Social groups: religious groups and communities

Genocide has scarred human societies since Antiquity.

MISEREOR soll die Armen der Dritten Welt unterstützen -warum mischt es sich dann in die Diskussionen um ein zukunftsfähiges Deutschland ein?

"e;What if Luke had to reteach the basic lessons of his history of the early church?

The Muslim school embraces all branches of human knowledge and research theology, medicine, history, astronomy, grammar, economics, physics, racial philosophy and racial psychology and ethics.

Dixon provides the first comprehensive study of African American military and social experiences during the Pacific War.

The Nazi regime and local collaborators killed 800,000 Belorussian Jews, many of them parents or relatives of youngJews who survived the war.

A highly illustrated guide to some of the most impressive fortifications of World War II the defences of the Atlantic Wall from Belgium to Norway.

NOW AN ACCLAIMED DOCUMENTARY, Winter JourneySet amid the growing tyranny of Germany's Third Reich, here is the riveting and emotional tale of Gunther Goldschmidt and Rosemarie Gumpert, two courageous Jewish musicians who struggled to perform under unimaginable circumstances and found themselves falling in love in a country bent on destroying them.

Die Digitalisierung verändert Wahrnehmungsweisen grundlegend.

Ever since the Second World War and the Holocaust, historians, psychologists and theologians alike have attempted to explain how a single personality could bring about some of the greatest horrors of the modern era.

The book is organized into three divisions, and as the title implies, there is a brief letter in the form of a New Testament epistle to the contemporary church, a portion of which begins each chapter.

This volume considers the military, economic, and political significance of Africa during World War II.

Part of a new Holocaust remembrance series of important testimonies and memoirs from the unique collections of Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre.

This book takes a hermeneutic approach toward reading the writings of Jamal al-Banna and Tariq al-Bishri across several decades in order to explore contemporary Islamic political thought under authoritarianism.

When the Red Army invaded Finland in November 1939 most observers expected a walkover.

During the Second World War, Mennonites in the Netherlands, Germany, occupied Poland, and Ukraine lived in communities with Jews and close to various Nazi camps and killing sites.

Sonja Sternberg was born in Berlin in June 1926.

Sicker sheds new light on the political circumstances surrounding the emergence of Rabbinic Judaism and Christianity.

This book deconstructs the boundaries between Jewish and Christian cultures while at the same time redefining what it means to be Jewish in relation to Christianity in the twentieth century.

On December 7, 1941, as the great battleships Arizona, Oklahoma, and Utah lie paralyzed and burning in the aftermath of the Japanese ttack on Pearl Harbor, a crack team of U.

Polarisierungen im politischen Alltag, Spannungen und neue globale Konfliktlagen und immer wieder Gewalt, die als Mittel zum Zweck dient oder als Exzess aufbricht!

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.

See the excitement and danger of life on an aircraft carrier like never before.

Whilst many assume that conservative evangelical support for Trump is motivated by his position on social issues such as abortion and LGBTQ rights, or a nostalgia for an imagined American golden age, this book shows that the reality is much more complex by looking at a more recent and understudied trend of Evangelicalism in America.

It was Tuesday, 17 October 1939.

Since its completion in 1955, Alain Resnais s Night and Fog (Nuit et Brouillard) has been considered one of the most important films to confront the catastrophe and atrocities of the Nazi era.

The ways in which people change and grow, and learn to become good, are not only about conscious decisions to behave well, but about internal change which allows a loving and compassionate response to others.

The seven sacraments - baptism, confirmation, Eucharist, reconciliation, anointing, marriage and ordination - are the core of the Christian tradition.

The twentieth century was one of the most violent in all of human history, with more than 100 million people killed in acts of war and persecution ranging from the Herero and Namaqua genocide in present-day Namibia during the early 1900s to the ongoing conflict in Darfur.

Irish Officers in the British forces, 1922-45 looks at the reasons why young Irish people took the king's commission, including the family tradition, the school influence and the employment motive.

Sport and the Home Front contributes in significant and original ways to our understanding of the social and cultural history of the Second World War.

Which way will Egypt go now that Husni Mubarak's authoritarian regime has been swept from power?

Potential and novice graduate students, researchers, educators, and reformers may find themselves bewildered and perplexed by the vast changes in public education.

With this latest supplement for Bolt Action, players now have all the information they need to field the varied military forces of the United States of America.

A highly illustrated account of the battle for the Demyansk Pocket on the Eastern Front in World War II.

This book provides students with an understanding of the motives behind the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the consequences of this action on Japan, on the United States, and on the outcome of World War II.

A crisis of faith confronted many Canadian Protestants in the late nineteenth century.

Although there has emerged a huge interest in the Muslim communities in Britain since 9/11 and 7/7, few academic studies have focused on the political processes within Muslim communities and the impacts these have on civic engagement.

In this book, Marta T.

Theoretische Ausgangspunkte der Studie bilden Einsichten aus den frühen rechtssoziologischen Arbeiten Niklas Luhmanns, nach denen sich sowohl Rechtsbildungsprozesse auf den Systemebenen von Interaktion, Organisation und Gesellschaft als auch Rechtsstrukturen verschiedener, sozialstrukturell korrelierter Rechtstypen unterscheiden lassen.

A revised edition of this highly illustrated account of the day, Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared, that would "e;live in infamy"e;.

Habit or the Tradition of Prophet Muhammad (Pbuh) is one of the two most significant sources of Islamic teachings and divine injunctions.

At the heart of Montaigne's Essais lies a political conception of religious tolerance that we have largely forgotten today.

The five-volume Oxford History of Dissenting Protestant Traditions series is governed by a motif of migration ('out-of-England').

Leaving the chaos of postwar Germany for an uncertain future, 17-year-old Gerhardt Thamm arrived in America in 1948 with little more than his American birth certificate.

This is a closely argued and wide-ranging assessment of just how, with so many alternatives open, the German High Command chose the path that led, ultimately, to its own destruction.