Social groups: religious groups and communities

The 2011 secession of South Sudan spurred hopes for a more just, democratic Sudan, but was followed by new wars and growing unrest.

The study of religion and politics is a strongly behavioral sub-discipline, and within the American context, scholars place tremendous emphasis on its influence on political attitudes and behaviors, resultuing in a better understanding of religion's ability to shape voting patterns, party affiliation, and views of public policy.

During Germany's occupation of France in WWII, French regional languages became a way for people to assert their local identities.

Religion-fuelled terrorism and attacks on freedom of expression have recently drawn headlines across Europe, either in protest or in support of extreme political or religious persuasions.

El verano de 1944 fue la constatación de la derrota de la coalición del Eje en el Frente del Este.

La liturgia, casa de la ternura de Dios recoge textos de José Rivera sobre el año litúrgico, agrupándolos por cada uno de los tiempos fuertes que van marcando su calendario: Adviento y Navidad, Cuaresma, Semana Santa, Pascua y Pentecostés.

James Crossland's work traces the history of the International Committee of the Red Cross' struggle to bring humanitarianism to the Second World War, by focusing on its tumultuous relationship with one of the conflict's key belligerents and masters of the blockade of the Third Reich, Great Britain.

Verwundbar zu sein ist wahrlich nicht immer angenehm.

In this publication, we draw some optimistic, socio-liberal conclusions about Islam in the world system.

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.

Ein junges Mädchen erlebt die Vertreibung aus SchlesienEnde 1944 werden die Nachrichten über die heranrückende Rote Armee immer bedrohlicher.

Hitlers Blitzsiege machten 1940 zum gefährlichsten Jahr in der jüngeren Ge-schichte der Schweiz.

The book examines Muslim-European interactions in the interwar period and provides original insights into the emergence of geopolitical and intellectual East-West networks that transcended national, cultural, and linguistic borders.

The book presents interpretations of culture, health, politics, and religion in Sweden today, Sweden transforms from the well-functioning but existentially bland economic wonder to a more fragmented and gloomy society.

Karen Shelby addresses the IJzertoren Memorial, which is dedicated to the Flemish dead of the Great War, and the role the monument has played in the discussions among the various political, social and cultural ideologies of the Flemish community.

The book discusses the changing relationship between American Catholic Bishops and civil authorities in the United States, as civil authority has eclipsed traditional Catholic ecclesiastical privilege and clerical exemption resulting from the hierarchical mismanagement and cover-up of clerical sexual abuse in the United States.

This book examines the various Christian responses to Islam in Nigeria.

In Cold Rush Martin Breum travels through and describes the new quest for the Arctic and the tortuous ongoing diplomatic endeavours to maintain peace, while the governments involved all develop still stronger security presences.

The conquest of Serbia was only one of the goals of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the First World War; beyond this lay the desire to control much of South-East Europe.

"Werdet endlich erwachsen" lautet der Kern des Islam, so der Philosoph Muhammad Sameer Murtaza.

The War Against Germany: Europe and Adjacent Areas is a book written by Kenneth E.

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.

This book explores, for the first time, the impact of the Holocaust on the gender identities of Jewish men.

In the early years of the 21st century it appeared that the memory of the Holocaust was secure in Western Europe; that, in order to gain entry into the European Union, the countries of Eastern Europe would have to acknowledge their compatriots' complicity in genocide.

Will 'what works' in one country work in another?

Addressing the myriad ways in which heresy accusations could fulfill political aims during the Middle Ages, this collection shows acts of heresy were not just influenced by religion.

This illustrated WWII history explores how the UK survived attack and prepared for battle with fascinating then-and-now comparison photos.

Als Dan Bar-On Mitte der achtziger Jahre als erster israelischer Wissenschaftler begann, die Nachwirkungen des Holocaust auf die Kinder von NS-Tätern zu erforschen, stieß er in Deutschland auf ein Vakuum.

This illustrated WWII history explores how the UK survived attack and prepared for battle with fascinating then-and-now comparison photos.

(Ab)use of religion as a political means to an end: the achievement of nationalist political goals, analyzing 'how' through which mechanisms this phenomenon has been and still is practiced in South-Eastern Europe.

Lipsi forms a modern construction that has disconnected from its past.

The catacombs of Rome have captured imaginations for centuries.

Leading scholars working on Buddhism and politics in South and Southeast Asia add to current discussions regarding 'Engaged Buddhism' and the recent work on protests.

Interweaving feminist theological ideas, Asian spirituality, and the witnesses of World War II sex slaves, this book offers a new theology of body.

Examining the connection between the concept of authority and the transformation of the Ismaili imamate, Authority without Territory is the first study of the imamate in contemporary times with a particular focus on Aga Khan, the 49th hereditary leader of Shi?

This book examines the development of opposed Nationalist and Unionists identities as products of different economies, symbolically represented in religious differences, that impelled conflicting cultures and ideals of best interest that were fundamentally incompatible within a single identity.

Providing a balance of empirical research and practical concerns, this book explores the definitions and historical context of spiritual abuse, outlines a process model for the different stages of spiritual abuse and includes strategies for therapists working with survivors of spiritual abuse.

Peace emanates from the soul, and is the sacred inner environment in which true happiness unfolds.

In the early 1900s the Catholic Church appealed, for the first time in its history, directly to women to reassert its religious, political and social relevance in Italian society.

Traditional histories of war have typically explored masculine narratives of military and political action, leaving private, domestic life relatively unstudied.

In this dynamic and wide-ranging collection of essays, prominent scholars examine the condition of church-state relations in the United States, France, and Israel.

Introducing a framework to generate new conversations about inter-religious dialogue and create a community of religions, Shai Har-El argues that Islam and Judaism, sister religions, are closely related to one another with roots intertwined in the land, in the language, and in the memories of shared history.

Interreligious Friendships after Nostra Aetate explores the ways in which personal relationships are essential for theology.

The astonishing #1 bestselling story of a boy who survived the war by hiding in the Polish forest Maxwell Smart was eleven years old when his entire family was killed before his eyes.

The new histories of love and romance offered within this edited collection illustrate the many changes, but also the surprising continuities in understandings of love, romance, affection, intimacy and sex from the First World War until the beginning of the Women's Liberation movement.

Finnish Women Making Religion puts forth the complex intersections that Lutheranism, the most important religious tradition in Finland, has had with other religions as well as with the larger society and politics also internationally.

On the basis of original, empirically rich, and theoretically sound social research, the chapters in this volume reveal and analyze the complex relations between the secular government of Turkey and the religious persons and society within the Turkish state.

Exploring the work of William Blake within the context of Methodism - the largest 'dissenting' religious group during his lifetime - this book contributes to ongoing critical debates surrounding Blake's religious affinities by suggesting that, contrary to previous thinking, Blake held sympathies with certain aspects of Methodism.

This powerful study offers a vivid and often disturbing account of the Italian army's occupation of Slovenia during World War II.