Routledge Handbooks in Religion
The Routledge Handbook of Megachurches
1st Edition
Edited
By Afe Adogame, Chad M. Bauman, Damaris Parsitau, Jeaney Yip
May 07, 2024
The Routledge Handbook of Megachurches provides a survey of global megachurch phenomena, with an international slate of authors introducing existing and emerging research on a wide variety of relevant topics. Over the past decade, the field of megachurch studies has matured and become global in its...
The Routledge Handbook of Buddhist-Christian Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Carol Anderson, Thomas Cattoi
March 30, 2024
Buddhist-Christian dialogue has a long and complex history that stretches back to the first centuries of the common era. Comprising 42 international and disciplinarily diverse chapters, this volume begins by setting up a framework for examining the nature of Buddhist-Christian interreligious ...
The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Secrecy
1st Edition
Edited
By Hugh B. Urban, Paul Christopher Johnson
January 29, 2024
Secrecy is a central and integral component of all religious traditions. Not limited simply to religious groups that engage in clandestine activities such as hidden rites of initiation or terrorism, secrecy is inherent in the very fabric of religion itself. Its importance has perhaps never been ...
The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Mass Atrocity, and Genocide
1st Edition
Edited
By Sara E. Brown, Stephen D. Smith
January 29, 2024
The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Mass Atrocity, and Genocide explores the many and sometimes complicated ways in which religion, faith, doctrine, and practice intersect in societies where mass atrocity and genocide occur. This volume is intended as an entry point to questions about mass atrocity...
The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Medicine, and Health
1st Edition
Edited
By Dorothea Lüddeckens, Philipp Hetmanczyk, Pamela E. Klassen, Justin B. Stein
January 29, 2024
The relationships between religion, spirituality, health, biomedical institutions, complementary, and alternative healing systems are widely discussed today. While many of these debates revolve around the biomedical legitimacy of religious modes of healing, the market for them continues to grow. ...
The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Gender and Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Caroline Starkey, Emma Tomalin
July 28, 2023
In an era which many now recognise as ‘post-secular’, the role that religions play in shaping gender identities and relationships has been awarded a renewed status in the study of societies and social change. In both the Global South and the Global North, in the 21st century, religiosity is of ...
The Routledge Handbook of Hindu-Christian Relations
1st Edition
Edited
By Chad M. Bauman, Michelle Voss Roberts
August 01, 2022
The historical interplay of Hinduism as an ancient Indian religion and Christianity as a religion associated (in India, at least) with foreign power and colonialism, continues to animate Hindu–Christian relations today. On the one hand, The Routledge Handbook of Hindu–Christian Relations ...
The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Cities
1st Edition
Edited
By Katie Day, Elise M. Edwards
August 01, 2022
Like an ecosystem, cities develop, change, thrive, adapt, expand, and contract through the interaction of myriad components. Religion is one of those living parts, shaping and being shaped by urban contexts. The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Cities is an outstanding interdisciplinary reference...
The Routledge Handbook of Islam and Gender
1st Edition
Edited
By Justine Howe
May 30, 2022
Given the intense political scrutiny of Islam and Muslims, which often centres on gendered concerns, The Routledge Handbook of Islam and Gender is an outstanding reference source to key topics, problems, and debates in this exciting subject. Comprising over 30 chapters by a team of international ...
The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Journalism
1st Edition
Edited
By Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Xenia Zeiler
April 29, 2022
The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Journalism is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, challenges, past and present global issues and debates in this exciting subject. The first collection of its kind, this volume comprises over 25 chapters by a team of international contributors. ...