Social groups: religious groups and communities Books

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...

Sketches of Jewish Social Life in the Days of Christ is a book written by Alfred Edersheim and published in 1881. The book provides a detailed account of the social life of Jews during the time of Christ. Edersheim, a Jewish convert to Christianity, was...

Religion and Psychoanalysis in India questions the assumptions of an established scientific, evidence-based global mental health paradigm by examining the practices of faith-based healing. It proposes that human beings demonstrate a dual loyalty: to...

In the last half century new religious movements or cults of one sort and another have mushroomed throughout the US and Europe. Increasingly these groups have been met with attempts to monitor and control them on the part of the state, and concerns about...

First published in 1978, this title analyses a range of problems that arise in the study of North Africa and the Middle East, bridging the gap between studies of Sociology, Islam, and Marxism. Both Sociology and the study of Islam draw on an Orientalist...

Part of the 'Religion and Citizenship' series, this book is an ethnographic study of marginality of Muslims in urban India. It explores the realities and consequences of socio-spatial segregation faced by Muslim communities and the various ways in which...

This book analyses the diverse ways in which women have been represented in the Purāṇic traditions in ancient India - the virtuous wife, mother, daughter, widow, and prostitute - against the socio-religious milieu around CE 300-1000.Purāṇas (lit. ancient...

The Religious Topography of England is a book written by Samuel Rowles Pattison and published in 1882. The book is a comprehensive study of the religious landscape of England, covering its history, geography, and cultural influences. It examines the...

""The Religion of Islam"" is a comprehensive study of the Islamic faith, written by F.A. Klein and originally published in 1906. The book provides a detailed overview of the history of Islam, its beliefs and practices, and its impact on the world. Klein...

La obra ""La Escena Hespanola Defendida En El Prologo Del Theatro Hespanol De D. Vicente Gracia De La Huerta Y En Su Leccion Critica (1786)"" fue escrita por Vicente Antonio Garc������a de la Huerta. En ella, el autor defiende la escena espa�����ola de...

De Beschrijving Van Den Keizer Augustus Bij Christus Geboorte Niet Geschied, Part 2 (1774) is een historisch boek geschreven door Adriaan Kluit. Het is het tweede deel van een tweedelig werk dat zich richt op de beschrijving van de keizer Augustus bij de...

Le livre intitul����� ""C�����r�����monies et coutumes qui s'observent aujourd'hui parmi les Juifs"" a �����t����� �����crit par Leon de Modena en 1681. Ce livre est une exploration d�����taill�����e des pratiques religieuses, des traditions et des...

""Avis Aux Catholiques Sur Le Caractere Et Les Signes Du Tems Ou Nous Vivons"" est un livre �����crit en 1795 par Charles Francois Desfours. Ce livre s'adresse aux catholiques et traite du caract�����re et des signes du temps dans lequel ils vivent...

Agnosticism Versus Dogmatism is a book written by F. Sydney Morris and published in 1884. The book is a philosophical exploration of the two opposing viewpoints of agnosticism and dogmatism. Morris discusses the origins and definitions of both concepts,...

Today, more than 75 years after the Holocaust and World War II, antisemitism remains a poisonous force in European culture and politics, whether cloaked in the garb of reactionary nationalism or manifested in outright physical violence. Nothing New in...

""As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile,"" S. Y. Agnon declared at the 1966 Nobel Prize ceremony. ""But always I regarded...

A volume in Transforming Education for the FutureInterfaith initiatives are increasingly prevalent on college and university campuses around thecountry. In large part, this trend responds both to ongoing religious violence throughout the worldand to...

The social behavior and norms that are prevalent in human societies are collectively known as culture. It is a central concept of anthropology which encompasses the phenomena that are transferred through social learning in human societies. The field of...

The term religion refers to a cultural system of appointed behaviors and practices, texts, worldviews, ethics and organizations that joins humanity to spiritual and supernatural elements. World religion is a category within the study of religion to...

