Routledge Focus on Religion
The Politics of Spiritual Work in Christian Movements
1st Edition
By Aini Linjakumpu
August 06, 2025
This book examines how three conservative Christian movements – Jehovah’s Witnesses, Conservative Laestadians and the Old Order Amish – attribute spiritual meanings to both paid employment and voluntary work, and how work functions as a tool of governance within these communities. A central concept...
Conspiracy Theorizing: Analysis and Scriptural Critique
1st Edition
By Gerald Arbuckle
June 27, 2025
Conspiracy Theorizing explore how should individuals with the Christian faith should react to conspiracy theories, their untruths, and their dangers. This book outlines the way that conspiracy theories are the fundamental basis for this stigmatization and scapegoating. It goes further to explain ...
Understanding Religious Fundamentalists: An Introduction
1st Edition
By Peter Herriot
June 27, 2025
This book introduces the prominent role that fundamentalists play in religious, cultural, and political arenas. It begins by investigating religious fundamentalist groups and their psychological motivations for this counter-cultural adherence. Their extremely varied actions, argues the author, are ...
The Christological Dimension of the Trinity: A Tale of Hypostatical Existence
1st Edition
By Anna Zhyrkova
June 05, 2025
This book provides an account of the Triune God that attempts to offer remedy to the problems of current theological and philosophical interpretations by returning to and developing the intuitions and solutions put forward in the Patristic tradition and Plotinus’ philosophy. It puts forward a ...
Martin Luther, Jews, and Judaism: A Re-Examination
1st Edition
By Isaac Kalimi
April 11, 2025
This book explores Martin Luther’s attitudes towards Jews and Judaism, considering his approach in the historical, religious, theological, and cultural context of late Middle Ages Europe. During his career, especially in the later stage, Luther made numerous venomous comments and wrote violently ...
Counseling Survivors of Religious Abuse
1st Edition
By Paula J. Swindle, Craig Cashwell, Jodi L. Tangen
November 29, 2024
This book identifies and analyzes the forms, causes, and potential treatments of religious abuse. Religious abuse can include experiences of sexual, physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental abuse connected to a religious context. The book will help readers understand different types of religious ...
A New Copernican Turn: Contemporary Cosmology, the Self, and Orthodox Science-Engaged Theology
1st Edition
By Doru Costache, Geraint F. Lewis
July 17, 2024
This short book discusses the latest in terms of cosmology’s knowns and unknowns and sets out to ascertain the potential of Orthodox Christian theology for accommodating the current scientific view of the universe. It also addresses one of cosmology’s unknowns, the destiny of the self in the ...
White Evangelicals and Right-Wing Populism: How Did We Get Here?
1st Edition
By Marcia Pally
January 29, 2024
How did America’s white evangelicals, from often progressive history, come to right-wing populism? Addressing populism requires understanding how its historico-cultural roots ground present politics. How have the very qualities that contributed much to American vibrancy—an anti-authoritarian ...
Worldview Religious Studies
1st Edition
By Douglas J Davies
October 01, 2023
Worldview Religious Studies brings the study of religion, spirituality, secularism, and other mixed attitudes of life under the overarching scheme of worldview studies. This book introduces and defines worldviews more generally before establishing a framework specific to religious studies. The ...
Cross-Cultural and Religious Critiques of Informed Consent
1st Edition
Edited
By Joseph Tham, Alberto García Gómez, Mirko Daniel Garasic
May 31, 2023
This book explores the challenges of informed consent in medical intervention and research ethics, considering the global reality of multiculturalism and religious diversity. Even though informed consent is a gold standard in research ethics, its theoretical foundation is based on the conception of...
Owning the Secular: Religious Symbols, Culture Wars, Western Fragility
1st Edition
By Matt Sheedy
January 09, 2023
Owning the Secular examines three case studies dealing with religious symbols and cultural identity, including two public controversies over the veil in Canada – at the federal level and in the province of Québec – and an ex-Muslim podcaster rethinking her atheist identity in the era of Donald ...
Religion and Euroscepticism in Brexit Britain
1st Edition
By Ekaterina Kolpinskaya, Stuart Fox
January 09, 2023
Religion has a significant effect on how Europeans feel about the European Union (EU) and has had an important impact on how people voted in the UK’s ‘Brexit referendum’. This book provides a clear and accessible quantitative study of how religion affects Euroscepticism and political behaviour. It ...