Social groups: religious groups and communities

This handbook generates new insights that enrich our understanding of the history of Islam in Africa and the diverse experiences and expressions of the faith on the continent.

This book highlights the lived experiences of gay Muslims in Malaysia, where Islam is the majority and official religion, and in Britain, where Muslims form a religious minority.

This book uses storytelling as an analytical tool for following wider social attitude changes towards sex and female sexuality in Iran.

This book is a discourse on creation hypothesis in light of new scientific findings made in the 20th and 21st centuries, incorporating sacred texts of different religions.

This interdisciplinary volume brings together leading writers and thinkers to provide a critique of a broad range of topics related to Hillsong Church.

This book sheds light on how Hizbullah has transformed religious rituals and supernatural narratives in order to mobilize the Shi'a community.

This book uses original research and interviews to consider the views of contemporary members of the Orange Order in Canada, including their sense of political and societal purpose, awareness of the decline of influence, views on their present circumstances, and hopes for the future of Orangeism in Canada.

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This book is an arresting interdisciplinary publication on Christian education, comprising works by leading scholars, professionals and practitioners from around the globe.

This book provides new insights on the unique role of doctoral students and new faculty as they join other stewards of the academy working within Christian higher education.

How do religious emotions and national sentiment become entangled across the world?

This book examines the relationship between race, religion, and economics within the black church.

This book addresses the fact that, for the first time in history, a large segment of the population in the western world is living without any form of religious belief.

This book considers how women's experiences have been treated in films dealing with Nazi persecution.

In a rapidly changing world, in which religious identities emerge as crucial fault lines in political and public discourse, this volume brings together multiple disciplinary perspectives in order to investigate shifting conceptions of, and commitments to, the ideals of religious pluralism.

This book addresses the challenges of living together after empire in many post-colonial cities.

This book explores the relationship between religion and citizenship from a culturally diverse group of contributors, in the context of the developing tendency towards fundamentalist and conflicting religious beliefs in European, North African, and Middle Eastern societies.

This book is the first collection of multi-disciplinary research on the experience of Italian-Jewish musicians and composers in Fascist Italy.

The painful reality faced by refugees and migrants is one of the greatest moral challenges of our time, in turn, becoming a focus of significant scholarship.

This book provides a new conceptual and methodological framework the social scientific study of Mishnah, as well as a series of case studies that apply social science perspectives to the analysis of Mishnah's evidence.

This book examines how state schooling in China has economically, culturally, and ideologically had an impact on and gradually transformed a traditional Muslim Hui village in rural Northwestern China.

This book provides an overview of the sudden ascendancy of Islamism in post-Mubarak Egypt and a detailed history of the power grab by the Muslim Brotherhood.

This book probes beneath modern scientific and sentimental concepts of the heart to discover its past mysteries.

This book applies philosophical and critical textual scholarship to the traditional Islamic narrative in an attempt to distinguish between its historical and interpretive elements.

This book provides a comprehensive investigation of the political dimensions of civil religion in the United States.

What is good sex from the perspective of liberation theology?

Das Buch betrachtet das Thema Leihmutterschaft aus einer breit angelegten, interdisziplinären Perspektive.

Based on ethnographic research in Belgium, The Netherlands, and Germany, this book presents a novel approach to studying Muslim militant activism.

This book calls attention to ways of fostering dialogue among members of different religious traditions in an era of cultural and religious pluralism.

This book brings together the latest research in education in relation to science and religion.

This book examines how socio-political surroundings have affected the evolution of Yarsani religious thought and why the Yarsani religious belief, despite its fundamental disagreement with Islamic tenets, has been affiliated with Islam.

This book explores the modern cultural history of the queer martyr in France and Belgium.

This volume explores the multiple intersections between rape culture, gender violence, and religion.

Re-Evaluating Women's Page Journalism in the Post-World War II Era tells the stories of significant women's page journalists who contributed to the women's liberation movement and the journalism community.

The Mahabharata preserves powerful journeys of women recognized as the feminine divine and the feminine heroic in the larger culture of India.

This volume is a collection of essays on medieval Spain, written by leading scholars on three continents, that celebrates the career of Thomas F.

As Southeast Asia experiences unprecedented economic modernization, religious and moral practices are being challenged as never before.

Das Lehrbuch gibt eine kompakte Einführung in die theoretisch und praktisch wichtigsten Bereiche des Religionsrechts.

Al-Tha'labi was a renowned Qur'anic scholar of the fifth/eleventh century, and his 'Ara'is al-majalis is arguably the finest and most widely consulted example of the Islamic qisas al-anbiya' genre.

This volume offers a critical examination of the later philosophical views of Vladimir Solov'ev, arguably Russia's most famous and most systematic philosopher.

This book explores three worlds shared by the humans in their collective experiences.

This book explores how religious groups work to create sustainable relationships between people, places and environments.

This book systematically assesses the value systems of active Muslims around the globe.

This volume offers both theoretical approaches and case studies on the relationship between religion and the secular world.

This book explores the ways in which religion is observed, performed, and organised in skateboard culture.

This book argues that multiculturalism remains a relevant and vital framework through which to understand and construct inclusive forms of citizenship.

This book analyzes the implication of secular/liberal values in Western and human rights law and its impact on Muslim women.

This book analyzes sensationalized Nazi and Holocaust representations in Anglo-American cultural and political discourses.

This edited volume deploys digital ethnography in varied contexts to explore the cultural roles of mobile apps that focus on religious practice and communities, as well as those used for religious purposes (whether or not they were originally developed for that purpose).