Social groups: religious groups and communities

This book explores the elective affinity of religion and post-secularism with neoliberalism.

This text addresses the Philippines' historical and contemporary reproductive politics, offering a timely insight into the rich reproductive lives of Filipinos.

Based on the teachings of Jesus and a biblical foundation, this book presents a new framework for education and teaching, referred to as the shalom education model, that addresses four essential questions in education (why teach, what to teach, how to teach and who are teachers?

As Southeast Asia experiences unprecedented economic modernization, religious and moral practices are being challenged as never before.

This book analyses the relation between state and religion in Indonesia, considering both the philosophical underpinning of government intervention on religious life but also cases and regulations related to religious affairs in Indonesia.

This collection examines the impact of East Asian religion and culture on the public sphere, defined as an idealized discursive arena that mediates the official and private spheres.

This book traces the origins of the Chinese Sisters of the Precious Blood in Hong Kong and their history up to the early 1970s, and contributes to the neglected area of Chinese Catholic women in the history of the Chinese Catholic Church.

Bringing together the work of leading scholars of religion in imperial Japan and colonial Korea, this collection addresses the complex ways in which religion served as a site of contestation and negotiation among different groups, including the Korean Choson court, the Japanese colonial government, representatives of different religions, and Korean and Japanese societies.

This work provides an overview of Nigerian Christianity.

Providing a framework for treating substance use disorders (SUDs) in office-based psychotherapy, the second edition of this trusted work has been updated throughout and features two entirely new chapters.

The novel Murisa continues the story of Feri Lainscek's work "e;Locil bom peno od valov"e; (I Will Divide the Foam from the Waves), published in 2003 and reprinted many times.

After World War Two, a train carries the physically and spiritually broken people who were taken from all over Europe to the German concentration camps back through the Netherlands to a sanatorium in Paris.

Esta obra presenta seis relatos acerca de diferentes tipos de victimización que sufrieron personas de la comunidad LGBT en el Caribe, en el marco del conflicto armado colombiano, específicamente entre 1990 y el 2010.

La temática central de este libro son las actividades económicas y políticas de los jesuitas en los llanos del Casanare, Meta y Arauca, con énfasis en el complejo económico y administrativo allí formado a partir de las misiones, pueblos y haciendas, y en el control geopolítico que tuvieron los jesuitas en esta zona, en dos momentos 1625-1628 y 1659-1767, teniendo muy en cuenta la historia de la Compañía desde su fundación en el siglo xvi hasta la expulsión en el siglo XVIII, para terminar con el destino de esas propiedades hasta 1810.

Este texto propone escuchar la singularidad de una cumbia en acordeón de los Montes de María llamada "Cuando lo negro sea bello", para lo cual pone en conversación esta cumbia con ciertas preguntas filosóficas acerca de la noción de comunidad política.

Este libro es una recopilación de cartas completas y extractos de San Francisco Javier que relatan la travesía de un hombre que como discípulo de San Ignacio de Loyola y por medio de su búsqueda trascendente, se convirtió en una figura líder de la espiritualidad ignaciana que vive y hace eco hasta nuestros días.

Orientaciones sobre el sentido y la importancia del canto en la oración y acerca de la animación litúrgica.

Con sus obras, los maestros artesanos kamsá brindan lecciones cotidianas de signidad y sabiduría.

Reconocer tus talentos, crear la pareja que deseas, superar obstáculos, perdonar.

The collection of essays assembled in this volume addresses the models of divine and practical wisdom in some of the earlier Arabic prose texts passed down to us.

This book presents an integrated review and critical analysis of the recent research in the positive psychology of religion, with focus on the positive psychology of religion across different cultures and religions.

The International Handbook on Learning, Teaching and Leading in Faith Based Schools is international in scope.

An objective of this book is to discuss some of the contributions made by John Grote to philosophy.

It is one of the ironies of our times that, as the practise of religion wanes, a theoretical interest in it on the part of many anthropologists, psychologists, sociologists and philosophers waxes.

In the last decade, too many American theologians have been preoc- cupied with charting and interpreting in a superficial manner the move- ments of the newest stars in the Continental theological firmament.

The immense changes that the world is undergoing in terms of globalization and migration of peoples have had a profound effect on cultures and identities.

The way people think about the Holocaust is changing.

Reflecting the very latest theory on diversity issues in science education, including new dialogic approaches, this volume explores the subject from a range of perspectives and draws on studies from around the world.

The role of women in Islamic societies, not to mention in the religion itself, is a defining issue.

In recent decades, education at all levels has been seriously impoverished by a growing obsession with standards, targets, skills and competences.

Evolution and Religion in American Education shines a light into one of America's dark educational corners, exposing the regressive pedagogy that can invade science classrooms when school boards and state overseers take their eyes off the ball.

A balanced biography of Golda Meir, who was both adored and abhorred, from award-winning author Deborah E.

Afghanistan emerged as separate Kingdom in Mid-18th Century under Ahmed Shah Abdali (Durrani), one of the mighty commanders of Nadir Shah of Persia.

The Muslim school embraces all branches of human knowledge and research theology, medicine, history, astronomy, grammar, economics, physics, racial philosophy and racial psychology and ethics.

Attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and on the Indian Parliament have created serious misunderstanding about the concept of, jihad or holy war.

Islam a religion a way and a message of peace, had its origin in 610 A.

Islam a religion a way and a message of peace, had its origin in 610 A.

Islam a religion a way and a message of peace, had its origin in 610 A.

Islam a religion a way and a message of peace, had its origin in 610 A.

Bringing together the work of leading scholars of religion in imperial Japan and colonial Korea, this collection addresses the complex ways in which religion served as a site of contestation and negotiation among different groups, including the Korean Choson court, the Japanese colonial government, representatives of different religions, and Korean and Japanese societies.

Islam a religion a way and a message of peace, had its origin in 610 A.

Islam a religion a way and a message of peace, had its origin in 610 A.

Islam a religion a way and a message of peace, had its origin in 610 A.

Islam a religion a way and a message of peace, had its origin in 610 A.

Islam a religion a way and a message of peace, had its origin in 610 A.

Islam a religion a way and a message of peace, had its origin in 610 A.

Islam a religion a way and a message of peace, had its origin in 610 A.

Islam a religion a way and a message of peace, had its origin in 610 A.

Islam a religion a way and a message of peace, had its origin in 610 A.