Social groups: religious groups and communities Books

Although the rule of the Omani sultanate in Tanzania came to an end following the Zanzibar Revolution in 1964, the legacy of its empire still exists today, along with its distinctive religious identity. The Ibadhi Muslims of Omani descent, who are...

Muslim Societies in Africa provides a concise overview of Muslim societies in Africa in light of their role in African history and the history of the Islamic world. Roman Loimeier identifies patterns and peculiarities in the historical, social, economic,...

Sexual abuse scandals, declining attendance, a meltdown in the number of priests and nuns, the closing of many parishes and parochial schools--all have shaken American Catholicism. Yet conservatives have increasingly dominated the church hierarchy. In...

On August 3rd, 1976, in Córdoba, Argentina's second largest city, Fr. James Week and five seminarians from the Missionaries of La Salette were kidnapped. A mob burst into the house they shared, claiming to be police looking for...

De Alexandrinae Interpretationis Libri Danielis Indole Critica Et Hermeneutica. P. I. est liber auctore Augustino Bludau, qui anno 1891 editus est. In hoc libro, auctor criticam et hermeneuticam interpretationem Alexandrinae versionis Libri Danielis...

Das Buch ""Das Verh�����ltnis des Christentums zu Cultur und Lebensfragen"" von Adolf von Harless, das im Jahr 1863 ver������ffentlicht wurde, besch�����ftigt sich mit der Beziehung zwischen dem Christentum und der Kultur sowie den Fragen des Lebens. Der...

Das Buch ""Das moderne Judentum in Deutschland, besonders in Berlin"" von Adolf Stocker wurde im Jahr 1880 ver������ffentlicht. Es ist eine umfassende Studie �����ber das moderne Judentum in Deutschland und insbesondere in Berlin. Der Autor untersucht...

This book examines the theological worldview of the Taiping Rebellion (1850-64), a Chinese revolutionary movement whose leader, Hong Xiuquan (1814-64), claimed to be the second son of God and younger brother of Jesus. Despite the profound impact of...

Historically, the United States has been viewed by generations of immigrants as the land of opportunity, where through hard work one can prosper and make a better life. The American Dream is perhaps the United States' most common export. For many...

Table of ContentsList of illustrationsPreface:Professor Bryan S. TurnerAcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Question of Muslim Masculinities1.Political Islam and Masculinity: A New Approach2.Muslims in Australia3.The Brothahood: 'Australia's Mine Too'4...

The freedom to create was rocked by the Imam Khomeini's death sentence on Salman Rushdie 25 years ago. Ever since Khomeini's fatwa called for Rushdie's murder because of what he wrote in his novel The Satanic Verses, the zealous of many faiths have been...

Jews and Judaism in Modern China explores and compares the dynamics at work in two of the oldest, intact and starkly contrasting civilizations on earth; Jewish and Chinese. The book studies how they interact in modernity and how each civilization views...

The Father of Jewish Mysticism offers an incisive look at the early life and writings of Gershom Scholem (1897-1982), the father of modern Jewish mysticism and a major 20th-century Jewish intellectual. Daniel Weidner offers the first full-length study,...

Amidst claims of threats to national identities in an era of increasing diversity, should we be worried about the upsurge in religious animosity in the United States, as well as Europe? This book explores how French society is divided along conflicts...

The Revolt of the Palestinian Jews describes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's campaign to enhance the rights of Palestinian Jews at the expense of Palestinian Arabs. ""Bibi""--on trial for corruption--could return to office in late 2022 only...

Despite recent signs of change, people living with some form of disability continue to face discrimination, marginalization, and exclusion from full participation in public life, even within the church. In Africa particularly, those living with...

Workplace spirituality has become a popular topic in today's society as it has been reported to have a positive association with employee performance, organizational citizenship behavior, employee engagement and commitment, team building, and the...

Not long ago, those who wrote about the ""end-time"" were preachers--the more fundamentalist, the more extreme by some standards. ""The end is coming soon,"" they said, and cartoons were rampant with guys carrying placards captioned by ""The End is...

Over the past decades, Islamic Finance has expanded its presence to many countries, including the former Soviet Union. It is not surprising that its expansion has become a subject of great interest to scholars, politicians, practitioners, and the general...

A concise yet comprehensive overview of Hamas and Hezbollah. Hezbollah and Hamas are major players in Middle Eastern politics and have a growing involvement in global events. Despite their strikingly different beginnings, they share a common...

Der Katalog ""Catalog Der Hebraica Und Judaica Aus Der L. Rosenthal'schen Bibliothek V1, Teil 1 (1875)"" von Roest ist eine Zusammenstellung von hebr�����ischen und j�����dischen Werken aus der Bibliothek von L. Rosenthal. Der Katalog ist in zwei Teile...

A ""A Szombatosok t������rt�����net�����k, dogmatik�����juk �����s irodalmuk: k�����l������n������s tekintettel Pechi Simon f�����kancell�����r"" c������m����� k������nyv Samuel Kohn toll�����b������l sz�����rmazik, �����s 1889-ben jelent meg. A...

""Fifteen Years In The Senior Order Of Shakers: A Narration Of Facts Concerning That Singular People"" is a non-fiction book written by Hervey Elkins and published in 1853. The book describes the author's experiences as a member of the Senior Order of...

Similar to neighbouring Southeast Asian countries, Indonesia is, simultaneously, infamous for its prevailing sex tourism economy, sex industry and sex trafficking activities. On 6 December 2022, Indonesia's parliament passed the criminal code to...

  Entre el Rayo y el TruenoEntre el rayo y el truenopara cuando veo tu luzya hay demasiado ruido. =======================   AquíEn estas callesel ángel que caminó antes que yome ayudó a...

The aim of this volume is to deepen the academic discussion on the topic of anti-Judaism in the Orthodox liturgy and to offer to a broader circle of readers a foundation for further debate. The volume contains selected contributions from the...

There is a growing interest in ordinary people's life stories. This book provides a detailed analysis of eight Norwegian women and men and their stories about their lives. It focuses on their construction of images of self, society, religion and morality...