When her happy middle-class life in Afghanistan is shattered by the rise of the Taliban and her husband's murder by fundamentalists, former schoolteacher Fereiba embarks on a high-risk effort to escape to England with her three children.

Believers in the West are understanding more about Christians struggling in other parts of the world. However, many of the accounts of the persecuted church are missing an important part of the story--the women. In this stirring book, Anneke Companjen sheds light on the lives of eleven women suffering persecution in nine different countries around the world. Through their true stories of imprisonment, full of loss and pain, and unexpected joy, these...

"A luminous narrative inspired by the fascinating real case of "the Blue People of Kentucky" that probes questions of identity, love, and family. In 1937, there are recesses in Appalachia no outsiders have ever explored. Two government-sponsored documentarians from Cincinnati, Ohio-a writer and photographer-are dispatched to penetrate this wilderness and record what they find for President Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration. For photographer...

Starting in 1972 when she is nine years old, Ling, the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of the communists' Cultural Revolution, which empties stores of food, homes of appliances deemed "bourgeois," and people of laughter.

Each time the issue of racism is mentioned, tensions immediately run high, reason is thrown out the window, and emotional outbursts run rampant. Even though a lot of effort has been done to fight it, the devastating consequences continue to this day. In this book, Dr. Tangumonkem challenges the status quo and presents a perspective that is both provocative and inspirational. Contrary to what you hear from those stoking the flames of racism and fermenting...

Les sectes fermées peuvent constituer un environnement o des enfants subissent des mauvais traitements qui sont justifiés par une idéologie religieuse. Les jeunes vivant dans ces communautés isolées doivent alors être protégés, mais intervenir en milieu sectaire est ardu et beaucoup plus complexe qu'on peut l'imaginer. Quels sont les défis auxquels sont confrontés les professionnels des services sociaux quand ils ont à intervenir auprès...

American and European societies have struggled with the recurrent problem of Islamophobia, which continues to surface in waves of controversial legislative proposals, public anger over the construction of religious edifices, and outbreaks of violence. The ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine contributes fuel to the aggressive debate in Western societies and creates the need for measured discussion about religion, fear, prejudice, otherness,...

Between 1999 and 2000, sectarian fighting fanned across the eastern Indonesian province of North Maluku, leaving thousands dead and hundreds of thousands displaced. What began as local conflicts between migrants and indigenous people over administrative boundaries spiraled into a religious war pitting Muslims against Christians and continues to influence communal relationships more than a decade after the fighting stopped. Christopher R. Duncan spent...

62 Bücher der Bibel wurden im Laufe der Zeit aus der Bibel entfernt, nicht heimlich, sondern mit Wissen der größten Institutionen, und die Leute, die dagegen aufstanden, wurden getötet und ihr Gedächtnis ausgerottet. Außerdem einigte man sich auf eine Geschichte, in der diese Bücher niemals in der Bibel dabei gewesen seien, auch wenn sie in der anerkannten Bibel wörtlich zitiert werden (wie der neunte Vers des ersten Kapitels vom ersten Buch...