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Volozhin was a small town in Belarus about 47 miles northwest of the capital Minsk situated along the Minsk-to-Vilnius highway. It was renowned for the Yeshivah established there in the early 1800s that became a beacon for Torah study for Jews in eastern...

Discover Your Life's Purpose: Uncover the Divine Message and Find Inner PeaceAre you searching for answers to life's most profound questions? Seeking to understand your true purpose and the meaning behind your existence? "Divine Guiding Light" offers a...

Global Unitive Healing introduces a practical healing methodology for lives and nations in an ailing world. This book masterfully awakens us to collective authenticity and a unifying language of the heart for a diverse and interdependent humanity. Step...

Volozhin was a small town in Belarus about 47 miles northwest of the capital Minsk situated along the Minsk-to-Vilnius highway. It was renowned for the Yeshivah established there in the early 1800s that became a beacon for Torah study for Jews in eastern...

Fabricating Authenticity expands on revised Culture on the Edge blog posts where group members focus on claims of authenticity and how they are employed. Authenticity is examined as a socially contested and constructed label used to manage and codify a...

2024 Reprint of the 1958 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. In this pioneering work, David Bakan challenges the popular view of Freud as an entirely secular intellectual, schooled in...

Focusing on the role and impact of Islam and Islamic Faith Based Organisations (FBOs), Islam and Development considers Islamic theology and its application to development and how Islamic teaching is used in case studies of Muslim FBOs. It brings together...

The Hasidim of the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn separate themselves not only from non-Jews and "unreligious" Jews but also from "religious" Orthodox Jews whose religious ideology, intensity, and frequency of traditional religious behavior do not meet...

This book explores the significance of Ibn Khaldûn's magnum opus, The Book of Examples, to our understanding of human history and the disciplines of anthropology, history, and sociology.

Joshi shows how the Daoist classics provide insightful prescriptions on how to live a life full of happiness, contentment, and healthy longevity, and provide guidance regarding personal ethics, sustainable economics, and achieving enlightenment. A useful...

This book uniquely examines, across cultures, the health benefits and detriments of religious beliefs, with important implications for individual well-being and human survival.

The Aesthetics of Neighborhood Change explores the cultural and demographic shifts due to gentrification and redevelopment, showing how cultures of existing groups (often racially/economically marginalized) are appropriated or erased in favour of luxury...

One of three volumes responding to the 7 October attack, Universities, focuses on the heartland of contemporary antisemitic thinking, which is scholarship; and its reflection in student discourse on campus.

This book is the first to critically analyze Buddhist-Muslim relations in Theravada Buddhist majority states in South and Southeast Asia. Asia is home to the largest population of Buddhists and Muslims. In recent years, this interfaith communal living...

This book explores Shimenkan-a Miao-inhabited area in Weining County, China-and its rural society from a comprehensive and long-term perspective, drawing on research conducted by the author in the course of ten years. Located in the northwest of Weining...

This book sheds light on religiously motivated extremism and violence in South Asia, a phenomenon which ostensibly poses critical and unique challenges to the peace, security and governance not only of the region, but also of the world at large. The book...

This edited book demonstrates a new multidimensional comprehension of the relationship between war, the military and civil society by exploring the global rise of paramilitary culture. Moving beyond binary understandings that inform the militarization of...

In this book, film scholars, anthropologists, and critics discuss star-making in the contemporary Hindi-language film industry in India, also known as "Bollywood." Drawing on theories of stardom, globalization, transnationalism, gender, and new media...

This book in religious studies uses a Malaysian apostasy case study as a platform to investigate and discuss the broader radicalisation of apostates on social networking sites. It provides new insights into the emerging phenomenon of how social media...

This book develops and applies the methodology of Tawhid ("monotheism") as law and the Sunnah (the teachings of Prophet Muhammad) in the Qur'an in establishing a transdisciplinary foundation for the study of Islamic economics, finance, society, and...

This book presents 25 selected papers from the International Conference on "Developing Synergies between Islam & Science and Technology for Mankind's Benefit" held at the International Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, in...

This book is a distinctive collection on transcultural encounters in knowledge production and consumption, which are situated at the heart of pursuit for cognitive justice. It uniquely represents transcultural dialogues between academics of Australia,...

A major objective of this book is to identify the key determinants of the "East" and the "West" in the field of intercultural communication. It examines but also counter-attacks essentialist and culturalist analyses of intercultural communication between...

This book, a collection of previously published articles, focuses on the role of the Singaporean State in social cultural engineering. It deals with the relationship between the Singaporean state and local agencies and how the latter negotiated with the...

This book confronts the failings of current global economics to deliver the equity, sustainability and community empowerment which humanity now needs to handle a troubled future. The volume proposes an economy built from our society, not the other way...

