Social groups: religious groups and communities Books

Loudun, Histoire Civile Et Religieuse... by Auguste Louis Lerosey offers a detailed exploration of the civil and religious history of Loudun, France. This meticulously researched work delves into the key events, figures, and societal structures that...

Het Joodsche Volksleven: Schetsen En Beelden... offers a fascinating glimpse into Jewish life and customs, particularly within the context of 19th-century Dutch society. Mozes Henriquez Pimentel's work provides valuable insights into the daily routines,...

We have met evangelists-and they are not us. Sympathetic to the discomfort his students have about evangelism, Mark Teasdale gives us this refreshing, practical look at sharing the good news. He opens up a nonthreatening space, helping us learn how to...

Dieses Buch untersucht individuelle Gottesvorstellungen christlicher Gläubiger. Auf Grundlage der in einer qualitativen Interviewstudie erhobenen empirischen Daten werden individuelle Gottesbilder rekonstruiert und innerhalb einer Typologie auf ihre...

Boundaries, Identity and Belonging in Modern Judaism addresses these new dimensions, bringing together experts in the field to explore the various and fluid modes of expressing and defining Jewish identity in the modern world. Its interdisciplinary...

This book gives a detailed account of the 'communal riots' between Hindus and Muslims in Mumbai (then Bombay) in 1992-93. The explore the role language, work, housing and rehabilitation have on the lives of those who live with violence.

Mussar in Recovery is a transformative guide that weaves together timeless wisdom of Jewish ethical teachings with the Twelve Steps, bringing a dynamic Jewish voice to the recovery journey. At its core is Mussar - a centuries-old Jewish tradition that...

"Cheruth: Eine Rede Über Jugend Und Religion" by Martin Buber, originally published in 1919, explores the profound connections between youth and religion. In this compelling essay, Buber delves into the spiritual inquiries of young people and the...

Arte de vivir em paz com os homens, written by D. Fr. Antonio de Padua, Bishop of Maranhão, is a treatise dedicated to the vassals of His Most Faithful Majesty, especially those inhabiting the diocese of Maranhão. Published in 1783, this work is...

"The Origin and Evolution of the Idea of the Soul" delves into the historical and philosophical roots of the concept of the soul. This exploration traces the development of spiritual beliefs across various cultures and eras, examining how the...

Drugs & Jesus is the first book of its kind to pioneer a theological framework for people of faith and specifically evangelical Christians to help them engage in the ministry of harm reduction. Drawing from his own ground-breaking efforts to equip...

More than 750,000 Russian Jews arrived in Israel between 1988 and 1996. However, this Great Immigration, as it has been called, has gone largely unnoticed in Israeli public life. Information about this significant event has been sketchy and largely...

In Poland and elsewhere there has been a noticeable increase of interest in various aspects of the Polish-Jewish past which can be explained, the author argues, in terms of a broader intellectual need to explore the "blank spots" of Poland's national...

Every religious community has been affected by the "sexual revolution". The conflict between contemporary attitudes and traditional practices has led to major divisions and controversies, particularly when focused on issues such as homosexuality. This is...

This groundbreaking and highly acclaimed work examines the two most influential African-American leaders of this century. While Martin Luther King, Jr., saw America as essentially a dream . . . as yet unfulfilled, Malcolm X viewed America as a realized...

Some of the points discussed in this book include the major beliefs as well as practices of Brahmanism, and the historic background of how the religion grew. But the purpose of this book is not just to discuss Brahmanism but to also appreciate its...

This book examines the impact of states and their policies on visual art. States shape the role of art and artists in society, influence the development of audiences, support artistic work, and even affect the very nature of artistic production. The book...

By exploring the experiences of community activists and organizations working with information and communication technology (ICT) to build communities, this book offers a grounded and informed study of the role ICT plays in people's lives. The author...

While Christian approaches to the problem of evil have been much discussed, the issue of theodicy in Islam is relatively neglected. A Muslim Response to Evil explores new insights and viewpoints and discusses possible solutions to theodicy and the...

Looking beyond exclusively state-oriented solutions to the management of religious diversity, this book explores ways of fostering respectful, non-violent and welcoming social relations among religious communities. It examines the question of how to...

This book carefully explores the claim that young adults (18 to 35) are leaving Catholicism in the United States. According to primary empirical research, many young adults stay and do so living their faith in engaged ways. Most, however, do not do it in...

An exploration of the work of Jewish women graphic novelists and the intricate Jewish identity is complicated by gender, memory, generation, and place-that is, the emotional, geographical, and psychological spaces that women inhabit. Victoria Aarons...

