Social groups: religious groups and communities

One of the issues in contemporary Islamic thought which has attracted considerable attention amongst Muslim scholars and within the Muslim community is the valid and appropriate attitude of Muslims to relationships with non-Muslims.

Work behaviours and inequality in work-based rewards are essential to financial security and general well-being.

By the summer of 1940, Great Britain watched as France succumbed to the might of Adolf Hitler's forces.

Developed in response to the events of September 11, 2001, these 14 articles from prominent Muslim thinkers offer a provocative reassessment of Islam's relationship with the modern world.

For as long as generalship in war is studied, there is certain to be controversy over the qualities, achievements and treatment of Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck.

As the world's second-largest faith and by some accounts the most fast-growing, Islam is often at the forefront of intense public conversation in debates about politics, international relations, globalization, modern society and culture.

"e;The Muslim Heritage of Bengal is a multidimensional work.

The Five Pillars of Islam is a comprehensive and practical manual on the fundamental beliefs and practices of a Muslim and provides an understanding of the true spirit of worship in Islam.

On 6th June 1944 there took place the greatest seaborne invasion in the history of mankind.

Often described as Britain's answer to Rommel, the charismatic and courageous Sir Brian Horrocks was one of the most successful field commanders of the Second World War, much of which he spent working with Montgomery.

This history reclaims the Second World War as a global fight 'from below'.

In July 1942 German and Italian forces were on the point of sweeping away the remainder of the British resistance in the Middle East and triumphantly overrunning Egypt.

This book examines how religion operates as an institution of governance and discipline in society.

In the human quest for orientation vis-a-vis personal life and comprehensive reality the worldviews of religionists and humanists offer different answers, and science also plays a crucial role.

This book examines unintended participatory cultures and media surrounding the American televangelists Robert Tilton and Tammy Faye Bakker-Messner.

This book addresses the issue of de-spiritualization in education through an interdisciplinary lens.

This edited collection considers Greek American formal and informal educational efforts, institutions, and programs, broadly conceived, as they evolved over time throughout the United States.

There is a growing realization that religion plays a major role in development, particularly in the Global South.

This book examines the operational dynamics of patriarchy that is deeply woven into the Indian cultural fabric and its persistence in spite of women advancing in Human Development Indices.

This volume seeks to understand the role and function of religious-based organizations in strengthening associational life through the provision of social services, thereby legitimizing a new role for faith in the formerly secular public sphere.

This book investigates the life and leadership of Lewi Pethrus, a monumental figure in Swedish and international Pentecostalism.

Elizabeth Bowen: A Literary Life reinvents Bowen as a public intellectual, propagandist, spy, cultural ambassador, journalist, and essayist as well as a writer of fiction.

This book explores opportunities and limitations with regard to transferring knowledge and tools from the corporate world to manage monasteries or other types of religious institutions.

This volume engages in conversation with the thinking and work of Max Charlesworth as well as the many questions, tasks and challenges in academic and public life that he posed.

This book systematically assesses the political and social values of the more than 1.

This volume is designed to assist university faculty and students studying and teaching about antisemitism, racism, and other forms of prejudice.

Over the past fifty years Brazil's evangelical community has increased from five to twenty-five percent of the population.

This book provides a multidisciplinary commentary on a wide range of religious traditions and their relationship to acts of violence.

Against the backdrop of the ongoing Rohingya crisis, this book takes a close and detailed look at the rise of militant Buddhism in Sri Lanka, Burma and Thailand, and especially at the issues of 'why' and 'how' around it.

This book examines how democratic education is conceptualised by exploring understandings of emotions in learning.

The Battle of Britain has held an enchanted place in British popular history and memory throughout the modern era.

This book provides numerous examples that apply the modern theory of bureaucracy developed in Breton and Wintrobe (1982 and 1986) to the Nazi Holocaust.

This study of new religious movements in Quebec focuses on nine groups-including the notoriously violent Solar Temple; the iconoclastic Temple of Priapus; and the various "e;Catholic"e; schisms, such as those led by a mystical pope; the Holy Spirit incarnate; or the reappearance of the Virgin Mary.

This book is the first to bring together analyses of the full range of post-war testimony given by survivors of the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

This book analyzes the murals and texts of the Dunhuang Grottoes, one of the most famous sites of cultural heritage on the Silk Road in Northwest China, from an educational perspective.

This book examines the complex and multifaceted nature of African Pentecostal engagements with genders and sexualities.

The Italian Army's participation in Hitler's war against the Soviet Union has remained unrecognized and understudied.

What can populism and fundamentalism possibly have in common?

This book explores the growing trend of intermediality in cinematic representations of the Holocaust.

This multidisciplinary collection probes ways in which emerging and established scholars perceive and theorize decolonization and resistance in their own fields of work, from education to political and social studies, to psychology, medicine, and beyond.

This groundbreaking book explores the interpretative potential and analytical capacity of the concept 'fascist warfare'.

This book analyses the successive appearances of Adolf Hitler in French fiction between 1945 and 2017.

This book gives a personal insight into the hearts and minds of a fundamentalist Christian sect, the Open Brethren.

This book addresses the problem of religiously based conflict and violence via six case studies.

This book critically examines Bonhoeffer's social theology in Sanctorum Communio from the perspective of Zizek's theological materialism.

From the late 1930s until December 7, 1941, isolationism and an antipathy toward war in Europe were strong political currents in the US.

Orthodox Churches, like most religious bodies, are inherently political: they seek to defend their core values and must engage in politics to do so, whether by promoting certain legislation or seeking to block other legislation.

This ethnographic study of middle-class British-Pakistani women in Manchester explores the sense of belonging they create through recognition and social status.

This book explores the intersection of conservative Christian values and contemporary theories and expressions of gender identity, i.

Grounded in nine years of ethnographic research on the al Muhajiroun/Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jamaah movement (ALM/ASWJ), Douglas Weeks mixes ethnography and traditional research methods to tell the complete story of al Muhajiroun.