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An impressive account, based on extensive fieldwork, of marriage in Syria and how it embodies major power dynamics therein.

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Historical accounts of Jewish violence - particularly against Christians - have long been explosive material. Some historians have distorted these records for anti-Semitic purposes. This book looks at both the history of Jewish violence since late antiquity and the ways in which generations of historians have grappled with that history.

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This book presents a portrait of a congregation that blends therapy and religion, producing a therapeutic religion in which the role and meaning of religion are open to interpretation, religious identities are shaped by life experiences, and healing of the person is underscored. The book also highlights some of the tensions this produces.

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Based on fieldwork, interviews and surveys conducted in the aftermath of the 2014 Gaza War, this book explores what is it like to come of age as a secular millennial in Israel after the failure of the Oslo peace process, when Palestinian and Israeli leaders have used ethnicity and religion to divide. It sheds new light on why peace may be further than ever.

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Religion plays a key role in everyday affairs in Indonesia - including governance at the local, regional and national level. This book investigates local governance landscape of the world's largest Muslim majority state, Indonesia, and its local governance landscape by providing a detailed account of local communities and religious authority on the eastern Indonesian island of Lombok.

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This book shows how contemporary religious groups arrange very different sorts of rituals in order to achieve collective encounters with the spirit. Mixed-methods analysis of rituals across a diverse range of religious traditions shows how Randall Collins interaction ritual theory opens new pathways for the sociology of religion.

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This book shows how contemporary religious groups arrange very different sorts of rituals in order to achieve collective encounters with the spirit. Mixed-methods analysis of rituals across a diverse range of religious traditions shows how Randall Collins interaction ritual theory opens new pathways for the sociology of religion.

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Using ethnographic research methods, this book examines the religious vitality of two Christian intentional communities. The book argues that explanations of religious vitality are irreducible to one another, concluding that explanations of religious vitality exist in a nexus, rather than previously conceived cause and effect relationships.

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German Jews represent the fastest growing Jewish community in the contemporary world. Charlotte Kahn explores the development of relations between Jews and non-Jewish Germans, drawing on 70 interviews with people from all age groups and many different walks of life.

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Though widely discussed by scholars, critics, and educators alike, empirically, we know little about the individual reception of Holocaust films by actual cinemagoers. Taking Britain as a case study, this book foregrounds the analysis of audience responses to select films and explores the relationship between history, film, and memory.

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This text revisits the main arguments and explanatory frameworks that have been used since the 1970s to understand Islamic activism, moderate as well as militant and violent, and proposes a rethinking of Islamist politics.

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This book examines the early years of the Claims Conference, the organization which lobbies for and distributes reparations to Holocaust survivors, and its role as a nongovernmental actor promoting reparative justice in global politics.

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This book uses the parameters of role model and countermodel to analyze the perception of Iberian-Jewish history and culture in German-Jewish remembrance culture during the era of emancipation. It speaks to the significance of intercultural mediation as key to the German-Jewish experience through the lens of this Golden Age in Jewish history.

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Exploring the experience of Muslims in America following 9/11, this book assesses how anti-Muslim bias within the U.S. government and the larger society undermines American security and democracy.

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This unique volume introduces writings of Arab Christian and Muslim revisionist and radical "free thinkers" who have tried to redefine the relationship

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