Routledge Studies in Religion
A Theology of Community Organizing: Power to the People
1st Edition
By Chris Shannahan
February 06, 2018
The rising importance of community organizing in the US and more recently in Britain has coincided with the developing significance of social movements and identity politics, debates about citizenship, social capital, civil society, and religion in the public sphere. At a time when participation in...
William James's Hidden Religious Imagination: A Universe of Relations
1st Edition
By Jeremy Carrette
February 06, 2018
This book offers a radical new reading of William James’s work on the idea of ‘religion.’ Moving beyond previous psychological and philosophical interpretations, it uncovers a dynamic, imaginative, and critical use of the category of religion. This work argues that we can only fully understand ...
An Introduction to Jacob Boehme: Four Centuries of Thought and Reception
1st Edition
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By Ariel Hessayon, Sarah Apetrei
February 05, 2018
This volume brings together for the first time some of the world’s leading authorities on the German mystic Jacob Boehme, to illuminate his thought and its reception over four centuries for the benefit of students and advanced scholars alike. Boehme’s theosophical works have influenced Western ...
Animal Ethics and Theology: The Lens of the Good Samaritan
1st Edition
By Daniel Miller
February 05, 2018
In this book, Daniel K. Miller articulates a new vision of human and animal relationships based on the foundational love ethic within Christianity. Framed around Jesus’ parable of the Good Samaritan, Animal Ethics and Theology thoughtfully examines the shortcomings of utilitarian and rights-based ...
Globalization and Orthodox Christianity: The Transformations of a Religious Tradition
1st Edition
By Victor Roudometof
June 16, 2017
With approximately 200 to 300 million adherents worldwide, Orthodox Christianity is among the largest branches of Christianity, yet it remains relatively understudied. This book examines the rich and complex entanglements between Orthodox Christianity and globalization, offering a substantive ...
A New Science of Religion
1st Edition
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By Greg Dawes, James Maclaurin
May 31, 2017
Religious belief, once in the domain of the humanities, has found a new home in the sciences. Promising new developments in the study of religion by cognitive scientists and evolutionary theorists put forward empirical hypotheses regarding the origin, spread, and character of religious beliefs. ...
Making Sense of the Secular: Critical Perspectives from Europe to Asia
1st Edition
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By Ranjan Ghosh
May 31, 2017
This book offers a wide range of critical perspectives on how secularism unfolds and has been made sense of across Europe and Asia. The book evaluates secularism as it exists today – its formations and discontents within contemporary discourses of power, terror, religion and cosmopolitanism – and ...
Popular Music in Evangelical Youth Culture
1st Edition
By Stella Lau
May 31, 2017
Christian churches and groups within Anglo-American contexts have increasingly used popular music as a way to connect with young people. This book investigates the relationships between evangelical Christianity and popular music, focusing particularly on electronic dance music in the last twenty ...
The Rise of Modern Jewish Politics: Extraordinary Movement
1st Edition
By C.S. Monaco
May 31, 2017
The path toward modern Jewish politics, a process that required a dramatic reconstruction of Jewish life, may have emerged during a far earlier time frame and in a different geographic and cultural context than has previously been thought. Drawing upon current sociological understanding of social ...
Theology and the Science of Moral Action: Virtue Ethics, Exemplarity, and Cognitive Neuroscience
1st Edition
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By James A. Van Slyke, Gregory Peterson, Warren S. Brown, Kevin S. Reimer, Michael Spezio
May 24, 2017
The past decade has witnessed a renaissance in scientific approaches to the study of morality. Once understood to be the domain of moral psychology, the newer approach to morality is largely interdisciplinary, driven in no small part by developments in behavioural economics and evolutionary biology...
David’s Jerusalem: Between Memory and History
1st Edition
By Daniel Pioske
March 29, 2017
The history of David’s Jerusalem remains one of the most contentious topics of the ancient world. This study engages with debates about the nature of this location by examining the most recent archaeological data from the site and by exploring the relationship of these remains to claims made about ...
Eschatology and the Technological Future
1st Edition
By Michael S. Burdett
March 29, 2017
The rapid advancement of technology has led to an explosion of speculative theories about what the future of humankind may look like. These "technological futurisms" have arisen from significant advances in the fields of nanotechnology, biotechnology and information technology and are drawing ...