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When Aatish Taseer first came to Benares, the spiritual capital of Hinduism, he was eighteen, the Westernized child of an Indian journalist and a P...

In September 1980, eight Catholic activists made their way into a Pennsylvania General Electric plant housing parts for nuclear missiles. Evading s...

Companion to the acclaimed PBS American Experience documentary.Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRLThe Amish have alw...

In this work of qualitative sociology, Anna Strhan offers an in-depth study of the everyday lives of members of a conservative evangelical Anglican...

Gananath Obeyesekere calls his contribution to this volume a peon to 'foolishness'. But this is a fertile foolishness that implies a positive freed...

The cohabitation of different cultures and the rise of new cultural and social clashes in more or less wide contexts (nation-states, macro- areas, ...

Holmes County, Ohio, is home to the largest and most diverse Amish community in the world. Yet, surprisingly, it remains relatively unknown compare...

In 2009, the Good News Club came to the public elementary school where journalist Katherine Stewart sent her children. The Club, which is sponsored...

Marriage has not always meant just one man and one woman. For much of human history, over much of the globe, the most common alternative was polyga...

This is the moving story of how a Japanese lawyer and educational consultant from a conservative family of fan makers and merchants came to embrace...

Despite much of the world's attention turning to Scotland in 2014 in the year of its Independence Referendum, this is the only ethnographic study o...

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Religion in Britain evaluates and sheds light on the religious situation in twenty-first century Britain; it explores the country's increasing secu...

Ridiculously enjoyable Tom Holland A Book of the Year for The Times, Mail on Sunday and BBC History Magazine The Mermaid of Morwenstow excommunic...

Ruhi Ramazani is widely considered the dean of Iranian foreign policy study, having spent the past sixty years studying and writing about the count...

A missionary and shelter, a home and salvation, Union Gospel Mission has been a place of refuge for many since 1888. From cowboys to the homeless a...

There is no society without right and wrong. There is no society without sin. But every culture has its own favorite list of trespasses. Perhaps th...

Cultural history tends to elude positive definition. It deals in some sense with culture, and with history, combined in a creative and often critic...

Some of the most pressing questions in the Middle East and North Africa today revolve around the proper place of Islamic institutions and authoriti...

The Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Religion series serves undergraduate students and interested lay readers who have had little or no expos...

Based on the National Study of Youth and Religion--the same invaluable data as its predecessor, Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives o...