Routledge Studies in Religion
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 ...
Rediscovering Humanitarianism: Using Secular and Religious Histories to Provide New Understandings of Refugee Resettlement
1st Edition
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By Jessica Stroja
June 06, 2025
This book provides a new approach to understanding the histories of refugee resettlement and their relevance for contemporary emergencies. By drawing on histories of faith-based humanitarianism from 1917 to the present, it explores how faith-based organisations have engaged with refugee aid and the...
Hindu Bhakti Through Muslim Eyes: Islam and Caitanya Vaiṣṇavism in the Twenty-First Century
1st Edition
By R. David Coolidge
May 16, 2025
Hindu Bhakti Through Muslim Eyes puts the Caitanya Vaiṣṇava tradition of devotion to Krishna in scholarly conversation with Islam for the first time. It builds on a millennium of Muslim reflections regarding Hindu theology and practice, despite common assumptions that Hindus and Muslims are ...
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
1st Edition
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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 ...
Gender Inequality in the Ordained Ministry of the Church of England: Examining Conservative Male Clergy Responses to Women Priests and Bishops
1st Edition
By Alex D.J. Fry
December 18, 2024
This book offers a fresh social scientific analysis of how theologically conservative male clergy respond to the ordination of women to the priesthood and their consecration as bishops within the Church of England. The question of women’s place in the formal structures of England’s Established ...
Religious Responses to Pandemics and Crises: Isolation, Survival, and #Covidchaos
1st Edition
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By Sravana Borkataky-Varma, Christian A. Eberhart, Marianne Bjelland Kartzow
December 18, 2024
Religious Responses to Pandemics and Crises explores various dimensions of the interrelations between the individual, community, and religion. With their global scope, the contributions to this volume represent reflections on the rich and multifaceted spectrum of human responses in a variety of ...
Modern Debates on Prophecy and Prophethood in Islam: Muhammad Iqbal and Said Nursi
1st Edition
By Mahsheed Ansari
November 28, 2024
While prophethood is the backbone of the Islamic tradition and an uncompromised tenet of faith, the impact of modernity with its ambivalent status afforded to the prophet and institution of prophethood shook many Muslim scholars. Through analysis of these modern debates on prophethood in Islam, ...