egalita...

Der Band untersucht die gewandelte Funktion von Religionen in modernen Gesellschaften.

This work offers a symposium on the nature of human sexual difference drawing on Platos masterpiece: having explored the observed phenomena of sexu...

This valuable book is the first to bring together theory and policy with analysis and expertise on practices in key areas of the public realm to ex...

This book brings together contributions from ten academics and a commentary from a Muslim community leader on how the British media represent some ...

This book examines the socio-economic and demographic conditions of Scheduled Castes (SCs) with religious affiliation to Hinduism, Islam and Christ...

Part of the Religion and Citizenship series, this book is an ethnographic study of marginality of Muslims in urban India. It explores the realities...

From the founding of the first colonies until the present, the influence of Christianity, as the dominant faith in American society, has extended f...

Is traditional American religion doomed? Traditional religion in the United States has suffered huge losses in recent decades. The number of Ameri...

In Theophanies, award-winning poet Sarah Ghazal Ali testifies to women's capacity for piercing and musical exegesis and asks: what more might a wom...

The Druze and the Maronites, arguably the two founding communities of modern Lebanon, have the reputation of being primordial enemies. Makram Rabah...

The Sikh World is an outstanding guide to the Sikh faith and culture in all its geographical and historical diversity. Written by a distinguished t...

An emotional slow burn romance of forbidden love, intense chemistry and second chances for fans of Colleen Hoover and Lucy Score ...

A leading journalist's intense, riveting and personal investigation into the worlds and minds of cults At a new age festival in Byron Bay, journali...

The emergence of religious fundamentalism in a globalized, post-colonial world poses a significant challenge to the End of History narratives commo...

This volume presents the findings of a number of empirical and theoretical studies on education about religions and worldviews (ERW) conducted in t...