Routledge Studies in Religion
Making European Muslims: Religious Socialization Among Young Muslims in Scandinavia and Western Europe
1st Edition
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By Mark Sedgwick
February 12, 2018
Making European Muslims provides an in-depth examination of what it means to be a young Muslim in Europe today, where the assumptions, values and behavior of the family and those of the majority society do not always coincide. Focusing on the religious socialization of Muslim children at home, in ...
Queering Religion, Religious Queers
1st Edition
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By Yvette Taylor, Ria Snowdon
February 12, 2018
This collection considers how religious identity interplays with other forms and contexts of identity, specifically those related to sexual identity. It asks how these intersections are formed, negotiated and resisted across time and places, including the UK, Europe, North America, Australia, and ...
Religion, Gender, and the Public Sphere
1st Edition
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By Niamh Reilly, Stacey Scriver
February 12, 2018
The re-emergence of religion as a significant cultural, social and political, force is not gender neutral. Tensions between claims for women’s equality and the rights of sexual minorities on one side and the claims of religions on the other side are well-documented across all major religions and ...
Sainthood and Race: Marked Flesh, Holy Flesh
1st Edition
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By Molly H. Bassett, Vincent W. Lloyd
February 12, 2018
In popular imagination, saints exhibit the best characteristics of humanity, universally recognizable but condensed and embodied in an individual. Recent scholarship has asked an array of questions concerning the historical and social contexts of sainthood, and opened new approaches to its study. ...
A Theology of Community Organizing: Power to the People
1st Edition
By Chris Shannahan
February 06, 2018
The rising importance of community organizing in the US and more recently in Britain has coincided with the developing significance of social movements and identity politics, debates about citizenship, social capital, civil society, and religion in the public sphere. At a time when participation in...
William James's Hidden Religious Imagination: A Universe of Relations
1st Edition
By Jeremy Carrette
February 06, 2018
This book offers a radical new reading of William James’s work on the idea of ‘religion.’ Moving beyond previous psychological and philosophical interpretations, it uncovers a dynamic, imaginative, and critical use of the category of religion. This work argues that we can only fully understand ...
An Introduction to Jacob Boehme: Four Centuries of Thought and Reception
1st Edition
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By Ariel Hessayon, Sarah Apetrei
February 05, 2018
This volume brings together for the first time some of the world’s leading authorities on the German mystic Jacob Boehme, to illuminate his thought and its reception over four centuries for the benefit of students and advanced scholars alike. Boehme’s theosophical works have influenced Western ...
Animal Ethics and Theology: The Lens of the Good Samaritan
1st Edition
By Daniel Miller
February 05, 2018
In this book, Daniel K. Miller articulates a new vision of human and animal relationships based on the foundational love ethic within Christianity. Framed around Jesus’ parable of the Good Samaritan, Animal Ethics and Theology thoughtfully examines the shortcomings of utilitarian and rights-based ...
Globalization and Orthodox Christianity: The Transformations of a Religious Tradition
1st Edition
By Victor Roudometof
June 16, 2017
With approximately 200 to 300 million adherents worldwide, Orthodox Christianity is among the largest branches of Christianity, yet it remains relatively understudied. This book examines the rich and complex entanglements between Orthodox Christianity and globalization, offering a substantive ...
A New Science of Religion
1st Edition
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By Greg Dawes, James Maclaurin
May 31, 2017
Religious belief, once in the domain of the humanities, has found a new home in the sciences. Promising new developments in the study of religion by cognitive scientists and evolutionary theorists put forward empirical hypotheses regarding the origin, spread, and character of religious beliefs. ...
Making Sense of the Secular: Critical Perspectives from Europe to Asia
1st Edition
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By Ranjan Ghosh
May 31, 2017
This book offers a wide range of critical perspectives on how secularism unfolds and has been made sense of across Europe and Asia. The book evaluates secularism as it exists today – its formations and discontents within contemporary discourses of power, terror, religion and cosmopolitanism – and ...
Popular Music in Evangelical Youth Culture
1st Edition
By Stella Lau
May 31, 2017
Christian churches and groups within Anglo-American contexts have increasingly used popular music as a way to connect with young people. This book investigates the relationships between evangelical Christianity and popular music, focusing particularly on electronic dance music in the last twenty ...