Social groups: religious groups and communities

Chaplains are America's hidden religious leaders.

Chaplains are America's hidden religious leaders.

THE RICHARD & JUDY NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'A suspenseful epic' Daily Telegraph'A triumph' Financial Times'Heartbreaking' Mail on Sunday'Deeply moving' Sunday TimesMariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed.

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Devastating' Daily Telegraph'Heartbreaking' The Times'Unforgettable' Isabel Allende'Haunting' IndependentAfghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him.

Although the LGBT movement has made rapid gains in the United States, LGBT people continue to face discrimination in faith communities.

In this immersive ethnography, Tony Tian-Ren Lin explores the reasons that Latin American immigrants across the United States are increasingly drawn to Prosperity Gospel Pentecostalism, a strand of Protestantism gaining popularity around the world.

Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed.

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Devastating' Daily Telegraph'Heartbreaking' The Times'Unforgettable' Isabel Allende'Haunting' IndependentAfghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him.

Thirteenth-century Sufi poet, mystic, and legal scholar Muhyi al-Din ibn al-'Arabi gave deep and sustained attention to gender as integral to questions of human existence and moral personhood.

Placing the neglected issue of class back into the study and understanding of religion, Sean McCloud reconsiders the meaning of class in todays world.

Islam is often described as abstract, ascetic, and uniquely disengaged from the human body.

Crucial to understanding Islam is a recognition of the role of Muslim networks.

More than a million tourists visit religious landmarks in San Antonio, Texas, each year, observing and sometimes participating in religious activities there.

The first intensive, close-up investigation of the practice and teaching of religion at American colleges and universities, Religion on Campus is an indispensable resource for all who want to understand what religion really means to todays undergraduates.

From the end of the Revolution until 1851, the Virginia legislature granted most divorces in the state.

The Greening of Protestant Thought traces the increasing influence of environmentalism on American Protestantism since the first Earth Day, which took place in 1970.

In this classic portrait of Jews in the South, Eli N.

Donald Trump's first term as the 45th President of the United States of America has shocked the world.

In this immersive ethnography, Tony Tian-Ren Lin explores the reasons that Latin American immigrants across the United States are increasingly drawn to Prosperity Gospel Pentecostalism, a strand of Protestantism gaining popularity around the world.

Although the LGBT movement has made rapid gains in the United States, LGBT people continue to face discrimination in faith communities.

An Ordered Love is the first detailed study of sex roles in the utopian communities that proposed alternatives to monogamous marriage: The Shakers (1779-1890), the Mormons (1843-90), and the Oneida Community (1848-79).

An Ordered Love is the first detailed study of sex roles in the utopian communities that proposed alternatives to monogamous marriage: The Shakers (1779-1890), the Mormons (1843-90), and the Oneida Community (1848-79).

Qur'anic Abrogation After Muhammad: The Eternal Flux presents a bold new interpretive framework for reconciling classical Qur'anic injunctions with the ethical imperatives of the modern world.

Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora traces the production and circulation of discourses about "e;the Middle East"e; across various cultural sites, against the historical backdrop of cross-Atlantic Mahjar flows.

A Courageous Journey - Unleash God's Power to Heal Emotional Wounds is a 52-week Bible study designed to help women experience deep emotional and spiritual healing through God's truth.

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Placing the neglected issue of class back into the study and understanding of religion, Sean McCloud reconsiders the meaning of class in todays world.

More than a million tourists visit religious landmarks in San Antonio, Texas, each year, observing and sometimes participating in religious activities there.

In this classic portrait of Jews in the South, Eli N.

Crucial to understanding Islam is a recognition of the role of Muslim networks.

The first intensive, close-up investigation of the practice and teaching of religion at American colleges and universities, Religion on Campus is an indispensable resource for all who want to understand what religion really means to todays undergraduates.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Religion, Note: 2,3, Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (Institut für Politikwissenschaft und Soziologie), Veranstaltung: Friedens- und Konfliktforschung: Toleranz – eine umstrittene Tugend, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit wird sich in diesem Zuge mit zweierlei befassen: Zuerst wird einen kurzen historischen Rückblick über die Geschichte religiöser Freiheit im historischen Kontext geben und einige klassische Ansätze zu dieser Thematik darlegen.

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Islam is often described as abstract, ascetic, and uniquely disengaged from the human body.

Thirteenth-century Sufi poet, mystic, and legal scholar Muhyi al-Din ibn al-'Arabi gave deep and sustained attention to gender as integral to questions of human existence and moral personhood.

The Greening of Protestant Thought traces the increasing influence of environmentalism on American Protestantism since the first Earth Day, which took place in 1970.

From the end of the Revolution until 1851, the Virginia legislature granted most divorces in the state.

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Natalie Livingstone's deeply researched, unfailingly fascinating book gives the many extraordinary women at or near the centre of the Nuremberg trials their proper, important, and often ignored place in history' Salman Rushdie'Brilliant .

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Religion, Note: 1,7, Universität Münster, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Hausarbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Religionssoziologie Max Webers und behandelt die Fragestellung „Inwiefern trug Max Weber zur Religionssoziologie bei?

This book features essays by Michael L.

This book features essays by Michael L.

What if living boldly for Christ meant breaking the rules of this world?

Scholarship about Romania and the Holocaust has slowly developed over the eight decades since the end of the Second World War, but there are many aspects that demand further investigation.

More than half a century ago, sociologist J.

More than half a century ago, sociologist J.

Jewish law, known as halakhah, is a unique legal system that has developed over nearly two millennia, across multiple continents, and in innumerable different contexts.

What if living boldly for Christ meant breaking the rules of this world?

Postwar Beirut conjures up contradictory images of remarkable openness and inconceivable violence, of great antiquity and a bright future.

Erich Fromm, the prominent twentieth-century public intellectual and psychoanalyst, was recognized for his courageous stand against fascism, racism, and human destructiveness.

Erich Fromm, the prominent twentieth-century public intellectual and psychoanalyst, was recognized for his courageous stand against fascism, racism, and human destructiveness.