Social groups: religious groups and communities

This book takes the debate about the (ir)rationality of the transition to ethical life in Kierkegaard's thought in a significantly new direction.

This book presents revealing reflections on historical, socio-political, and legal aspects, as well as their contexts, in Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru.

The most unique aspect of Korean shamanism is its mysterious duality that continually reiterates the processes of deterritorialization and reterritorialization.

This book presents the views of leading scholars, academics, and educators on the renewal of Islamic schools in the Western context.

This book is the first major study of the blackout in the Second World War.

This book distinguishes Islam as a spiritual message from the sociopolitical context of its revelation.

This book is a study of how people collaboratively interpret events or experiences as having paranormal features, or as evidence of spiritual agency.

This book provides a conceptually and empirically rich introduction to religious indifference on the basis of original anthropological, historical and sociological research.

This book concerns building an idealized image of the society in which the Holocaust occurred.

This book offers an entirely new contribution to the history of multiculturalism in Britain, 1880-1940.

In this book, historians of religion and gender studies explore the biographies of a number of female leaders, and the factors within their groups and cultural contexts that support these women's religious leadership.

This innovative edited collection provides a comprehensive analysis of modern secularism across Asia which contests and expands prevailing accounts that have predominantly focused on the West.

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This book offers a comprehensive Possible Worlds framework with which to analyse counterfactual historical fiction.

This book examines how socio-political assumptions inform and shape the contestation of sexuality on the African continent.

In this discourse history, W J Dodd analyses the 'unquiet voices' of opponents whose contemporary critiques of Nazism, from positions of territorial and inner exile, focused on the 'language of Nazism'.

This book offers vivid insights into policies of religious education in schools since the series of wars in former Yugoslavia in the 1990's.

This volume brings to the fore the interface of religion, women's sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR), and the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in Zimbabwe.

This book consists of ten essays that examine the ways in which language has been used to evoke what Lawrence L.

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Rather than providing a global solution to the problem of abortion -to abort or not to abort-this volume sheds light on different but equally critical dimensions of abortion in global debate and practice.

Margarete Susman was among the great Jewish women philosophers of the twentieth century, and largely unknown to many today.

This Handbook traces and presents the fundamentals of Islam and their history and background, and provides a global and holistic, yet, detailed picture of Islamic education around the world.

This book illuminates the interconnections between politics and religion through the lens of artistic production, exploring how art inspired by religion functioned as a form of resistance, directed against both Romanian national communism (1960-1989) and, latterly, consumerist society and its global market.

This book examines the misuse of history in New Atheism and militant anti-religion.

This book explores manifestations of creativity in the religious domain.

This book investigates the Ancient Stoic thinkers' views on gender and sexuality.

This volume offers a novel philosophical thesis on the ontology of religion, and proposes a new conceptual repertoire to deal with supernatural religion.

This book is an empirical comparative study of the complexity of religion in the public spheres of the five Nordic countries.

This book provides a critical discussion of the way in which religion influences: criminal and antisocial behaviour, punishment and the law, intergroup conflict and peace-making, and the rehabilitation of offenders.

This book explores the roles of religion in the current refugee crisis of Europe.

This book engages with important debates about multicultural British identities at a time when schools are expected to promote Fundamental British Values.

This volume investigates how mothers can understand parenting as spiritual practice, and what this practice means for theological scholarship.

This book examines the role of religion and spirituality in desistance from crime and disengagement from gangs.

An anthropological theorization of the unity and diversity of Christianity, this book focuses on Christian communities in Nanping, a small city in China.

This book offers global perspectives from Mediterranean, Asian, Australian, and American cultures on sacred sites and their related stories in regional history.

Focusing on tradition, technology, and authority, this volume challenges classical understandings that mortuary rites are inherently conservative.

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This book is intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in learning about the many ways in which religious diversity is manifest in day-to-day life Canada.

The book reflects on the current dimensions of tourism and patrimony in Brazil.

This book presents the first three Christian centuries through the lens of what Foucault called "e;the care of the self.

This edited collection evaluates the relationship between Marxism and religion in two ways: Marxism's treatment of religion and the religious aspects of Marxism.

The Death of Transcendence presents a clear and compelling close reading and interpretation of the five essays included in Jean Amery's At the Mind's Limits, describing them as one continuous and progressing argument on the possibility of human society in the wake of the Holocaust.

This book brings together historians from Great Britain, the United States, Germany, France, Canada, Austria, and Latvia who have worked and published on fraternisation between Prisoners of War and local women during either the First or Second World War, providing the first comparative study of this multi-faceted phenomenon in different belligerent countries.

This book examines the history of Jewish education from the Biblical period to the present.

This book offers a unique argument for the emergence of a post-9/11 vampire that showcases changing perspectives on identity and religion in American culture, offering a look at how cultural narratives can be used to work through trauma.

This collection vigorously addresses the religious implications of extreme human enhancement technology.

This volume demonstrates how German expansion in the Second World War II led to shortages, of food and other necessities including medicine, for the occupied populations, causing many to die from severe hunger or starvation.

This book offers fresh insights to enhance and diversify our understanding of the modern history of the state and societies in today's Jordan, while also providing examples of why and how scholars can challenge the static and discursively government-minded approaches to minorities and minoritisation - especially the traditional emphasis on demographic balances.

This book offers an illuminating bridge between the political and social dimensions of the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939-40.