Social groups: religious groups and communities

During the first 18 months of World War I, Woodrow Wilson sought to maintain American neutrality, but as this carefully argued study shows, it was ultimately an unsustainable stance.

In the winter of 1939 in the cold snow of no-man's-land, two loners met and began an extraordinary journey together, one that would bind them for the rest of their lives.

It is sometimes said that the most segregated time of the week in the United States is Sunday morning.

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The state of Israel is often spoken of as a haven for the Jewish people, a place rooted in the story of a nation dispersed, wandering the earth in search of their homeland.

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This highly illustrated title details the history of the Jagdpanzer, the self-propelled German tank destroyers introduced in the second half of World War II.

Bringing contemporary couple therapy to life, this casebook candidly illustrates the whats, whys, and how-tos of leading clinical approaches.

A primary source analysis of the migration of Jews from Argentina to Israel.

This mindset kept them apart and isolated from the Jewries of the Western world until overtaken by the tragedy of the Holocaust in the closing months of World War II.

The popular image of Scotland is dominated by widely recognized elements of Celtic culture.

This book traces the mixing of musical forms and practices in Istanbul to illuminate multiethnic music-making and its transformations across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

How has the ability of Jews to amass and wield power, within both Jewish and non-Jewish society, influenced and been influenced by their economic activity?

The Boy in the Suitcase: Holocaust Family Stories of Survival is a uniquely different Holocaust book.

When westward expansion began in the early nineteenth century, the Jewish population of the United States was only 2,500.

Dan Miron-widely recognized as one of the world's leading experts on modern Jewish literatures-begins this study by surveying and critiquing previous attempts to define a common denominator unifying the various modern Jewish literatures.

Dan Chandler was a kid from rural Northeast Georgia who enlisted in the Army Air Corps near the end of World War II, leaving his family farm for the first time.

La fille du Lieutenant d'artillerie Eugene Drillat, fait prisonnier en 40, etudie sa correspondance pour retracer son evolution politique, ses espoirs, ses peurs.

When changing you identity is your only way to survive.

Quand changer d'identite devient la seule chance d'etre epargne.

This study focusses on the traditional belief of the district of Mzimba, which is situated in the northern part of Malawi.

Since the establishment of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Malawi in 1902, there is now available much information on the cases, narratives and experiences of women that shows the contribution of women to the progress of the SDA mission in Malawi.

This book takes a social psychological perspective to study the ways in which identity, religious beliefs and well-being are related to and affect each other in the contemporary world.

Ours is a world that is constituted and reinvented through the personal and shared stories we tell.

The dynamic nature of Christianity has necessitated its movement from the cathedral to the mountain top.

"Más allá del gran interés documental basado en la minuciosa exploración –alimentada por quince años de trabajo de campo– en los mundos religiosos argentinos que el lector encontrará, la obra de Joaquín Algranti y Damián Setton retiene doblemente la atención.

Mientras trabajos precedentes se habían focalizado exclusivamente en la trayectoria del Movimiento de Sacerdotes para el Tercer Mundo (MSTM), en este libro Claudia Touris demuestra que la corriente tercermundista en la Argentina fue una red sociorreligiosa más amplia y diversa que se desplegó como una verdadera constelación de actores sociales integrada no solo por los sacerdotes, sino también por religiosas, laicos que pasaron por los ámbitos de sociabilidad católica renovada por el Concilio Vaticano II y otros, como el grupo de Cristianismo y Revolución, que lo conectaron con la vía insurreccional minoritaria en la corriente tercermundista.

Auschwitz es una metáfora y una metonimia de los campos de exterminio y un símbolo y sinónimo de los crímenes nazis.

This book explores the complex causes that led to the perpetration of the most significant genocidal crime in modern history: the Holocaust.

Esta obra explora las complejas causas que desembocaron en la consumación del crimen de genocidio más significativo de la historia moderna: la Shoá.

Si unimos las fuentes islámicas y cristianas podemos sostener que un imam (guía, líder) de la Casa Profética, el imam Mahdi, hará su aparición para llenar la Tierra de justicia.

La modernidad argentina puede identificarse con la expansión de modelos del capitalismo europeo condensados en modos de producción económica y en lógicas de organización cultural (un territorio, una lengua, una religión).

Una adolescencia robada por el nazismo.

Este libro, que se origina en el seno del grupo denominado Francia… ¿dulce Francia de nuestra infancia?

"Realmente llego a creer en la concepción heroica de la historia, según la cual alguien malo, poderoso y persuasivo, la encarnación del demonio, un personaje como Hitler arrastra tras de sí al pueblo entero como un rebaño.

La intolerancia, asiento de fundamentalismos, recorre nuestro mundo, donde la marginación y el racismo potencian una cultura del miedo a la diferencia, de pavor por aquello que se percibe como distinto.

The Malay/Muslim community, comprising approximately 13% of Singapore's population, is an integral part of modern Singapore's formative years.

Islam and Peacebuilding in the Asia-Pacific provides a unique backdrop of how native or migrant Muslims interact with communities of other faiths have led to the contemporary treatment of Islam and the Muslim communities in these nations.

This is a timely book that fills the gap in the study of Chinese overseas and their religions in the global context.

Islamic Globalization examines the Muslim world's growing importance in creating a more inclusive international system that is increasingly multipolar and multicultural.

This book gives an almost forgotten history concerning civilian university scientists, who carried out research on defense against poison gases in some unusual places during World War II.

Written by a contemporary pioneer in the area of the universal paradigm and Islamic world-systems, this book offers a fresh post-modernist outlook on new epistemological investigations in the universal paradigm.

Islamic Banking and Finance in South-East Asia by Angelo M Venardos has been a "e;must read"e; since its first edition in 2005 and has already been translated to Arabic.

2026 Minnesota Book Award Finalist"Readers will thrill in peering behind the curtain of US-based intelligence during the world wars.

This book focuses on women in tourism in Muslim countries, specifically where a woman can be seen as a tourism consumer, or a woman producing tourism.

This book is the first to critically analyze Buddhist-Muslim relations in Theravada Buddhist majority states in South and Southeast Asia.

This book reports on innovative interdisciplinary research in the field of cultural studies.