Routledge Focus on Religion
The Fourth Secularisation: Autonomy of Individual Lifestyles
1st Edition
By Luigi Berzano
March 31, 2021
This book examines recent forms of secularisation to demonstrate that we are now witnessing a “fourth secularisation”: the autonomy of lifestyles. After introducing two initial secularising movements, from mythos to Logos and from Logos to Christianity, the book sets out how from Max Weber onwards ...
Amoris Laetitia and the spirit of Vatican II: The Source of Controversy
1st Edition
By Mariusz Biliniewicz
June 30, 2020
Amoris Laetitia, Pope Francis' post-synodal exhortation on love in the family, turned out to be one of the most controversial documents of the Magisterium of the Catholic Church in recent decades. It was published in April 2016 following the two "Synods of Bishops on the Family" held in 2014 and ...
Muslim and Jew: Origins, Growth, Resentment
1st Edition
By Aaron W Hughes
June 30, 2020
Muslim and Jew: Origins, Growth, Resentment seeks to show how and why Islam and Judaism have been involved in political and theological self-definitions using the other since the seventh century. This short volume provides a historical and comparative survey of how each religion has thought about ...
American Babylon: Christianity and Democracy Before and After Trump
1st Edition
By Philip S. Gorski
April 07, 2020
Why did 81 percent of white evangelicals vote for Donald Trump in 2016? And what does this tell us about the relationship between Christianity and democracy in the United States? American Babylon places our present political moment against a deep historical backdrop. In Part I the author ...