AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Series
About the Book Series
This book series emanates from the largest research programme on religion in Europe today - the AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme which has invested in over seventy-five research projects. Thirty-two separate disciplines are represented looking at religion across the world, many with a contemporary and some with an historical focus. This international, multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary book series includes monographs, paperback textbooks and edited research collections drawn from this leading research programme.
A Sociology of Prayer
1st Edition
By Giuseppe Giordan, Linda Woodhead
July 01, 2015
Prayer is a central aspect of religion. Even amongst those who have abandoned organized religion levels of prayer remain high. Yet the most basic questions remain unaddressed: What exactly is prayer? How does it vary? Why do people pray and in what situations and settings? Does prayer imply a god,...
Media Portrayals of Religion and the Secular Sacred: Representation and Change
1st Edition
By Kim Knott, Elizabeth Poole
October 03, 2013
Is it true that Christianity is being marginalised by the secular media, at the expense of Islam? Are the mass media Islamophobic? Is atheism on the rise in media coverage? Media Portrayals of Religion and the Secular Sacred explores such questions and argues that television and newspapers remain...
Understanding Muslim Chaplaincy
1st Edition
By Sophie Gilliat-Ray, Mansur Ali
October 03, 2013
Understanding Muslim Chaplaincy provides a lens through which to explore critical questions relating to contemporary religion in public life, and the institutionalisation of Islam in particular. Providing a rich description of the personnel, practice, and politics of contemporary Muslim chaplaincy...
Ageing, Ritual and Social Change: Comparing the Secular and Religious in Eastern and Western Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Coleman, Daniela Koleva
September 13, 2013
Exploring European changes in religious and secular beliefs and practices related to life passages, this book provides a deeper understanding of the impacts of social change on personal identity and adjustment across the life course, According to latest research, Europeans who consider religious ...
Discourses on Religious Diversity: Explorations in an Urban Ecology
1st Edition
By Martin D. Stringer
August 27, 2013
Religious diversity is an ever present, and increasingly visible, reality in cities across the world. It is an issue of immediate concern to city leaders and members of religious communities but do we really know what ordinary members of the public, the people who live in the city, really think ...