Routledge Focus on Religion
White Evangelicals and Right-Wing Populism: How Did We Get Here?
1st Edition
By Marcia Pally
January 29, 2024
How did America’s white evangelicals, from often progressive history, come to right-wing populism? Addressing populism requires understanding how its historico-cultural roots ground present politics. How have the very qualities that contributed much to American vibrancy—an anti-authoritarian ...
Worldview Religious Studies
1st Edition
By Douglas J Davies
October 01, 2023
Worldview Religious Studies brings the study of religion, spirituality, secularism, and other mixed attitudes of life under the overarching scheme of worldview studies. This book introduces and defines worldviews more generally before establishing a framework specific to religious studies. The ...
Cross-Cultural and Religious Critiques of Informed Consent
1st Edition
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By Joseph Tham, Alberto García Gómez, Mirko Daniel Garasic
May 31, 2023
This book explores the challenges of informed consent in medical intervention and research ethics, considering the global reality of multiculturalism and religious diversity. Even though informed consent is a gold standard in research ethics, its theoretical foundation is based on the conception of...
Owning the Secular: Religious Symbols, Culture Wars, Western Fragility
1st Edition
By Matt Sheedy
January 09, 2023
Owning the Secular examines three case studies dealing with religious symbols and cultural identity, including two public controversies over the veil in Canada – at the federal level and in the province of Québec – and an ex-Muslim podcaster rethinking her atheist identity in the era of Donald ...
Religion and Euroscepticism in Brexit Britain
1st Edition
By Ekaterina Kolpinskaya, Stuart Fox
January 09, 2023
Religion has a significant effect on how Europeans feel about the European Union (EU) and has had an important impact on how people voted in the UK’s ‘Brexit referendum’. This book provides a clear and accessible quantitative study of how religion affects Euroscepticism and political behaviour. It ...
Theology and Climate Change
1st Edition
By Paul Tyson
September 26, 2022
Theology and Climate Change examines Progressive Dominion Theology (PDT) as a primary cultural driver of anthropogenic climate change. PDT is a distinctive and Western form of Christian theology out of which the modern scientific revolution and technological modernity arises. Basic attitudes to ...
Pandemic, Ecology and Theology: Perspectives on COVID-19
1st Edition
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By Alexander Hampton
May 30, 2022
As the sequential stages of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic have unfolded, so have its complexities. What initially presented as a health emergency, has revealed itself to be a phenomenon of many facets. It has demonstrated human creativity, the oft neglected presence of nature, and the resilience of ...
Trump and the Protestant Reaction to Make America Great Again
1st Edition
By Matthew Rowley
May 30, 2022
This book explores how polarised interpretations of America’s past influence the present and vice versa. A focus on competing Protestant reactions to President Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ slogan evidences a fundamental divide over how America should remember historical racism, sexism ...
Avantgarde Art and Radical Material Theology: A Manifesto
1st Edition
By Petra Carlsson Redell
May 01, 2022
Theological thought has long been focused on the meaning to be found in our existence, but it has tended to neglect what it might offer to those seeking how to prolong and improve our physical existence in this world. In conversation with twentieth-century materialist art and thought, this ...
Visual Thought in Russian Religious Philosophy: Pavel Florensky's Theory of the Icon
1st Edition
By Clemena Antonova
April 01, 2021
This book considers a movement within Russian religious philosophy known as "full unity" (vseedinstvo), with a focus on one of its main representatives, Pavel Florensky (1882–1937). Often referred to as "the Russian Leonardo," Florensky was an important figure of the Russian religious renaissance ...
Narratives of Faith from the Haiti Earthquake: Religion, Natural Hazards and Disaster Response
1st Edition
By Roger Philip Abbott, Robert S. White
March 31, 2021
This book presents an in-depth ethnographic case study carried out in the years following the 2010 Haiti earthquake to present the role of faith beliefs in disaster response. The earthquake is one of the most destructive on record, and the aftermath, including a cholera epidemic and ongoing ...
Religious Studies and the Goal of Interdisciplinarity
1st Edition
By Brent Smith
March 31, 2021
This book offers a survey of the development of interdisciplinarity in religious studies within academia and offers ways for it to continue to progress in contemporary universities. It examines the use of the term ‘interdisciplinary’ in the context of the academic study of religion and how it ...