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
1st Edition
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 ...
Religious Ethics and Migration: Doing Justice to Undocumented Workers
1st Edition
By Ilsup Ahn
October 14, 2024
What does it mean to provide justice for undocumented workers who have been living among us without proper legal documentation? How can we do justice to the undocumented migrants who have been doing the low-skilled, low-paid jobs unwanted by citizens? Why should we even try to do justice for people...
Science and Religion: One Planet, Many Possibilities
1st Edition
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By Lucas F. Johnston, Whitney Bauman
October 14, 2024
This collection offers new perspectives on the study of science and religion, bringing together articles that highlight the differences between epistemological systems and call into question the dominant narrative of modern science. The volume provides historical context for the contemporary ...
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
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
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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 ...
Begging, Street Politics and Power: The Religious and Secular Regulation of Begging in India and Pakistan
1st Edition
By Sheba Saeed
May 27, 2024
Begging, Street Politics and Power explores the complex phenomenon of begging in the context of two different religions and societies in South Asia. Focusing on India and Pakistan, the book provides an in-depth examination of the religious and secular laws regulating begging along with discussion ...
Domestic Demons and the Intimate Uncanny
1st Edition
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By Thomas G. Kirsch, Kirsten Mahlke, Rijk van Dijk
May 27, 2024
This book explores local cultural discourses and practices relating to manifestations and experiences of the demonic, the spectral and the uncanny, probing into their effects on people’s domestic and intimate spheres of life. The chapters examine the uncanny in a cross-cultural manner, involving ...