Critical Concepts in Religious Studies
About the Book Series
The Critical Concepts in Religious Studies series has continued to publish titles on the key subject area. Titles span across the religions and consider some of the most engaging areas of interest, including fundamentalism and ethics.
New in the series, Comparative Religious Ethics is a first of its kind collection. An area where a mass of scholars have now emerged, comparative ethics is an appealing field of study throughout religious studies departments.
Methods and Theories in the Study of Religion
1st Edition
Edited
By Will Sweetman
January 05, 2026
Indigenous Religions
1st Edition
Edited
By Graham Harvey, Amy Whitehead
October 29, 2018
Scholarly attention to Indigenous religions has grown massively in the last twenty years. Within varied forms of Indigenous Studies (e.g. Native American Studies, Maori Studies), as a field itself, and within ethnological disciplines such as Anthropology and Religious Studies, issues related to ...
Religion and the Internet
1st Edition
Edited
By Heidi Campbell
October 17, 2017
Religion and the Internet will present a range of scholarly articles that offer a critical overview of the interdisciplinary study of new media, religion and digital culture. Scholars have documented individuals using computer networks for religious discussions and enagagment since the early 1980s....
Religion and Media
1st Edition
Edited
By Danielle L. Kirby, Carole Cusack
May 11, 2017
Drawing together formative works from across the interrelated disciplines of religion and media, this collection will articulate the field of religion and media. Incorporating both historical and contemporary concerns, and a range of methodological approaches, this major work will focus upon the ...
Religion and Media
1st Edition
Edited
By Danielle L. Kirby, Carole Cusack
May 11, 2017
Drawing together formative works from across the interrelated disciplines of religion and media, this collection will articulate the field of religion and media. Incorporating both historical and contemporary concerns, and a range of methodological approaches, this major work will focus upon the ...
Religion and Media
1st Edition
Edited
By Danielle L. Kirby, Carole Cusack
May 11, 2017
Drawing together formative works from across the interrelated disciplines of religion and media, this collection will articulate the field of religion and media. Incorporating both historical and contemporary concerns, and a range of methodological approaches, this major work will focus upon the ...
Religion and Media
1st Edition
Edited
By Danielle L. Kirby, Carole Cusack
May 11, 2017
Drawing together formative works from across the interrelated disciplines of religion and media, this collection will articulate the field of religion and media. Incorporating both historical and contemporary concerns, and a range of methodological approaches, this major work will focus upon the ...
Religion and Media
1st Edition
Edited
By Danielle L. Kirby, Carole Cusack
May 11, 2017
Drawing together formative works from across the interrelated disciplines of religion and media, this collection will articulate the field of religion and media. Incorporating both historical and contemporary concerns, and a range of methodological approaches, this major work will focus upon the ...
Muslim-Christian Encounters
1st Edition
Edited
By Mona Siddiqui
December 20, 2016
While the subject of Christian-Muslim or Muslim-Christian interaction is still not a traditional or systematic discipline, interest in the encounter of these two religions has grown considerably over the last decade. Historians, including historians of Islam and Christianity have always been ...
Religion, Sexuality, and Spirituality
1st Edition
Edited
By Carole Cusack, Jason Prior
December 15, 2015
The field encompassed by this collection on ‘Religion, Sexuality, and Spirituality’ is a vast and controversial one. It encompasses both normative and non-normative sexual identities and behaviours in the so-called ‘world religions’ (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism) and also ...
Religion, the Occult, and the Paranormal
1st Edition
Edited
By Carole Cusack, Helen Farley
July 30, 2015
The field encompassed by ‘Religion, the Occult, and the Paranormal’ is both fascinating and frustrating. The fascination stems from the contested nature of the content, and the multi-disciplinary nature of the existing scholarly literature. The frustration stems chiefly from the misunderstood and ...
Comparative Religious Ethics
1st Edition
Edited
By Charles Mathewes, Matthew Puffer, Mark Storslee
July 23, 2015
SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICE! (Valid until 3 months after publication) No collection of this sort has yet been conceived of, let alone accomplished, in this field. In part that may well be due to the extraordinarily nascent character of the field of comparative religious ethics, described as that (...