For the first time, in one, book, are the three most popular English translations of the Qur'an: the ones by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Marmaduke Pickthall, and Muhammad Habib Shakir. Two of them, Abdullah Yusuf Ali and Muhammad Habib Shakir are Arabic scholars

For the first time, in one, book, are the three most popular English translations of the Qur’an: the ones by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Marmaduke Pickthall, and Muhammad Habib Shakir. Two of them, Abdullah Yusuf Ali and Muhammad Habib Shakir are Arabic scholars

Twenty years ago Austin, Texas was a small, unassuming city whose greatest distinctions were being the state capital and the home of the University of Texas. Today Austin is touted in such places as the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times as one...

Jerusalem The Golden, And The Way To It: Foreshadowed By The Holy Tabernacle is a book written by Herman Douglas in 1862. The book explores the symbolism and significance of the Holy Tabernacle in the Old Testament, and how it foreshadows the way to...

Pin-Money Suggestions is a book written by Lilian Whitney Babcock and published in 1912. The book is a guide to help women earn extra money through various means such as selling homemade goods, taking on odd jobs, and starting small businesses. The...

List of Works Relating to the History and Condition of the Jews in Various Countries is a comprehensive bibliography compiled by the New York Public Library in 1914. The book provides a detailed list of works related to the history and condition of Jews...

The King Rules is a page-turning narrative that blends eyewitness history with grandmotherly wisdom. And as J. C. Watts writes in the Foreword, the book is "more than Alveda's story, it's an account of the beliefs that redirected the course of a nation,...

Radicalism In Religion, Philosophy And Social Life is a book written by George Lunt and published in 1858. The book is a collection of essays that explore the concept of radicalism in various aspects of life. Lunt discusses the radicalism of religious...

Le livre ""Le Parti Des Politiques Au Lendemain De La Saint-Barthelemy: La Molle Et Coconat (1892)"" de De Crue, Francis est une analyse historique de la politique fran�����aise apr�����s le massacre de la Saint-Barth�����lemy en 1572. L'auteur se...

The European Jewish émigrés from Nazi Germany and Europe have emerged in the last two decades as a major interdisciplinary research field.  They made important theoretical contributions  to twentieth-century philosophy and...

Facharbeit (Schule) aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Religion, Note: 15 Punkte, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: [...] So werden Sarrazin und die damit verbundenden Sentiments, wie Angst oder Unsicherheit, für den Wahlkampf instrumentalisiert...

WORK IS IN FRENCHThis book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in the framework of a partnership with the National Library of France, providing the opportunity to...

Dr. Register understands the people of Islam and in these pages he presents a cogent, compassionate plan for their discipleship. Seeing Muslims as distinct from cultural Christians, Register believes one must first recognize the differences between the...

Stories of a Jewish life from a Galitzianer shtetl to a Florida condiminium, told by an award-winning storyteller."Her writing has a lively, spoken word rhythm, as if she is the raconteur in your living room telling tales out of school. This is the oral...

With over a billion followers spread across the world, Islam today stands as the second largest and the fastest growing religion of our time. I wonder how many of these over one billion followers know that their religious scriptures mention spacecrafts...

Early Christians sought miracles from Michael the Archangel and this enigmatic ecumenical figure was the subject of hagiography, liturgical texts, and relics across Western Europe. Entering contemporary debates about angelology, this fascinating study...

This book brings together thirteen timely essays from across the globe that consider a range of 'mediated youth cultures', covering topics such as the phenomenon of dance imitations on YouTube, the circulation of zines online, the resurgence of roller...

Based on extensive in-depth interviews with more than thirty active duty chaplains regarding their successes, failures and conflicts, the book is about the way military chaplains handle religious diversity among the enlisted they serve and within their...

Development was founded on the belief that religion was not important to development processes. The contributors call this assumption into question and explore the practical impacts of religion by looking at the developmental consequences of Pentecostal...

The theme uniting the essays reprinted here is the attitude of the medieval Church, and in particular the papacy, toward the Jewish population of Western Europe. Papal consistency, sometimes sorely tried, in observing the canons and the principles...

This book offers a new insight into the political, social, and religious conduct of religious-Zionism, whose consequences are evident in Israeli society today. Before the Six-Day War, religious-Zionism had limited its concern to the protection of...