Social groups: religious groups and communities

This book represents a germinal effort that urges all religious and world leaders to savor the mystical spirituality, especially the cosmology and spirituality of sacred sustainability of the indigenous peoples.

This gripping book brings back to life the events surrounding the internment of ten German Nuclear Scientists immediately after World War II.

This volume explores the ways in which lived religion encourages and contributes to conflicts, as well as fosters tolerance, in the interlocking rural, urban, and virtual social spheres.

This book explores the social life of Muslim women and Christian minorities amid Islamic and Christian movements in urban Java, Indonesia.

This book explores how a growing religious discourse is advocating for change in women's employment participation in Arab societies.

In this book Tatiana Zachar Podolinska explores how post-modern Marian devotion represents both the continuation and restoration of tradition in the modern world.

This book analyzes perceptions of self, power, agency, and gender of Muslim women in a rural community of Bangladesh.

This book argues that an active memory of and grief over structural wrongs yields positive agency.

This book provides a fresh look at one of the most enduring, absorbing, and universal questions human beings face: What happens to us after we die?

This book discusses violence and its connection with religion, sport and popular culture.

This volume ethnographically explores the relation between secularities and religious subjectivities.

Identifying scientism as religion's secular counterpart, this collection studies contemporary contestations of the authority of science.

This book facilitates a missing dialogue between the secular and the transsecular dimensions of human existence.

In Israel, where the Orthodox rabbinate wields historically sanctioned influence over the legal definitions of marriage and parenthood, same-sex parenthood raises important questions such as what constitutes belonging to the national collective, who has the authority to define the norms of reproduction, and where the boundaries of Orthodox Judaism begin and end.

This interdisciplinary volume represents the first comprehensive English-language analysis of the development of Protestant Christianity in Xiamen from the nineteenth century to the present.

This book examines the effects of faith schools on social cohesion and inter-ethnic relations.

This book investigates the actions of marriage tribunals by analyzing the richest source of marriage suits extant in Italy, those of the Venetian ecclesiastical tribunal, between 1420 and the opening of the Council of Trent.

This book takes the debate about the (ir)rationality of the transition to ethical life in Kierkegaard's thought in a significantly new direction.

This book presents revealing reflections on historical, socio-political, and legal aspects, as well as their contexts, in Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru.

The most unique aspect of Korean shamanism is its mysterious duality that continually reiterates the processes of deterritorialization and reterritorialization.

This book presents the views of leading scholars, academics, and educators on the renewal of Islamic schools in the Western context.

This book is the first major study of the blackout in the Second World War.

This book distinguishes Islam as a spiritual message from the sociopolitical context of its revelation.

This book is a study of how people collaboratively interpret events or experiences as having paranormal features, or as evidence of spiritual agency.

This book provides a conceptually and empirically rich introduction to religious indifference on the basis of original anthropological, historical and sociological research.

This book concerns building an idealized image of the society in which the Holocaust occurred.

This book offers an entirely new contribution to the history of multiculturalism in Britain, 1880-1940.

In this book, historians of religion and gender studies explore the biographies of a number of female leaders, and the factors within their groups and cultural contexts that support these women's religious leadership.

This innovative edited collection provides a comprehensive analysis of modern secularism across Asia which contests and expands prevailing accounts that have predominantly focused on the West.

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This book offers a comprehensive Possible Worlds framework with which to analyse counterfactual historical fiction.

This book examines how socio-political assumptions inform and shape the contestation of sexuality on the African continent.

In this discourse history, W J Dodd analyses the 'unquiet voices' of opponents whose contemporary critiques of Nazism, from positions of territorial and inner exile, focused on the 'language of Nazism'.

This book offers vivid insights into policies of religious education in schools since the series of wars in former Yugoslavia in the 1990's.

This volume brings to the fore the interface of religion, women's sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR), and the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in Zimbabwe.

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Rather than providing a global solution to the problem of abortion -to abort or not to abort-this volume sheds light on different but equally critical dimensions of abortion in global debate and practice.

This book examines the misuse of history in New Atheism and militant anti-religion.

This book explores manifestations of creativity in the religious domain.

This book investigates the Ancient Stoic thinkers' views on gender and sexuality.

This volume offers a novel philosophical thesis on the ontology of religion, and proposes a new conceptual repertoire to deal with supernatural religion.

This book is an empirical comparative study of the complexity of religion in the public spheres of the five Nordic countries.

This book provides a critical discussion of the way in which religion influences: criminal and antisocial behaviour, punishment and the law, intergroup conflict and peace-making, and the rehabilitation of offenders.

This book explores the roles of religion in the current refugee crisis of Europe.

This book engages with important debates about multicultural British identities at a time when schools are expected to promote Fundamental British Values.

This volume investigates how mothers can understand parenting as spiritual practice, and what this practice means for theological scholarship.

This book examines the role of religion and spirituality in desistance from crime and disengagement from gangs.

An anthropological theorization of the unity and diversity of Christianity, this book focuses on Christian communities in Nanping, a small city in China.

This book offers global perspectives from Mediterranean, Asian, Australian, and American cultures on sacred sites and their related stories in regional history.

Focusing on tradition, technology, and authority, this volume challenges classical understandings that mortuary rites are inherently conservative.