Routledge Studies in Religion
Networks, Entrepreneurship and Power in Contemporary Spirituality
1st Edition
By Margrethe Løøv
December 31, 2025
Networks, Entrepreneurship and Power in Contemporary Spirituality offers an in-depth analysis of the social organisation of New Age spirituality. Drawing on empirical research in Norway, it considers: What organising principles are at play? How are power and authority exerted? How do spiritual ...
Religion, Decolonization, and the Planetary Community: Voices from the Indonesian Archipelago
1st Edition
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By Whitney A. Bauman, Samsul Maarif, Jonathan Davis Smith
December 31, 2025
In light of the two great phenomena that define the era of the Anthropocene, globalization and climate change, what does it mean to be a human subject or person in the world today? One response to these phenomena in the world has been some sort of return to nationalism (usually on the political ...
Knowledge, Authority, and Islamic Education in the West: Reconfiguring Tradition
1st Edition
By Zainab Kabba
December 26, 2025
Drawing on immersive fieldwork in the United States, Canada, and Turkey, this ethnographic exploration illuminates the transformative experiences of emerging adult Muslims on their quest for religious knowledge. This book unravels the significance of four residential learning settings, revealing ...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
Interreligious Dialogue Models: From the Life of the Prophet Muhammad
1st Edition
By Alwani Ghazali, Muhammad Kamal
May 06, 2025
How did the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) converse and engage with other religious believers? Did he start off with prejudice and mistrust? Or was he convivial and open-minded? This book analyses six models of the dealings in the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), specifically, but not restricted, ...
Tolerance and Intolerance in Religion and Beyond: Challenges from the Past and in the Present
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By Anne Sarah Matviyets, Giuseppe Veltri, Jörg Rüpke
January 30, 2025
This book focuses on religious tolerance and intolerance in terms of practices, institutions, and intellectual habits. It brings together an array of historical and anthropological studies and philosophical, cognitive, and psychological explorations by established scholars from a range of ...