Routledge Studies in Religion
Christian Mysticism’s Queer Flame: Spirituality in the Lives of Contemporary Gay Men
1st Edition
By Michael Bernard Kelly
June 30, 2020
Is the Christian mystical tradition a relic of another time, shaped by celibates for celibates, unable to engage meaningfully with people of our time who embrace their corporeality and sexuality as crucial aspects of their journey towards union with God? This book reflects in serious theological ...
Government Surveillance of Religious Expression: Mormons, Quakers, and Muslims in the United States
1st Edition
By Kathryn Montalbano
June 30, 2020
Recent revelations about government surveillance of citizens have led to questions about whether there should be better defined boundaries around privacy. Should government officials have the right to specifically target certain groups for extended surveillance? United States municipal, territorial...
Hinduism and Hindu Nationalism Online
1st Edition
By Juli L. Gittinger
June 30, 2020
The way people encounter ideas of Hinduism online is often shaped by global discourses of religion, pervasive Orientalism and (post)colonial scholarship. This book addresses a gap in the scholarly debate around defining Hinduism by demonstrating the role of online discourses in generating and ...
Religious Boundaries for Sex, Gender, and Corporeality
1st Edition
Edited
By Alexandra Cuffel, Ana Echevarria, Georgios T. Halkias
June 30, 2020
The ambiguity concerning the interpretation of the ‘physical body’ in religious thought is not peculiar to any given religion, but is discernible in the scriptures, practices, and disciplines in most of the world’s major religious traditions. This book seeks to address the nuances of difference ...
The Desecularisation of the City: London’s Churches, 1980 to the Present
1st Edition
Edited
By David Goodhew, Anthony-Paul Cooper
June 30, 2020
Major cities have long been seen as centres of secularisation. However, the number of congregations in London grew by 50% between 1979 and the present. London’s churches have been characterised more by growth than by decline in the decades since 1980. The Desecularisation of the City provides ...
Liberal Religion: Progressive versions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
1st Edition
By Emanuel de Kadt
December 17, 2019
In recent years, there has been an upsurge of interest in religion and religious issues. Some have linked this to a neo-liberal form of individualism, while others noted that secularism has left people bereft of a humanly necessary link with the transcendent. The importance of identity issues has ...
Christian and Islamic Theology of Religions: A Critical Appraisal
1st Edition
By Esra Akay Dag
December 12, 2019
Theologians have had to increasingly engage with beliefs and practises outside of their own traditions. The resultant "theology of religions" is, however, often formulated in isolation from the religions they are describing. This book provides a comparison of the development of theology of ...
European Muslims Transforming the Public Sphere: Religious Participation in the Arts, Media and Civil Society
1st Edition
By Asmaa Soliman
December 12, 2019
Anti-Muslim voices have become louder in many places in the midst of ongoing atrocities undertaken in the name of Islam. As a result, much of the creative participation of Western Muslims in the public sphere has become overshadowed. This tendency is not only visible in political discussions and ...
From Presumption to Prudence in Just-War Rationality
1st Edition
By Kevin Carnahan
December 12, 2019
For the last several decades, the Just-War debate amongst theologians has been dominated by two accounts of moral rationality. One side assumes a presumption against harm (PAH), and the other identifies with a presumption against injustice (PAI). From Presumption to Prudence in Just-War Rationality...
Hans Mol and the Sociology of Religion
1st Edition
By Adam J. Powell
December 12, 2019
Hans Mol was born in the Netherlands during the 1920s. His imprisonment by the Gestapo during World War II began a long intellectual journey, exploring the role of religion in society. His work on the sociology of religion throughout the 20th and 21st Century is distinctive in its quest for both ...
Radical Orthodoxy in a Pluralistic World: Desire, Beauty, and the Divine
1st Edition
By Angus M. Slater
December 12, 2019
Radical Orthodoxy remains an important movement within Christian theology, but does it relate effectively with an increasingly pluralist and secular Western society? Can it authentically communicate the beauty and desire of the divine to such a diverse collection of theological accounts of meaning?...
Spiritual and Social Transformation in African American Spiritual Churches: More than Conjurers
1st Edition
By Margarita Simon Guillory
December 12, 2019
At the core of African American religion’s response to social inequalities has been a symbiotic relationship between socio-political activism and spiritual restoration. Drawing on archival material and ethnographic fieldwork with African American Spiritual Churches in the USA, this book examines ...