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Offers not only rigourous accounts of current difficulties, but also new thinking and deeper understanding about race relations and intercultural engagement in multicultural societies.

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This is an account of survival against all odds, but it is more than that - an account of one man's search for the answers to the questions that in one way or other face us all.

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Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking--as well as the brilliance of comic masterworks by writers like Heinrich Heine, Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Babel, S. Y. Agnon, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Philip Roth. At the same time, Wisse draws atten

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Not in the Heavens traces the rise of Jewish secularism through the visionary writers and thinkers who led its development. Spanning the rich history of Judaism from the Bible to today, David Biale shows how the secular tradition these visionaries created is a uniquely Jewish one, and how the emergence of Jewish secularism was not merely a response

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On British Islam examines the history and everyday workings of Islamic institutions in Britain, with a focus on sharia councils. These councils concern themselves with religious matters, especially divorce. They have a higher profile in Britain than in other Western nations. Why Taking a historical and ethnographic look at British Islam, John Bow

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J. Dawson Williams writes with both authority and compassion - a unique combination. He emphasizes that the only way to move past discrimination and prejudice is through positivity and optimism, rather than anger and frustration. Readers are reminded that it is through ethics that we achieve a more productive system.

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The purpose of this book is to present a survey of Jewish music to illuminate its special role as a mirror of history, tradition, and cultural heritage. The 27 topical chapters have been placed within a modified chronological perspective to present a historic picture of virtually every important development in Jewish music.

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Provides an analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt.

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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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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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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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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.