Social groups: religious groups and communities

This book, written with hospital spiritual care providers in mind, investigates how to expand the field and scope of compassion within the hospital context, for the spiritual care and safety of transgender patients.

This book provides an overview of the research on spirituality, religiousness and health, including the most important studies, conceptualization, instruments for measurement, types of studies, challenges, and criticisms.

This book investigates how persuasion relates to values in self-improvement literature, revealing the discursive practices used to persuade and engage their readers, and construct a credible persona.

This book analyses and discusses the use of Islamic terms and symbols in the political party Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC).

This book explores how fin de siecle Britain and Britons displaced spatially-charged apprehensions about imperial decline, urban decay and unpoliced borders onto Jews from Eastern Europe migrating westwards.

This book explores a particular genre of intervention into cultural difference, used across the globe.

This book addresses the topic of personhood-who is a "e;person"e; or "e;human,"e; and what rights or dignities does that include-as it has been addressed through the lens of science fiction.

In this ethnographic examination of women's mosques in the Maldives, anthropologist Jacqueline H.

How can we feel at home in this world without clinging to false certainties?

This book examines the phenomenon of female child soldiering from various theological perspectives.

This book discusses the evolution of three philosophical foundations from the twelfth through the eighteenth centuries that converged to form the basis of liberal democracy's approach to the place and role of religion in society and politics.

This book analyzes the changes and shifts in religious education in Europe over the past 50 years.

This book explores how Seventh-day Adventists, like other Christians, can benefit from generating their own version of communio ecclesiology.

Atheism Revisited is a collection of essays that explore the multifaceted nature of atheism.

This book examines how the fall of France in the Second World War has been recorded by historians and remembered within society.

Exploring a hitherto unexamined aspect of San cosmology, Mathias Guenther's two volumes on human-animal relations in San cosmology link "e;new Animism"e; with Khoisan Studies, providing valuable insights for Khoisan Studies and San culture, but also for anthropological theory, relational ontology, folklorists, historians, literary critics and art historians.

SAINT JOAN OF NEW YORK is a novel about a math prodigy who becomes obsessed with discovering the Theory of Everything.

This book examines slavery and gender through a feminist reading of narratives including female slaves in the Gospel of Luke, the Acts of the Apostles, and early Christian texts.

This book explores contemporary debates surrounding Poland's 'war children', that is the young victims, participants and survivors of the Second World War.

Using yet untapped resources from moral and political philosophy, this book seeks to answer the question of whether an all good God who is presumed to be all powerful is logically compatible with the degree and amount of moral and natural evil that exists in our world.

In Matthew's passion narrative, the ethnoracial identity of Jesus comes into sharp focus.

This volume explores the life stories of women who were former members of Mormon fundamentalist polygamous societies, from their own perspectives, to seek insight into their readiness for higher education settings.

This book, the first on the growing phenomenon of private full-time K-12 Muslim schools in France, investigates whether these schools participate in the communautarisme (or ethnic/cultural separatism) that Muslims are often accused of or if their founding is a sign of integration, given that most of private education in France is subsidized by the government.

What does it mean to theorize Christianity in light of the decolonial turn?

Based on Catholic and Confucian social ethics, this book develops an ethic of solidarity and reciprocity with the migrants in Asia who are marginalized.

This book critically examines the development of mindfulness, tracing its development from Buddhist meditation to its variety of popular applications today, including the treatment of mental disorders, wellbeing and improvement of performance.

This book presents a theological and missiological argument for pentecostals to engage more forcefully in higher education by expanding and renewing their commitment toward operating their own colleges and universities.

A contribution to the field of theological aesthetics, this book explores the arts in and around the Pentecostal and charismatic renewal movements.

Written by Yiddish writer Rokhl Faygnberg, The Destruction of the Dubova Shtetl is a powerful account of the elimination of the Jewish community of one shtetl during the pogroms of the Russian Civil War, 1918-1921.

The fate of towns and cities stands at the center of the environmental history of World War II.

This volume explores the ways in which interreligious encounters happen ritually.

This book explores the Bible's ongoing relevance in contemporary discussions around rape culture and gender violence.

Christianity flourishes in areas facing profound dislocations amidst regime change and warfare.

Applying a rational choice perspective, this book presents a dynamic theory of the evolution of totalitarian regimes and terrorism.

This book presents a heuristic and critical study of comparative theology in engagement with phenomenological methodology and sociological inquiry.

This book discusses the merits of the theory of agonistic memory in relation to the memory of war.

This volume considers the complex relationships that exist between Christianity, rape culture, and gender violence.

This book is a journey into the heart of an Islamic worldview.

This innovative volume is focused on the impact of religion on the realization of democratic citizenship.

This volume addresses our global crisis by turning to Augustine, a master at integrating disciplines, philosophies, and human experiences in times of upheaval.

This book explores religious epiphanies in which there is the appearance of God, a god or a goddess, or a manifestation of the divine or religious reality as received in human experience.

This book follows a reader's logic of association through a series of overlapping constructs in biblical prescription of things prized and lofty-holy hair, unblemished beasts, sacred edibles, wholesome wombs, pristine precincts, esteemed ethnicities and, as unlikely as it seems, dismembered members.

This book unpacks how the ethical is embodied through an examination of the lived experiences of female Muslim volunteers in Belgium.

This book will be the first systematic and comprehensive text to analyze the many and contrasting appearances of the Church of England on television.

Christians have always been concerned with enhancement-now they are faced with significant questions about how technology can help or harm genuine spiritual transformation.

This book explores the themes of identity, suffering, and hope in the stories of Puerto Rican people to surface the anthropology, soteriology, and eschatology of a Puerto Rican decolonial theology.

This book examines how the beliefs and practices of each of the major world religions, as well as other belief systems, affect the variables that influence growth and development in the Global South.

This book advances a comprehensive moral defense of freedom of expression-one with implications for law and policy, but also for the choices of individuals and non-governmental institutions.

In this novel and lucid work, Christopher Houston clarifies a particular modern style and practice of politics that he calls anthropocracy.

We live in an age of rapid technological advancement.