Social groups: religious groups and communities

This book analyzes the murals and texts of the Dunhuang Grottoes, one of the most famous sites of cultural heritage on the Silk Road in Northwest China, from an educational perspective.

This book examines the complex and multifaceted nature of African Pentecostal engagements with genders and sexualities.

The Italian Army's participation in Hitler's war against the Soviet Union has remained unrecognized and understudied.

What can populism and fundamentalism possibly have in common?

This book explores the growing trend of intermediality in cinematic representations of the Holocaust.

This multidisciplinary collection probes ways in which emerging and established scholars perceive and theorize decolonization and resistance in their own fields of work, from education to political and social studies, to psychology, medicine, and beyond.

This groundbreaking book explores the interpretative potential and analytical capacity of the concept 'fascist warfare'.

This book analyses the successive appearances of Adolf Hitler in French fiction between 1945 and 2017.

This book gives a personal insight into the hearts and minds of a fundamentalist Christian sect, the Open Brethren.

This book addresses the problem of religiously based conflict and violence via six case studies.

This book critically examines Bonhoeffer's social theology in Sanctorum Communio from the perspective of Zizek's theological materialism.

From the late 1930s until December 7, 1941, isolationism and an antipathy toward war in Europe were strong political currents in the US.

Orthodox Churches, like most religious bodies, are inherently political: they seek to defend their core values and must engage in politics to do so, whether by promoting certain legislation or seeking to block other legislation.

This ethnographic study of middle-class British-Pakistani women in Manchester explores the sense of belonging they create through recognition and social status.

This book explores the intersection of conservative Christian values and contemporary theories and expressions of gender identity, i.

Grounded in nine years of ethnographic research on the al Muhajiroun/Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jamaah movement (ALM/ASWJ), Douglas Weeks mixes ethnography and traditional research methods to tell the complete story of al Muhajiroun.

This book, written with hospital spiritual care providers in mind, investigates how to expand the field and scope of compassion within the hospital context, for the spiritual care and safety of transgender patients.

This book provides an overview of the research on spirituality, religiousness and health, including the most important studies, conceptualization, instruments for measurement, types of studies, challenges, and criticisms.

This book investigates how persuasion relates to values in self-improvement literature, revealing the discursive practices used to persuade and engage their readers, and construct a credible persona.

This book analyses and discusses the use of Islamic terms and symbols in the political party Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC).

This book explores how fin de siecle Britain and Britons displaced spatially-charged apprehensions about imperial decline, urban decay and unpoliced borders onto Jews from Eastern Europe migrating westwards.

This book explores a particular genre of intervention into cultural difference, used across the globe.

This book addresses the topic of personhood-who is a "e;person"e; or "e;human,"e; and what rights or dignities does that include-as it has been addressed through the lens of science fiction.

In this ethnographic examination of women's mosques in the Maldives, anthropologist Jacqueline H.

How can we feel at home in this world without clinging to false certainties?

This book elaborates Jean Amery's critique of philosophy and his discussion of some central philosophical themes in At the Mind's Limits and his other writings.

This book examines the phenomenon of female child soldiering from various theological perspectives.

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This book discusses the evolution of three philosophical foundations from the twelfth through the eighteenth centuries that converged to form the basis of liberal democracy's approach to the place and role of religion in society and politics.

This book analyzes the changes and shifts in religious education in Europe over the past 50 years.

This book explores how Seventh-day Adventists, like other Christians, can benefit from generating their own version of communio ecclesiology.

Atheism Revisited is a collection of essays that explore the multifaceted nature of atheism.

This book examines how the fall of France in the Second World War has been recorded by historians and remembered within society.

Exploring a hitherto unexamined aspect of San cosmology, Mathias Guenther's two volumes on human-animal relations in San cosmology link "e;new Animism"e; with Khoisan Studies, providing valuable insights for Khoisan Studies and San culture, but also for anthropological theory, relational ontology, folklorists, historians, literary critics and art historians.

SAINT JOAN OF NEW YORK is a novel about a math prodigy who becomes obsessed with discovering the Theory of Everything.

This book examines slavery and gender through a feminist reading of narratives including female slaves in the Gospel of Luke, the Acts of the Apostles, and early Christian texts.

This book explores contemporary debates surrounding Poland's 'war children', that is the young victims, participants and survivors of the Second World War.

Using yet untapped resources from moral and political philosophy, this book seeks to answer the question of whether an all good God who is presumed to be all powerful is logically compatible with the degree and amount of moral and natural evil that exists in our world.

In Matthew's passion narrative, the ethnoracial identity of Jesus comes into sharp focus.

This volume explores the life stories of women who were former members of Mormon fundamentalist polygamous societies, from their own perspectives, to seek insight into their readiness for higher education settings.

This book, the first on the growing phenomenon of private full-time K-12 Muslim schools in France, investigates whether these schools participate in the communautarisme (or ethnic/cultural separatism) that Muslims are often accused of or if their founding is a sign of integration, given that most of private education in France is subsidized by the government.

What does it mean to theorize Christianity in light of the decolonial turn?

Books Across Borders: UNESCO and the Politics of Postwar Cultural Reconstruction, 1945-1951 is a history of the emotional, ideological, informational, and technical power and meaning of books and libraries in the aftermath of World War II, examined through the cultural reconstruction activities undertaken by the Libraries Section of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

Based on Catholic and Confucian social ethics, this book develops an ethic of solidarity and reciprocity with the migrants in Asia who are marginalized.

"e;In the Holocaust novel, silence is always a character, and the word is always its subject matter.

This book critically examines the development of mindfulness, tracing its development from Buddhist meditation to its variety of popular applications today, including the treatment of mental disorders, wellbeing and improvement of performance.

This book presents a theological and missiological argument for pentecostals to engage more forcefully in higher education by expanding and renewing their commitment toward operating their own colleges and universities.

A contribution to the field of theological aesthetics, this book explores the arts in and around the Pentecostal and charismatic renewal movements.

Written by Yiddish writer Rokhl Faygnberg, The Destruction of the Dubova Shtetl is a powerful account of the elimination of the Jewish community of one shtetl during the pogroms of the Russian Civil War, 1918-1921.

The fate of towns and cities stands at the center of the environmental history of World War II.