Social groups: religious groups and communities

From 1928 to 1943, Erich Raeder led the German navy during the last turbulent years of the Weimar Republic, the rise of Hitler, and through World War II, yet until now there has not been a full-length biography written about him.

This powerful, accessible new study explores the contributions that anthropology has made to the study and understanding of Islam.

In the darkness before moonrise on the Atlantic Ocean off the African coast on August 21, 1940, the night erupted in a fusillade of bullets and shells.

Winner of two 2025 CMA Book Awards from the Catholic Media Association: The Future of the Church (First Place), and Pastoral Ministry Catechetical (Third Place).

This book analyzes the development of Islam and Muslim communities in the West, including influences from abroad, relations with the state and society, and internal community dynamics.

On December 12, 1937, Japanese aircraft sank the American gunboat Panay, which was anchored in the Yangtze River outside Nanjing, China.

First complete retelling of an important but little-known campaign.

A fascinating and action-packed look at the highest scoring unit within the CBI theatre telling the story of the colourful characters who fought a difficult guerrilla war against the Japanese.

This book puts spirit back at the heart of spirituality.

Vocation, or calling - the idea that everyday work is the locus of Christian obedience - is, at first glance, peculiarly a theological notion.

Events since the end of the Cold War have dashed hopes that the demise of the Soviet Union would ease the Arab-Israeli conflict and help bring about a more stable Middle East--the basic goal of American foreign policy toward that region.

The Orientalist unravels the mysterious life of a man born on the border between West and East, a Jewish man with a passion for the Arab world.

This book explores the contributions of Eastern female pioneers in science, politics and arts from Ancient Egypt to modern times, and discusses the possible psychological and social impact of this knowledge on today's gender role in Eastern and Western Societies.

The stirring story of the economic and cultural struggles of the eastern European immigrants to the United States in the early 1900's, as witnessed through the lives and contributions of eleven different men.

The remarkable true story of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, and the two men in war-torn Japan whose lives he changed forever.

This study offers a fresh perspective on the 'comfort women' debates.

This history of the 10th Mountain Division during World War II focuses on the personal experiences of the mountain troops who served in Alaska and Italy.

In the many historical accounts of D-Day, the Navy, Coast Guard and merchant marine, who transported troops to the invasion beaches and supported the attack, are often given scant attention.

This book offers global perspectives from Mediterranean, Asian, Australian, and American cultures on sacred sites and their related stories in regional history.

A rediscovered mountaineering classic and the extraordinary true story of a daring escape up Mount Kenya by three prisoners of war.

In this first volume of his magisterial study of the foundations of Mormon thought and practice, Terryl L.

In 1939 more than 140,000 New Zealanders enlisted to fight overseas during World War II.

Fully engaging in mourning means you will be a different person than before you began.

Tracing the rise of evangelicalism and the decline of mainline Protestantism in American religious and cultural lifeHow did American Christianity become synonymous with conservative white evangelicalism?

The first in a two-part study of the October 23-26 Battle of Leyte Gulf, which resulted in a decisive defeat for the Japanese.

The A6M Rei Shiki Sento Ki (meaning Type Zero fighter) was the result of an order by the Imperial Japanese Navy for a low-wing monoplane with superior speed, range, climbing powers, and manoeuvrability.

Was World War II really the `Good War'?

This book provides a new reading of the biblical book of Numbers in a commentary form.

This book contains the final report of Germany's 'Remembrance, Responsibility, and Future' Foundation, giving a comprehensive history of the country's use of slave labor during World War II and the complex process by which reparations for survivors were negotiated.

At age 36, Laurence S.

This book documents a little-known aspect of the Jewish experience in America.

Naval Warfare 1919-45 is a comprehensive history of the war at sea from the end of the Great War to the end of World War Two.

If we are being honest, many of us would admit that we spend practically no time praising God when we pray.

This book unpacks how the ethical is embodied through an examination of the lived experiences of female Muslim volunteers in Belgium.

The twelfth and thirteenth centuries witnessed an explosion of Christian interest in the meaning and workings of the natural worlda "e;discovery of nature"e; that profoundly reshaped the intellectual currents and spiritual contours of European societyyet to all appearances, the Jews of medieval northern Europe (Ashkenaz) were oblivious to the shifts reshaping their surrounding culture.

This edited volume offers new and exciting perspectives on the social study of science and religion through current scholarship grounded in Science and Technology Studies (STS).

Nearly thirty years ago, Monika Vrzgulova took part in the very first oral history research project aimed at Holocaust survivors in Slovakia.

Wry and exhilarating, Chutzpah is a fearless exploration of what is possible when one person simply refuses to choose between abandoning their roots and abandoning themselves.

In a world of rising tensions between Russia and the United States, the Middle East and Europe, Sunnis and Shiites, Islamism and liberalism, Turkey is at the epicentre.

Novembre 1942.

At the outbreak of World War II, the four key Capital German ships comprised the Bismarck, Tirpitz, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.

In Bonzo's War, Clare Campbell told the fascinating story of what it was like for Britain's pets when the world was at war.

How the Holocaust is depicted and memorialized is key to our understanding of the atrocity and its impact.

This volume comprises various viewpoints representing a Catholic perspective on contemporary practices in medicine and biomedical research.

Kierkegaard's Pastoral Dialogues takes a selection of Kierkegaard's most insightful spiritual writings and transforms them into a series of dialogues between two friends, a believer and a nonbeliever.