Routledge Studies in Religion
Religious Entrepreneurism in China’s Urban House Churches: The Rise and Fall of Early Rain Reformed Presbyterian Church
1st Edition
By Li Ma
March 31, 2021
This book offers a unique historical documentation of the development of the ambitious religious entrepreneurism by leaders of the Early Rain church (and later Western China Presbytery leadership), in an effort to gain social influence in China through local institution-building and global public ...
Said Nursi and Science in Islam: Character Building through Nursi’s Mana-i harfi
1st Edition
By Necati Aydin
March 31, 2021
This book examines how the prominent Muslim scholar Said Nursi developed an integrative approach to faith and science known as "the other indicative" (mana-i harfi) and explores how his aim to reconcile two academic disciplines, often at odds with one another, could be useful in an educational ...
The Diversity of Nonreligion: Normativities and Contested Relations
1st Edition
By Johannes Quack, Cora Schuh, Susanne Kind
March 31, 2021
This book explores the relational dynamic of religious and nonreligious positions as well as the tensions between competing modes of nonreligion. Across the globe, individuals and communities are seeking to distinguish themselves in different ways from religion as they take on an identity ...
Treating the Body in Medicine and Religion: Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By John J. Fitzgerald, Ashley John Moyse
March 31, 2021
Modern medicine has produced many wonderful technological breakthroughs that have extended the limits of the frail human body. However, much of the focus of this medical research has been on the physical, often reducing the human being to a biological machine to be examined, understood, and ...
Religion and Human Security in Africa
1st Edition
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By Ezra Chitando, Joram Tarusarira
December 18, 2020
Across diverse countries and contexts in Africa, religion has direct implications for human security. While some individuals and groups seek to manipulate and control through the deployment of religion, religious belief is also a common facet of those working towards peace and reconciliation. ...
Teaching the Historical Jesus: Issues and Exegesis
1st Edition
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By Zev Garber
December 18, 2020
Teaching the Historical Jesus in his Jewish context to students of varied religious backgrounds presents instructors with not only challenges, but also opportunities to sustain interfaith dialogue and foster mutual understanding and respect. This new collection explores these challenges and ...
The Paranormal and Popular Culture: A Postmodern Religious Landscape
1st Edition
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By Darryl Caterine, John W. Morehead
December 18, 2020
Interest in preternatural and supernatural themes has revitalized the Gothic tale, renewed explorations of psychic powers and given rise to a host of social and religious movements based upon claims of the fantastical. And yet, in spite of this widespread enthusiasm, the academic world has been ...
Being Spiritual but Not Religious: Past, Present, Future(s)
1st Edition
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By William B. Parsons
August 14, 2020
In its most general sense, the term "Spiritual but Not Religious" denotes those who, on the one hand, are disillusioned with traditional institutional religion and, on the other hand, feel that those same traditions contain deep wisdom about the human condition. This edited collection speaks to ...
Innovative Catholicism and the Human Condition
1st Edition
By Jane Anderson
August 14, 2020
Innovative Catholicism and the Human Condition gives an anthropological account of a progressive religious movement in the Roman Catholic Church that is attempting to reconcile religious conviction and reason, and, ergo, modify the human condition. Investigation is given to a representative ...
Piety and Patienthood in Medieval Islam
1st Edition
By Ahmed Ragab
August 14, 2020
How did pious medieval Muslims experience health and disease? Rooted in the prophet’s experiences with medicine and healing, Muslim pietistic literature developed cosmologies in which physical suffering and medical interventions interacted with religious obligations and spiritual health. This book ...
Refractions of the Scriptural: Critical Orientation as Transgression
1st Edition
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By Vincent L. Wimbush
August 14, 2020
Refractions of the Scriptural is a transdisciplinary collection of essays that seeks to construct a new field of scholarly inquiry with scriptures as a fraught category, analytical wedge, and site for excavation and problematization. The book focuses on the ways in which individual and social ...
Religious Studies Scholars as Public Intellectuals
1st Edition
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By Sabrina D. MisirHiralall, Christopher L. Fici, Gerald S. Vigna
August 14, 2020
The prominence of religion in recent debates around politics, identity formation, and international terrorism has led to an increased demand on those studying religion to help clarify and contextualise religious belief and practice in the public sphere. While many texts focus on the theoretical ...