Social groups: religious groups and communities

When changing you identity is your only way to survive.

Quand changer d'identite devient la seule chance d'etre epargne.

This study focusses on the traditional belief of the district of Mzimba, which is situated in the northern part of Malawi.

Since the establishment of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Malawi in 1902, there is now available much information on the cases, narratives and experiences of women that shows the contribution of women to the progress of the SDA mission in Malawi.

This book takes a social psychological perspective to study the ways in which identity, religious beliefs and well-being are related to and affect each other in the contemporary world.

Ours is a world that is constituted and reinvented through the personal and shared stories we tell.

The dynamic nature of Christianity has necessitated its movement from the cathedral to the mountain top.

The eighteenth-century English minister Andrew Fuller lived a consequential life, debating noteworthy contemporaries such as Thomas Paine and contributing to the pioneering international work of William Carey.

"Más allá del gran interés documental basado en la minuciosa exploración –alimentada por quince años de trabajo de campo– en los mundos religiosos argentinos que el lector encontrará, la obra de Joaquín Algranti y Damián Setton retiene doblemente la atención.

Mientras trabajos precedentes se habían focalizado exclusivamente en la trayectoria del Movimiento de Sacerdotes para el Tercer Mundo (MSTM), en este libro Claudia Touris demuestra que la corriente tercermundista en la Argentina fue una red sociorreligiosa más amplia y diversa que se desplegó como una verdadera constelación de actores sociales integrada no solo por los sacerdotes, sino también por religiosas, laicos que pasaron por los ámbitos de sociabilidad católica renovada por el Concilio Vaticano II y otros, como el grupo de Cristianismo y Revolución, que lo conectaron con la vía insurreccional minoritaria en la corriente tercermundista.

Auschwitz es una metáfora y una metonimia de los campos de exterminio y un símbolo y sinónimo de los crímenes nazis.

This book explores the complex causes that led to the perpetration of the most significant genocidal crime in modern history: the Holocaust.

Esta obra explora las complejas causas que desembocaron en la consumación del crimen de genocidio más significativo de la historia moderna: la Shoá.

Si unimos las fuentes islámicas y cristianas podemos sostener que un imam (guía, líder) de la Casa Profética, el imam Mahdi, hará su aparición para llenar la Tierra de justicia.

La modernidad argentina puede identificarse con la expansión de modelos del capitalismo europeo condensados en modos de producción económica y en lógicas de organización cultural (un territorio, una lengua, una religión).

Una adolescencia robada por el nazismo.

Este libro, que se origina en el seno del grupo denominado Francia… ¿dulce Francia de nuestra infancia?

"Realmente llego a creer en la concepción heroica de la historia, según la cual alguien malo, poderoso y persuasivo, la encarnación del demonio, un personaje como Hitler arrastra tras de sí al pueblo entero como un rebaño.

La intolerancia, asiento de fundamentalismos, recorre nuestro mundo, donde la marginación y el racismo potencian una cultura del miedo a la diferencia, de pavor por aquello que se percibe como distinto.

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The Malay/Muslim community, comprising approximately 13% of Singapore's population, is an integral part of modern Singapore's formative years.

Islam and Peacebuilding in the Asia-Pacific provides a unique backdrop of how native or migrant Muslims interact with communities of other faiths have led to the contemporary treatment of Islam and the Muslim communities in these nations.

The topics of World War II and US-China relationship have been of much interest to academics and general public alike.

This is a timely book that fills the gap in the study of Chinese overseas and their religions in the global context.

Islamic Globalization examines the Muslim world's growing importance in creating a more inclusive international system that is increasingly multipolar and multicultural.

This book gives an almost forgotten history concerning civilian university scientists, who carried out research on defense against poison gases in some unusual places during World War II.

Written by a contemporary pioneer in the area of the universal paradigm and Islamic world-systems, this book offers a fresh post-modernist outlook on new epistemological investigations in the universal paradigm.

Islamic Banking and Finance in South-East Asia by Angelo M Venardos has been a "e;must read"e; since its first edition in 2005 and has already been translated to Arabic.

Shortly after midnight on 8 December 1941, two divisions of crack troops of the Imperial Japanese Army began a seaborne invasion of southern Thailand and northern Malaya.

"Readers will thrill in peering behind the curtain of US-based intelligence during the world wars.

This book focuses on women in tourism in Muslim countries, specifically where a woman can be seen as a tourism consumer, or a woman producing tourism.

This book is the first to critically analyze Buddhist-Muslim relations in Theravada Buddhist majority states in South and Southeast Asia.

Now in its ninth edition, A History of Modern Germany provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey of this complex country's history, beginning in 1871 and ending in the present day.

This book reports on innovative interdisciplinary research in the field of cultural studies.

This book compares how British and Spanish media have covered the French ban on hijab wearing in public schools.

This book takes a social psychological perspective to study the ways in which identity, religious beliefs and well-being are related to and affect each other in the contemporary world.

This book investigates Turkey's departure from a 'flawed democracy' under Kemalist secularism, and its transitioning into Islamist authoritarian Erdoganism, through the lenses of informal law, legal pluralism, and legal hybridity.

This book discusses the evolution of Mongolian shamanism from the distant past to the collapse of great empires such as the Yuan Dynasty in the fourteenth century, drawing on archeological findings and historical resources like the Mongolian Secret History.

This book presents a collection of annotated English translations of German diplomatic documents-including telegrams, dispatches and reports-sent to the Foreign Office in Berlin and the German Ambassador in Hankou, China, by German diplomatic officials in Nanjing, and detailing Japanese atrocities and the conditions in and around Nanjing during the early months of 1938.

This book reconstructs the philosophical issues informing the debate between the makers of modern India: Ambedkar and Gandhi.

This book is about the role of the mosque in the aftermath of the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan.

This book sheds light on religiously motivated extremism and violence in South Asia, a phenomenon which ostensibly poses critical and unique challenges to the peace, security and governance not only of the region, but also of the world at large.

This book explores state-religion relations under a populist authoritarian ruling party in Turkey.

This book addresses the issue of Sikh women's education in Punjab within the larger discourse of women's education in India.

This book examines some of the key elements of Buddhist education theory, in particular about educating for wisdom, the ultimate goal of Buddhist education.

This book compares how British and Spanish media have covered the French ban on hijab wearing in public schools.

This book is an in-depth account of people's cultural and religious life in the Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir, India.

This book explores the contributions of Eastern female pioneers in science, politics and arts from Ancient Egypt to modern times, and discusses the possible psychological and social impact of this knowledge on today's gender role in Eastern and Western Societies.