Social groups: religious groups and communities

This edited collection brings together international leading scholars to explore why the education of Muslim students is globally associated with radicalisation, extremism and securitisation.

This book recounts France's responses to refugees from the liberation of Paris in 1944 to the end of the civil wars in the former Yugoslavia in 1995.

This book analyses the development of Catholic schooling in Scotland over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This book takes a fresh look at the trajectories of Israeli politics since the election of Likud in 1977, examining how right wing parties have adopted populist policies in order to carve out an identity and win support at the polls.

This book analyzes curriculum studies in Turkey from the perspective of three paradigms-religion, science, and ideology-since the early 19th century.

This book investigates a Jewish orientation to film culture in interwar Britain.

This book provides an introduction to the vision of an economic system based completely on the Holy Qur'an-a system defined as a collection of institutions, representing rules of behavior, prescribed by Allah for humans, and the traditions of the Messenger.

Can Islam Be French?

An essential and succinct introduction to the culture, history, and practices of the world's second largest religion.

An essential and concise introduction to eight of the world's major religions.

A major history of the shtetl's golden ageThe shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected and misunderstood chapters of the Jewish experience.

How the rise of Christianity profoundly influenced the development of Judaism in late antiquityIn late antiquity, as Christianity emerged from Judaism, it was not only the new religion that was being influenced by the old.

This volume of Princeton Readings in Religions brings together the work of more than thirty scholars of Islam and Muslim societies in South Asia to create a rich anthology of primary texts that contributes to a new appreciation of the lived religious and cultural experiences of the world's largest population of Muslims.

How the Muslim Brotherhood rose to power in Egypt, and what it means for the Islamic worldFollowing the Arab Spring, the Muslim Brotherhood achieved a level of influence previously unimaginable.

The first complete and annotated English translation of Maimon's influential and delightfully entertaining memoirSolomon Maimon's autobiography has delighted readers for more than two hundred years, from Goethe, Schiller, and George Eliot to Walter Benjamin and Hannah Arendt.

In the immediate aftermath of World War II, more than a quarter million Jewish survivors of the Holocaust lived among their defeated persecutors in the chaotic society of Allied-occupied Germany.

In The Politics of Women's Rights in Iran, Arzoo Osanloo explores how Iranian women understand their rights.

Balancing respect for religious conviction and the values of liberal democracy is a daunting challenge for judges and lawmakers, particularly when religious groups seek exemption from laws that govern others.

Berbers, also known as Imazighen, are the ancient inhabitants of North Africa, but rarely have they formed an actual kingdom or separate nation state.

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On November 4, 1979, when students occupied the American Embassy in Tehran and subsequently demanded that the United States return the Shah in exchange for hostages, the deposed Iranian ruler's regime became the focus of worldwide scrutiny and controversy.

The definitive history of conversion and assimilation of Jews in Europe and America from the eighteenth century to the presentBetween the French Revolution and World War II, hundreds of thousands of Jews left the Jewish fold-by becoming Christians or, in liberal states, by intermarrying.

This third edition of Sociology of Religion introduces students to key principles in the sociological understanding of religion, with revisions and updates throughout.

This WWII memoir tells the remarkable story of a Ukrainian girl's perilous adventures and coming of age amid the chaos of war.

In Five Cities that Ruled the World, theologian Douglas Wilson fuses together, in compelling detail, the critical moments birthed in history's most influential cities -Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London, and New York.

On 6 June 1944, Allied forces stormed the beaches at Normandy.

This book is a series of papers presented mainly at the Book of Mormon Round Table.

In his last days, Mussolini, the tyrant, was in the grip of anger, shame, and depression.

This exceptional work, with entries from Rav Abba to Rav Zutra, is an unprecedented study of every rabbi in the Talmud.

In commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the attacks on Pearl Harbor, award-winning author Dorinda Nicholson is releasing her book Pearl Harbor Child in ebook!

Kantor writes from the perspective of a traditional Jew, covering events such as the Flood, giving of the Torah, and the fall of the Tower of Babel, placing these within the chronology of history along with the Spanish Inquisition, the Holocaust, and the founding of the State of Israel.

Most Holocaust scholars and survivors contend that the event was so catastrophic and unprecedented that it defies authentic representation in feature films.

Two parts of this three part book are based upon fact: anti-Semitism and World War 2.

Couples can make significant progress toward resolving their own problems when they receive appropriate guidance from a caring person.

BUILDING BRIDGESbetweenSPIRIT-FILLED CHRISTIANSandLATTER-DAY SAINTS (MORMONS)A Translation Guide forBORN AGAIN SPIRIT-FILLED CHRISTIANS(Charismatics/Pentecostals/Renewalists and Third Wavers)andLATTER-DAY SAINTS

In 101 SELECTED SAYINGS OF PROPHET MUHAMMAD (peace be upon him) you will learn:The difference between the living and the dead.

This book is a guide for selecting, training, and supervising lay pastoral care providers in churches and other faith communities.

The authors of this dual memoir did not live through the trauma of the Holocaust; they inherited it.

Schlafer looks at the preacher's task at the "e;high times"e; of the church and the secular year, those occasions on which expectations run high and emotions can be intense.

In these Lenten meditations, Kate Moorehead devotes each of the seven weeks to a theme that Jesus addressed frequently, particularly through Earth-centered parables of planting.

Jewish symbols reflect the interaction of word and image within Jewish culture.

This is a rich, informative, and inspiring compendium of the Christian tradition of prayer and contemplation from the earliest days of the Church to the present day.

A groundbreaking study of the Canadians' first major operation in Normandy with new revelations on the death of German panzer ace Michael Wittmann.

The heroic story of Jewish resistance and survival during the Second World War.

Edward Connor was barely out of high school when he joined the U.

This long-awaited companion volume to Howard E.

This new cultural history of Jewish life and identity in the United States after World War II focuses on the process of upward mobility.

Definitive account of French volunteers in the Waffen-SS Blow-by-blow retelling of battles on the Eastern Front, including the fight for Berlin Focuses on all French SS units, especially the 33rd SS Grenadier Division "e;Charlemagne"e; Impeccably researched, this book tells the story of the Frenchmen who, motivated by their hatred of Communism, chose to fight for the Third Reich in World War II, first in the regular army and then as part of the Waffen-SS.

The events surrounding the holidays molded the foundation of the Jews as a nation and are related to their continuity and survival as Jews throughout history.