Religiösa grupper: sociala & kulturella aspekter

The number one bestseller, chosen as a Book of the Decade by The Times, Daily Telegraph and Guardian 'Devastating' Daily Telegraph 'Heartbreaking' The Times 'Unforgettable' Isabel Allende 'Haunting' Independent Afghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old A...

Läs mer »

Vad var det som fick tiotusentals judar att flytta från Ryssland och Östeuropa till jordbrukskollektiv i Palestina, en fattig region i det turkiska imperiet, under slutet av 1800-talet och början av förra seklet? Vad väckte den judiska nationalkän...

Läs mer »

NOW IN PAPERBACK-AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "One of those life-changing reads that makes you see-or, in this case, hear-the whole world differently." -Megan Angelo, author of Followers "At times chilling, often funny, and always percepti...

Läs mer »

In his iconoclastic and controversial study, Norman G. Finkelstein moves from an interrogation of the place the Holocaust has come to occupy in global culture to a disturbing examination of Holocaust compensation settlements. It was not until the ...

Läs mer »

From the Academy Award-winning actor and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Greenlights comes an inspiring, faith-filled, and often hilarious collection of personal poetry and prayers about navigating the rodeo of life and chasing down the or...

Läs mer »

THE RICHARD & JUDY NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'A suspenseful epic' Daily Telegraph 'A triumph' Financial Times 'Heartbreaking' Mail on Sunday 'Deeply moving' Sunday Times Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two dec...

Läs mer »

The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller Jay Shetty, social media superstar and host of the #1 podcast 'On Purpose', distils the timeless wisdom he learned as a practising monk into practical steps anyone can take every day to live a less anxious, m...

Läs mer »

How have the Jews survived? For millennia, they have defied odds by overcoming the travails of exile, persecution, and recurring plans for their annihilation. Many have attempted to explain this singular success as a result of divine intervention....

Läs mer »

What if Islam never existed? To some, it's a comforting thought: no clash of civilizations, no holy wars, no terrorists. But what if that weren't the case at all? In A WORLD WITHOUT ISLAM, Graham E. Fuller guides us along an illuminating journey t...

Läs mer »

Vid förra sekelskiftet flyttade en man vid namn Ebrahim Umerkajeff till Stockholm och länge levde han där som landets enda muslim. Han kom till Sverige som ung fattig äventyrare men blev med tiden en framgångsrik affärsman med våning på Östermalm ...

Läs mer »

From the ground-breaking graphics journalist and author of Palestine, a revelatory investigation of the deadly sectarian riots in 2013 Uttar Pradesh, India, and their urgent global significance today Compared to other episodes of lethal Indian com...

Läs mer »

What do we mean when we talk about antisemitism? A thoughtful, vital new intervention from the award-winning historian 'An immense contribution... In tracing the evolving meaning of 'antisemitism,' [Mazower] demonstrates persuasively how we might ...

Läs mer »

In 2008, The New York Times reported on the discovery of a Hebrew tablet, dating from before the birth of Christ, which predicted a Messiah who would rise from the dead after three days. Famed religious scholar Daniel Boyarin stated that 'some Chr...

Läs mer »

The physiologist Benjamin Libet famously demonstrated that activity in the brain's motor regions can be detected some 300 milliseconds before a person feels that he has decided to move. Another lab recently used fMRI data to show that some "consci...

Läs mer »

A historical tour de force, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a groundbreaking account of Jewish and Israeli history. Exploding the myth that there was a forced Jewish exile in the first century at the hands of the Romans, Israeli historia...

Läs mer »

THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK IS 'A MONUMENT TO THE HUMAN SPIRIT' One of the most famous accounts of living under the Nazi regime comes from the diary of a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, Anne Frank. Edited by her father Otto H. Frank and German novelist...

Läs mer »

Bestselling author Shannon Chakraborty expands the acclaimed, Hugo-nominated Daevabad Trilogy with this magical compilation of stories from before, during, and after the events of the series. Told from the perspective of characters beloved and hat...

Läs mer »

Trots att Sverige är ett av världens minst antisemitiska länder ökar antalet antisemitiska hatbrott kraftigt varje gång Israel-Palestinakonflikten tilltar i intensitet. Även om öppna och tydliga antisemitiska utsagor är svåraccepterade i Sverige h...

Läs mer »

Överlevandes berättelser från Förintelsen har blivit en viktig del av det svenska kulturarvet. Dessa berättelser har det skrivits och forskats om. Det finns emellertid en grupp som aldrig varit föremål för vetenskapliga studier: den grupp av barn ...

Läs mer »

'If religion generated everything that is essential in society, this is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.' In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), Émile Durkheim set himself the task of discovering the enduring source ...

Läs mer »

What are we to make of the Latina schoolteacher who considers herself a good Catholic, rarely attends Mass, but meditates daily at her home altar (where she mixes images of the Virgin of Guadalupe with those of Frida Kahlo, and traditional votive ...

Läs mer »

Offers an overarching definition and framework for the study of religion as it manifests itself in everyday life Look around you as you walk down the street; somewhere, usually hidden in plain sight, there will be traces of religion. Perhaps it is...

Läs mer »