Routledge Studies in Religion
Making Sense of the Secular: Critical Perspectives from Europe to Asia
1st Edition
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By Ranjan Ghosh
May 31, 2017
This book offers a wide range of critical perspectives on how secularism unfolds and has been made sense of across Europe and Asia. The book evaluates secularism as it exists today – its formations and discontents within contemporary discourses of power, terror, religion and cosmopolitanism – and ...
Popular Music in Evangelical Youth Culture
1st Edition
By Stella Lau
May 31, 2017
Christian churches and groups within Anglo-American contexts have increasingly used popular music as a way to connect with young people. This book investigates the relationships between evangelical Christianity and popular music, focusing particularly on electronic dance music in the last twenty ...
The Rise of Modern Jewish Politics: Extraordinary Movement
1st Edition
By C.S. Monaco
May 31, 2017
The path toward modern Jewish politics, a process that required a dramatic reconstruction of Jewish life, may have emerged during a far earlier time frame and in a different geographic and cultural context than has previously been thought. Drawing upon current sociological understanding of social ...
Theology and the Science of Moral Action: Virtue Ethics, Exemplarity, and Cognitive Neuroscience
1st Edition
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By James A. Van Slyke, Gregory Peterson, Warren S. Brown, Kevin S. Reimer, Michael L. Spezio
May 24, 2017
The past decade has witnessed a renaissance in scientific approaches to the study of morality. Once understood to be the domain of moral psychology, the newer approach to morality is largely interdisciplinary, driven in no small part by developments in behavioural economics and evolutionary biology...
David’s Jerusalem: Between Memory and History
1st Edition
By Daniel Pioske
March 29, 2017
The history of David’s Jerusalem remains one of the most contentious topics of the ancient world. This study engages with debates about the nature of this location by examining the most recent archaeological data from the site and by exploring the relationship of these remains to claims made about ...
Eschatology and the Technological Future
1st Edition
By Michael S. Burdett
March 29, 2017
The rapid advancement of technology has led to an explosion of speculative theories about what the future of humankind may look like. These "technological futurisms" have arisen from significant advances in the fields of nanotechnology, biotechnology and information technology and are drawing ...
Resurrection and Reception in Early Christianity
1st Edition
By Richard C. Miller
March 29, 2017
This book offers an original interpretation of the origin and early reception of the most fundamental claim of Christianity: Jesus’ resurrection. Richard Miller contends that the earliest Christians would not have considered the New Testament accounts of Jesus’ resurrection to be literal or ...
Scripturalizing the Human: The Written as the Political
1st Edition
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By Vincent L. Wimbush
March 29, 2017
Scripturalizing the Human is a transdisciplinary collection of essays that reconceptualizes and models "scriptural studies" as a critical, comparative set of practices with broad ramifications for scholars of religion and biblical studies. This critical historical and ethnographic project is ...
Translating Religion: What is Lost and Gained?
1st Edition
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By Michael DeJonge, Christiane Tietz
March 29, 2017
Translating Religion advances thinking about translation as a critical category in religious studies, combining theoretical reflection about processes of translation in religion with focused case studies that are international, interdisciplinary, and interreligious. By operating with broad ...
Theology and the Arts: Engaging Faith
1st Edition
By Ruth Illman, W. Alan Smith
December 18, 2015
This book brings the emerging fields of practical theology and theology of the arts into a dialogue beyond the bias of modern systematic and constructive theology. The authors draw upon postmodern, post-secular, feminist, liberation, and dialogical/dialectical philosophy and theology, and their ...
Metaphysics and Transcendence
1st Edition
By Arthur Gibson
September 08, 2015
Metaphysics and Transcendence takes up this story for the future. Arthur Gibson presents a new metaphysics with a genealogy based on counter-intuition and locates counter-intuition and complexity at the foundations of truth. Having devised fresh concepts on the basis of the new frontiers of science...
Foucault, Christianity and Interfaith Dialogue
1st Edition
By Henrique Pinto
August 07, 2015
Foucault, Christianity and Interfaith Dialogue develops a new model for interfaith dialogue using the work of the French historian of ideas, Michel Foucault. The author argues that it is the injustice done to the 'Other' by Roman Catholic, Protestant and other centred and unitary models of ...