Social groups: religious groups and communities

Stories abound of immigrant Jews on the outside looking in, clambering up the ladder of social mobility, successfully assimilating and integrating into their new worlds.

This book offers a multidisciplinary exploration of one of the defining characteristics of post-secular societies: religious diversity.

WHEN DARKNESS REIGNED AND LIGHT WAS BARELY VISIBLE is a thoughtful reflection on the Second World War, through the lens of the son and grandson of a WWII survivor.

JUNGLE STORIES: From the Fields of South Dakota to the Jungles of Burma details the remarkable journey of Scotland, South Dakota resident Delmar Strunk, who improbably became part of the famed Merrills Marauders fighting unit in Southeast Asia during World War II.

Jeffery (Popeye) Ross was a shy young man until he met Lillian Crawford the love of his life one night at a church dance.

Nick Bentas, Staff Sergeant US Army Air Force, finds himself in a severely crippled B-26 Marauder, trying to return to base, he remembers the different times in his life that led him up to this point.

Being a mother isn't easy.

For Christians worldwide, the month of December is filled with joy and wonder as we anticipate the celebration of Christ's birth.

A romantic social novel written by the writer Julia James, dealing with the story of a wealthy Italian young man, Ibn Malayer, who does not think about marriage, but he is satisfied with his romantic relationships with women, and emphasizes the management of his father's company.

What is the significance of sustainable resource management for the functioning of Mediterranean island societies?

Jewish Imaginaries of the Spanish Civil War inaugurates a new field of research in literary and Jewish studies at the intersection of Jewish history and the internationalist cultural phenomenon emerging from the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), the Republican exile, and the Shoah.

Jewish Imaginaries of the Spanish Civil War inaugurates a new field of research in literary and Jewish studies at the intersection of Jewish history and the internationalist cultural phenomenon emerging from the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), the Republican exile, and the Shoah.

This significant new study is concerned with the role of interpreting in Nazi concentration camps, where prisoners were of 30 to 40 different nationalities.

This significant new study is concerned with the role of interpreting in Nazi concentration camps, where prisoners were of 30 to 40 different nationalities.

Set during World War II, My Time in Combat chronicles the survival of a young soldier .

After interviewing a Holocaust survivor who took clandestine photographs of the Kovno Ghetto at great risk, a graduate student stumbles over a diary chronicling the same time and place during Nazi occupation.

Set in both modern times and the WWII era, this captivating story begins with a French family caught up in the lethal madness of the Nazis occupation in Europe.

This book does not portray any great feats of heroism as might be expected of a war book.

This is a story of war and peace.

This is a story of war and peace.

This book presents a set of essays interpreting excerpts from the Talmud that illustrate values essential to Western science.

What really matters in education?

The education of children and youth in general is an immense undertaking with personal, local, regional, and even international implications for the present and the future.

This book boldly asserts that New Testament prophetic visions portray a dynamic heaven-borne program of collective human revitalization in the new future.

Written in the genre of Henry David Thoreau's travel-thinking essays, Jesus, History, and Mount Darwin: An Academic Excursion is the story of a three-day climb into the Evolution Range of the High Sierra mountains of California.

Marriage and the Counsel of God is the product of over twenty-two years of biblical study and pastoral counseling.

This book reviews the financial past, present, and future of couples contemplating marriage, with questions and text posed to highlight critical points.

Children are the focus of marriage in African cultures.

Liturgy is the golden chore; the ineffable becomes as practical as a calendar or a loaf of bread.

What if you were to look at human suffering, pain, and loss with another lens?

Communication is the key to all successful human interactions.

In the late twentieth century and since, ecumenical discussions on the nature and unity of the church have often centered on the Eucharist.

This book provides introductory materials on research methods and report writing that aim at guiding students and researchers towards effective research and reporting of their findings.

This book reflects a multi disciplinary, integrative approach to the theology and practice of relational intimacy.

The book is organized into three divisions, and as the title implies, there is a brief letter in the form of a New Testament epistle to the contemporary church, a portion of which begins each chapter.

Working within two popular genres, gardening books and biblical meditations, God Gardened East offers a meditation on the first twenty-five chapters of Genesis, emphasizing the tropes of cultivation, wandering, and "e;the east.

Paul Snell, novice reporter, gets assigned a weekly column on chess, mostly because of his faux-filial attachment to the Hane Tribune's owner Waldo Turner.

A Minister's Manual for Spiritual Warfare is written to assist pastors and other ministers help their parishioners find freedom from demonic oppression.

This book is written as a memoir of 40-plus years of working with human experiences of death, grief, and bereavement.

The Church of God Reformation Movement (founded in 1881) has the distinction of having been founded on the two core principles of holiness and visible unity.

What comes after reflective listening?

Beyond this Darkness is a brand new faith-based recovery program.

Post-traumatic stress disorder is everywhere.

The landscape of American religion is changing dramatically, Millennials are dropping out of church, and new experimental types of Christianity such as the Emerging Church are coming to the fore.

This paper is the result of ethnographic research carried out by the Managing Chaplain at Haverigg Prison.

Losing a dearly loved family member or friend suddenly, unexpectedly, and tragically jars us at our very core.

Roots Matter recognizes the impact of transgenerational trauma, as a result of chattel slavery, on the African American community.

How do we care justly when selves suffer because of the identities that they inhabit?

During the past fifty years, Western culture has experienced a significant shift in its overall stance regarding multiethnic marriage.

Americans are using more medical services every year, but as many as half of those services do nothing to improve their health.