Social groups: religious groups and communities

This book applies the most recent research in social psychology to decisive historical events that arguably built white supremacy as a cultural force, institutional system, and dominant social character.

This book explores spiritual and sacred practices in Finnish saunas and Native North American sweat lodges through a comparative study.

This book establishes a lay social spirituality for health care practitioners that pursues the Catholic Church’s social teachings on the preferential option for the poor, structural sin, and health care reform to address today’s commodification of the health care system where maximizing profit and patient’s capacity to pay become the primary consideration.

This volume provides a timely analysis of the emerging phenomenon of autonomous technology, a topic of intense contemporary importance given the transformative potential and risks posed by rapidly developing AI systems.

At a moment of notably rising levels of anti-Asian hate, this book offers antiracist resources informed by Asian/North American feminist theology and biblical scholarship.

The first eye-witness account ever published of life in the Warsaw GhettoMary Berg was fifteen when the German army poured into Poland in 1939.

This book introduces Catholic social teaching (CST) and its teaching on the common good to the reader and applies them in the realm of public health to critically analyze the major global issues of COVID-19 that undermine public interest.

This book addresses the theory, practices, challenges, key issues and potential future policies concerning investment and wealth management in connection with Islamic finance.

This book employs an experimental approach to critically re-examine the Catholic Church's traditional teachings on homosexuality, heterosexual marriage, and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersexual (LGBTQI) inclusivity in light of Pope Francis's inductive synodal theology and modern sociology.

The book is addressed to scholars and students in sociology and in phenomenological philosophy.

The book is addressed to scholars and students in sociology and in phenomenological philosophy.

In the present polyphony of evangelical theological epistemology, there are several authoritative approaches.

This book employs an experimental approach to critically re-examine the Catholic Church's traditional teachings on homosexuality, heterosexual marriage, and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersexual (LGBTQI) inclusivity in light of Pope Francis's inductive synodal theology and modern sociology.

For almost two centuries, followers of the Baha'i faith, Iran's largest religious minority, have been persecuted by the state.

This collection - the second of a three-volume study - examines the roots of the artistic, literary and cultural renaissance of Sufism from the 12th to the 15th centuries.

This comprehensive study is unique in its chronological breadth, intellectual diversity and historical scope and which demonstrates the central role played by Sufism in Persianate culture in Iran, Central Asia and India

Rabi';a al-';Adawiyya is a figure shrouded in myth.

Walter Wolff was the son of a Jewish merchant family that fled their German home when the Nazis came to power and took refuge in Brussels, Belgium.

The story of Islam as never presented beforeKhadija was the first believer, to whom the Prophet Muhammad often turned for advice.

Indispensable for anyone trying to understand Islam in the WestWhen the Western mass-media talk of conversion to Islam, we are bombarded with accounts of vulnerable people brainwashed into a culture of extremism.

This book represents one of the initial comprehensive studies of TED Talks on Islam.

This book centres on religious heritage-making where religion as a rich and diverse manifestation of culture and community empowerment lead to the transformation of place.

Aspects of the 2017 Final Report of the South African Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL) have drawn strong criticism, particularly from South African scholars, politicians and the public.

This book introduces Catholic social teaching (CST) and its teaching on the common good to the reader and applies them in the realm of public health to critically analyze the major global issues of COVID-19 that undermine public interest.

Diagnosis of death by neurological criteria (DNC) is a construct which has been part of the British medico-legal landscape for nearly half a century.

This book addresses the theory, practices, challenges, key issues and potential future policies concerning investment and wealth management in connection with Islamic finance.

This book underscores the role of belief and knowledge that are outside the canons of science, as they are not often considered within the core functions of a university.

This book discusses Asia's rapid pace of urbanization, with a particular focus on new spaces created by and for everyday religiosity.

In this book, Juli Gittinger argues that America's fascination (obsession?

This edited book explores examples of different ways in which societies and individuals have dealt with the concepts of religious diversity, toleration and peace-making in politics and law, and how these examples can inform educators and learners in (in- and non-)formal education today.

This book constitutes the second volume of 'Religion Matters: The Contemporary Relevance of Religion' (Springer, 2020).

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book applies the most recent research in social psychology to decisive historical events that arguably built white supremacy as a cultural force, institutional system, and dominant social character.

This volume provides a timely analysis of the emerging phenomenon of autonomous technology, a topic of intense contemporary importance given the transformative potential and risks posed by rapidly developing AI systems.