Ritual happens in distinct places – in temples, in caves, along pilgrimage routes – and religious activities there incorporate a diverse set of objects such as holy water, cult statues, and sacred texts.
A fascinating insight into the dangers and difficulties of operating within the desert terrain From 1940 to 1943 North Africa saw the first major desert campaign by modern mechanised armies.
Israel's political process is too often framed in terms of a dichotomy between Jewish and Arab/Palestinian citizens of the state, a framing which perpetuates political inequality and consequent injustices.
'Adolf Island' offers new forensic, archaeological and spatial perspectives on the Nazi forced and slave labour programme that was initiated on the Channel Island of Alderney during its occupation in the Second World War.
The monograph provides the first comprehensive, detailed account of German-speaking refugees in Ireland 1933-1945 - where they came from, immigration policy towards them and how their lives turned out in Ireland and afterwards.
Ausgehend von der kommunikativen Konstruktion von Religion analysiert der Band die grundlegende Fragen, welchen Stellenwert Medien für die Konstruktion religiöser sozialer Wirklichkeiten haben und in welchem Verhältnis dabei Medienwandel und der Wandel von Religion stehen.
Photo chronicle of the German-Soviet campaign on the Eastern Front during its first brutal winter after Operation Barbarossa ground to a halt outside Moscow.
Europe's Angry Muslims traces the routes, expectations and destinies of immigrant parents and the plight of their children, transporting both the general reader and specialist from immigrants' ancestral villages to their new enclaves in Europe.
At the start of the twentieth century the United States led the world in advances in aviation, with the first successful engine-powered flights at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and Dayton, Ohio, beginning in 1903.
This volume assesses contemporary church responses to multicultural diversity and resisted categories of social difference, with a central focus on whether or how racial, ethnic, religious, sexual, and gender differences are validated by churches (and especially black churches) torn between competing inclusive and exclusive tendencies.
Practice-oriented educational philosopher Elie Holzer invites readers to grow as teachers, students, or co-learners through "e;attuned learning,"e; a new paradigm of mindfulness.
Singapore fell to the Japanese on 15 September 1942, but in 1941 Europeans on the island felt still untouched by war, lulled into security by the belief that Singapore was impregnable from the sea.
This extraordinary adventure of three brothers at the center of the most dramatic turning points of World War II is ';liable to break the hearts of Unbroken fans, and it's all true' (The New York Times).
Based on newly accessible Turkish archival documents, Onur Isci's study details the deterioration of diplomatic relations between Turkey and the Soviet Union during World War II.
Die unerzählte Geschichte einer RacheaktionIn Die Einstein-Vendetta erzählt Thomas Harding die Geschichte eines bislang verdrängten Verbrechens, das kurz vor Kriegsende im noch immer unter faschistischer Herrschaft stehenden und von der Wehrmacht besetzten Norden Italiens geschah.
SOE and The Resistance describes the extraordinary contribution to the allied war effort made by the Special Operations Executive, from its formation in 1940 to the end of the war.
Chronicles the air war above Britain from March 1942 to June 1943 and includes in-the-cockpit accounts from German and British pilots Assesses offensive and defensive tactics Incorporates hundreds of rarely seen photos As the Battle of Britain came to a close, the Luftwaffe began arming its single-engine fighters with bombs and using them instead of bombers for many daylight raids against shipping and coastal installations, railways, fuel depots, and other military and civilian objectives.
This illustrated study explains how Japan's all-conquering air forces spearheaded the invasions of Malaya and the Dutch East Indies and stunned the defending British, Dutch, and American forces.
"e;A Morning Resolve,"e; an Episcopal prayer printed on the inside front cover of Forward Day by Day, is a "e;help me tend my spiritual garden"e; prayer.
Noted aviation historian Robin Higham has written this comparative study of the evolution of the French and British air arms from 1918 to 1940 to determine why the Armee de l'Air was defeated in June 1940 but the Royal Air Force was able to win the battle over Britain in September.
Das Buch gibt einen aktuellen Überblick über den Islamischen Fundamentalismus in den westlichen Gesellschaften sowie über die verschiedenen Theorien des radikalen Islams und deren international agierende Gruppen.
World War II created the union between Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, molding it from start to finish, while the partnership itself shaped many of the most significant moments of the war and the peace that followed.
Few thorough ethnographic studies on Central Indian tribal communities exist, and the elaborate discussion on the cultural meanings of Indian food systems ignores these societies altogether.
The Maginot Line, the massive series of fortifications built by France in the 1930s to defend its borders with Germany and Italy, is perhaps the most maligned collection of fortifications ever built.
