Religious emblems, being a series of engravings on wood from designs drawn on the blocks themselves by J. Thurston

This chapter describes Thurston's original path of discovery to the Nielsen–Thurston classification theorem. It first provides an example that illustrates much of the general theor...

This chapter explains and proves the Nielsen–Thurston classification of elements of Mod(S), one of the central theorems in the study of mapping class groups. It first considers the...

Chapter 14 does not design a general theory of religious change, but develops a multiple theoretical perspective including various theoretical elements, which are instrumental for ...

This book explores the rise of private arbitration in religious and other values-oriented communities, and it argues that secular societies should use secular legal frameworks to f...

Abstract Freedom of and from religion is a key concept to understand the place of religious and spiritual identities, beliefs, and practices in the contemporary worl...

In recent years, there has been an explosion in the market for fiction on religious topics and themes, most notably Dan Brown'sThe Da Vinci Code. The variety of contemporary religi...

Chapter 7 addresses the question of how, after seventy years during which religion was violently suppressed, a religious reawakening could have occurred within a few years that is ...

This two-volume work presents a comprehensive survey of all the ways people celebrate religious life around the globe. Religious Celebrationsis an alphabetically organize...