Social groups: religious groups and communities

This book explores the Jewish Left's innovative strategies in maintaining newspapers, radio stations, and educational activities during a moment of crisis in global democracy.

Doubts about the contribution of cult-prophetic speech to psalmody remain in debate.

This book looks with hindsight at the Arab Spring and sheds light on the debates it triggered within North African societies and the alarming developments in women's rights.

This book examines the problem of theodicy arising from the fall of Jerusalem (587 B.

This book is a critical study of the role played by architecture and texts in promoting political and religious ideologies in the ancient world.

The monograph produces a new interpretation of the opening chapter of 1 Samuel by combining several hermeneutical models, including the theory of chaotic (dynamically unstable) systems and the most recent, essentially post-modern, form criticism, to produce a new interpretation of the opening chapters of 1 Samuel.

This book explores the fascinating world of religious hair observances within six religious traditions that account for 77% of the world's adherents: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism.

This work uses anthropological theory and field studies to investigate the social function and meaning of sacrifice.

This work deals with the identification and integration process of immigrants in Australia and the role that religion plays in this process.

This collection of essays analyzes 'tradition' as a category in the historical and comparative study of religion.

It is crucial today to understand how religions can exist harmoniously in a shared environment, whether local or global.

This volume presents results from new and ongoing research efforts into the role of nonreligion in education, politics, law and society from a variety of different countries.

Im religionspädagogischen und praktisch-theologischen Theoriediskurs ist seit einigen Jahren die Rede von phänomenologischen Ansätzen.

This monograph is a comparative, socio-linguistic reassessment of the Deuteronomic idiom, leshakken shemo sham, and its synonymous biblical reflexes in the Deuteronomistic History, lashum shemo sham, and lihyot shemo sham.

The collection of essays contains nineteen contributions that aim at locating the Song of Songs in its ancient context as well as addressing problems of interpretation and the reception of this biblical book in later literature.

Sectarianism in Qumran: A Cross-Cultural Perspective explores the sectarian characteristics of the system of beliefs and laws of the two major Qumran sects of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the yahad and the Damascus Covenant, using theories of sectarianism and related topics in sociology, anthropology and the study of religion.

Das biblische Danielbuch selbst formuliert die Erwartung: „viele werden es durchforschen …“ (Dan 12,4 Lutherübersetzung).

This monograph investigates Genesis 12:3 in its context in the final form of Genesis.

This volume explores issues of moral character found in the different text versions of the book of Esther.

For some years the view has become established that the Book of the Twelve is a systematically structured literary unity.

Elizabeth Bowen: A Literary Life reinvents Bowen as a public intellectual, propagandist, spy, cultural ambassador, journalist, and essayist as well as a writer of fiction.

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This book presents the development of a theological reading strategy in conversation with contemporary hermeneutical theories.