Social groups: religious groups and communities

This book provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the challenges faced by pastoral ministry in South African Pentecostalism as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as some interventions being made to manage these challenges.

In this book,  Al-Kohlani examines fifty-five Muslim and non-Muslim countries from 1960 to 2010 in response to "e;religious theory"e; that associates certain religions with gender inequality and "e;modernization theory"e; which downplays the role of religion on gender inequity and associates gender inequality with socioeconomic factors.

The observation that our world is signed by a lasting crisis is as much underwritten as it is questioned.

The American Jewish Year Book, now in its 117th year, is the annual record of the North American Jewish communities and provides insight into their major trends.

This book is the first collection to feature histories of women in Western Esotericism while also highlighting women's scholarship.

This text aims to discover the shared lived experiences of white American female converts to Islam in post- 9/11 America.

This book argues that there is no morality and that people are not morally responsible for what they do.

In Kenya's vibrant urban religious landscape, where Pentecostal and traditional churches of various orientations live side by side, religious identity tends to overflow a single institutional affiliation.

This book chronologically analyzes thirteen key US Presidents, from Washington to Trump, to highlight how religion has informed or influence their politics and policies.

This study provides a comprehensive analysis of representations of Holocaust perpetrators in literature.

This book brings together new perspectives on collective memory in the modern Muslim world.

This book focuses on the interconnections of religion and migration in the Black Sea region through case studies that explore shifting identities, community, and national boundaries, as well as social practices and networks.

This book critically examines the term 'religion' (shukyo) as a social category within the sociological context of contemporary Japan.

This book contributes to the global turn in First World War studies by exploring Australians' engagements with the conflict across varied boundaries and by situating Australian voices and perspectives within broader, more complex contexts.

This book challenges the modern myth that tolerance grows as societies become less religious.

This book takes a timely look at histories of radical Jewish movements, their modes of Holocaust memorialisation, and their relationships with broader anti-colonial and anti-racist struggles.

This book investigates ways of dressing, style and fashion as gendered and embodied, but equally as "e;religionized"e; phenomena, particularly focusing on one significant world religion: Islam.

This volume investigates various processes by which world religions become localized, as well as how local traditions in Southeast Asia and Melanesia become universalized.

Taking Care of the Future examines the moral dimensions and transformative capacities of education and humanitarianism through an intimate portrayal of learners, volunteers, donors, and educators at a special needs school in South Africa and a partnering UK-based charity.

This book discusses the relationship between faith, formation and education.

This volume offers an empirical perspective on the so-called first generation of human rights.

This book explores and formulates a response to the question: How best can those held in modern systems of mass incarceration be cared for pastorally when many prisons diminish both hope and humanity?

This volume examines the significance of spiritual kinship-or kinship reckoned in relation to the divine-in creating myriad forms of affiliations among Christians, Jews, and Muslims.

This book examines Jewish life in Vienna just after the Nazi-takeover in 1938.

This book explores the contours of civic identity in the town of Vichy, France.

This book examines the League of Nations, state-supported terrorism, and British foreign policy after the rise of Hitler in the 1930s.

This book documents the current polarization in Germany regarding the issue of refugee immigration.

This book is the first of its kind, addressing key issues in the teaching and learning of spirituality and spiritual care in the context of nursing and midwifery practice.

In the last two decades, Turkey has witnessed a variety of bordering interventions rooted in its problematisation as variously "e;transit,"e; "e;destination,"e; "e;European,"e; "e;Muslim"e; and "e;safe.

This collection of thirteen essays examines reactions in Eastern Europe to the Prague Spring and Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.

This book is about African Pentecostalism and its relationship to religious beliefs about a pervading spirit world.

This book represents a germinal effort that urges all religious and world leaders to savor the mystical spirituality, especially the cosmology and spirituality of sacred sustainability of the indigenous peoples.

This gripping book brings back to life the events surrounding the internment of ten German Nuclear Scientists immediately after World War II.

This volume explores the ways in which lived religion encourages and contributes to conflicts, as well as fosters tolerance, in the interlocking rural, urban, and virtual social spheres.

This book explores the social life of Muslim women and Christian minorities amid Islamic and Christian movements in urban Java, Indonesia.

This book explores how a growing religious discourse is advocating for change in women's employment participation in Arab societies.

In this book Tatiana Zachar Podolinska explores how post-modern Marian devotion represents both the continuation and restoration of tradition in the modern world.

This book analyzes perceptions of self, power, agency, and gender of Muslim women in a rural community of Bangladesh.

This book argues that an active memory of and grief over structural wrongs yields positive agency.

This book provides a fresh look at one of the most enduring, absorbing, and universal questions human beings face: What happens to us after we die?

This book discusses violence and its connection with religion, sport and popular culture.

Pentecostalism is a growing movement in world Christianity.

This book presents the backstory of how the Catholic Church came to clarify and embrace the role of Israel in salvation history, at the behest of an unlikely personality: Jules Isaac.

This volume ethnographically explores the relation between secularities and religious subjectivities.

Identifying scientism as religion's secular counterpart, this collection studies contemporary contestations of the authority of science.

This book facilitates a missing dialogue between the secular and the transsecular dimensions of human existence.

In Israel, where the Orthodox rabbinate wields historically sanctioned influence over the legal definitions of marriage and parenthood, same-sex parenthood raises important questions such as what constitutes belonging to the national collective, who has the authority to define the norms of reproduction, and where the boundaries of Orthodox Judaism begin and end.

This interdisciplinary volume represents the first comprehensive English-language analysis of the development of Protestant Christianity in Xiamen from the nineteenth century to the present.

This book examines the effects of faith schools on social cohesion and inter-ethnic relations.

This book investigates the actions of marriage tribunals by analyzing the richest source of marriage suits extant in Italy, those of the Venetian ecclesiastical tribunal, between 1420 and the opening of the Council of Trent.