Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies
About the Book Series
The Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies series brings high quality research monograph publishing back into focus for authors, international libraries, and student, academic and research readers. This open-ended monograph series presents cutting-edge research from both established and new authors in the field. With specialist focus yet clear contextual presentation of contemporary research, books in the series take research into important new directions and open the field to new critical debate within the discipline, in areas of related study, and in key areas for contemporary society.
The Fourth Pentecostal Wave in South Africa: A Critical Engagement
1st Edition
By Solomon Kgatle
June 30, 2021
This book critically examines contemporary Pentecostalism in South Africa and its influence on some of the countries that surround it. Pentecostalism plays a significant role in the religious life of this region and so evaluating its impact is key to understanding how religion functions in ...
Theology Without Walls: The Transreligious Imperative
1st Edition
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By Jerry L. Martin
June 30, 2021
Thinking about ultimate reality is becoming increasingly transreligious. This transreligious turn follows inevitably from the discovery of divine truths in multiple traditions. Global communications bring the full range of religious ideas and practices to anyone with access to the internet. ...
Laudato Si’ and the Environment: Pope Francis’ Green Encyclical
1st Edition
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By Robert McKim
April 01, 2021
This volume is a response to Pope Francis’ environmental encyclical Laudato Si’. Published in 2015, the encyclical urges us to face up to the crisis of climate change and to take better care of the Earth, our common home, while also attending to the plight of the poor.In this book the Pope’s ...
The Evolution of Religion, Religiosity and Theology: A Multi-Level and Multi-Disciplinary Approach
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By Jay R. Feierman, Lluis Oviedo
April 01, 2021
This book takes a multi-dimensional and multi-disciplinary approach to religion, religiosity and theology from their earliest beginnings to the present day. It uniquely brings together the natural sciences and theology to explore how religious practice emerged and developed through the four ...
Christianity and the Triumph of Humor: From Dante to David Javerbaum
1st Edition
By Bernard Schweizer
March 31, 2021
This book traces the development of religious comedy and leverages that history to justify today’s uses of religious humor in all of its manifestations, including irreverent jokes. It argues that regulating humor is futile and counterproductive, illustrating this point with a host of comedic ...
Envisioning the Cosmic Body of Christ: Embodiment, Plurality and Incarnation
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By Aurica Jax, Saskia Wendel
March 31, 2021
The metaphor of the cosmos as the Body of Christ offers an opportunity to escape the aporias of standard Body of Christ imagery, which has often proved anthropocentric, exclusivist, triumphalist and/or sexist in the analyses of classical theologies. The body motif in particular contains starting ...
Gaming and the Divine: A New Systematic Theology of Video Games
1st Edition
By Frank G. Bosman
March 31, 2021
This book formulates a new theological approach to the study of religion in gaming. Video games have become one of the most important cultural artifacts of modern society, both as mediators of cultural, social, and religious values and in terms of commercial success. This has led to a significant ...
Religious Truth and Identity in an Age of Plurality
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By Peter Jonkers, Oliver J. Wiertz
March 31, 2021
This book deals with the intellectual aspects of having diverse religious expressions in proximity and the socio-political consequences. It provides a multi-disciplinary perspective on this complex subject, cross-fertilizing work on religious plurality with truth-claims from theologians as well as ...
Theologising Brexit: A Liberationist and Postcolonial Critique
1st Edition
By Anthony G. Reddie
March 31, 2021
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the theological challenge presented by the new post-Brexit epoch. The referendum vote for Britain to leave the European Union has led to a seismic shift in the ways in which parts of the British population view and judge their compatriots. The subsequent...
Vision, Mental Imagery and the Christian Life: Insights from Science and Scripture
1st Edition
By Zoltán Dörnyei
March 31, 2021
This book uniquely explores how the notion of vision is presented in modern science and the Bible, and how it can be applied to contemporary Christian contexts. The word "vision", our ability to see, has been described by an increasing body of scholarship in the social sciences as our capacity for ...
Recognition and Religion: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
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By Maijastina Kahlos, Heikki J. Koskinen, Ritva Palmén
December 18, 2020
This book focuses on recognition and its relation to religion and theology, in both systematic and historical dimensions. While existing research literature on recognition and contemporary recognition theory has been gradually growing since the early 1990s, certain gaps remain in the field covered ...
The Liquidation of the Church
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By Kees de Groot
December 18, 2020
Is religion dying out in Western societies? Is personal spirituality taking its place? Both stories are inadequate. Institutional religion is not simply coming to an end in Western societies. Rather, its assets and properties are redistributed: large parts of the church have gone into liquidation. ...