Social groups: religious groups and communities

In 'The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature', Dr.

Weber wrote that capitalism in northern Europe evolved when the Protestant (particularly Calvinist) ethic influenced large numbers of people to engage in work in the secular world, developing their own enterprises and engaging in trade and the accumulation of wealth for investment.

[A] rare voice that is both relatable and unafraid to examine the complexities of her American identity.

'They were not just reporters; they were also pioneers, and Judith Mackrell has done them proud.

Meticulously researched and vividly written, Eight Days at Yalta is a remarkable work of intense historical drama.

'I was on a train, and a German soldier began shouting at me and poking me in the ribs with his machine gun.

A special edition of The Dam Busters by Paul Brickhill reissued with a bright retro design to celebrate Pan's 70th anniversary.

Transporting the reader to the heart-wrenching times of World War II, Some Sunny Day is an evocative memoir of love and courage in war-torn Asia by Madge Lambert.

'Taylor has done us a great service in making the personal stories of what it was actually like to live through the most crucial year of the twentieth century vivid, compelling and salutary.

From 1942 Speer was the second most powerful man in the Reich and Hitler's right-hand man.

'A powerful celebration of common humanity and compassion .

Autumn 1944.

A genuinely new Second World War story, The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram by David M.

There is widespread concern today about the radicalization of young muslim men, and the deprived areas of Western cities are believed to have become breeding grounds of home-grown extremism.

Amid a devastating economic crisis, two tragic events coming from the outside the wave of immigration and Islamic terrorism have radically changed the profile and significance of the space we call Europe.

Adonis' influence on Arabic literature has been likened to that of T.

Philosophers have long struggled to reconcile Martin Heidegger's involvement in Nazism with his status as one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century.

New York, Washington, Madrid, London and now Paris the list of Western cities targeted by radical Islamic terrorists waging global jihad continues to grow.

There are few instances of a contemporary Western European society more firmly welded to religion than Ireland is to Catholicism.

A study of the Saudi Arabian monarchy's efforts to construct and disseminate a historical narrative to legitimize its rule.

Five centuries after the forced conversion of Spanish and Portuguese Jews to Catholicism, stories of these conversos' descendants uncovering long-hidden Jewish roots have come to light and taken hold of the literary and popular imagination.

American and Israeli Jews have historically clashed over the contours of Jewish identity, and their experience of modern Jewish life has been radically different.

Winner of the 2021 William A.

A Middle East scholar shares an inside look at what it means to be pro-regime in Iran, and the debates around the future of the Islamic Republic.

Around the beginning of the twentieth century, Jewish writers and artists across Europe began depicting fellow Jews as savages or "e;primitive"e; tribesmen.

Dances and balls appear throughout world literature as venues for young people to meet, flirt, and form relationships, as any reader of Pride and Prejudice, War and Peace, or Romeo and Juliet can attest.

The Taliban made piety a business of the state, and thereby intervened in the daily lives and social interactions of Afghan women.

Within the broad contours of Islamic traditions, Muslims are enjoined to fast during the month of Ramadan, they are invited to a disciplined practice of prayer, and they are offered the Quran as the divine revelation in the most beautiful verbal form.

Among the Jewish writers who emigrated from Eastern Europe to France in the 1910s and 1920s, a number chose to switch from writing in their languages of origin to writing primarily in French, a language that represented both a literary center and the promises of French universalism.

Wild Visionary reconsiders Maurice Sendak's life and work in the context of his experience as a Jewish gay man.

Memoirs of Jewish life in the east European shtetl often recall the hekdesh (town poorhouse) and its residents: beggars, madmen and madwomen, disabled people, and poor orphans.

How does Martin Luther King, Jr.

At the turn of the twentieth century, tuberculosis was a leading cause of death across America, Europe, and the Russian Empire.

For over a thousand years, Muslim scholars worked to ensure that Islamic law was always fresh and vibrant, that it responded to the needs of an evolving Muslim community and served as a moral and spiritual compass.

The city of Jaffa presents a paradox: intimate neighbors who are political foes.

In The Story of Reason in Islam, leading public intellectual and political activist Sari Nusseibeh narrates a sweeping intellectual history-a quest for knowledge inspired by the Qu'ran and its language, a quest that employed Reason in the service of Faith.

The Islamic University of Medina was established by the Saudi state in 1961 to provide religious instruction primarily to foreign students.

Over the course of the nineteenth century, some 84,500 Jews in imperial Russia converted to Christianity.

A romantic social novel written by the writer Julia James, dealing with the story of a wealthy Italian young man, Ibn Malayer, who does not think about marriage, but he is satisfied with his romantic relationships with women, and emphasizes the management of his father's company.

'A writer innately drawn to paradox, and to the moral questions inherent in the relationships between richness and poverty, mind and body, history and imagination' Ali Smith'As cunning and rich as anything Ozick's written' Wall Street Journal'One of our era's central writers.

At the beginning of the Second World War, medical experts predicted epidemics of physical and mental illness on the home front.

A major new TV series - MASTERS OF THE AIR How America's bomber boys and girls in England won their war, and how their English allies responded to them.

'Giles Milton is a man who can take an event from history and make it come alive .

It began with an armchair.

An extraordinary novel based on an incredible true story of love, resilience, survival and hope.

A ground-breaking new study brings us a very different picture of the Second World War, asking fundamental questions about ethical commitmentsAccounts of the Second World War usually involve tales of bravery in battle, or stoicism on the home front, as the British public stood together against Fascism.

'The kind of history deserving of a cinematic blockbuster' Julia Lovell, Literary Review'[A] gripping and meticulously researched account of an epic effort to transport delicate scrolls, paintings and carvings thousands of miles under the threat of bombing and invasion' Rana Mitter, Times Literary Supplement'Brilliant and thrilling.

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 FELIX DENNIS PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION*** AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4**'Warsan Shire is an extraordinarily gifted poet whose profoundly moving poems so powerfully give voice to the unspoken' Bernardine Evaristo'Vital, moving and courageous, this is a debut not to be missed' Guardian__________Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma and resilience from the award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire, celebrated collaborator on Beyonc 's Lemonade and Black Is King.

Serena Katt s grandfather, whom she knew as Opa, was a Sunday s Child , one of the lucky ones for whom everything always went right.

The brand new Railway Girls novel set in Manchester during WWII.