Routledge Studies in Religion
Orthodox Christian Identity in Western Europe: Contesting Religious Authority
1st Edition
By Sebastian Rimestad
May 30, 2022
This book analyses the discourses of Orthodox Christianity in Western Europe to demonstrate the emerging discrepancies between the mother Church in the East and its newer Western congregations. Showing the genesis and development of these discourses over the twentieth century, it examines the ...
Spirit Possession and Communication in Religious and Cultural Contexts
1st Edition
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By Caroline Blyth
May 30, 2022
Spirit Possession and Communication in Religious and Cultural Contexts explores the phenomenon of spirit possession, focusing on the religious and cultural functions it serves as a means of communication. Drawing on the multidisciplinary expertise of philosophers, anthropologists, historians, ...
Asian Philosophies and the Idea of Religion: Beyond Faith and Reason
1st Edition
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By Sonia Sikka, Ashwani Peetush
May 06, 2022
With a focus on Asian traditions, this book examines varieties of thought and self-transformative practice that do not fit neatly on one side or another of the standard Western division between philosophy and religion. It contains chapters by experts on Buddhist, Confucian, Taoist, Hindu and Jain ...
Muslim Minorities and Social Cohesion: Cultural Fragmentation in the West
1st Edition
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By Abe Ata
May 06, 2022
This book examines various attempts in the ‘West’ to manage cultural, linguistic, and religious diversity – focusing on Muslim minorities in predominantly non-Muslim societies. An international panel of contributors chart evolving national identities and social values, assessing the way that both ...
Themes in Religion and Human Security in Africa
1st Edition
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By Joram Tarusarira, Ezra Chitando
May 06, 2022
This book reflects on major themes present at the interface between religion and human security in Africa. It probes the extent to which religion is both a threat to and a resource for human security in Africa by examining specific issues occurring across the continent. A team of contributors from...
Vedantic Hinduism in Colonial Bengal: Reformed Hinduism and Western Protestantism
1st Edition
By Victor A. van Bijlert
May 06, 2022
This book explores the ways in which modern Hindu identities were constructed in the early nineteenth century. It draws parallels between sixteenth and eventeenth Cecntury Protestantism and the rise of modernity in the West, and the Hindu reformation in the nineteenth century which contributed to ...
Islam, IS and the Fragmented State: The Challenges of Political Islam in the MENA Region
1st Edition
By Anoushiravan Ehteshami, Amjed Rasheed, Juline Beaujouan
April 29, 2022
This book provides a pioneering and original study of the regional effects of political Islam. It sets out the multifaceted interactions between Islam and politics in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, focussing in particular on the so-called Islamic State (IS) organization in its ...
Religion, Migration, and Existential Wellbeing
1st Edition
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By Moa Kindström Dahlin, Oscar Larsson, Anneli Winell
April 29, 2022
This book uses the very latest research to examine current interactions between religion, migration and existential wellbeing. In particular, it demonstrates the role of religion and religious organizations in the social, medical and existential wellbeing of immigrants within their host societies. ...
Seeing God in Our Birth Experiences: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry into Pre and Perinatal Religious Development.
1st Edition
By Helen Holmes
April 29, 2022
There has been a recent surge in the examination of the evolutionary roots of religious belief, all trying to identify where the human desire to seek the supernatural and the divine comes from. This book adds a new and innovative perspective to this line of thought by being the first to link ...
Contemporary Jewish Writing: Austria After Waldheim
1st Edition
By Andrea Reiter
August 09, 2018
This book examines Jewish writers and intellectuals in Austria, analyzing filmic and electronic media alongside more traditional publication formats over the last 25 years. Beginning with the Waldheim affair and the rhetorical response by the three most prominent members of the survivor generation ...
God and Natural Order: Physics, Philosophy, and Theology
1st Edition
By Shaun C. Henson
February 12, 2018
In God and Natural Order: Physics, Philosophy, and Theology, Shaun Henson brings a theological approach to bear on contemporary scientific and philosophical debates on the ordered or disordered nature of the universe. Henson engages arguments for a unified theory of the laws of nature, a concept ...
Just War and the Ethics of Espionage
1st Edition
By Darrell Cole
February 12, 2018
The War on Terror has raised many new, thorny issues of how we can determine acceptable action in defense of our liberties. Western leaders have increasingly used spies to execute missions unsuitable to the military. These operations, which often result in the contravening of international law and ...