Routledge Studies in Religion
Hindu Bhakti Through Muslim Eyes: Islam and Caitanya Vaiṣṇavism in the Twenty-First Century
1st Edition
By R. David Coolidge
May 16, 2025
Hindu Bhakti Through Muslim Eyes puts the Caitanya Vaiṣṇava tradition of devotion to Krishna in scholarly conversation with Islam for the first time. It builds on a millennium of Muslim reflections regarding Hindu theology and practice, despite common assumptions that Hindus and Muslims are ...
The Environment of Compassion: Ecology, Religion, and Embodied Story
1st Edition
By Cia Sautter
May 09, 2025
The Environment of Compassion explores questions of what it means to be in relationship to nature, if and how it is a religious experience, and how understanding humans as part of nature alters theology. The book offers a performance perspective that looks at ritual, dance, and theatre as a means ...
Interreligious Dialogue Models: From the Life of the Prophet Muhammad
1st Edition
By Alwani Ghazali, Muhammad Kamal
May 06, 2025
How did the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) converse and engage with other religious believers? Did he start off with prejudice and mistrust? Or was he convivial and open-minded? This book analyses six models of the dealings in the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), specifically, but not restricted, ...
Understanding Petitionary Prayer: Ask, and Ye Might Receive
1st Edition
By Shane Sharp
April 29, 2025
This book explores the “whats,” “whys,” and “hows” of petitionary prayer. Millions of people every single day ask God or some other supernatural being to make some outcome or event happen, whether it be to keep their children safe during a road trip, to give them the willpower to avoid succumbing ...
Judaizing Christianity and Christian Zionism in Northern Ireland: For God, Israel, and Ulster
1st Edition
By Véronique Altglas
April 22, 2025
This book explores the contemporary Judaization of evangelical Christianity through the ethnography of a Messianic congregation in Northern Ireland. A constellation of Messianic "congregations" have expanded worldwide over recent years, combining Jewish liturgy, symbols, and artifacts with ...
Religion Extended: How Perception, Embodiment, and Practice Underlie Religion
1st Edition
By Elena Kalmykova
April 01, 2025
Religion Extended contributes to discussions of aspects of religion that go beyond the epistemology of belief, incorporating other states such as understanding, emotion, knowledge of persons, knowledge-how, as well as practice. The author looks to bridge the gap in the study of religion between ...
Conceptualizing Islam: Current Approaches
1st Edition
Edited
By Frank Peter, Paula Schrode, Ricarda Stegmann
March 31, 2025
In recent decades, academic debates on how to conceptualize ‘Islam’ as an object of study and how to approach it theoretically have been revitalized. Not only has research on Islam grown enormously and become much more differentiated, but Islam is also being discussed more intensively in society ...
New Zealand Churches Respond to the Covid-19 Protection Framework: Loving Our Neighbours?
1st Edition
By Miryam Clough
March 04, 2025
This book examines the ways in which New Zealand’s churches interpreted Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s “Covid-19 Protection Framework,” which saw unvaccinated New Zealanders excluded from access to many aspects of civil life, including church attendance. The book considers the socio-political ...
Tolerance and Intolerance in Religion and Beyond: Challenges from the Past and in the Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Anne Sarah Matviyets, Giuseppe Veltri, Jörg Rüpke
January 30, 2025
This book focuses on religious tolerance and intolerance in terms of practices, institutions, and intellectual habits. It brings together an array of historical and anthropological studies and philosophical, cognitive, and psychological explorations by established scholars from a range of ...
Gender Inequality in the Ordained Ministry of the Church of England: Examining Conservative Male Clergy Responses to Women Priests and Bishops
1st Edition
By Alex D.J. Fry
December 18, 2024
This book offers a fresh social scientific analysis of how theologically conservative male clergy respond to the ordination of women to the priesthood and their consecration as bishops within the Church of England. The question of women’s place in the formal structures of England’s Established ...
Religious Responses to Pandemics and Crises: Isolation, Survival, and #Covidchaos
1st Edition
Edited
By Sravana Borkataky-Varma, Christian A. Eberhart, Marianne Bjelland Kartzow
December 18, 2024
Religious Responses to Pandemics and Crises explores various dimensions of the interrelations between the individual, community, and religion. With their global scope, the contributions to this volume represent reflections on the rich and multifaceted spectrum of human responses in a variety of ...
Scientific Atheism in East Germany (1963-1990): How to Turn a Hare into a Lion
1st Edition
By Eva Guigo-Patzelt
December 02, 2024
This book offers an in-depth, archive-based analysis of “scientific atheism”, focused on the development of the field in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Scientific atheism was established as a Soviet import in 1963 at Jena University, with a presence in East German universities, propaganda ...