Routledge Studies in Religion
Pope Francis’s Synod on Synodality and Modern Sociology: Exploring Behavioral and Research Aspects
1st Edition
By Vivencio Ballano
December 26, 2025
This book focuses on the value and necessity of modern sociology to Pope Francis’s church reform project known as the Synod on Synodality. It explores the behavioral and research aspects of this latest synod, applying sociological perspectives and methods and drawing on secondary literature, media ...
Religions Are Remixes: Rethinking Originality, Authenticity, and Authority in the Study of Religion
1st Edition
By Seth M. Walker
December 26, 2025
This book utilizes an approach that centers on remix theory and conceptual metaphor theory, arguing for an examination of the study of religion via a model for analyzing cultural constructs that the author terms Remix+/-. After discerning the metaphorical correspondences underlying his argument, ...
Retired Missionaries and Faith in a Changing Society
1st Edition
By Carmel Gallagher
December 26, 2025
Retired Missionaries and Faith in a Changing Society offers a sociological study of the Irish missionary diaspora. It draws on a series of interviews with female and male Catholic missionaries, mainly nuns and priests, who have worked in Asia, Africa and Central and South America, and who have ...
Religious Authorities and Practices of Conflict Resolution
1st Edition
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By Carla Bagnoli, Vincenzo Pacillo
November 18, 2025
Religious diversity raises challenges that reverberate at multiple social and political levels. Religious institutions are sources of authoritative claims for believers. They play a crucial role in the articulation and negotiation of domestic conflicts within multicultural societies as well as at ...
Event Religion and European Festival Experience: Concepts and Case Studies
1st Edition
By Sára E. Heidl
November 14, 2025
This book contributes to empirical research on festivals and presents a model of "event religion" for interpreting festival experiences from a religious studies perspective. It features a comparison of three Hungarian case studies with different backgrounds - a mindfulness festival, a ...
Women in Chinese Buddhism: Rights, Spirituality and the Path to Freedom
1st Edition
By Jessica Huset Tilton
September 30, 2025
Tilton examines how cultural, political and economic forces exert pressures on the levels of freedom and equality for female Buddhists within the Buddhist community as well as women’s rights within society. The book charts women’s spiritual paths over four periods, beginning with the Buddha and his...
Millennialism, Millerites, and Prophecy in Bahá’í Discourse
1st Edition
By William P. Collins
September 23, 2025
This book explores the role of millennialism, the Millerites, and prophecy in the historical development of the Bahá’í faith, especially in North America. The author demonstrates the importance of the Bahá’í religion to millennialism studies and its connection to certain Protestant American and ...
The Making and Unmaking of the Psychology of Religion
1st Edition
By Matei Iagher
July 31, 2025
This book examines the rise and demise of the psychology of religion in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Europe and the United States. It considers the formation of the psychology of religion as an international movement, an enterprise whose goal was to refashion the science of religion at...
Global Lutheranism in the Contemporary World: Luther’s Realm
1st Edition
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By Richard Cimino
July 18, 2025
This book explores Lutheranism and its various expressions throughout the world. This Protestant tradition has spread and developed far from its European and American heartlands to take on increasingly diverse forms. The global dispersion of Lutheranism and how it interacts with different cultures ...
Monotheism in the New Religious Movements of Japan: Historical and Taxonomical Challenges in Western Studies
1st Edition
By Kegan A. Chandler
June 30, 2025
This book calls for a reformation of the image of monotheism in studies of Japanese religions and in the study of religions in general. According to most scholars, “Japan” and “monotheism” mix like oil and water. Whatever Japanese religion is, we are told, the “Western” category of monotheism ...
The Catholic Church and Transnational Moral Norms in the Philippines: Contraception, Human Trafficking, and Religion
1st Edition
By Jonathan T. Chow
June 30, 2025
Jonathan T. Chow explores the Roman Catholic Church’s engagement with transnational human rights norms and how its understandings of Catholic identity and doctrine have profoundly shaped the politics surrounding contraception and human trafficking in the Philippines. In the global politics of ...
Islamic Philosophy of Religion: Essays from Analytic Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Mohammad Saleh Zarepour
June 27, 2025
This volume focuses on Islamic philosophy of religion with a range of contributions from analytic perspectives. It opens with methodological discussions on the relationship between the history of Islamic philosophy and contemporary analytic philosophy. The book then offers a philosophical ...