Social groups: religious groups and communities

Catholic Social Teaching and Labour Law explores the contribution that religious ethics makes to debates on justice in working life.

Catholic Social Teaching and Labour Law explores the contribution that religious ethics makes to debates on justice in working life.

Shah Waliyullah Dihlavi (17031762) was a highly renowned and influential scholar of Islam who produced foundational works on the Quran, Islamic law and jurisprudence, Sufism, philosophy, and politics.

History teaches that antisemitism is a disease which begins with the Jews but does not end with them.

History teaches that antisemitism is a disease which begins with the Jews but does not end with them.

In this powerful and revelatory new work, historian Mary Fulbrook takes on one of the most fraught issues in modern times: the role of ordinary Germans in enabling the rise of Nazism and with it the exclusion, persecution, and then extermination of millions of people across Europe.

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.

This book offers a timely and interdisciplinary exploration of disability inclusion through the lens of Islamic education.

How do the history of religion and the history of political freedom relate to each other?

Since its inauguration in 1960, Brazil's capital city, Brasilia, has become an internationally recognized center for eclectic forms of modern mysticism.

Since its inauguration in 1960, Brazil's capital city, Brasilia, has become an internationally recognized center for eclectic forms of modern mysticism.

How do the history of religion and the history of political freedom relate to each other?

Miltha is an Aramaic term for the cosmos' unknown, being spoken in a dialect for Jesus, Johanan and some Hebrews of ancient Israel, remaining as a bastion of human ignorance for everything we seek to know.

What if Masr in the Qur'an was never Egypt?

What if the legacy of Abraham wasn't about blind faith or ritual sacrifice—but a conscious revolution against tyranny, elitism, and blind tradition?

In this powerful and revelatory new work, historian Mary Fulbrook takes on one of the most fraught issues in modern times: the role of ordinary Germans in enabling the rise of Nazism and with it the exclusion, persecution, and then extermination of millions of people across Europe.

The Apostates is the first major study of apostasy from Islam in the western secular context.

The Apostates is the first major study of apostasy from Islam in the western secular context.

This book offers a timely and interdisciplinary exploration of disability inclusion through the lens of Islamic education.

More than 20 percent of Americans are Catholic, and overall membership in the Catholic Church has remained relatively steady even as increasing numbers of people claim no religious affiliation.

More than 20 percent of Americans are Catholic, and overall membership in the Catholic Church has remained relatively steady even as increasing numbers of people claim no religious affiliation.

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Since the Bali terrorist attacks in 2002, law enforcement agencies have rigorously combatted terrorist networks in Southeast Asia, yet groups motivated by violent extremist interpretations of Islam remain resilient and dangerous.

Since the Bali terrorist attacks in 2002, law enforcement agencies have rigorously combatted terrorist networks in Southeast Asia, yet groups motivated by violent extremist interpretations of Islam remain resilient and dangerous.

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.

Over the course of the twentieth century, Shia Ismaili Muslim communities were repeatedly displaced.

Over the course of the twentieth century, Shia Ismaili Muslim communities were repeatedly displaced.

What does the battle between conservative Christians and LGBTQ+ people look like from the vantage point of those who are both?

Is traditional American religion doomed?

In the mountains of beautiful, bucolic northern Utah, many Latter-day Saints (Mormons) are visited by spirits.

In the mountains of beautiful, bucolic northern Utah, many Latter-day Saints (Mormons) are visited by spirits.

When a suicide terrorist strikes in Israel, the usual contingent of first responders that one might see anywhere in the world -- police, medics, firefighters -- are accompanied by another group, one found only in Israel.

In The Uses of Idolatry, William T.

Hillsong, an Australian megachurch founded in 1983, is now a global phenomenon.

Hillsong, an Australian megachurch founded in 1983, is now a global phenomenon.

Are most white American Christians actually committed to a Religion of Whiteness?

An in-depth account--grounded in new archival discoveries--of the most consequential development in Mormon history since the end of polygamyOn June 9, 1978, the phones at the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) were ringing nonstop.

Between the 1860s and the early 1920s, more than two million Jews moved from Eastern Europe to the United States while smaller groups moved to other destinations, such as Western Europe, Palestine, and South Africa.

Jimmy Swaggart wept.

History remembers the Holocaust as one of humanity's darkest chapters.

Is traditional American religion doomed?

Are most white American Christians actually committed to a Religion of Whiteness?

Popular representations of history tend to meet the moral demands of the present.

Popular representations of history tend to meet the moral demands of the present.

First published in 2000, Divided by Faith has become a landmark book for understanding race and religion in the United States.

The Soul as a Map, the Self as a MirrorIn the Islamic worldview, the soul (nafs), heart (qalb), spirit (ruh), and intellect ('aql) are not abstract theological ideas—they are real faculties that shape how we perceive, respond, and heal.

This book contains studies of the social, cultural, and religious history of the Jews in the Graeco-Roman world.

Are we alone in the universe?

First published in 2000, Divided by Faith has become a landmark book for understanding race and religion in the United States.

Paper, bottles, metal scrap, kitchen garbage, rubber, hair, fat, rags, and bones--the Nazi empire demanded its population obsessively collect anything that could be reused or recycled.