Routledge Studies in Religion
Reconsidering Catholic Lay Womanhood: Pious Transgressors in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century England
1st Edition
By Kathryn G. Lamontagne
November 28, 2024
This book offers a new perspective on the often-overlooked lives of lay women in the English Roman Catholic Church. It explores how over a century ago in England some exceptional Catholic lay women – Margaret Fletcher, Maude Petre, Radclyffe Hall, and Mabel Batten - negotiated non-traditional ...
Religious Ethics and Migration: Doing Justice to Undocumented Workers
1st Edition
By Ilsup Ahn
October 14, 2024
What does it mean to provide justice for undocumented workers who have been living among us without proper legal documentation? How can we do justice to the undocumented migrants who have been doing the low-skilled, low-paid jobs unwanted by citizens? Why should we even try to do justice for people...
Science and Religion: One Planet, Many Possibilities
1st Edition
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By Lucas F. Johnston, Whitney Bauman
October 14, 2024
This collection offers new perspectives on the study of science and religion, bringing together articles that highlight the differences between epistemological systems and call into question the dominant narrative of modern science. The volume provides historical context for the contemporary ...
Alternative Spirituality, Counterculture, and European Rainbow Gatherings: Pachamama, I’m Coming Home
1st Edition
By Katri Ratia
October 09, 2024
This book explores the phenomenon of Rainbow Gatherings in Europe. These countercultural events form radically alternative temporary societies in the peripheries of modern states and manage themselves without centralized power, market economy or institutionalized forms of religion. The volume ...
Interreligious Encounters in Europe: Sites, Materialities and Practices
1st Edition
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By Jan Winkler, Laura Haddad, Julia Martínez-Ariño, Giulia Mezzetti
October 08, 2024
This book examines interreligious dialogue in Europe and how interreligious encounters are framed, expressed and practised. Throughout Europe religious identities have increasingly become significant categories within debates on migration, cohesion, diversity and belonging. By focusing on the ...
Religious Freedom and the Global Regulation of Ayahuasca
1st Edition
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By Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Clancy Cavnar
October 08, 2024
This book offers a comprehensive view of the legal, political, and ethical challenges related to the global regulation of ayahuasca, bringing together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars. Ayahuasca is a psychoactive brew containing N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT), which is a ...
Christian Orthodox Migrants in Western Europe: Secularization and Modernity through the Lens of the Gift Paradigm
1st Edition
By Maria Hämmerli
October 04, 2024
Christian Orthodox Migrants in Western Europe: Secularization and Modernity through the Lens of the Gift Paradigm explores a religious community that has been getting increasing scholarly attention. While most of the literature in the field looks at this religious tradition in terms of its alleged ...
Begging, Street Politics and Power: The Religious and Secular Regulation of Begging in India and Pakistan
1st Edition
By Sheba Saeed
May 27, 2024
Begging, Street Politics and Power explores the complex phenomenon of begging in the context of two different religions and societies in South Asia. Focusing on India and Pakistan, the book provides an in-depth examination of the religious and secular laws regulating begging along with discussion ...
Domestic Demons and the Intimate Uncanny
1st Edition
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By Thomas G. Kirsch, Kirsten Mahlke, Rijk van Dijk
May 27, 2024
This book explores local cultural discourses and practices relating to manifestations and experiences of the demonic, the spectral and the uncanny, probing into their effects on people’s domestic and intimate spheres of life. The chapters examine the uncanny in a cross-cultural manner, involving ...
Jews and Muslims in London and Amsterdam: Conflict and Cooperation, 1990-2020
1st Edition
By Sipco J. Vellenga, Gerard A. Wiegers
May 27, 2024
This book focuses on the development of bilateral Jewish-Muslim relations in London and Amsterdam since the late-1980s. It offers a comparative analysis that considers both similarities and differences, drawing on historical, social scientific, and religious studies perspectives. The authors ...
Muslims of Post-Communist Eurasia
1st Edition
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By Galina M. Yemelianova, Egdūnas Račius
May 27, 2024
This book discusses the evolution of state governance of Islam and the nature and forms of local Muslims’ rediscovery of their ‘Muslimness’ across post-communist Eurasia. It examines the effects on the Islamic scene of the political and ideological divergence of Central and South-Eastern Europe ...
Religious Responses to Sex Work and Sex Trafficking: An Outrage Against Any Decent People
1st Edition
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By Lauren McGrow
May 27, 2024
This book examines the history, theological beliefs and current contextual practices of faith-based NGOs who work in the area of human trafficking that involves the sex industry. There are hundreds of religious organizations around the globe who minister with human trafficking survivors and sex ...