Social groups: religious groups and communities

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.

This book is a sequel to Richard Griffiths's two highly successful previous books on the British pro-Nazi Right, Fellow Travellers of the Right: British Enthusiasts for Nazi Germany 1933-39 and Patriotism Perverted: Captain Ramsay, the Right Club and British Anti-Semitism 1939-1940.

David Van Turnhout and Dirk Verhofstadt traced the story of David's Jewish grandfather, Ide Leib Kartuz.

The big picture is well-known: over the last century, religion in Britain has lost power, popularity, and plausibility.

Drawing on interviews and fieldwork in Kuwait and throughout the Arabian Peninsula, this book explores what cultural elites in the Arab Gulf region have to say about women's political and cultural rights and how their faith is or is not related to their politics.

Drawing on archival sources and eyewitness accounts, this book explores Soviet Russians'' experience of Nazi rule in German-occupied northwest Russia.

How the kibbutz movement thrived despite its inherent economic contradictions and why it eventually declinedThe kibbutz is a social experiment in collective living that challenges traditional economic theory.

Dans quelle mesure un ministère technique tel que l'Agriculture a-t-il adhéré à la politique antisémite de Vichy ?

From New York Times bestselling author of Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus Nabeel Qureshia former Muslimcomes his deeply personal, challenging, and respectful answer book to the many questions surrounding jihad, the rise of ISIS, and Islamic terrorism.

In this important new book, Paul T.

A detailed history and analysis of the most controversial amphibious operation in the Pacific during WWII: the Battle for Peleliu.

How religious barriers stalled capitalism in the Middle EastIn the year 1000, the economy of the Middle East was at least as advanced as that of Europe.

Hugh Warren West was drafted into the U.

The astonishing growth of Christianity in the global South over the course of the twentieth century has sparked an equally rapid growth in studies of 'World Christianity,' which have dismantled the notion that Christianity is a Western religion.

"e;An intensely detailed historical account and counterfactual analysis of the strategic dilemmas faced by German and Allied forces at Narvik.

Analyzing the history of the Jews of Spain from the time of the Visigoths to the present, this study investigates periods of discrimination against converted Jews that went beyond the merely religious, finding similarities to the racial and secular anti-Semitism of modernity.

This book explores opportunities and limitations with regard to transferring knowledge and tools from the corporate world to manage monasteries or other types of religious institutions.

A comprehensive.

This book examines the violation of property rights in the two World Wars and in the interwar period centering on three keywords: sequestration, confiscation and restitution.

This book examines the fundamentals of Jewish demography and sociology around the world.

This ground-breaking documentary history contains over 150 primary sources originally written in 15 languages by or about Sephardi Jews-descendants of Jews who fled medieval Spain and Portugal settling in the western portions of the Ottoman Empire, including the Balkans, Anatolia, and Palestine.

The battlefield interaction between infantry and tanks was central to combat on most fronts in World War II.

What does it means to be human?

The Israeli regime is a paradox.

'One of the best literary biographies of the year.

Following America's entry into World War Two, there was a necessity for the Royal Navy to strengthen co-operation with the United States Navy.