This book presents selected academic papers addressing five key research areas - archaeology, history, language, culture and arts - related to the Malay Civilisation. It outlines new findings, interpretations, policies, methodologies and theories that...

This book examines the role of Hindu-inspired faith movements (HIFMs) in contemporary India as actors in social transformation. It further situates these movements in the context of the global political economy where such movements cross national...

This book adopts a refreshing approach by examining Hokkien theatre in a region connected by maritime networks, notably southern Fujian, Taiwan, Kinmen and Singapore. It considers how regional theatre is shaped by broader socio-cultural and political...

This book is an arresting interdisciplinary publication on Christian education, comprising works by leading scholars, professionals and practitioners from around the globe. It focuses on the integrated approaches to Christian education that are both...

As Southeast Asia experiences unprecedented economic modernization, religious and moral practices are being challenged as never before. From Thai casinos to Singaporean megachurches, from the practitioners of Islamic Finance in Jakarta to Pentecostal...

This book investigates whether and how reconciliation in Australia and other settler colonial societies might connect to the attitudes of non-Indigenous people in ways that promote a deeper engagement with Indigenous needs and aspirations. It explores...

This book discusses Asia's rapid pace of urbanization, with a particular focus on new spaces created by and for everyday religiosity. The essays in this volume - covering topics from the global metropolises of Singapore, Bangalore, Seoul, Beijing, and...

This book offers a new way to justify privacy based on a theory derived from Buddhist insights. It uses insights obtained from the Buddhist teachings on Non-Self to create an alternative theory of privacy. In doing so, the author first spells out the...

After the demise of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), the Muslims were divided regarding whom they should follow as their political and religious leader. The Sunnis followed the Prophet's companions whilst the Shias followed the 12 Holy Imams chosen by God. The...

This is the second volume in a trilogy dedicated to the early expansion of Islam. The first was about Asia, the second is about Africa, and the third is about Europe.The driving idea behind this study is to examine the rise and expansion of Islamic...

The 2001 yearbook aims to fill a gap that has become more and more conspicuous among the wealth of scholarly periodicals in the field of Jewish Studies. It covers Jewish Culture in its broadest sense, i.e. encompassing various...

Alqama Shibli is a well-known poet from Kolkata. He has experimented in genres like Ghazal, Nazm and Rubai and has also published several collections of poems written under the category of children's literature. He was blessed with the opportunity to...

Models of the History of Philosophy. From its Origins in the Renaissance to the `Historia philosophica' (a translation of a work published in 1981 in Italian - the bibliography has been updated) gives a comprehensive...

In einem Brief an Martin Buber schrieb FR, am 25. Oktober 1925, daB sich seine eigentliche "literarische Entwicklung" seit 1920 im Ubersetzen abgespielt habe. Wie jede Selbstcharakteristik stimmt diese Feststellung sicher nur...

It is one of the ironies of our times that, as the practise of religion wanes, a theoretical interest in it on the part of many anthropologists, psychologists, sociologists and philosophers waxes. Among these, only philosophers...

Un livre traduit en français qui a pour but de faire connaître l'Islam aux gens, le message du monothéisme qu'Allah Allah a envoyé à toutes les nations. Cela confirme que tous les Messagers qu'Allah a envoyés s'efforçaient de préserver et de rappeler aux...

अल्लाह अल्लाहले सबै राष्ट्रहरूमा पठाएको एकेश्वरवाद सन्देश मानिसहरूलाई इस्लाम परिचय गराउने उद्देश्यले नेपालीमा अनुवाद गरिएको पुस्तक। यसले पुष्टि गर्छ कि अल्लाहले पठाउनुभएको सबै सन्देशवाहकहरू मानिसहरूलाई यो विश्वासको संरक्षण र सम्झाउन प्रयासरत थिए। इस्लाम...

അല്ലാഹു സകല ജനതകള് ക്കും നല് കിയ ഏകദൈവ സന്ദേശമായ ഇസ് ലാമിനെ ജനങ്ങള് ക്ക് പരിചയപ്പെടുത്തുക എന്ന ലക്ഷ്യത്തോടെ മലയാളത്തിലേക്ക് വിവര് ത്തനം ചെയ്യപ്പെട്ട ഒരു ഗ്രന്ഥം. അല്ലാഹു അയച്ച എല്ലാ ദൂതന്മാരും ഈ വിശ്വാസം കാത്തുസൂക്ഷിക്കാനും ജനങ്ങളെ ഓര് മ്മിപ്പിക്കാനും...

This book discusses modern aspects of Japanese religion in terms of cultural geography. To understand the function of religion, it is essential to examine it in the context of local societies. One of the distinguishing...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Religion, Note: 2,3, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (Institut für Soziologie), Veranstaltung: Fortgeschrittene Regressionsverfahren, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Spätestens seit dem...