Routledge Studies in Religion
Modern Debates on Prophecy and Prophethood in Islam: Muhammad Iqbal and Said Nursi
1st Edition
By Mahsheed Ansari
November 28, 2024
While prophethood is the backbone of the Islamic tradition and an uncompromised tenet of faith, the impact of modernity with its ambivalent status afforded to the prophet and institution of prophethood shook many Muslim scholars. Through analysis of these modern debates on prophethood in Islam, ...
Reconsidering Catholic Lay Womanhood: Pious Transgressors in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century England
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By Kathryn G. Lamontagne
November 28, 2024
This book offers a new perspective on the often-overlooked lives of lay women in the English Roman Catholic Church. It explores how over a century ago in England some exceptional Catholic lay women – Margaret Fletcher, Maude Petre, Radclyffe Hall, and Mabel Batten - negotiated non-traditional ...
Alternative Spirituality, Counterculture, and European Rainbow Gatherings: Pachamama, I’m Coming Home
1st Edition
By Katri Ratia
October 09, 2024
This book explores the phenomenon of Rainbow Gatherings in Europe. These countercultural events form radically alternative temporary societies in the peripheries of modern states and manage themselves without centralized power, market economy or institutionalized forms of religion. The volume ...
Interreligious Encounters in Europe: Sites, Materialities and Practices
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By Jan Winkler, Laura Haddad, Julia Martínez-Ariño, Giulia Mezzetti
October 08, 2024
This book examines interreligious dialogue in Europe and how interreligious encounters are framed, expressed and practised. Throughout Europe religious identities have increasingly become significant categories within debates on migration, cohesion, diversity and belonging. By focusing on the ...
Religious Freedom and the Global Regulation of Ayahuasca
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By Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Clancy Cavnar
October 08, 2024
This book offers a comprehensive view of the legal, political, and ethical challenges related to the global regulation of ayahuasca, bringing together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars. Ayahuasca is a psychoactive brew containing N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT), which is a ...
Christian Orthodox Migrants in Western Europe: Secularization and Modernity through the Lens of the Gift Paradigm
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By Maria Hämmerli
October 04, 2024
Christian Orthodox Migrants in Western Europe: Secularization and Modernity through the Lens of the Gift Paradigm explores a religious community that has been getting increasing scholarly attention. While most of the literature in the field looks at this religious tradition in terms of its alleged ...
Demons in the USA: From the Anti-Spiritualists to QAnon
1st Edition
By Michael E. Heyes
September 24, 2024
Demons in the USA argues that the discourse on the demonic that developed in the nineteenth century continues to exert a powerful hold over the American spiritual imagination. The book begins by tracing the conservative Christian encounter with Spiritualism in the nineteenth century and the mode of...
Contemporary Yoga and Sacred Texts
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By Susanne Scholz, Caroline Vander Stichele
September 10, 2024
This book explores the textual traditions that authorize the history, legitimacy, and authenticity of today’s physical posture practice. The volume focuses on why and how yoga communities have adopted various texts that they consider sacred or spiritually meaningful. Among the texts discussed are ...
Pope Francis’s Synod on Synodality and Modern Sociology: Exploring Behavioral and Research Aspects
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By Vivencio Ballano
August 28, 2024
This book focuses on the value and necessity of modern sociology to Pope Francis’s church reform project known as the Synod on Synodality. It explores the behavioral and research aspects of this latest synod, applying sociological perspectives and methods and drawing on secondary literature, media ...
Religions Are Remixes: Rethinking Originality, Authenticity, and Authority in the Study of Religion
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By Seth M. Walker
July 26, 2024
This book utilizes an approach that centers on remix theory and conceptual metaphor theory, arguing for an examination of the study of religion via a model for analyzing cultural constructs that the author terms Remix+/-. After discerning the metaphorical correspondences underlying his argument, ...
Knowledge, Authority, and Islamic Education in the West: Reconfiguring Tradition
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By Zainab Kabba
June 28, 2024
Drawing on immersive fieldwork in the United States, Canada, and Turkey, this ethnographic exploration illuminates the transformative experiences of emerging adult Muslims on their quest for religious knowledge. This book unravels the significance of four residential learning settings, revealing ...
Retired Missionaries and Faith in a Changing Society
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By Carmel Gallagher
June 03, 2024
Retired Missionaries and Faith in a Changing Society offers a sociological study of the Irish missionary diaspora. It draws on a series of interviews with female and male Catholic missionaries, mainly nuns and priests, who have worked in Asia, Africa and Central and South America, and who have ...