More than an average textbook, this guide combines major theories with culturally-relevant examples and indigenous research from the Middle East. Written by local experts, it helps students understand the relevance of psychology to their own lives and societies.
Beyond the Hijab Debates
Public debates reduce complex issues to simplistic binaries. This collection cuts through the noise, offering incisive analyses and new possibilities for understanding the intersection of gender, race, and religion.
Cultural Identity and Civil Society in Russia and Eastern Europe
In memory of Charles E. Timberlake, this volume by his colleagues and students explores liberalism, Orthodoxy, and civil society in Russia and Eastern Europe from the late imperial era to the post-Soviet period.
The folktales of Libyan Jews reveal views on social issues that couldn’t be expressed openly due to cultural inhibitions and fear. This study examines these tales, exploring relationships, the position of women, and attitudes towards the “Other,” including the Muslim majority.
This collection sets out the needs of social services for dealing with disadvantaged groups, and specifies the social services required for these communities and the role played by religious institutions in providing services to disadvantaged individuals.
Exploring Uttarakhand’s Temples and Divine Paths
This unparalleled book is the first comprehensive exploration of the historical and cultural importance of temples in Uttarakhand. It meticulously categorizes sites like Char Dham and Panch Kedar, detailing the region’s divine paths with a dedicated chapter and an intricate map.
Extraterrestrials in the Catholic Imagination
Scientists, theologians, and sci-fi authors join forces to ask: what does alien life mean for Catholicism? Their answer is a radical welcome for extraterrestrials as fellow creatures of God, not a crisis of faith.
Feminist Insiders-Outsiders
This book examines the Islamic feminism of Nigerian Muslim women. It argues that their struggles are rooted in Islamic texts from the Prophetic era, contrary to stereotypes of patriarchal domination, and shows how they use organizations for feminist changes.
From Guest Workers into Muslims
This comparative analysis of five Turkish immigrant associations shows that immigrants are not victims of the German state. On the contrary, immigrant elites are important actors who negotiate for rights and membership, exercising agency in the political process.
This collection of thirteen essays built around the question ‘what is the supernatural, and how, and why, has it changed over time?’ gives rise to a clear, comparative and diachronic study of the main characteristics of supernatural phenomena.
This compendium analyses contemporary Jewishness within the constant dialectic between faithfulness to Jewish tradition and culture and adherence to modernity and democracy values. It highlights the contrasting experiences of societies in the Diaspora and in Israeli society.
Based on the voices of 4,000 young people from 88 countries, this book reveals the values of Generations Y and Z. As the largest, best-educated, and most connected generation ever, today’s youth are creating a more democratic world and changing our future.
Islam in the West
This book investigates the construction of Muslim identity in the West, exploring the difficulties of assimilation and integration. It analyzes the symbiotic relationship between Islam and the West and the pursuit of religious nationalism within Western societies.
Islamic Sisterhood
In a hostile post-9/11 America, why do young Muslim women choose to wear a headscarf? This book finds it’s not just devotion, but a way to cope with sexism, racism, and patriarchy from both their own ethnic community and the larger Western society.
Islamic Teachings and Social Structure
This book corrects misconceptions about Islam, challenging social perceptions and deviations from its religious guidelines. It offers an opportunity to learn about various social dimensions and Islamic views in the light of the Quran and Sunnah.
Jewish Humor
Explore the evolution of Jewish humor from the Bible to today. Tracing its development across Eastern Europe, the US, and Israel, this book reveals how historical experience, survival, and wisdom created a truly unusual sense of humor.
Liberating Gender for Jews and Allies
This extraordinary collection of essays by trans Jews and allies explores cutting-edge ideas about gender through tradition, art, and personal stories. With richly diverse voices, each page reveals startling insights into the construction of gender from a Jewish perspective.
Manufacturing Otherness
Missionaries were key players in the “spiritual conquest” of the New World, imposing dominant values while also mediating between cultures. This book shows how Indigenous cultures entered these areas of negotiation to produce their own cultural subjectivity.
Moorings and Disembeddedness
This book follows Chinese international students in Norway who convert to evangelical Christianity. It explores the social isolation they find abroad and how religion helps them overcome it, empowering them to become the modern, globetrotting cosmopolites they aspire to be.
In bringing together examples from different parts of the world, including both Western and Eastern societies, and focusing on separate determinants of individual, communal, political, and national Muslim identities, this edited volume offers a blueprint for identity studies.