Social groups: religious groups and communities

The landscape of the Middle East has changed dramatically since 2011, as have the political arena and the discourse around democracy.

Between 1939-1941, from the time that Germany invaded Poland until Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Americans engaged in a debate as intense as any in U.

The German Fleet at War relates the little-known history of the Kriegsmarine's surface fleet with a focus on the sixty-nine surface naval battles fought by Germany's major warships against the large warships of the British, French, American, Polish, Soviet, Norwegian and Greek navies.

Most books dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict see events through the eyes of policy-makers, generals or diplomats.

Shows how making translation and its effects visible contributes to a clearer understanding of how knowledge about the Holocaust has been and continues to be created and mediated.

It is often claimed that we live in a secular age.

This study examines fully the role that the historic European left has played in developing and espousing anti-Semitic views.

"e;Dayspring, my dictionary tells me, is an archaic word meaning 'dawn.

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Victims of Nazi Persecution from the Channel Islands explores the fight and claims for recognition and legitimacy of those from the only part of the British Isles to be occupied during the Second World War.

That Americans take to sports with a spiritual fervor is no secret.

Against a backdrop of continually growing global Islamophobia, this handbook provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary overview of the key issues, theories, debates, and developments in gendered Islamophobia, unpacking how Western, Orientalist constructions of Muslim men and women affect the lived experiences of Muslim men and women; impact social, legal, and criminological policies, practices, and discourse; and give rise to resistance against gendered Islamophobia.

Over the decades, the Holocaust has remained a critical issue both historically and politically.

Jacob Neusner has published more than 1000 books and articles, scholarly and academic, popular and journalistic, and is one of the most published humanities scholars in the world.

This book explores the implication of diversity for humanism.

A classic about real-life WWII espionage,as conducted by its modern master*A Man Called Intrepid is the classic true story of Sir William Stephenson (codenamed Intrepid) and the spy network he founded that would ultimately stall the Nazi war machine and help winWorld War II.

An authoritative guide to the rise of the Islamic State and its senior leadership.

In the wake of September 11th instant theories have emerged that try to root Osama Bin Laden's attacks on Wahhabism.

See the Holocaust through the Eyes of Children.

This book provides a social and cultural history of Jewish art in Nazi Germany, with a focus on the Jewish artists, art critics, and audiences in Nazi Bavaria.

There was a German bomber flying right towards us a Dornier, one of their biggest.

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

Love, Marriage, and Family in the JewishLaw and Tradition is everything you wanted to know about the Jewish view on marriage, sexuality, and child bearing in clear and concise language.

Humans have been uttering profane words and incurring the consequences for millennia.

Terrorism, radicalization and violent extremism dominate sociological, political and cultural concerns in today's polarized social and political world.

The focus of this book is on the legal status of the Jews within the Roman Empire and the changes that it underwent when the empire became Christian.

This book analyses the development of Catholic schooling in Scotland over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This book explores the modern cultural history of the queer martyr in France and Belgium.

The biblical foundations of a Christian communal movement that has stood the test of five centuries.

In recent years, Islam whether via the derivatives of 'Political Islam' or 'Islamism' has come to be seen as an 'activist' force in social and political spheres worldwide.

The idea for this book came to Larry Tye as he traveled overseas as a reporter for the Boston Globe.

This interdisciplinary text brings together perspectives from leading psychoanalysts and modern Jewish philosophers to offer a unique investigation into the dynamic between the fundamental trust in the self, other persons, and the world, and the devastating force of emotional trauma.

Assessing the impact of Germany's defeat on the policing of Berlin, this book addresses the reconstruction of the police force as a crucial component of four-power government.

A gripping revisionist history that shows how ordinary Italians played a central role in the genocide of Italian Jews during the Second World WarIn this gripping revisionist history of Italy's role in the Holocaust, Simon Levis Sullam presents an unforgettable account of how ordinary Italians actively participated in the deportation of Italy's Jews between 1943 and 1945, when Mussolini's collaborationist republic was under German occupation.

Philip L.

In 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the International Declaration of Human Rights, a document designed to hold both individuals and nations accountable for their treatment of fellow human beings, regardless of religious or cultural affiliations.

Are human rights universal or the product of specific cultures?

This book explores the changes underwent by the Orthodox Churches of Eastern and Southeastern Europe as they came into contact with modernity.

Drawing on a variety of disciplines, Sustainable Diplomacy is a highly constructive work.

Was sagt die mediale Rede über den muslimischen Anderen eigentlich über uns aus?

The first comprehensive study of musical Holocaust representations in the Western tradition to examine both musical language and cultural value.

Following the Japanese invasion of the islands in 1942, North Luzon was the staging area for several Filipino-American guerrilla bands who sought to gather intelligence and to destroy enemy military installations or supplies.

The sheets of paper are as brittle as fallen leaves; the faltering handwriting changes from page to page; the words, a faded brown, are almost indecipherable.

Science in the broadest sense refers to any falsifiable system of knowledge attained by verifiable means, and in a narrower sense to a system of acquiring knowledge based on empiricism, experimentation, and methodological naturalism, as well as to the organized body of knowledge humans have gained by such research.

The contributors to this volume take a hard look at Roosevelt's reaction to the Holocaust.

This book examines the relationship between several of the most prominent American biblical archaeologists and Zionism.