Social groups: religious groups and communities

This Element explores how Bahá''í scriptures provide a blueprint for building a new, more mature world culture where nonviolence prevails.

Modern Chaldeans are an Aramaic speaking Catholic Syriac community from northern Iraq, not to be confused with the ancient Mesopotamian civilization of the same name.

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

Religion in China survived the most radical suppression in human history--a total ban of any religion during and after the Cultural Revolution.

In nineteenth-century Punjab, a cultural tug-of-war ensued as both Sufi mystics and British officials aimed to engage the local artisans as a means of realizing their ideological ambitions.

There have been many books about the doctors of the Third Reich and their atrocities.

An accessible overview of the religious and social thought of the world''s largest Muslim majority nation.

Think You Know Everything about the death of Hitler?

Examines an alternative ideology to Zionism that attempted to build a Jewish State outside of Palestine.

For many centuries Jews have been renowned for the efforts they put into their children's welfare and education.

An obsession with “degeneration” was a central preoccupation of modernist culture at the start of the 20th century.

Uncover the compelling true story behind a mysterious WWII plane crash and the Frozen Airmen found in the High Sierra.

This collection investigates the social and cultural history of trauma to offer a comparative analysis of its individual, communal, and political effects in the twentieth century.

This multidisciplinary collection probes ways in which emerging and established scholars perceive and theorize decolonization and resistance in their own fields of work, from education to political and social studies, to psychology, medicine, and beyond.

Teaching Spirits offers a thematic approach to Native American religious traditions.

Fast’s book on his break with the Communist Party, and a riveting tribute to the importance of justice and beauty over dogma and rigidityThe Naked God is Howard Fast’s public repudiation of the Communist Party, of which he was a devoted member for thirteen years until reading about the full scope of atrocities committed by the Soviet Union under Stalin.

Organized in the immediate aftermath of World War Two by the victorious Allies, the Nuremberg Trials were intended to hold the Nazis to account for their crimes - and to restore a sense of justice to a world devastated by violence.

Relying on religious traditions that are as old as their faith itself, many devout Christians turn to prayer rather than medicine when their children fall victim to illness or injury.

This monograph provides a novel reliabilist approach to epistemic responsibility assessment.

This invaluable resource offers students a comprehensive overview of the German war machine that overran much of Europe during World War II, with close to 300 entries on a variety of topics and a number of key primary source documents.

This book examines the experience of two British Infantry Divisions, the 43rd (Wessex) and 53rd (Welsh), during the Overlord campaign in Northwest Europe.

This study examines the political sources of violence against religious minorities in India.

Some say that telling the story of the Holocaust is impossible, yet, artists have told the story thousands of time since the end of World War II in novels, dramas, paintings, music, sculpture, and film.

This book looks at contemporary political violence, in the form of jihadism, through the lens of a philosophical polemic between Hannah Arendt and Frantz Fanon: intellectual representatives of the global north and global south.

The postwar decades were not the "e;golden era"e; in which American Jews easily partook in the religious revival, liberal consensus, and suburban middle-class comfort.

For the last decade scholars have been questioning the idea that the Holocaust was not talked about in any way until well into the 1970s.

This richly illustrated book details the wide-ranging construction and urban planning projects launched across Germany after the Nazi Party seized power.

Trauma Cinema focuses on a new breed of documentary films and videos that adopt catastrophe as their subject matter and trauma as their aesthetic.

Langton explores a wide variety of Jewish attitudes towards the Apostle Paul in the context of modern Jewish thought.

Covering political, military, economic and social history, Norway in the Second World War is the most authoritative book on the subject in the English language.

This volume completes the reissue of R.

New York Times Bestseller: The true story of twelve Jews who went underground in Nazi Berlin-and survived: "e;Consummately suspenseful"e; (Los Angeles Times).

This book examines the political thought of Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg, the most important thirteenth century German Rabbi.

The Great Patriotic War (GPW) of the Soviet people against Nazi Germany, known in the West as the Eastern Front of WWII, continues to attract a number of military historians from different countries around the world.

A pictorial history of Allied forces making their way through Italy in the final years of World War II, featuring rare photos from wartime archives.

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.

Weaving together a number of disparate themes relating to Holocaust perpetrators, this book shows how Nazi Germany propelled a vast number of Europeans to try to re-engineer the population base of the continent through mass murder.

Das Schicksal einer jüdischen Familie im Wien der späten 1930er Jahre, die unprätentiöse Lebensgeschichte einer Vertriebenen.

Exemplarity and Chosenness is a combined study of the philosophies of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) and Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) that explores the question: How may we account for the possibility of philosophy, of universalism in thinking, without denying that all thinking is also idiomatic and particular?

Dieses Buch geht zunächst auf die Präsenz von Kirche in Medien und auf unterschiedliche Darstellungen „Die Luthers im Pfarrhaus“ ein.

Finalist for the 2015 National Jewish Book Award--Celebrate 350 Award for American Jewish Studies Between the late 1700s and the 1920s, nearly one-third of the world’s Jews emigrated to new lands.

Demonstrating the connections between contemporary psychoanalysis, Jewish thought and Jewish history, this volume is a significant contribution to the traditions of dialogue, debate and change-within-continuity that epitomize these disciplines.

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Prior to D-Day General Montgomery, the Commanding Officer of HQ21 Army Group, gathered together a small number of ATS girls who had volunteered to serve abroad.