Routledge Studies in Religion
Religious Boundaries for Sex, Gender, and Corporeality
1st Edition
Edited
By Alexandra Cuffel, Ana Echevarria, Georgios T. Halkias
June 30, 2020
The ambiguity concerning the interpretation of the ‘physical body’ in religious thought is not peculiar to any given religion, but is discernible in the scriptures, practices, and disciplines in most of the world’s major religious traditions. This book seeks to address the nuances of difference ...
The Desecularisation of the City: London’s Churches, 1980 to the Present
1st Edition
Edited
By David Goodhew, Anthony-Paul Cooper
June 30, 2020
Major cities have long been seen as centres of secularisation. However, the number of congregations in London grew by 50% between 1979 and the present. London’s churches have been characterised more by growth than by decline in the decades since 1980. The Desecularisation of the City provides ...
Liberal Religion: Progressive versions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
1st Edition
By Emanuel de Kadt
December 17, 2019
In recent years, there has been an upsurge of interest in religion and religious issues. Some have linked this to a neo-liberal form of individualism, while others noted that secularism has left people bereft of a humanly necessary link with the transcendent. The importance of identity issues has ...
Christian and Islamic Theology of Religions: A Critical Appraisal
1st Edition
By Esra Akay Dag
December 12, 2019
Theologians have had to increasingly engage with beliefs and practises outside of their own traditions. The resultant "theology of religions" is, however, often formulated in isolation from the religions they are describing. This book provides a comparison of the development of theology of ...
European Muslims Transforming the Public Sphere: Religious Participation in the Arts, Media and Civil Society
1st Edition
By Asmaa Soliman
December 12, 2019
Anti-Muslim voices have become louder in many places in the midst of ongoing atrocities undertaken in the name of Islam. As a result, much of the creative participation of Western Muslims in the public sphere has become overshadowed. This tendency is not only visible in political discussions and ...
From Presumption to Prudence in Just-War Rationality
1st Edition
By Kevin Carnahan
December 12, 2019
For the last several decades, the Just-War debate amongst theologians has been dominated by two accounts of moral rationality. One side assumes a presumption against harm (PAH), and the other identifies with a presumption against injustice (PAI). From Presumption to Prudence in Just-War Rationality...
Hans Mol and the Sociology of Religion
1st Edition
By Adam J. Powell
December 12, 2019
Hans Mol was born in the Netherlands during the 1920s. His imprisonment by the Gestapo during World War II began a long intellectual journey, exploring the role of religion in society. His work on the sociology of religion throughout the 20th and 21st Century is distinctive in its quest for both ...
Radical Orthodoxy in a Pluralistic World: Desire, Beauty, and the Divine
1st Edition
By Angus M. Slater
December 12, 2019
Radical Orthodoxy remains an important movement within Christian theology, but does it relate effectively with an increasingly pluralist and secular Western society? Can it authentically communicate the beauty and desire of the divine to such a diverse collection of theological accounts of meaning?...
Spiritual and Social Transformation in African American Spiritual Churches: More than Conjurers
1st Edition
By Margarita Simon Guillory
December 12, 2019
At the core of African American religion’s response to social inequalities has been a symbiotic relationship between socio-political activism and spiritual restoration. Drawing on archival material and ethnographic fieldwork with African American Spiritual Churches in the USA, this book examines ...
Theology and Civil Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Charles Pemberton
December 12, 2019
From food banks to migrant welcome committees, and community organisers to internet based campaigners, civil society is central to the North Atlantic social landscape. Theology and Civil Society advances our understanding of what civil society is and offers a theologically informed re-imagining of ...
Buddhist Modernities: Re-inventing Tradition in the Globalizing Modern World
1st Edition
Edited
By Hanna Havnevik, Ute Hüsken, Mark Teeuwen, Vladimir Tikhonov, Koen Wellens
December 10, 2019
The transformations Buddhism has been undergoing in the modern age have inspired much research over the last decade. The main focus of attention has been the phenomenon known as Buddhist modernism, which is defined as a conscious attempt to adjust Buddhist teachings and practices in conformity with...
Neoliberalism and the Biblical Voice: Owning and Consuming
1st Edition
By Paul Babie, Michael Trainor
December 10, 2019
This book compares our contemporary preoccupation with ownership and consumption with the role of property and possessions in the biblical world, contending that Christian theology provides a valuable entry point to discussing the issue of private property—a neoliberal tool with the capacity to ...