Religiösa grupper: sociala & kulturella aspekter

"The Spirit Lives" recounts the author's struggle with the death of his young son and his subsequent journeying in search of stability and meaning. During his encounters with …

An architectural history concentrating on the contribution of the Jewish community to Britain's urban landscape. Ten architects and art scholars offer essays on all the major …

The Grandchildren is a collection of intimate, harrowing testimonies by grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Turkey's "e;forgotten Armenians"e;-the orphans adopted and …

Creating "e;Holocaust memory"e; has been an evolving, ongoing process. This volume surveys developments in a number of major disciplines and social sectors, followed by …

Religion and science were fundamental aspects of Eastern European communist political culture from the very beginning, and remained in uneasy tension across the region over the …

A bold recovery of Yiddish anarchist history and literature   Spanning the last two centuries, this fascinating work combines archival research on the radical press and close …

This book focuses on the ethnographic study of Catholicism and media. Chapters demonstrate how people engage with the Catholic media-scape, and analyse the social, cultural, and …

What happens to a composer when persecution and exile means their true music no longer has an audience?   In the 1930s, composers and musicians began to flee Hitler’s Germany to …

Islam, as a philosophy, a way of life and of course as a faith, has served like a lighthouse for the whole world. It has, as a force, influenced all civilizations. Be it education, …

An investigation of how the expansion of modern medicine in Turkey transformed young boys' experiences of circumcision. In Turkey, circumcision is viewed as both a religious …