In this comprehensive approach to Jewish humor focused on the relationship between humor and American Jewish practice, Jennifer Caplan calls us to adopt a more expansive view of what it means to "do Jewish," revealing that American Jews have, and...

Over the past several decades, the prevailing attitude toward Judaism in Israeli society has undergone a meaningful shift; where the national ethos had once deemed Judaic traditions a vestige of an arcane past incompatible with the culture of a modern...

From the last decades of the nineteenth century through the late 1930s, the West Bohemian spa towns of Carlsbad, Franzensbad, and Marienbad were fashionable destinations for visitors wishing to "take a cure"--to drink the waters, bathe in the mud, be...

Evangelicals have been scandalized by their association with Donald Trump, their megachurches summarily dismissed as "religious Walmarts." In The Subversive Evangelical Peter Schuurman shows how a growing group of "reflexive evangelicals" use irony to...

Chava Rosenfarb (1923-2011) was one of the most prominent Yiddish novelists of the second half of the twentieth century. Born in Poland in 1923, she survived the Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen, immigrating to Canada in 1950 and settling in...

This book offers a sociological analysis of the Renaissance, focusing on the concept of grace, and the unity that exists between its various meanings: theological, anthropological (gift-giving, Mauss; and sociability, Simmel), and aesthetical (beauty and...

The world continues to be threatened by non-state, religiously-rationalized violence. While some fail to the see the connections between the United States' intervention in the Middle East and this ongoing threat, the non-state perpetrators of terror...

Recent revelations about government surveillance of citizens have led to questions about whether there should be better defined boundaries around privacy. Should government officials have the right to specifically target certain groups for extended...

Richly told and deeply troubling, this book collects personal narratives of Muslim immigrants to the United States who were racially profiled, detained indefinitely, and mistreated following the September 11 attacks. From descriptions of physical abuse...

The language of a thousand years of European Jewish civilization that was decimated in the Nazi Holocaust, Yiddish has emerged as a vehicle for young people to engage with their heritage and identity. Although widely considered an endangered language,...

Debates about Islam and Muslim societies have intensified in the last four decades, triggered by the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran and, later, by the events of 9/11. Too often present in these debates are wrongheaded assumptions about the attachment of...

The Critical Black Studies Series celebrates its fourth volume, Black Routes to Islam. The series, under the general supervision of Manning Marable, features readers and anthologies examining challenging topics within the contemporary black...

This book explores British media coverage and representation of religion and contemporary secular values and is set in the context of wider debates about the sociology of religion and media representation. The authors consider the media portrayal of...

From a variety of perspectives, the essays presented here explore the profound interdependence of natural philosophy and rational religion in the `long seventeenth century' that begins with the burning of Bruno in 1600 and...

Das Buch ""Die Hierarchie in der Katholischen Kirche"" von Franz J. Scheuffgen wurde im Jahr 1897 ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich um eine umfassende Beschreibung der Hierarchie in der katholischen Kirche, die die verschiedenen Ebenen der kirchlichen...

Die Figur des Juden: In der Dramatischen Literatur des XVIII Jahrhunderts (1897) von Carrington, Herbert ist eine Studie �����ber die Darstellung von Juden in der Dramatik des 18. Jahrhunderts. Das Buch untersucht, wie j�����dische Charaktere in...

Die Christliche Ethik, Teil 2: Die Soziale Ethik (1878) von Martensen, Hans ist ein Buch, das sich mit dem Thema der christlichen Ethik auseinandersetzt. In diesem zweiten Teil geht es speziell um die soziale Ethik, also um die Frage, wie Christen in der...

Das Buch ""Das Sociale Wirken Der Katholischen Kirche V1-2 (1897)"" von Alois Cigoi besch�����ftigt sich mit der sozialen Wirkung der katholischen Kirche. In zwei B�����nden werden verschiedene Aspekte des sozialen Engagements der Kirche behandelt, wie...

La Bibliographie Japonaise Ou Catalogue Des Ouvrages Relatifs Au Japon (1859) de Pages, Leon est un livre qui pr�����sente une liste compl�����te des ouvrages relatifs au Japon. Ce catalogue est une ressource pr�����cieuse pour les chercheurs, les...

""Beredning om Fante- eller Landstrygerfolket i Norge: Bidrag til Kundskab om de Laveste Samfundsforhold"" er en bok skrevet av Eilert Lund Sundt og utgitt i 1850. Boken gir en detaljert beskrivelse av livet til fante- eller landstrykerfolket i Norge...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

The Reconstruction of the American Church is a book written by Walter Milton Haushalter and first published in 1919. The book presents a comprehensive analysis of the state of the American church at the time and offers suggestions for its reconstruction...