Routledge Studies in Religion
Resurrection and Reception in Early Christianity
1st Edition
By Richard C. Miller
March 29, 2017
This book offers an original interpretation of the origin and early reception of the most fundamental claim of Christianity: Jesus’ resurrection. Richard Miller contends that the earliest Christians would not have considered the New Testament accounts of Jesus’ resurrection to be literal or ...
Scripturalizing the Human: The Written as the Political
1st Edition
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By Vincent L. Wimbush
March 29, 2017
Scripturalizing the Human is a transdisciplinary collection of essays that reconceptualizes and models "scriptural studies" as a critical, comparative set of practices with broad ramifications for scholars of religion and biblical studies. This critical historical and ethnographic project is ...
Translating Religion: What is Lost and Gained?
1st Edition
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By Michael DeJonge, Christiane Tietz
March 29, 2017
Translating Religion advances thinking about translation as a critical category in religious studies, combining theoretical reflection about processes of translation in religion with focused case studies that are international, interdisciplinary, and interreligious. By operating with broad ...
Theology and the Arts: Engaging Faith
1st Edition
By Ruth Illman, W. Alan Smith
December 18, 2015
This book brings the emerging fields of practical theology and theology of the arts into a dialogue beyond the bias of modern systematic and constructive theology. The authors draw upon postmodern, post-secular, feminist, liberation, and dialogical/dialectical philosophy and theology, and their ...
Metaphysics and Transcendence
1st Edition
By Arthur Gibson
September 08, 2015
Metaphysics and Transcendence takes up this story for the future. Arthur Gibson presents a new metaphysics with a genealogy based on counter-intuition and locates counter-intuition and complexity at the foundations of truth. Having devised fresh concepts on the basis of the new frontiers of science...
Foucault, Christianity and Interfaith Dialogue
1st Edition
By Henrique Pinto
August 07, 2015
Foucault, Christianity and Interfaith Dialogue develops a new model for interfaith dialogue using the work of the French historian of ideas, Michel Foucault. The author argues that it is the injustice done to the 'Other' by Roman Catholic, Protestant and other centred and unitary models of ...
The Origin of Heresy: A History of Discourse in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity
1st Edition
By Robert M. Royalty
June 23, 2015
Heresy is a central concept in the formation of Orthodox Christianity. Where does this notion come from? This book traces the construction of the idea of ‘heresy’ in the rhetoric of ideological disagreements in Second Temple Jewish and early Christian texts and in the development of the polemical ...
Religions in Movement: The Local and the Global in Contemporary Faith Traditions
1st Edition
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By Robert Hefner, John Hutchinson, Sara Mels, Christiane Timmerman
June 08, 2015
There has long been a debate about implications of globalization for the survival of the world of sovereign nation-states, and the role of nationalism as both an agent of and a response to globalization. In contrast, until recently there has been much less debate about the fate of religion. ‘...
Buddhism and Violence: Militarism and Buddhism in Modern Asia
1st Edition
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By Vladimir Tikhonov, Torkel Brekke
May 21, 2015
It is generally accepted in the West that Buddhism is a ‘peaceful’ religion. The Western public tends to assume that the doctrinal rejection of violence in Buddhism would make Buddhist pacifists, and often expects Buddhist societies or individual Asian Buddhists to conform to the modern Western ...
Judaism and Collective Life: Self and Community in the Religious Kibbutz
1st Edition
By Aryei Fishman
May 07, 2015
Examining the relationship between Judaism as a religious culture and kibbutz life, this is a ground-breaking work in the research of Judaism.The book takes as its point of departure the historical fact that it was Orthodox pioneers of German origin, in contrast to their Eastern European ...
Shared Idioms, Sacred Symbols, and the Articulation of Identities in South Asia
1st Edition
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By Kelly Pemberton, Michael Nijhawan
April 23, 2015
How do text, performance, and rhetoric simultaneously reflect and challenge notions of distinct community and religious identities? This volume examines evidence of shared idioms of sanctity within a larger framework of religious nationalism, literary productions, and communalism in South Asia. ...
Negative Theology and Modern French Philosophy
1st Edition
By Arthur Bradley
December 22, 2014
This book provides a significant and insightful exploration of the so-called 'theological turn' in contemporary French thought. The philosopher Jacques Derrida speaks of a deeply ambiguous desire to 'save the name' of God in his work on negative theology, and this desire resonates in different ways...