Social groups, communities and identities

How should Christians think about law?

Synergy: The Healing Energy Guiding Stepped Care 2.

The book is about the role of religious leadership in settling disputes of a legal nature within religious communities and the effects of this process on immigrant integration in Canada and the USA.

The volume explores the intricate relationship between urbanization, population dynamics, and the environment in the western Himalayas from a historical perspective.

This book represents one of the initial comprehensive studies of TED Talks on Islam.

This book provides an analysis of Latinidad in Latin American and U.

This book explores the interwoven nature of place, Catholicism and violence in Caracas' barrios.

This handbook presents a comprehensive overview of a tradition of psychological research and practice little known in the English-speaking world: the Latin American school of health psychology.

This handbook addresses issues around urban growth in early India.

At the outset of World War II, California agriculture seemed to be on the cusp of change.

This book centres on religious heritage-making where religion as a rich and diverse manifestation of culture and community empowerment lead to the transformation of place.

This book presents a compilation of chapters relating to the socio-cultural experiences of Malaysian Indian women.

This book offers a multidisciplinary insight into the significance of infrastructural change for global orders.

The focus of this handbook is to highlight the key issues in addressing the challenges and opportunities to promote mental health is Sub-Saharan Africa.

Aspects of the 2017 Final Report of the South African Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL) have drawn strong criticism, particularly from South African scholars, politicians and the public.

This book explores how identity plays a pivotal role in tourism consumption.

This volume examines how urban stakeholders in China - particularly city governments and social actors - tackle China's urban environmental crisis.

This book discusses issues related to teachers' identities and life choices when globalisation and localisation are enmeshed.

This book investigates small cities - cities and towns that are not well known or internationally branded, but are facing structural economic and social issues after the Global Financial Crisis.

This book investigates the self-concept of the students with intellectual disabilities who were placed in specialist and mainstream educational settings in South Australia.

This book provides deep insights into the wide-ranging issues linked to gender, law, and social transformation in India.

This book introduces Catholic social teaching (CST) and its teaching on the common good to the reader and applies them in the realm of public health to critically analyze the major global issues of COVID-19 that undermine public interest.

Diagnosis of death by neurological criteria (DNC) is a construct which has been part of the British medico-legal landscape for nearly half a century.

This book explores how identity plays a pivotal role in tourism consumption.

This book presents a series of studies focusing on the role of social capital in the labor market and beyond.

This book presents a compilation of chapters relating to the socio-cultural experiences of Malaysian Indian women.

This book represents the latest research on urban forestry in a Malaysian context.

This book introduces cutting-edge studies on the spectrum of sex.

?

This book explores the Afro-diasporic experiences of African skilled migrants in Australia.

This book examines how mobile phones and the internet have become a vital part of the everyday lives of people experiencing homelessness.

This book addresses the theory, practices, challenges, key issues and potential future policies concerning investment and wealth management in connection with Islamic finance.

In one of the only works drawing on interviews with both Uyghurs and Han in Xinjiang, China, and postcolonial perspectives on ethnicity, nation, and race, this book explores how forms of banal racism underpin ideas of self and other, assimilation and modernisation, in this restive region.

This book explores the dynamics of the socio-cultural baggage that Indian indentured migrants took with them to the Caribbean island of Trinidad and how they have since become a vibrant diaspora community, namely the Indo-Trinidadians.

This book argues that inequality of basic freedoms-economic, political, sociocultural-is a central cause of fragility and challenge to job creation in fragile geopolitical situations.

This book examines the settlement space of special communities in China on the community scale from an interdisciplinary approach that combines perspectives from urban planning and sociology.

This book discusses the urbanization of China and identifies four major features of ethnic minority mobility partners over the last twenty years: the three-stage peripheral-to-core transition pattern; the escalating decline of the urban minority population in the central region of China, particularly since 2000; the city agglomerations located in the eastern region of China, which have begun playing a leading role in minority urbanization, especially in the Yangtze and Pearl River Delta; and lastly, the continuous beneficiaries of supportive policies that have led metropolises, such as provincial capitals, to be shaped into important regional minority population concentrations in both China's western region and its autonomous areas.

This book examines the relationship between retirement and health of older people in Japan's super-aging society and provides a key to understanding the remarkable longevity of the population.

This book extends a previously published model of social evolution by using macroeconomic measures to indicate both the current state of the society, and its evolutionary trajectory.

This book comprises the select proceedings of the International Conference on Emerging Global Trends in Engineering and Technology (EGTET 2020), held in Guwahati, India.

This book applies the Total Human Ecosystem as a guiding concept in coastal urban communities to achieve a mutually beneficial relationship between industrial parks and their surrounding wetlands.

This book explores criminal justice responses to Sudanese Australians, crime and victimization.

This multidisciplinary book discusses and scientifically analyzes issues related to population, land use/cover (LULC) and environmental transformations in the seven most populated cities in India: Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad.

This book offers a new standpoint to understanding tolerance to human diversity by approaching it from the perspectives of cognitive, developmental and prosocial psychology.

This book makes a significant interdisciplinary contribution to existing scholarship on ethnicity, conflict, nation-making, colonial history and religious minorities in the Philippines, which has been confronted with innumerable issues relating to their ethnic and religious minority populations.

This book analyses and compares the development paths of five major cities in East and Southeast Asia since the early 1960s, including Ho Chi Minh City, Jakarta, Manila, Seoul, and Shanghai.

The book combs through extensively 32,231 urban agglomeration related works during the past 120 years to explore a theoretically supported and practically based definition of urban agglomeration.