Routledge Studies in Religion
Vedantic Hinduism in Colonial Bengal: Reformed Hinduism and Western Protestantism
1st Edition
By Victor A. van Bijlert
May 06, 2022
This book explores the ways in which modern Hindu identities were constructed in the early nineteenth century. It draws parallels between sixteenth and eventeenth Cecntury Protestantism and the rise of modernity in the West, and the Hindu reformation in the nineteenth century which contributed to ...
Islam, IS and the Fragmented State: The Challenges of Political Islam in the MENA Region
1st Edition
By Anoushiravan Ehteshami, Amjed Rasheed, Juline Beaujouan
April 29, 2022
This book provides a pioneering and original study of the regional effects of political Islam. It sets out the multifaceted interactions between Islam and politics in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, focussing in particular on the so-called Islamic State (IS) organization in its ...
Religion, Migration, and Existential Wellbeing
1st Edition
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By Moa Kindström Dahlin, Oscar Larsson, Anneli Winell
April 29, 2022
This book uses the very latest research to examine current interactions between religion, migration and existential wellbeing. In particular, it demonstrates the role of religion and religious organizations in the social, medical and existential wellbeing of immigrants within their host societies. ...
Seeing God in Our Birth Experiences: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry into Pre and Perinatal Religious Development.
1st Edition
By Helen Holmes
April 29, 2022
There has been a recent surge in the examination of the evolutionary roots of religious belief, all trying to identify where the human desire to seek the supernatural and the divine comes from. This book adds a new and innovative perspective to this line of thought by being the first to link ...
The Abuse of Minors in the Catholic Church: Dismantling the Culture of Cover Ups
1st Edition
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By Anthony J. Blasi, Lluis Oviedo
December 13, 2021
This book offers an academically rigorous examination of the biological, psychological, social and ecclesiastical processes that allowed sexual abuse in the Catholic Church to happen and then be covered up. The collected essays provide a means to better assess systemic wrongdoing in religious ...
An Ethology of Religion and Art: Belief as Behavior
1st Edition
By Bryan Rennie
September 30, 2021
Drawing from sources including the ethology of art and the cognitive science of religion this book proposes an improved understanding of both art and religion as behaviors developed in the process of human evolution. Looking at both art and religion as closely related, but not identical, behaviors ...
Freethought and Atheism in Central and Eastern Europe: The Development of Secularity and Non-Religion
1st Edition
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By Tomáš Bubík, Atko Remmel, David Václavík
September 30, 2021
This book provides the first comprehensive overview of atheism, secularity and non-religion in Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In contrast to scholarship that has focused on the ‘decline of religion’ and secularization theory, the book builds upon recent ...
Holocaust Memory and Britain’s Religious-Secular Landscape: Politics, Sacrality, And Diversity
1st Edition
By David Tollerton
September 30, 2021
British state-supported Holocaust remembrance has dramatically grown in prominence since the 1990s. This monograph provides the first substantial discussion of the interface between public Holocaust memory in contemporary Britain and the nation’s changing religious-secular landscape.In the first ...
Media and Science-Religion Conflict: Mass Persuasion in the Evolution Wars
1st Edition
By Thomas Aechtner
September 30, 2021
This book examines why the religion-science skirmishes known as the Evolution Wars have persisted into the 21st century. It does so by considering the influences of mass media in relation to decision-making research and the Elaboration Likelihood Model, one of the most authoritative persuasion ...
Music, Branding and Consumer Culture in Church: Hillsong in Focus
1st Edition
By Tom Wagner
June 30, 2021
Starting as a single congregation in Australia, Hillsong Church now has campuses worldwide, releases worship music that sells millions of albums and its ministers regularly appear in mainstream media. So, how has a single church gained such international prominence? This book offers an ethnographic...
Orthodox Christianity and Gender: Dynamics of Tradition, Culture and Lived Practice
1st Edition
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By Helena Kupari, Elina Vuola
June 30, 2021
The Orthodox Christian tradition has all too often been sidelined in conversations around contemporary religion. Despite being distinct from Protestantism and Catholicism in both theology and practice, it remains an underused setting for academic inquiry into current lived religious practice. This ...
Religion, Modernity, Globalisation: Nation-State to Market
1st Edition
By François Gauthier
June 30, 2021
This book argues that the last four decades have seen profound and important changes in the nature and social location of religion, and that those changes are best understood when cast against the associated rise of consumerism and neoliberalism. These transformations are often misunderstood and ...