Social groups: religious groups and communities

A full account of the Luzon campaign, from the planning stages to the surrender of the Japanese general Yamashita.

Made up of members of the Coldstream and Scots Guards, British Yeomanry cavalry regiments, New Zealanders, South Africans, and Indian Army men, the Long Range Desert Group was perhaps the most effective of all the "special forces" established by the Allies during the Second World War.

By the early twenty-first century, a phenomenon that once was inconceivable had become nearly commonplace in American society: the public spiritual teacher who neither belongs to, nor is authorized by a major religious tradition.

This book argues that enthusiasm for Hitler within churches and universities effectively gave Germans permission to participate in the Nazi regime.

By the early months of 1944 in the Pacific, the US Navy's burgeoning force of carrier-based F6F-3/5 Hellcats had pretty much wiped the skies clear of Japanese fighters during a series of one-sided aerial engagements.

This book analyzes Morocco''s unique response to counter-terrorism through the development of a religious bureaucracy to define and disseminate Islam.

The internationally growing Cursillo movement, or "e;short course in Christianity,"e; founded in 1944 by Spanish Catholic lay practitioners, has become popular among American Catholics and Protestants alike.

This forensic study of recently opened documents in Britain's National Archives reveals for the first time the details of an officially unnamed secret operation authorised by Winston Churchill in 1940 to keep Spain neutral in the Second World War through the financial manipulation of Spanish generals.

In early 1940, a battle raged to control the ice-free, iron-ore port in northern Norway with changing fortunes until the very end.

The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types.

Der deutsch-amerikanische Historiker Jochen Hellbeck nimmt eine Neubewertung des Zweiten Weltkriegs vor und verändert unseren Blick auf die Entstehung des Holocaust.

This book studies the relationship between British government and faith groups in its international development agenda within and beyond the context of Brexit.

This book identifies and examines the meanings of integration from the perspective of Australian Muslims, through analysis of focus group discussions and in-depth interviews in the South East Queensland region.

Samuel Lebens takes the three principles of Jewish faith, as proposed by Rabbi Joseph Albo (1380-1444), in order to scrutinize and refine them with the toolkit of contemporary analytic philosophy.

Shi`i Ismaili Muslims are unique in following for centuries a living, hereditary Imam (spiritual leader), whom they believe to be directly descended from the Prophet Muhammad.

"e;Operation Vengeanceis colorful, intimate, eye-popping history, delivered at a breakneck pace.

An illustration-packed new account of the powerful Royal Navy fleet that fought alongside the US Navy throughout the last year of the Pacific War.

A Spitfire Named Connie is an exciting rollercoaster of a story.

Liturgy with a Difference gathers a broad range of international theologians and scholars to interrogate current practices of liturgy and worship in order to unmask ways in which dehumanizing majoritarianisms and presumed norms of gender, culture, ethnicity, and body, among others, remain at work in congregations.

During World War II, Hollywood studios supported the war effort by making patriotic movies designed to raise the nation's morale.

This book discusses the merits of the theory of agonistic memory in relation to the memory of war.

Closely examining the work of women in the US and British naval services towards Allied naval intelligence during the Second World War, this book focuses on their contributions during the Battle of the Atlantic and Pacific Naval War, in order to shed new light on arenas of war from which women's narratives are almost always absent.

This volume, a collection of eleven original essays by many of the foremost U.

The Czech Legion was not just a single military unit, but a volunteer army that fielded up to 100,000 troops on the Allied side on all three main fronts of the war.

There's a stereotype of a young, zealous Christian who feels called to the ministry as a pastor, goes to seminary, and then loses his faith as he studies the writings of all those intellectuals and theologians.

This extensively-researched collection of essays lucidly explores how members of the ever-beleaguered Jewish people grappled with their identities during the past century in the United States and in Eretz Israel, the new centers of Jewry's long historical experience.

Long before war was declared on 3 September 1939, Brighton had steadily and carefully prepared for the coming conflict by building shelters, organising defence and rescue services, and providing the population with advice of its own or from government sources.

Rikugun: Guide to Japanese Ground Forces 1937-1945 is the first nuts-and-bolts handbook to utilize both the voluminous raw allied intelligence documents and postwar Japanese documentation as primary sources.

The super-heavy tanks of World War II are heirs to the siege machine tradition a means of breaking the deadlock of ground combat.

Die argumentierende Teilnahme am Dialog mit anderen Religionen und Weltanschauungen und die kompetente Unterscheidung von lebensförderlichen und lebensfeindlichen Formen von Religionen sind ein zentrales Anliegen kompetenzorientierten Religionsunterrichts.

This lively and original book critically re-examines Lloyd George's part, crucial but enigmatic, in the 'lost peace' of Versailles, 1919-1940.

In a postmodern culture shaped by consumerism, it's little wonder that there is confusion about what the church is supposed to be in the 21st century.

The pursuit of German U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic has long been considered one of the most exciting stories of World War II.

A masterpiece of World War II heroism, this book catches the spirit and tone of an incredible fighting ship, the USS Aaron Ward, a destroyer-turned-minelayer on the radar picket lines in the Pacific.

This book bringstogether leading experts to assess how and whether the Nazis were successful infostering collaboration to secure the resources they required during World WarII.

A highly illustrated study of this unique and bitter struggle in the far North, an epic battle between two elite forces fighting in a demanding environment.

This edited volume studies the logic of community formation and the common view of the past to show how various social bonds of communities functioned during the modern national era of East-Central Europe from the late eighteenth century until today and how multifaceted this group-building really was.

This book explores the rise of two resistance movements in Yugoslavia after its invasion and partition by Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Bulgaria in April 1941: one led by Draza Mihailovic's Chetniks, supporters of the Serb monarchy; and the Partisans, led by Josip Broz Tito and his Communist Party.

Deadly in its primary role as a submarine hunter, the PBY Catalina was the scourge of the Imperial Japanese Navy's submarine force.

How to study the contemporary dynamics between the religious, the nonreligious and the secular in a globalizing world?

Avec l’instauration de la révolution nationale pétainiste, entre 1940 et 1944 les Juifs de France furent frappés de plein fouet par une législation antisémite française qui s’ajouta à la législation allemande, par l’internement puis la déportation.

In Praying Psalms Ian Stackhouse offers daily reflections on all 150 psalms.

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From the violent skinhead protests of the early 1990s to the National Socialist Underground murder spree of the 2000s and the KSK (Kommando Spezialkr fte) scandal of 2020, this book traces Germany's long struggle to suppress a resurgent and ever more terroristic far-right scene.

While not as famous as their larger and faster sister ships such as the Essex- and Yorktown-class carriers, escort carriers made an enormous contribution towards Allied victory both in the Pacific and Atlantic theatres.

My Seven Lives is the English translation of the best-selling memoir of Slovak journalist Agnesa Kalinova (1924-2014): Holocaust survivor, film critic, translator, and political prisoner.