Social groups: religious groups and communities

The author writes:"e;The focus of this book is on Judaism as it expresses itself in the Jewish holidays.

The Muqaddimah, often translated as "e;Introduction"e; or "e;Prolegomenon,"e; is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world.

Just as there are rational requirements on thought, there are rational requirements on action.

Ernie Coleman survived the worst open-sea defeat in US Navy history.

One of the costliest battles of World War II happens to be one of the least known.

Most progressive among all faiths in the contemporary world, Islam is not only a religion, but also a complete code of life.

The stories presented in Peninnah Schram's highly anticipated Stories within Stories: From the Jewish Oral Tradition are drawn primarily from talmudic and midrashic sources, medieval texts, and the Israel Folktale Archives.

The first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern JudaismThis is the first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern Judaism.

This remarkable memoir tells the story of Jean-Pierre Renouard, a gentile, in Germanys Nazi prison camps.

How the competition for young recruits is creating rivalries among Islamists todayToday, two-thirds of all Arab Muslims are under the age of thirty.

A Japanese-American spy, captured by the Japanese in WWII, tells of his remarkable capture and survival.

This volume brings together leading scholars to examine how the Church has brought its values into the political sphere and, in the process, alienated some of the younger generation.

This book provides a critical analysis of criminological scholarship in Malaysia, presenting a focused exploration of the key qualities and limitations to studies on crime, deviance, victimization and criminal justice in this country.

Jewish armed resistance during the Holocaust has been amply documented, debunking the stereotypical view of the Jews as passive victims of Hitler and the Nazis.

Raymond-Raoul Lambert's Diary has been among the most important untranslated records of the experience of French Jews in the Holocaust.

Middle Eastern Muslim men have been widely vilified as terrorists, religious zealots, and brutal oppressors of women.

Politics of Piety is a groundbreaking analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt.

This book investigates cinematic representations of the murder of European Jews and civilian opposition to Nazi occupation from the war up until the twenty-first century.

How Jewish responses during the Holocaust shed new light on the dynamics of genocide and political violenceFocusing on the choices and actions of Jews during the Holocaust, Ordinary Jews examines the different patterns of behavior of civilians targeted by mass violence.

Atheism Considered is a systematic presentation of challenges to the existence of a higher power.

Irenaeus, Joseph Smith, and God-Making Heresy seeks both to demonstrate the salience of "e;heresy"e; as a tool for analyzing instances of religious conflict far beyond the borders of traditional historical theology and to illuminate the apparent affinity for deification exhibited by some persecuted religious movements.

Camp Huntsville was one of the first and largest POW camps constructed in America during World War II.

How the kibbutz movement thrived despite its inherent economic contradictions and why it eventually declinedThe kibbutz is a social experiment in collective living that challenges traditional economic theory.

Islam has revolution the world and sons of Islam have changed the world scenario, to a great extent: Followers of Islam or Muslims have scaled new and newer heights in all fields, e.

The third in Cowley's Cloister Book series, Sabbath Keeping is a collection of ten meditations, each exploring a different aspect of keeping the sabbath and ending with a prayer.

This book explores the political integration of Muslims and Islam across contemporary democracies.

Although they are typically portrayed by the media as dangerous extremists in distant lands, Muslims in fact form a permanent, peaceful and growing population in nearly every Western country.

Winner of two 2025 CMA Book Awards from the Catholic Media Association: The Future of the Church (First Place), and Pastoral Ministry Catechetical (Third Place).

This book codifies, describes, and contextualizes group rituals and individual practices from world religious traditions.

While the Arab Uprisings presented new opportunities for the empowerment of women, the sidelining of women remains a constant risk in the post-revolutionist MENA countries.

This book addresses a variety of important questions on nature, science, and spirituality: Is the natural world all that there is?

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Islam has revolution the world and sons of Islam have changed the world scenario, to a great extent: Followers of Islam or Muslims have scaled new and newer heights in all fields, e.

This publication titled, ';Encyclopaedia of Islamic Thinkers' presents readers with an introduction to prominent Islamic thinkers around the world.

This volume addresses three things many people do not discuss candidly with strangers or mere acquaintances: God, sex, and politics.

This book critically interrogates the role of religious faith in the experiences and practices of migrant entrepreneurs against the backdrop of neoliberal Britain.

In a postmodern culture shaped by consumerism, it's little wonder that there is confusion about what the church is supposed to be in the 21st century.

This book considers the key issue of Turkey's treatment of minorities in relation to its complex paths of both European integration and domestic and international reorientation.

This book explores the production of Muslim youth identities, with respect to nation, religion and gender in Pakistan, Senegal, Nigeria and Lebanon.

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This book highlights tensions and negotiating processes between modern society and conservative religious groups.

A comprehensive reference guide to German military symbols used on documents, maps, orders of battle and elsewhere.

The Histories of Herodotus is one of the first accounts of the rise of the Persian Empire, as well as the events and causes of the Greco-Persian Wars between the Achaemenid Empire and the Greek city-states in the 5th century BC.

Huge mountain ranges and vast uninhabited areas characterize the Mountain West.

This book documents a little-known aspect of the Jewish experience in America.

This book analyses the bearing of global monotheistic faiths towards the philosophy and practice of record keeping and accounting throughout history.

This book explains why more Jewish people survived in some German-occupied countries compared to others during World War II.

This study confronts the current crisis of churches.

This multidisciplinary volume explores the role of Islamic law within the dynamic processes of postcolonial transformation, nation building, and social reform.

Divided into five discrete sections, this book examines the issue of Holocaust denial, and in some cases "e;Holocaust inversion"e; in North America, Europe, and the Middle East and its relationship to the history of antisemitism before and since the Holocaust.