Routledge Studies in Religion
Music, Branding and Consumer Culture in Church: Hillsong in Focus
1st Edition
By Tom Wagner
June 30, 2021
Starting as a single congregation in Australia, Hillsong Church now has campuses worldwide, releases worship music that sells millions of albums and its ministers regularly appear in mainstream media. So, how has a single church gained such international prominence? This book offers an ethnographic...
Orthodox Christianity and Gender: Dynamics of Tradition, Culture and Lived Practice
1st Edition
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By Helena Kupari, Elina Vuola
June 30, 2021
The Orthodox Christian tradition has all too often been sidelined in conversations around contemporary religion. Despite being distinct from Protestantism and Catholicism in both theology and practice, it remains an underused setting for academic inquiry into current lived religious practice. This ...
Religion, Modernity, Globalisation: Nation-State to Market
1st Edition
By François Gauthier
June 30, 2021
This book argues that the last four decades have seen profound and important changes in the nature and social location of religion, and that those changes are best understood when cast against the associated rise of consumerism and neoliberalism. These transformations are often misunderstood and ...
Transformational Embodiment in Asian Religions: Subtle Bodies, Spatial Bodies
1st Edition
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By George Pati, Katherine C. Zubko
June 30, 2021
This volume examines several theoretical concerns of embodiment in the context of Asian religious practice. Looking at both subtle and spatial bodies, it explores how both types of embodiment are engaged as sites for transformation, transaction and transgression.Collectively bridging ancient and ...
Hindi Christian Literature in Contemporary India
1st Edition
By Rakesh Peter-Dass
April 01, 2021
This is the first academic study of Christian literature in Hindi and its role in the politics of language and religion in contemporary India. In public portrayals, Hindi has been the language of Hindus and Urdu the language of Muslims, but Christians have been usually been associated with the ...
American Catholic Bishops and the Politics of Scandal: Rhetoric of Authority
1st Edition
By Meaghan O'Keefe
March 31, 2021
This book explores the rhetoric and public communication of the Catholic Church in the United States in the wake of the sexual abuse scandals and offers a demonstration of how large organizations negotiate a loss of public trust while retaining political power. While the Catholic Church remains a ...
Celebrity Morals and the Loss of Religious Authority
1st Edition
By John Portmann
March 31, 2021
This book examines American popular culture to demonstrate that celebrities have superseded religious figures as moral authorities. As trust in religious institutions has waned over recent decades, the once frivolous entertainment fringe has become the moral center. Young people and voters ...
Cultural Fusion of Sufi Islam: Alternative Paths to Mystical Faith
1st Edition
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By Sarwar Alam
March 31, 2021
It has been argued that the mystical Sufi form of Islam is the most sensitive to other cultures, being accommodative to other traditions and generally tolerant to peoples of other faiths. It readily becomes integrated into local cultures and they are similarly often infused into Sufism. Examples of...
Italian American Pentecostalism and the Struggle for Religious Identity
1st Edition
By Paul J. Palma
March 31, 2021
While many established forms of Christianity have seen significant decline in recent decades, Pentecostals are currently one of the fastest growing religious groups across the world. This book examines the roots, inception, and expansion of Pentecostalism among Italian Americans to demonstrate how ...
Reimagining God and Resacralisation
1st Edition
By Alexa Blonner
March 31, 2021
This book shows that widespread resacralisation has been taking place, which is producing new ways of perceiving God and the divine. The last century has seen unmistakable changes in religious practices and the concept of spirituality right across the world. There was a broad expectation for much ...
Religion and Politics Under Capitalism: A Humanistic Approach to the Terminology
1st Edition
By Stefan Arvidsson
March 31, 2021
This book relates some of the major trends within religion and politics to offer a historical framework with which to assess their interactions and a point of departure for studies to come. The study of the interrelationship between contemporary religious practice and modern politics is divided ...
Religion in Gender-Based Violence, Immigration, and Human Rights
1st Edition
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By Mary Nyangweso, Jacob K. Olupona
March 31, 2021
This book builds on work that examines the interactions between immigration and gender-based violence, to explore how both the justification and condemnation of violence in the name of religion further complicates our societal relationships. Violence has been described as a universal challenge that...