Social groups: religious groups and communities

This book compares how British and Spanish media have covered the French ban on hijab wearing in public schools.

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.

This book discusses the evolution of Mongolian shamanism from the distant past to the collapse of great empires such as the Yuan Dynasty in the fourteenth century, drawing on archeological findings and historical resources like the Mongolian Secret History.

This book presents a collection of annotated English translations of German diplomatic documents-including telegrams, dispatches and reports-sent to the Foreign Office in Berlin and the German Ambassador in Hankou, China, by German diplomatic officials in Nanjing, and detailing Japanese atrocities and the conditions in and around Nanjing during the early months of 1938.

This book reconstructs the philosophical issues informing the debate between the makers of modern India: Ambedkar and Gandhi.

This book is about the role of the mosque in the aftermath of the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan.

This book sheds light on religiously motivated extremism and violence in South Asia, a phenomenon which ostensibly poses critical and unique challenges to the peace, security and governance not only of the region, but also of the world at large.

This book addresses the issue of Sikh women's education in Punjab within the larger discourse of women's education in India.

This book examines some of the key elements of Buddhist education theory, in particular about educating for wisdom, the ultimate goal of Buddhist education.

This book compares how British and Spanish media have covered the French ban on hijab wearing in public schools.

This book is an in-depth account of people's cultural and religious life in the Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir, India.

This book explores the contributions of Eastern female pioneers in science, politics and arts from Ancient Egypt to modern times, and discusses the possible psychological and social impact of this knowledge on today's gender role in Eastern and Western Societies.

This book reformulates Christian education as an interdisciplinary and interdenominational vocation for professionals and practitioners.

This book explores five cases of monument and public commemorative space related to World War II (WWII) in contemporary China (Mainland), Hong Kong and Taiwan, all of which were built either prior to or right after the end of the War and their physical existence still remains.

This book explores how religious groups work to create sustainable relationships between people, places and environments.

This book explores human dignity, human rights and social justice based on a Chinese interdisciplinary dialogue and global perspectives.

This book, as an exploratory sociological analysis, broadly examines the major structural factors which contribute to the social disorganization of the Catholic hierarchy as a clerical community, facilitating the persistence of clerical sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.

This book explores the fluid, mutable and contingent ways in which transgender men in Malaysia construct their subjectivities.

Written in the aftermath of Indonesia's anti-queer panic in 2016, this book tells the story of local queer movements in challenging the heteronormative society and resisting the homophobic hostility from religious conservative groups and the state.

Many facets of social life are now intrinsically linked to the Internet through increasing dependence of user-centric platforms like blogs, social-networking websites, online forums, and open source websites.

This book examines how socio-political surroundings have affected the evolution of Yarsani religious thought and why the Yarsani religious belief, despite its fundamental disagreement with Islamic tenets, has been affiliated with Islam.

This book draws together leaders in science, the health sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences to investigate the role of religion, its meaning and relevance, for their area of specialization.

This book traces the expansion of Islamisation within a modern and plural state such as Malaysia.

This book describes the Islamisation process that has unfolded in Malaysia over the last fifty years and provides feedback from in-depth interviews with 100 individuals from Malaysia's "e;educated classes"e;, or the "e;elite"e;, regarding their reactions to the changes that have accompanied Islamisation and how they feel it has impacted them.

This book in religious studies uses a Malaysian apostasy case study as a platform to investigate and discuss the broader radicalisation of apostates on social networking sites.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the Nanjing Massacre, together with an in-depth analysis of various aspects of the event and related issues.

This book comprehensively discusses the topic of Jews fleeing the Holocaust to China.

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

This book, as an exploratory sociological analysis, broadly examines the major structural factors which contribute to the social disorganization of the Catholic hierarchy as a clerical community, facilitating the persistence of clerical sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.

This book is about the role of the mosque in the aftermath of the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan.

This book develops and applies the methodology of Tawhid ("e;monotheism"e;) as law and the Sunnah (the teachings of Prophet Muhammad) in the Qur'an in establishing a transdisciplinary foundation for the study of Islamic economics, finance, society, and science.

This book shares global perspectives on Catholic religious education in schools, chiefly focusing on educational and curriculum issues that take into account the theology and the pedagogy which support learning in connection with Catholic religious education.

Offering an empirical study into anti-Semitism and anti-Israel attitudes in Malaysia, this book examines the complicated nature and function of such beliefs within the contemporary context, mapping these discourses onto different ethnic and economic divisions.

This book explores varieties of spiritual movements and alternative experiments for the generation of beauty, dignity and dialogue in a world where the rise of the religious in politics and the public sphere is often accompanied by violence.

This book traces the expansion of Islamisation within a modern and plural state such as Malaysia.

This book examines the role of Hindu-inspired faith movements (HIFMs) in contemporary India as actors in social transformation.

This book is an arresting interdisciplinary publication on Christian education, comprising works by leading scholars, professionals and practitioners from around the globe.

This book explores varieties of spiritual movements and alternative experiments for generation of beauty, dignity and dialogues, in a world where the rise of the religious in politics and the public sphere is often accompanied by violence.

The hajj calls Muslims to journey to Mecca from wherever they are across the world.

This book is a poignant story of a small-town boy, who stumbled into a lifelong flying career spanning 38 years as a pilot.

This book is a study of the causes of the Confucian revival and the party-state's response in China today.

This book is an inter-disciplinary endeavour.

This book focuses on cultures that shape contemporary Asian tourist experiences.

This book presents a range of perspectives on the current state of Catholic education in the opening decades of the twenty-first century.

The book uses an ethnographic approach to explore why the Tablighi Jamaat movement remains so successful in contemporary times.

This book provides a key analysis of the development of the Catholic Church in Taiwan, and considers the challenges it faces in contemporary times.

This book provides a ground breaking interdisciplinary study of the Catholic Church in Taiwan, focusing on the post 1949 Civil War in China through to the present day, and discusses the role played by the Catholic Church in contemporary Taiwanese society.

This book confronts the failings of current global economics to deliver the equity, sustainability and community empowerment which humanity now needs to handle a troubled future.

This book comprehensively examines religious faith in China from the perspective of cultural philosophy and cultural history.

This book not only explicates Stalin's thoughts, but thinks with and especially through Stalin.