Routledge Studies in Religion
Faith Makes You Happy?: Insights from Happiness Research and Theology
1st Edition
By Johan Graafland
September 11, 2026
This book examines how faith and happiness intersect. It reflects on why religion and happiness are positively related, and why believers are often shown to be happier than non-believers. The author provides an overview of existing literature on religion and happiness and draws on in-depth ...
Correlative Worldviews: A Cognitive Perspective on Premodern Cosmologies in South Asia and Europe
1st Edition
By Per-Johan Norelius
September 07, 2026
This book explores the topic of correlative worldviews from a comparative and cognitive perspective. Correlative worldviews are premodern cosmologies that posit linkages between different planes of existence, e.g. between the elements of the body and of the cosmos. Unlike the correlations of modern...
AI Theism: Technology, Divinity, and the Emergence of a New Religious Myth
1st Edition
By Remington Tonar
September 01, 2026
AI Theism examines stories in which artificially intelligent characters are depicted as divine through the lens of religious studies and mythology. Narratives in which conscious technologies such as artificial intelligences are portrayed as divine have proliferated in parallel with advances in AI ...
Toleration, Freedom of Religion, and Church-State Relations in the Thought of the First Baptists: The Garden Walled Off from the Wilderness
1st Edition
By Rafał Prostak
June 19, 2026
This book focuses on the development of Baptist views on religious liberty. It explores the arguments for freedom of conscience and full religious toleration that were formulated in the 17th century by the first Baptists, a particularly persecuted religious current of the English Reformation. The ...
Children, Religion and Development: Perspectives on Spirituality and Practice
1st Edition
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By Kathryn Kraft
June 10, 2026
Drawing from teachings and practices of diverse and distinct religious traditions, this volume takes a unique approach to exploring spiritual aspects of child development which may apply universally to children of all backgrounds. Research with children demonstrates how spirituality is a universal ...
Contemporary Yoga and Sacred Texts
1st Edition
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By Susanne Scholz, Caroline Vander Stichele
May 22, 2026
This book explores the textual traditions that authorize the history, legitimacy, and authenticity of today’s physical posture practice. The volume focuses on why and how yoga communities have adopted various texts that they consider sacred or spiritually meaningful. Among the texts discussed are ...
Demons in the USA: From the Anti-Spiritualists to QAnon
1st Edition
By Michael E. Heyes
May 22, 2026
Demons in the USA argues that the discourse on the demonic that developed in the nineteenth century continues to exert a powerful hold over the American spiritual imagination. The book begins by tracing the conservative Christian encounter with Spiritualism in the nineteenth century and the mode of...
Catholic Sisters, Conflict and Peace in Northern Ireland, 1968-2008
1st Edition
By Briege Rafferty
April 30, 2026
This book offers an in-depth study of Catholic sisters in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, covering the period 1968-2008 from the outbreak of conflict into the era of peace. It investigates the experiences of sisters as they negotiated a changing religious and social landscape alongside the ...
How Somali Muslims Become Christians in Europe: A Theory of Religious Conversion and Disclosure
1st Edition
By Mátyás Bódi
February 27, 2026
Somali Christians constitute one of the world’s most persecuted religious minorities, yet their experiences have received remarkably little scholarly attention. This book offers the first in-depth examination of conversion from Islam to Christianity among Somalis and presents the first empirically ...
Remembering the Dead in Modern China: Religious Rituals of Remembrance
1st Edition
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By Stephen G. Covell, Stuart H. Young, Ying Zeng
February 20, 2026
Remembering the Dead in Modern China is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary volume that brings together diverse scholarly perspectives to examine the complex and evolving practices of death, dying, and remembrance in modern China. Studying the ideals and practices of caring for the dead is essential...
Fratelli Tutti in Conversation: Voices from World Religions
1st Edition
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By Joseph Tham, Sameer Advani
February 03, 2026
This volume explores how major religious traditions engage with Pope Francis’ encyclical Fratelli Tutti, offering comparative insights into fraternity, solidarity, and ethical responsibility in a global bioethical discourse. Bringing together perspectives from Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism...
Networks, Entrepreneurship and Power in Contemporary Spirituality
1st Edition
By Margrethe Løøv
December 31, 2025
Networks, Entrepreneurship and Power in Contemporary Spirituality offers an in-depth analysis of the social organisation of New Age spirituality. Drawing on empirical research in Norway, it considers: What organising principles are at play? How are power and authority exerted? How do spiritual ...