Social groups: religious groups and communities

This book is a long overdue in-depth study of the Italian Social Republic.

This book explores the manifold ways of knowing-and knowing about- preternatural beings such as demons, angels, fairies, and other spirits that inhabited and were believed to act in early modern European worlds.

The world is confronted with multiple intersecting crises including exploitation, inequality, political polarization and climate change.

This book explores the concept of diffused religion as it is found in contemporary society, resulting from a vast process of religious socialisation that continues to pervade our cultural reality.

This book examines how the racialization of religion facilitates the diasporic formation of ethnic Vietnamese in the U.

This book argues that contemporary Christianity is in crisis because freedom of religion is concealed and under pressure by secularization and migration.

This book argues that the way to ensure that American Jewish life flourishes is to create vibrant local communities and that the ability to thrive will be won or lost in the trenches of each locality.

This book offers an historical and comparative profile of classical pentecostal movements in Brazil and the United States in view of their migratory beginnings and transnational expansion.

This book puts together grounded research on the discourses that counter Islamophobic tropes in North America.

This book, part media history and part group biography, tells the story of the BBC's attempts to reach out to listeners in Nazi Germany at a time when Anglo-German relations were particularly strained.

The book highlights issues related to the construction of gender in Africa and African identity politics.

Many modernist and avant-garde artists and authors were fascinated by the occult movements of their day.

This book is a study of the legal reckoning with the crimes of the Latvian Auxiliary Security Police and its political dimensions in the Soviet Union, West and East Germany, and the United States in the context of the Cold War.

This collection of essays by leading scholars explores the present, dynamic state of metaphysical religion in America.

This book brings together a diverse and wide-ranging group of thinkers to forge unsuspecting conversations across the humanist and non-humanist divide.

Drawing upon law, politics, sociology, and gender studies, this volume explores the ways in which the Muslim body is stereotyped, interrogated, appropriated and demonized in Western societies and subject to counter-terror legislation and the suspension of human rights.

This book highlights the expansion of the influential Pentecostal Hillsong Church global megachurch network from Australia across global cities.

This book examines both the evolution of the Catholic vote in the US and the role of Catholic voters in the historic 2016 elections.

This book brings together academic scholars from across various religious traditions to reflect on the beauty they find in traditions other than their own.

This book explores the attitudes of the Spanish army officer corps towards the evolution of warfare during the early decades of the twentieth century, and their influence on the armies of the Spanish Civil War.

This book provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the challenges faced by pastoral ministry in South African Pentecostalism as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as some interventions being made to manage these challenges.

In this book,  Al-Kohlani examines fifty-five Muslim and non-Muslim countries from 1960 to 2010 in response to "e;religious theory"e; that associates certain religions with gender inequality and "e;modernization theory"e; which downplays the role of religion on gender inequity and associates gender inequality with socioeconomic factors.

The observation that our world is signed by a lasting crisis is as much underwritten as it is questioned.

The American Jewish Year Book, now in its 117th year, is the annual record of the North American Jewish communities and provides insight into their major trends.

This book is the first collection to feature histories of women in Western Esotericism while also highlighting women's scholarship.

This text aims to discover the shared lived experiences of white American female converts to Islam in post- 9/11 America.

This book argues that there is no morality and that people are not morally responsible for what they do.

In Kenya's vibrant urban religious landscape, where Pentecostal and traditional churches of various orientations live side by side, religious identity tends to overflow a single institutional affiliation.

This book chronologically analyzes thirteen key US Presidents, from Washington to Trump, to highlight how religion has informed or influence their politics and policies.

This study provides a comprehensive analysis of representations of Holocaust perpetrators in literature.

This book brings together new perspectives on collective memory in the modern Muslim world.

This book focuses on the interconnections of religion and migration in the Black Sea region through case studies that explore shifting identities, community, and national boundaries, as well as social practices and networks.

This book critically examines the term 'religion' (shukyo) as a social category within the sociological context of contemporary Japan.

This book contributes to the global turn in First World War studies by exploring Australians' engagements with the conflict across varied boundaries and by situating Australian voices and perspectives within broader, more complex contexts.

This book challenges the modern myth that tolerance grows as societies become less religious.

This book investigates ways of dressing, style and fashion as gendered and embodied, but equally as "e;religionized"e; phenomena, particularly focusing on one significant world religion: Islam.

This volume investigates various processes by which world religions become localized, as well as how local traditions in Southeast Asia and Melanesia become universalized.

Taking Care of the Future examines the moral dimensions and transformative capacities of education and humanitarianism through an intimate portrayal of learners, volunteers, donors, and educators at a special needs school in South Africa and a partnering UK-based charity.

This book discusses the relationship between faith, formation and education.

This volume offers an empirical perspective on the so-called first generation of human rights.

This book explores and formulates a response to the question: How best can those held in modern systems of mass incarceration be cared for pastorally when many prisons diminish both hope and humanity?

This volume examines the significance of spiritual kinship-or kinship reckoned in relation to the divine-in creating myriad forms of affiliations among Christians, Jews, and Muslims.

This book examines Jewish life in Vienna just after the Nazi-takeover in 1938.

This book explores the contours of civic identity in the town of Vichy, France.

This book examines the League of Nations, state-supported terrorism, and British foreign policy after the rise of Hitler in the 1930s.

This book documents the current polarization in Germany regarding the issue of refugee immigration.

This book is the first of its kind, addressing key issues in the teaching and learning of spirituality and spiritual care in the context of nursing and midwifery practice.

In the last two decades, Turkey has witnessed a variety of bordering interventions rooted in its problematisation as variously "e;transit,"e; "e;destination,"e; "e;European,"e; "e;Muslim"e; and "e;safe.

This collection of thirteen essays examines reactions in Eastern Europe to the Prague Spring and Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.

This book is about African Pentecostalism and its relationship to religious beliefs about a pervading spirit world.