Routledge Studies in Religion
The Origin of Heresy: A History of Discourse in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity
1st Edition
By Robert M. Royalty
June 23, 2015
Heresy is a central concept in the formation of Orthodox Christianity. Where does this notion come from? This book traces the construction of the idea of ‘heresy’ in the rhetoric of ideological disagreements in Second Temple Jewish and early Christian texts and in the development of the polemical ...
Religions in Movement: The Local and the Global in Contemporary Faith Traditions
1st Edition
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By Robert Hefner, John Hutchinson, Sara Mels, Christiane Timmerman
June 08, 2015
There has long been a debate about implications of globalization for the survival of the world of sovereign nation-states, and the role of nationalism as both an agent of and a response to globalization. In contrast, until recently there has been much less debate about the fate of religion. ‘...
Buddhism and Violence: Militarism and Buddhism in Modern Asia
1st Edition
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By Vladimir Tikhonov, Torkel Brekke
May 21, 2015
It is generally accepted in the West that Buddhism is a ‘peaceful’ religion. The Western public tends to assume that the doctrinal rejection of violence in Buddhism would make Buddhist pacifists, and often expects Buddhist societies or individual Asian Buddhists to conform to the modern Western ...
Judaism and Collective Life: Self and Community in the Religious Kibbutz
1st Edition
By Aryei Fishman
May 07, 2015
Examining the relationship between Judaism as a religious culture and kibbutz life, this is a ground-breaking work in the research of Judaism.The book takes as its point of departure the historical fact that it was Orthodox pioneers of German origin, in contrast to their Eastern European ...
Shared Idioms, Sacred Symbols, and the Articulation of Identities in South Asia
1st Edition
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By Kelly Pemberton, Michael Nijhawan
April 23, 2015
How do text, performance, and rhetoric simultaneously reflect and challenge notions of distinct community and religious identities? This volume examines evidence of shared idioms of sanctity within a larger framework of religious nationalism, literary productions, and communalism in South Asia. ...
Negative Theology and Modern French Philosophy
1st Edition
By Arthur Bradley
December 22, 2014
This book provides a significant and insightful exploration of the so-called 'theological turn' in contemporary French thought. The philosopher Jacques Derrida speaks of a deeply ambiguous desire to 'save the name' of God in his work on negative theology, and this desire resonates in different ways...
Gender and Power in Contemporary Spirituality: Ethnographic Approaches
1st Edition
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By Anna Fedele, Kim Knibbe
September 11, 2014
This book explores the entanglements of gender and power in spiritual practices and analyzes strategies used by spiritual practitioners to attain what to social scientists might seem an impossible goal: creating spiritual communities without creating gendered hierarchies. What strategies do ...
Abrogation in the Qur’an and Islamic Law
1st Edition
By Louay Fatoohi
July 03, 2014
This book examines in detail the concept of "abrogation" in the Qur’an, which has played a major role in the development of Islamic law and has implications for understanding the history and integrity of the Qur’anic text. The term has gained popularity in recent years, as Muslim groups and ...
Adam Smith as Theologian
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By Paul Oslington
July 03, 2014
Adam Smith wrote in a Scotland where Calvinism, Continental natural law theory, Stoic philosophy, and the Newtonian tradition of scientific natural theology were key to the intellectual lives of his contemporaries. But what impact did these ideas have on Smith’s system? What was Smith’s ...
Aquinas and Radical Orthodoxy: A Critical Inquiry
1st Edition
By Paul DeHart
July 03, 2014
Aquinas and Radical Orthodoxy investigates the encounter of the most vibrant and controversial trend in recent theology with the greatest Christian thinker of the Middle Ages. The book describes Radical Orthodoxy’s orientation and highlights those anti-secular strategies and intellectual influences...
Material Religion and Popular Culture
1st Edition
By E. Frances King
July 03, 2014
In this study, E. Frances King explores how people first learn to relate to the images and artefacts of religious belief within their domestic environments. As a sense of religious belonging is instilled on a daily basis in the home, it also becomes emotionally linked to family, community, and ...
Theology, Creation, and Environmental Ethics: From Creatio Ex Nihilo to Terra Nullius
1st Edition
By Whitney Bauman
June 19, 2014
Winner of the John Templeton Award for Theological Promise, 2009 This book argues that the Christian doctrine of creatio ex nihilo (creation out of nothing) sets up a support system for a "logic of domination" toward human and earth others. Conceptually inspired by the work of theologian Catherine ...