Social groups: religious groups and communities

This book brings together contributions from ten academics and a commentary from a Muslim community leader on how the British media represent some of the most important terminologies related to Islam and Muslims.

This book addresses the challenge of providing for the free exercise of religion without allowing religious exercise by some individuals and groups to impinge upon the conscientious convictions of others.

From the earliest planning stages of the German counter-offensive in the Ardennes, Hitler was convinced of the importance of taking the Meuse bridges.

Using a wide array of sources - including long-closed court martial records, psychiatric and personnel files, unit war diaries, films, and oral histories - Paul Jackson relates the struggle of queer servicemen of all ranks and branches of the Canadian military to fit in to avoid losing their careers and reputations.

Roughly ten million children were victims of political repression in the Soviet Union during the Stalinist era.

Far from simply being a centre of military and economic activity, the Ottoman Empire represented a vivid and flourishing cultural realm.

The question of sectarianism in Scotland belongs within a wider framework than it has hitherto been placed.

Afro-Eccentricity explores three overlapping stories of Black Religion: the Soul, Black Church, and Ancestor Narratives.

Initially designed as a high-speed mail aeroplane and airliner, the Do 17 first made an appearance as a military aircraft in the Spanish Civil War, both as a bomber and in reconnaissance roles.

Die Machtübernahme der Nazis am 30.

A study of the exploits of the Fiat CR.

During the Second World War, the British government established the Special Operations Executive (SOE) for the purpose of coordinating 'all action, by way of subversion and sabotage, against the enemy overseas'.

The noted historian offers “a compelling sociohistorical account of an often overlooked yet critical” WWII explosive twice as powerful as TNT (Choice).

Muhammad's Body introduces questions of embodiment and materiality to the study of the Prophet Muhammad.

After the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, Palestinian refugees fled over the border into Jordan, which in 1950 formally annexed the West Bank.

Survivor Transitional Narratives of Nazi-Era Destruction: The Second Liberation examines the historical circumstances that gave rise in the 1960s to the first cohort of Nazi-era survivors who massed a public campaign focusing on remembrance of Nazi racial crimes.

Why is religion still important?

The Holocaust is one of the most intensively studied phenomena in modern history.

Drawing on interviews with the black survivors of Nazi concentration camps and archival research in North America, Europe, and Africa, this book documents and analyzes the meaning of Nazism's racial policies towards people of African descent, specifically those born in Germany, England, France, the United States, and Africa, and the impact of that legacy on contemporary race relations in Germany, and more generally, in Europe.

Das Kirchenjahr hat mehr zu bieten als nur Advent, Weihnachten und Ostern.

Of the countless stories of resistance, ingenuity, and personal risk to emerge in the years following the Holocaust, among the most remarkable, yet largely overlooked, are those of the hundreds of Jewish deportees who escaped from moving trains bound for the extermination camps.

An Active Service' traces a young Sid Dowland from civilian life into the tough environment of the Guards Depot in the 1930's and then on to a Guards service Battalion in London and prewar Egypt.

The story of the elite Japanese Army Air force (JAAF) aces that flew the Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien (Swallow), and the Ki-100 Goshikisen in the Pacific Theatre of World War 2.

In this novel and lucid work, Christopher Houston clarifies a particular modern style and practice of politics that he calls anthropocracy.

Israel has fought many wars since its founding in 1948, from conventional military conflicts with Arab forces to irregular clashes with guerrilla and terror groups.

Drawing on Jewish myth, ritual and tradition, as well as the author's own experiences, this original and unique book offers insights into how Jung's psychology and ideas are relevant if understood from a wider, archetypal, perspective.

Archival photos detailing the US Army division's efforts during WWII, featuring accounts of the T-26 Pershing tank and its first use in combat.

This book places the current wave of religion-based terrorism in a historical perspective, explaining why religion is associated with terrorism, comparing religion-based terrorism to other forms of terrorism, and documenting how religion-based terrorism is a product of powerful political, socioeconomic, and psychological forces.

Much has been written of the titanic clashes between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army at Stalingrad.

Most progressive among all faiths in the contemporary world, Islam is not only a religion, but also a complete code of life.

In Israel there are Jews and Muslims who practice Sufism together.

A deep dive into the events and decisions that led to the Axis powers going to war against America, using German, Japanese and Italian sources.

PMH Bell's famous book is a comprehensive study of the period and debates surrounding the European origins of the Second World War.

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

While the resounding American victory at Midway in June 1942 blunted Japanese momentum to a great extent, it left the opposing forces precariously balanced, particularly in the South Pacific.

Islamic ideas about women and their role in society spark considerable debate both in the Western world and in the Islamic world itself.

The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Friendship is a superb compilation of chapters that explore the history, major topics, and controversies in philosophical work on friendship.

During World War II, as the United States called on its citizens to serve in unprecedented numbers, the presence of gay Americans in the armed forces increasingly conflicted with the expanding antihomosexual policies and procedures of the military.

Existing literature maintains that the U.

The primary purpose of Prophetic Liturgy is to inquire into the prophetic dimension of the liturgy.

Out of the many challenges facing Africa today, there is the tendency of some to manipulate religious and ethnic identities for private interests.