Social groups: religious groups and communities

This book explores the phenomenon of conversion to Shi'a Islam in Italy.

Jewish humor, with its rational skepticism and cutting social criticism, permeates American popular culture.

Judith tells the story of a beautiful Jewish woman who enters the tent of an invading general, gets him drunk, and then slices off his head, thus saving her village and Jerusalem.

In Eve's Journey, Nehama Aschkenasy traces the migration of several female images and feminine situations from their early appearances in Biblical writings to their incarnations in modern Hebraic literature.

Written in pieces over the last fifteen years of his life and published posthumously, S.

Living with the Law explores the marital disputes of Jews in medieval Islamic Egypt (1000-1250), relating medieval gossip, marital woes, and the voices of men and women of a world long gone.

The Taliban made piety a business of the state, and thereby intervened in the daily lives and social interactions of Afghan women.

The Oldest Guard tells the story of Zionist settler memory in and around the private Jewish agricultural colonies (moshavot) established in late nineteenth-century Ottoman Palestine.

Among the Jewish writers who emigrated from Eastern Europe to France in the 1910s and 1920s, a number chose to switch from writing in their languages of origin to writing primarily in French, a language that represented both a literary center and the promises of French universalism.

Jewish Blues presents a broad cultural, social, and intellectual history of the color blue in Jewish life between the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries.

The way most people think about religion and politics is only loosely linked to empirical reality, argues Ryan P.

Given the unique history of African Americans and their diverse religious flowering in Black Christianity, the Nation of Islam, voodoo, and others, what is the heart and soul of African American religious life?

In his revolutionary book Cross Vision, Gregory A.

Dances and balls appear throughout world literature as venues for young people to meet, flirt, and form relationships, as any reader of Pride and Prejudice, War and Peace, or Romeo and Juliet can attest.

The Islamic University of Medina was established by the Saudi state in 1961 to provide religious instruction primarily to foreign students.

A study of the Saudi Arabian monarchy's efforts to construct and disseminate a historical narrative to legitimize its rule.

Los Angeles is a city of borders and lines, from the freeways that transect its neighborhoods to streets like Pico Boulevard that slash across the city from the ocean to the heart of downtown, creating both ethnic enclaves and pathways for interracial connection.

In The Story of Reason in Islam, leading public intellectual and political activist Sari Nusseibeh narrates a sweeping intellectual history-a quest for knowledge inspired by the Qu'ran and its language, a quest that employed Reason in the service of Faith.

Within the broad contours of Islamic traditions, Muslims are enjoined to fast during the month of Ramadan, they are invited to a disciplined practice of prayer, and they are offered the Quran as the divine revelation in the most beautiful verbal form.

Around the beginning of the twentieth century, Jewish writers and artists across Europe began depicting fellow Jews as savages or "e;primitive"e; tribesmen.

In The Nones: Where They Came From, Who They Are, and Where They Are Going, Ryan P.

How does Martin Luther King, Jr.

The city of Jaffa presents a paradox: intimate neighbors who are political foes.

Iraq was the first postcolonial state recognized as legally sovereign by the League of Nations amid the twentieth-century wave of decolonization movements.

From the 1950s through the 1990s, antisemitism everywhere seemed to be on the wane.

Easter is not just about the Easter bunny and its colorful eggs.

In the wake of the clergy abuse scandal of the last decade, many media commentators predicted the end of the Catholic priesthood.

A classic of faith-based activism-updated for a new generation.

Very Special Ships is the first full-length book about the Abdiel-class fast minelayers, which were considered the fastest and most versatile to serve in the Royal Navy during World War II.

Say "e;Hitler"e; and people would automatically think of evil and Jews.

Christmas is more than just gift-giving.

Now significantly revised with over 70% new material, this is the authoritative presentation of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, which is taught and practiced around the world.

This volume completes the reissue of R.

What "e;runs in the family"e;?

For a world so out of tune, this treatise intends to correlate from various instruments of learning, a new sound--a sound of hope.

Integrating counseling--theory and practice--with the biblical revelation has now been attempted many times and with considerable success.

Understanding Religious Conversion begins with emphasis on the value of respecting religious/theological interpretations of conversion while coordinating social scientific studies of how personal, social, and cultural issues are relevant to the human transformational process.

How do I know what is true?

Living in this world can be hazardous to one's health.

Kierkegaard's Pastoral Dialogues takes a selection of Kierkegaard's most insightful spiritual writings and transforms them into a series of dialogues between two friends, a believer and a nonbeliever.

This book is a vital resource for intervention programs, educators, social workers, counselors, psychotherapists, pastoral counselors, and survivors of intimate violence and their families.

In Soft Shepherd or Almighty Pastor?

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When it was first published in 1953, opinions were sharply divided between those who deplored the apparent extolling of a vicious form of warfare, and this who found in Heinz Schaeffer’s account a revealing picture of the German Navy’s training and methods.

Many spiritual caregivers, including chaplains, spiritual directors and clergy, are unaware of how they can support people with chronic health conditions.

The Luftwaffe and the War at Sea is a collection of fascinating accounts written by German military officers – both Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe – about the naval war in the air in the North Atlantic and around Great Britain.

When the organization and structure of the church in America was altered in the early 1900s to meet modern demands, the role of the pastorate became more specialized to adapt to the burdens of the new, "e;efficient"e; structure.

This book honors the courageous sex victims who exposed their abusers.

The quick facts are these: Alzheimer's Disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States and is the only cause of death in the top ten in America that cannot be prevented, slowed, or cured.