Routledge Studies in Religion
Jews and Muslims in London and Amsterdam: Conflict and Cooperation, 1990-2020
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By Sipco J. Vellenga, Gerard A. Wiegers
May 27, 2024
This book focuses on the development of bilateral Jewish-Muslim relations in London and Amsterdam since the late-1980s. It offers a comparative analysis that considers both similarities and differences, drawing on historical, social scientific, and religious studies perspectives. The authors ...
Muslims of Post-Communist Eurasia
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By Galina M. Yemelianova, Egdūnas Račius
May 27, 2024
This book discusses the evolution of state governance of Islam and the nature and forms of local Muslims’ rediscovery of their ‘Muslimness’ across post-communist Eurasia. It examines the effects on the Islamic scene of the political and ideological divergence of Central and South-Eastern Europe ...
Religious Responses to Sex Work and Sex Trafficking: An Outrage Against Any Decent People
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By Lauren McGrow
May 27, 2024
This book examines the history, theological beliefs and current contextual practices of faith-based NGOs who work in the area of human trafficking that involves the sex industry. There are hundreds of religious organizations around the globe who minister with human trafficking survivors and sex ...
Balkan Contextual Theology: An Introduction
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By Stipe Odak, Zoran Grozdanov
January 29, 2024
This book opens a new research field in Balkan contextual theology. By embracing culturally rich traditions of the Western Balkans as its starting point, it explores their existential and theological bearings. Placed at the crossroads of civilisations and religions, this region has witnessed some ...
Contrasts in Religion, Community, and Structure at Three Homeless Shelters: Changing Lives
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By Ines W. Jindra, Michael Jindra, Sarah DeGenero
January 29, 2024
How do people in poverty and homelessness change their lives and get back on their feet? Homeless shelters across the world play a huge role in this process. Many of them are religious, but there is a lot of diversity in faith-based non-profits that assist people affected by poverty and ...
Metamorphoses of Religion and Spirituality in Central and Eastern Europe
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By Sławomir H. Zaręba, Maria Sroczyńska, Roberto Cipriani, Marcin Choczyński, Wojciech Klimski
January 29, 2024
This book offers a range of contemporary sociological reflections on new manifestations of religion, religiosity, and spirituality in Central and Eastern Europe, a region that has seen significant social and political transformation. It explores the development of cultural and religious trends, ...
Religious and Non-Religious Perspectives on Happiness and Wellbeing
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By Sharada Sugirtharajah
January 29, 2024
This book explores the theme of happiness and well-being from religious, spiritual, philosophical, psychological, humanistic, and health perspectives. Taking a non-binary approach, it considers how happiness in particular has been understood and appropriated in religious and non-religious strands ...
Catholic Peacebuilding and Mining: Integral Peace, Development, and Ecology
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By Caesar A. Montevecchio, Gerard F. Powers
September 25, 2023
This book explores the role of Catholic peacebuilding in addressing the global mining industry. Mining is intimately linked to issues of conflict, human rights, sustainable development, governance, and environmental justice. As an institution of significant scope and scale with a large network of ...
Religion, Discourse, and Society: Towards a Discursive Sociology of Religion
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By Marcus Moberg
September 25, 2023
This book focuses on the utility and application of discourse theory and discourse analysis in the sociological study of religious change. It presents an outline of what a ‘discursive sociology of religion’ looks like and brings scholarly attention to the role of language and discourse as a ...
An Anthropology of the Qur’an
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By Ahmed Achrati
May 31, 2023
This book presents an anthropological study of the Qur’an, offering an unprecedented challenge to some of the epistemological and metaphysical assumptions of the tawḥīdic discourses. Combining primary textual materials and anthropological analysis, this book examines transcendence as a core ...
Enhancement Fit for Humanity: Perspectives on Emerging Technologies
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By Michael Baggot, Alberto García Gómez, Alberto Carrara, Joseph Tham
May 31, 2023
This book explores what constitutes an enhancement fit for humanity in the age of nanotechnologies, biotechnologies, information technologies, and technologies related to the cognitive sciences. It considers the influence of emergent technology upon our understanding of human nature and the impact ...
Jewish Approaches to Hinduism: A History of Ideas from Judah Ha-Levi to Jacob Sapir (12th–19th centuries)
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By Richard G. Marks
May 31, 2023
This book explores past expressions of the Jewish interest in Hinduism in order to learn what Hinduism has meant to Jews living mainly in the 12th through the 19th centuries. India and Hinduism, though never at the center of Jewish thought, claim a place in its history, in the picture Jews held of ...