Routledge Studies in Religion
Balkan Contextual Theology: An Introduction
1st Edition
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By Stipe Odak, Zoran Grozdanov
January 29, 2024
This book opens a new research field in Balkan contextual theology. By embracing culturally rich traditions of the Western Balkans as its starting point, it explores their existential and theological bearings. Placed at the crossroads of civilisations and religions, this region has witnessed some ...
Contrasts in Religion, Community, and Structure at Three Homeless Shelters: Changing Lives
1st Edition
By Ines W. Jindra, Michael Jindra, Sarah DeGenero
January 29, 2024
How do people in poverty and homelessness change their lives and get back on their feet? Homeless shelters across the world play a huge role in this process. Many of them are religious, but there is a lot of diversity in faith-based non-profits that assist people affected by poverty and ...
Metamorphoses of Religion and Spirituality in Central and Eastern Europe
1st Edition
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By Sławomir H. Zaręba, Maria Sroczyńska, Roberto Cipriani, Marcin Choczyński, Wojciech Klimski
January 29, 2024
This book offers a range of contemporary sociological reflections on new manifestations of religion, religiosity, and spirituality in Central and Eastern Europe, a region that has seen significant social and political transformation. It explores the development of cultural and religious trends, ...
Religious and Non-Religious Perspectives on Happiness and Wellbeing
1st Edition
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By Sharada Sugirtharajah
January 29, 2024
This book explores the theme of happiness and well-being from religious, spiritual, philosophical, psychological, humanistic, and health perspectives. Taking a non-binary approach, it considers how happiness in particular has been understood and appropriated in religious and non-religious strands ...
Catholic Peacebuilding and Mining: Integral Peace, Development, and Ecology
1st Edition
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By Caesar A. Montevecchio, Gerard F. Powers
September 25, 2023
This book explores the role of Catholic peacebuilding in addressing the global mining industry. Mining is intimately linked to issues of conflict, human rights, sustainable development, governance, and environmental justice. As an institution of significant scope and scale with a large network of ...
Religion, Discourse, and Society: Towards a Discursive Sociology of Religion
1st Edition
By Marcus Moberg
September 25, 2023
This book focuses on the utility and application of discourse theory and discourse analysis in the sociological study of religious change. It presents an outline of what a ‘discursive sociology of religion’ looks like and brings scholarly attention to the role of language and discourse as a ...
An Anthropology of the Qur’an
1st Edition
By Ahmed Achrati
May 31, 2023
This book presents an anthropological study of the Qur’an, offering an unprecedented challenge to some of the epistemological and metaphysical assumptions of the tawḥīdic discourses. Combining primary textual materials and anthropological analysis, this book examines transcendence as a core ...
Enhancement Fit for Humanity: Perspectives on Emerging Technologies
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By Michael Baggot, Alberto García Gómez, Alberto Carrara, Joseph Tham
May 31, 2023
This book explores what constitutes an enhancement fit for humanity in the age of nanotechnologies, biotechnologies, information technologies, and technologies related to the cognitive sciences. It considers the influence of emergent technology upon our understanding of human nature and the impact ...
Jewish Approaches to Hinduism: A History of Ideas from Judah Ha-Levi to Jacob Sapir (12th–19th centuries)
1st Edition
By Richard G. Marks
May 31, 2023
This book explores past expressions of the Jewish interest in Hinduism in order to learn what Hinduism has meant to Jews living mainly in the 12th through the 19th centuries. India and Hinduism, though never at the center of Jewish thought, claim a place in its history, in the picture Jews held of ...
Religion and Violence in Western Traditions: Selected Studies
1st Edition
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By André Gagné, Jennifer Guyver, Gerbern S. Oegema
May 31, 2023
This book examines the connection between religion and violence in the Western traditions of the three Abrahamic faiths, from ancient to modern times. It addresses a gap in the scholarly debate on the nature of religious violence by bringing scholars that specialize in pre-modern religions and ...
Spiritual, Religious, and Faith-Based Practices in Chronicity: An Exploration of Mental Wellness in Global Context
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By Andrew R. Hatala, Kerstin Roger
May 31, 2023
This book explores how people draw upon spiritual, religious, or faith-based practices to support their mental wellness amidst forms of chronicity. From diverse global contexts and spiritual perspectives, this volume critically examines several chronic conditions, such as psychosis, diabetes, ...
Cosmologies of Pure Realms and the Rhetoric of Pollution
1st Edition
By Yohan Yoo, James W. Watts
January 09, 2023
This collaboration between two scholars from different fields of religious studies draws on three comparative data sets to develop a new theory of purity and pollution in religion, arguing that a culture’s beliefs about cosmological realms shapes its pollution ideas and its purification practices. ...