Social groups: religious groups and communities

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When Cuba's centralized system for providing basic social services began to erode in the early 1990s, Christian and Afro-Cuban religious groups took on new social and political responsibilities.

America's Few delves into the history of US Marine Corps aviation in World War II, following the feats of the Corps' top-scoring aces in the skies over Guadalcanal.

An in-depth examination of one of the most frustrating and costly efforts by the US Army in the European Theater of Operations.

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The work of a wonderful secular poet, Billy Collins, provides a great model for Christian writers.

The first in a series of illustrated books exploring the longest and best-known naval campaign of World War II, focusing on the struggle between Allied naval and air forces and Hitler's U-boats.

This volume outlines various religious practices followed across the global south and highlights their correlation to sustainability.

Mahmoud Darwish is the poet laureate of the Palestinian national struggle.

The first in-depth study of the role of canines in WWII Britain, an “important but hitherto under-represented subject,” with photos included (Society of Army Historical Research).

With insight and scholarship, Alan Brill crisply outlines the traditional Jewish approaches to other religions for an age of globalization.

This exploration of the crucially important role played by remorse in Iris Murdoch's philosophical, theological, and political thinking identifies it as a critical concept in her moral psychology and a recurrent theme in her art.

The Struggle for the Pacific (1937) examines the rivalries and postures as various powers - European, the US, Japan and China - attempted to militarily, politically and economically dominate the Asia Pacific sphere.

Clements provides a detailed study of religious beliefs in British society, using a broad range of opinion poll and social survey data.

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Ionescu examines the process of economic Romanianization of Bucharest during the Antonescu regime that targeted the property, jobs, and businesses of local Jews and Roma/Gypsies and their legal resistance strategies to such an unjust policy.

This book presents a range of perspectives on the current state of Catholic education in the opening decades of the twenty-first century.

The Second World War was, for Britain, a 'total war'; no section of society remained untouched by military conscription, air raids, the shipping crisis and the war economy.

The Holocaust - the murder of approximately six million Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators in World War Two - is the gravest crime in recorded history, committed on a human and geographical scale which is almost unimaginable.

Ce livre présente en détail la Ligue des filles allemandes (Bund Deutscher Mädel, BDM), son histoire, ses rouages, ses liens avec les Jeunesses hitlériennes dont elle était sous la tutelle, avec l’État nazi dans son ensemble, ainsi que la place des jeunes filles allemandes dans le Service du Travail du Reich, dans le Generalplan Ost et le Lebensborn.

This handbook is the most comprehensive and up-to-date single volume on the history and memory of the Holocaust in Britain.

Victory at Stalingrad tells the gripping strategic and military story of that battle.

Jocelyne Cesari investigates the relationship between modernization, politics, and Islam in Muslim-majority countries such as Egypt, Iraq, Pakistan, Tunisia, and Turkey.

A new intellectual history that looks at "e;Jewish self-hatred"e;Today, the term "e;Jewish self-hatred"e; often denotes a treasonous brand of Jewish self-loathing, and is frequently used as a smear, such as when it is applied to politically moderate Jews who are critical of Israel.

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.

Collective memory carries the past into the present.

All public relations emerges from particular environments, but the specific conditions of Israel offer an exceptional study of the accelerators and inhibitors of professional development in the history of a nation.

Based on two years of ethnographic research in the southern suburbs of Beirut, An Enchanted Modern demonstrates that Islam and modernity are not merely compatible, but actually go hand-in-hand.

A series of perspectives on the everyday experience of Europeans in the ''age of fascism''.

A well-researched biblical and scientific overview of abuse--its various types and effects and how to heal from it.

In Soft Shepherd or Almighty Pastor?

A highly illustrated account of the hunt for the Bismarck.

Genocide murders innocents in a society, and it leaves behind moral corruption and societal twistedness.

Advance Praise for Jewcentricity"e;Adam Garfinkle punctures the myth of the omnipotence of the Jews with such intelligence and reflective sweep that we still can go on discussing the 'exaggerations' forever.

At a time when major branches of Judaism and most Christian denominations are addressing the relationship between religion and homosexuality, Jewish/Christian/Queer offers a unique examination of the similarities between the queer intersections of Judaism and Christianity, and the queer intersections of the homosexual and the religious.

We'll Always Have the Movies explores how movies made in Hollywood during World War II were vehicles for helping Americans understand the war.

This book details the exploits of the highly skilled Naval Aviators charged with achieving air supremacy over New Guinea in their A6M2/3 Zero-sens.

Sources for Studying the Holocaust provides a pathway for readers to engage with questions about what sources can be used to study the Holocaust.

En esta segunda edición revisada y aumentada Nancy Bedford y Guillermo Hansen recorren en diez capítulos los temas centrales de la teología cristiana desde una perspectiva protestante y latina.

Drafted while events were fresh in his mind in 19421943, Alabama-born American diplomat George Platt Waller's memoir chronicles his war-time experience in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

This book provides an overview of the research on spirituality, religiousness and health, including the most important studies, conceptualization, instruments for measurement, types of studies, challenges, and criticisms.

Jewish designers and architects played a key role in shaping the interwar architecture of Central Europe, and in the respective countries where they settled following the Nazi's rise to power.

Around 1800 roughly three per cent of the human population lived in urban areas; by 2030 this number is expected to have gone up to some seventy per cent.

Winner of a 2025 Excellence in Publishing Award from the Association of Catholic Publishers: Prayer: Seasonal Resources (First Place).

Kenneth Estes studies the 100,000 West Europeans who fought against Russia as volunteers for the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS.