Routledge Studies in Religion
Religious Authorities and Practices of Conflict Resolution
1st Edition
Edited
By Carla Bagnoli, Vincenzo Pacillo
November 17, 2025
Religious diversity raises challenges that reverberate at multiple social and political levels. Religious institutions are sources of authoritative claims for believers. They play a crucial role in the articulation and negotiation of domestic conflicts within multicultural societies as well as at ...
Event Religion and European Festival Experience: Concepts and Case Studies
1st Edition
By Sára E. Heidl
November 14, 2025
This book contributes to empirical research on festivals and presents a model of ‘event religion’ for interpreting festival experiences from a religious studies perspective. It features a comparison of three Hungarian case studies with different backgrounds - a mindfulness festival, a Catholic ...
Women in Chinese Buddhism: Rights, Spirituality and the Path to Freedom
1st Edition
By Jessica Huset Tilton
October 06, 2025
Tilton examines how cultural, political and economic forces exert pressures on the levels of freedom and equality for female Buddhists within the Buddhist community as well as women’s rights within society. The book charts women’s spiritual paths over four periods beginning with the Buddha and his ...
Millennialism, Millerites, and Prophecy in Bahá’í Discourse
1st Edition
By William P. Collins
September 22, 2025
This book explores the role of millennialism, the Millerites, and prophecy in the historical development of the Bahá’í faith, especially in North America. The author demonstrates the importance of the Bahá’í religion to millennialism studies and its connection to certain Protestant American and ...
The Making and Unmaking of the Psychology of Religion
1st Edition
By Matei Iagher
July 31, 2025
This book examines the rise and demise of the psychology of religion in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Europe and the United States. It considers the formation of the psychology of religion as an international movement, an enterprise whose goal was to refashion the science of religion at...
Global Lutheranism in the Contemporary World: Luther’s Realm
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Cimino
July 18, 2025
This book explores Lutheranism and its various expressions throughout the world. This Protestant tradition has spread and developed far from its European and American heartlands to take on increasingly diverse forms. The global dispersion of Lutheranism and how it interacts with different cultures ...
Monotheism in the New Religious Movements of Japan: Historical and Taxonomical Challenges in Western Studies
1st Edition
By Kegan A. Chandler
June 30, 2025
This book calls for a reformation of the image of monotheism in studies of Japanese religions and in the study of religions in general. According to most scholars, “Japan” and “monotheism” mix like oil and water. Whatever Japanese religion is, we are told, the “Western” category of monotheism ...
The Catholic Church and Transnational Moral Norms in the Philippines: Contraception, Human Trafficking, and Religion
1st Edition
By Jonathan T. Chow
June 30, 2025
Jonathan T. Chow explores the Roman Catholic Church’s engagement with transnational human rights norms and how its understandings of Catholic identity and doctrine have profoundly shaped the politics surrounding contraception and human trafficking in the Philippines. In the global politics of ...
Islamic Philosophy of Religion: Essays from Analytic Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Mohammad Saleh Zarepour
June 27, 2025
This volume focuses on Islamic philosophy of religion with a range of contributions from analytic perspectives. It opens with methodological discussions on the relationship between the history of Islamic philosophy and contemporary analytic philosophy. The book then offers a philosophical ...
Rediscovering Humanitarianism: Using Secular and Religious Histories to Provide New Understandings of Refugee Resettlement
1st Edition
Edited
By Jessica Stroja
June 06, 2025
This book provides a new approach to understanding the histories of refugee resettlement and their relevance for contemporary emergencies. By drawing on histories of faith-based humanitarianism from 1917 to the present, it explores how faith-based organisations have engaged with refugee aid and the...
Religion in the Market Era: The Rise of Market Islam, the Revenge of Confucius, and Other Stories From a Global Age
1st Edition
By François Gauthier
May 30, 2025
This book aims to expand the limits of the social-scientific study of religion and define a coherent model of recent global transformations of religion, challenging the paradigm of secularisation and post-secularisation. Using a wide-ranging selection of case studies, including global Islam, ...
Communist Perspectives on Atheism in the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Eva Guigo-Patzelt
May 19, 2025
This book offers an analysis of the wide range of attitudes that communist movements and regimes adopted towards atheism during the 20th century. Despite the well-known violent fight of the Bolsheviks against believers, for example, and religious persecution in communist regimes at different times,...