Social groups: religious groups and communities

On 12 September 1944, a wolfpack of U.

This is the compelling story of Pope Pius XI's secret relations with Benito Mussolini.

The Struggle for Jerusalem's Holy Places investigates the role of architecture and urban identity in relation to the political economy of the city and its wider state context seen through the lens of the holy places.

This clearly written text explores the rational theology of Islam, the conflict between the "e;defenders of God"e; and the "e;defenders of reason"e;, and the controversy's historical roots.

Thomas Percy Gleave began his RAF career in 1930, three years later becoming a member of the RAF aerobatic team.

When the colonial slave trade, and then slavery itself, were abolished early in the 19th century, the British empire brazenly set up a new system of trade using Indian rather than African laborers.

Discovering reliable information about women in early Christianity is a challenging enterprise.

What did Hitler really want to achieve: world domination.

This book traces the connections between diverging postwar European integration policies and intra-Christian divisions to argue that supranational integration originates from Roman Catholic internationalism, and that resistance to integration, conversely, is based in Protestantism.

A study of the life and work of 'the Maggid"e;a major figure in the mystical thought of early HasidismEnshrined in Jewish memory simply as "e;the Maggid"e; (preacher), Rabbi Dov Ber Friedman of Mezritsh (1704-1772) played a critical role in the formation of Hasidism, the movement of mystical renewal that became one of the most important and successful forces in modern Jewish life.

The experience of all occupied countries during the Second World War was characterised by severe material shortages.

Qui sont ces hommes en redingote noire, portant barbe et papillotes, étonnamment proches des juifs de Pologne ou de Russie dépeints par les écrivains yiddish, qui peuvent surprendre aujourd’hui dans les rues de Paris ?

Decolonial Judaism: Triumphal Failures of Barbaric Thinking explores the relationship among geopolitics, religion, and social theory.

This book addresses the major generators of conflict and toleration at shared holy places in Palestine and Israel.

The American fleet aircraft carrier Hornet is widely acknowledged for the contributions she made to the war effort.

An indispensable resource for those interested in the scourge of mass murder and genocide in the 20th and 21st centuries, this book analyzes modern and contemporary controversies and issues to help readers to understand genocide in all its complexity.

Millions of Soviet soldiers died in the USSR's struggle for survival against Nazi Germany but millions more returned to Stalin's state after victory.

The rise of fundamentalist movements in major religions has forced decision-makers, development organizations and academics to turn their attention to its meaning for development.

The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Mass Atrocity, and Genocide explores the many and sometimes complicated ways in which religion, faith, doctrine, and practice intersect in societies where mass atrocity and genocide occur.

This book reviews tourist motivations for making religious or spiritual journeys, and the management aspects related to them.

This volume presents insights from five years of intensive Holocaust, genocide, and mass atrocity education at Queensborough Community College (QCC) of the City University of New York (CUNY), USA, to offer four approaches-Arts-Based, Textual, Outcomes-Based, and Social Justice-to designing innovative, integrative, and differentiated pedagogies for today's college students.

Around the world, Islamic cultures have developed distinctive matrilineal, matrifocal, matrilocal, or matriarchal natures as a result of how they have been practised by integrated and indigenised Muslim communities.

More than three-and-a-half million men served in the British Army during the Second World War, the vast majority of them civilians who had never expected to become soldiers and had little idea what military life, with all its strange rituals, discomforts, and dangers, was going to be like.

Examining the law and public policy relating to religious liberty in Western liberal democracies, this book contains a detailed analysis of the history, rationale, scope, and limits of religious freedom from (but not restricted to) an evangelical Christian perspective.

While the most conspicuous components of the US Army Air Forces in World War II were the air units, there were also hundreds of ground units and organisations.

80 years after the Nuremberg trial, the prosecution of Nazi perpetrators has effectively come to an end.

The most authoritative resource on religious trends in America-now fully updatedMost Americans say they believe in God, and more than a third say they attend religious services every week.

The acclaimed author of Hitler's Art Thief takes readers into the shadowy world of the aristocrats and business leaders on both sides of the Atlantic who secretly aided Hitler and Nazi Germany.

In the first half of the 20th century the possibility of flight opened up entirely new avenues of thought and exploration.

The Routledge Companion to Jewish History and Historiography provides an overview of Jewish history from the biblical to the contemporary period, while simultaneously placing Jewish history into conversation with the most central historiographical methods and issues and some of the core source materials used by scholars within the field.

An accessible introduction to Arabic philosophy from the ''classical'' period to later Islamic thought.

The popular conception of Hitler in the final years of World War II is that of a deranged Fuhrer stubbornly demanding the defense of every foot of ground on all fronts and ordering hopeless attacks with nonexistent divisions.

';Compellingly chronicles one of the least studied great episodes of World War II with power and authorityA riveting read' (Donald L.

The war years 1939 - 1945 were the most perilous in the long history of the British Merchant Navy.

Fought under the cover of elaborate deceptions and ruthless lies, the deadly intelligence operations of World War II produced victories and defeats that were often as important as any reached on the battlefield.

Interweaving his own story with moving vignettes and gritty experiences in hidden places, a jail chaplain and minister to Mexican gang and migrant worker communities chronicles his spiritual journey to the margins of society and reveals a subversive God whos on the loose beyond the walls of the church, pursuing those who are unwanted by the world.

Dieser Band versammelt die Ergebnisse einer Tagung, die von der Professur für Europäische Geschichte des 19.

The prevalence of anti-Semitism in Russia is well known, but the issue of race within the Jewish community has rarely been discussed explicitly.

Following the landings in Normandy, one of the Allies main concerns was how to supply the expanding beachhead.

Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1933-1945 is an abridged edition of Saul Friedländer's definitive Pulitzer Prize-winning two-volume history of the Holocaust: Nazi Germany and the Jews: The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939 and The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945.

Illustrated throughout, this volume tells how, of the 325th FG's 537 aerial victories, 202 were scored by its 27 aces.

The war at sea was a key aspect of World War II, one that is too-often under-studied.

How does creativity thrive in the face of fascism?