Social groups: religious groups and communities

After the death of her mother when she turned ten, Judith Friedland learned to be resilient.

In December of 1940, Morgan Thomas Jones, Jr.

This is the story of Dr.

This book serves as a critical resource for educators across various roles and contexts who are interested in Holocaust education that is both historically sound and practically relevant.

This book confronts the key questions surrounding comparative secularism in historical perspective.

This book explores one of the most notorious aspects of the German system of oppression in wartime Poland: the only purpose-built camp for children under the age of 16 years in German-occupied Europe.

This book raises the question of what an Indigenous church is and how its members define their ties of affiliation or separation.

This volume explores how Christians around the world have made sense of the meaning of suffering in the context of and post-COVID-19.

This book relates the unique experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning (LGBTQ+) people in Australian Pentecostal-Charismatic Christian churches.

The increasing visibility of Islam in France and the vehemence of debates about it have often contributed to narrow public perceptions of  secularism to a simplistic antireligious crusade, a misleading image disseminated by the media and politicians alike.

Religion und Rassismus.

Johann Sebastian Bach krönte sein Schaffen geistlicher Musik mit dem Weihnachts-, dem Oster- und dem Himmelfahrtsoratorium sowie mit fünf Messvertonungen – gipfelnd in der monumentalen h-Moll-Messe, die als Vermächtnis angesehen werden kann.

The connection of Judaism to music has been a lively discourse topic in recent years, and the musical awakening in religious circles is one expression of it.

América con raíces de ciudadanía eterna, nos conduce a variadas reflexiones, historias, anécdotas, valores y virtudes de nuestros héroes y santos que dejaron huella en estas tierras donde Dios, autor de la maravilla, plantó en el hombre una eternidad.

An exploration of Maimonides, the medieval philosopher, physician, and religious thinker, author of The Guide of the Perplexed, from one of the world's foremost bibliophiles Moses ben Maimon, or Maimonides (1138-1204), was born in Cordoba, Spain.

Through the lens of praising and honouring God, the liturgy of Christians sheds a unique light on their monotheistic beliefs.

Through the lens of praising and honouring God, the liturgy of Christians sheds a unique light on their monotheistic beliefs.

The untold story of how intelligence shaped US perceptions and policy towards France during the early Cold War.

The untold story of how intelligence shaped US perceptions and policy towards France during the early Cold War.

A study of three Amish homesteads: one in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, one in Holmes County, Ohio, and one in LaGrange County, Indiana.

Mennonites in Russia?

Revised edition!

The Amish, one of Americas most intriguingly private, unique, and often misunderstood religious communities, have survived for three hundred years!

This book tells a story which until now has not been available in such an interesting and comprehensive form.

Born in India in 1937, Michael Fosss childhood was spent between the cold, grey austerity of Britain under threat, and the brightly lit and teeming vitality of wartime India.

Originally published in 1952, al-Din, by prominent Egyptian scholar Muhammad Abdullah Draz (1894 1958), has been critically acclaimed as one of the most influential Arab Muslim studies of universal 'religion' and forms of religiosity in modern times.

One of the most prosperous and influential dynasties of the Muslim world, the Fatimids (909 1171) were distinguished by their Imam-caliphs, who asserted religious as well as political authority in direct descent from the family of the Prophet.

One of the most prosperous and influential dynasties of the Muslim world, the Fatimids (909 1171) were distinguished by their Imam-caliphs, who asserted religious as well as political authority in direct descent from the family of the Prophet.

Originally published in 1952, al-Din, by prominent Egyptian scholar Muhammad Abdullah Draz (1894 1958), has been critically acclaimed as one of the most influential Arab Muslim studies of universal 'religion' and forms of religiosity in modern times.

The Holocaust was the defining trauma of the 20th century.

The Holocaust was the defining trauma of the 20th century.

Does democracy require an agreement on specific foundational values?

The Reformed (or Calvinist) universities of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Europe hosted rich, Latin-language conversations on the nature of politics, the powers of kings and magistrates, resistance, revolution, and religious warfare.

Does democracy require an agreement on specific foundational values?

The Reformed (or Calvinist) universities of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Europe hosted rich, Latin-language conversations on the nature of politics, the powers of kings and magistrates, resistance, revolution, and religious warfare.

»Es ist wirklich kein Grund zur Beunruhigung da.

After the death of her mother when she turned ten, Judith Friedland learned to be resilient.

In the 1930s, hundreds of scientists and scholars fled Hitler's Germany.

Catholic or Protestant, recusant or godly rebel, early modern women reinvented their spiritual and gendered spaces during the reformations in religion in England during the sixteenth century and beyond.

Marburger Religionsgemeinschaften treten in ihrer Stadt für Frieden und Versöhnung ein und zeigen, dass sie sich bei allen Unterschieden in religiöser Anschauung und Praxis achten und respektieren.

Using specially commissioned artwork and detailing technical specifications, this book explores the Bf 109's different roles occasioned by wartime necessity, from its employment as a fighter to its evolution as a fighter-bomber.

Diese Arbeit setzt sich mit einem im Kontext der muslimischen Präsenz in Deutschland sowie des interreligiösen Wirkens der Moscheegemeinden zweifelsohne wichtigen, bisher aber kaum beachteten Thema auseinander: Der Moscheeführung und den ihr zugrunde liegenden Konzepten.

Heinz Knoke was one of the outstanding German fighter pilots of the Second World War.

Heinz Knoke was one of the outstanding German fighter pilots of the Second World War.

The "e;hilarious and moving"e; true story of one of the Second World War's most unusual combatants-a 500-pound cigarette-smoking, beer-drinking brown bear (Scotsman).

From the time of its birth in Mecca in the 7th century C.

This comprehensive account of the southern English county during WWII covers everything from the Dunkirk evacuations to the Battle of Britain and more.

An in-depth look at how Scotland's largest city and its residents were affected by the Second World War, with photos included.

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A retired U.