Social groups: religious groups and communities

This volume explores the ways in which interreligious encounters happen ritually.

This book explores the Bible's ongoing relevance in contemporary discussions around rape culture and gender violence.

Christianity flourishes in areas facing profound dislocations amidst regime change and warfare.

This book investigates the memory of the Holocaust in Sweden and concentrates on early initiatives to document and disseminate information about the genocide during the late 1940s until the early 1960s.

This book explores the ways in which democratizing Muslim countries treat their ethnic minorities' requests of inclusiveness and autonomy.

Applying a rational choice perspective, this book presents a dynamic theory of the evolution of totalitarian regimes and terrorism.

This book presents a heuristic and critical study of comparative theology in engagement with phenomenological methodology and sociological inquiry.

This book discusses the merits of the theory of agonistic memory in relation to the memory of war.

This volume considers the complex relationships that exist between Christianity, rape culture, and gender violence.

This book is a journey into the heart of an Islamic worldview.

This study examines the marital data preserved within the Arabic genealogical works of the early ninth century CE in order to better understand the tribal relationships of the pre-Islamic Quraysh (the Arabic tribe to which Muhammad belonged).

This innovative volume is focused on the impact of religion on the realization of democratic citizenship.

This volume addresses our global crisis by turning to Augustine, a master at integrating disciplines, philosophies, and human experiences in times of upheaval.

Executive editor: Susanne Heim; English-language edition prepared by: Caroline Pearce and Dorothy Mas

This volume documents the persecution of the Jews in the German Reich between January 1938 and the end of August 1939.

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This book explores religious epiphanies in which there is the appearance of God, a god or a goddess, or a manifestation of the divine or religious reality as received in human experience.

This book follows a reader's logic of association through a series of overlapping constructs in biblical prescription of things prized and lofty-holy hair, unblemished beasts, sacred edibles, wholesome wombs, pristine precincts, esteemed ethnicities and, as unlikely as it seems, dismembered members.

This book unpacks how the ethical is embodied through an examination of the lived experiences of female Muslim volunteers in Belgium.

This book will be the first systematic and comprehensive text to analyze the many and contrasting appearances of the Church of England on television.

Christians have always been concerned with enhancement-now they are faced with significant questions about how technology can help or harm genuine spiritual transformation.

This book explores the themes of identity, suffering, and hope in the stories of Puerto Rican people to surface the anthropology, soteriology, and eschatology of a Puerto Rican decolonial theology.

This book examines how the beliefs and practices of each of the major world religions, as well as other belief systems, affect the variables that influence growth and development in the Global South.

This book advances a comprehensive moral defense of freedom of expression-one with implications for law and policy, but also for the choices of individuals and non-governmental institutions.

In this novel and lucid work, Christopher Houston clarifies a particular modern style and practice of politics that he calls anthropocracy.

We live in an age of rapid technological advancement.

This book is a long overdue in-depth study of the Italian Social Republic.

This book explores the manifold ways of knowing-and knowing about- preternatural beings such as demons, angels, fairies, and other spirits that inhabited and were believed to act in early modern European worlds.

The Ethics of Survival in Contemporary Literature and Culture delves into the complex problems involved in all attempts to survive.

The world is confronted with multiple intersecting crises including exploitation, inequality, political polarization and climate change.

This book explores the concept of diffused religion as it is found in contemporary society, resulting from a vast process of religious socialisation that continues to pervade our cultural reality.

This book analyses the film industries and cinema cultures of Nazi-occupied countries (1939-1945) from the point of view of individuals: local captains of industry, cinema managers, those working for film studios and officials authorized to navigate film policy.

This book examines how the racialization of religion facilitates the diasporic formation of ethnic Vietnamese in the U.

This book presents a selection of the newest research on themes amplified by the sixth annual Beyond Camps and Forced Labour conference on the post-Holocaust period, including 'displaced persons', reception and resettlement, exiles and refugees, trials and justice, reparation and restitution, and memory and testimony.

This book argues that contemporary Christianity is in crisis because freedom of religion is concealed and under pressure by secularization and migration.

This book argues that the way to ensure that American Jewish life flourishes is to create vibrant local communities and that the ability to thrive will be won or lost in the trenches of each locality.

This book offers an historical and comparative profile of classical pentecostal movements in Brazil and the United States in view of their migratory beginnings and transnational expansion.

This book puts together grounded research on the discourses that counter Islamophobic tropes in North America.

This book, part media history and part group biography, tells the story of the BBC's attempts to reach out to listeners in Nazi Germany at a time when Anglo-German relations were particularly strained.

The book highlights issues related to the construction of gender in Africa and African identity politics.

Many modernist and avant-garde artists and authors were fascinated by the occult movements of their day.

This book is a study of the legal reckoning with the crimes of the Latvian Auxiliary Security Police and its political dimensions in the Soviet Union, West and East Germany, and the United States in the context of the Cold War.

This collection of essays by leading scholars explores the present, dynamic state of metaphysical religion in America.

This book brings together a diverse and wide-ranging group of thinkers to forge unsuspecting conversations across the humanist and non-humanist divide.

Drawing upon law, politics, sociology, and gender studies, this volume explores the ways in which the Muslim body is stereotyped, interrogated, appropriated and demonized in Western societies and subject to counter-terror legislation and the suspension of human rights.

This book highlights the expansion of the influential Pentecostal Hillsong Church global megachurch network from Australia across global cities.

This book examines both the evolution of the Catholic vote in the US and the role of Catholic voters in the historic 2016 elections.

This book offers a re-interpretation of the political history of Macau from 1937 to 1945, during which Japan and China were engulfed in the Second World War.

This book tells the story of Germany between the years 1914-1945 through the history of its sounds and noises.

This book brings together academic scholars from across various religious traditions to reflect on the beauty they find in traditions other than their own.

This book explores the attitudes of the Spanish army officer corps towards the evolution of warfare during the early decades of the twentieth century, and their influence on the armies of the Spanish Civil War.