Routledge Studies in Religion
AI Theism: Technology, Divinity, and the Emergence of a New Religious Myth
1st Edition
By Remington Tonar
September 14, 2026
AI Theism examines stories in which artificially intelligent characters are depicted as divine through the lens of religious studies and mythology. Narratives in which conscious technologies such as artificial intelligences are portrayed as divine have proliferated in parallel with advances in AI ...
Correlative Worldviews: A Cognitive Perspective on Premodern Cosmologies in South Asia and Europe
1st Edition
By Per-Johan Norelius
September 07, 2026
This book explores the topic of correlative worldviews from a comparative and cognitive perspective. Correlative worldviews are premodern cosmologies that posit linkages between different planes of existence, e.g. between the elements of the body and of the cosmos. Unlike the correlations of modern...
Communist Perspectives on Atheism in the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Eva Guigo-Patzelt
August 27, 2026
This book offers an analysis of the wide range of attitudes that communist movements and regimes adopted towards atheism during the 20th century. Despite the well-known violent fight of the Bolsheviks against believers, for example, and religious persecution in communist regimes at different times,...
Religion in the Market Era: The Rise of Market Islam, the Revenge of Confucius, and Other Stories From a Global Age
1st Edition
By François Gauthier
August 27, 2026
This book aims to expand the limits of the social-scientific study of religion and define a coherent model of recent global transformations of religion, challenging the paradigm of secularisation and post-secularisation. Using a wide-ranging selection of case studies, including global Islam, ...
The Environment of Compassion: Ecology, Religion, and Embodied Story
1st Edition
By Cia Sautter
August 27, 2026
The Environment of Compassion explores questions of what it means to be in relationship to nature, if and how it is a religious experience, and how understanding humans as part of nature alters theology. The book offers a performance perspective that looks at ritual, dance, and theatre as a means ...
Conceptualizing Islam: Current Approaches
1st Edition
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By Frank Peter, Paula Schrode, Ricarda Stegmann
July 20, 2026
In recent decades, academic debates on how to conceptualize ‘Islam’ as an object of study and how to approach it theoretically have been revitalized. Not only has research on Islam grown enormously and become much more differentiated, but Islam is also being discussed more intensively in society ...
Judaizing Christianity and Christian Zionism in Northern Ireland: For God, Israel, and Ulster
1st Edition
By Véronique Altglas
July 20, 2026
This book explores the contemporary Judaization of evangelical Christianity through the ethnography of a Messianic congregation in Northern Ireland. A constellation of Messianic "congregations" have expanded worldwide over recent years, combining Jewish liturgy, symbols, and artifacts with ...
New Zealand Churches Respond to the Covid-19 Protection Framework: Loving our neighbours?
1st Edition
By Miryam Clough
July 20, 2026
This book examines the ways in which New Zealand’s churches interpreted Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s “Covid-19 Protection Framework,” which saw unvaccinated New Zealanders excluded from access to many aspects of civil life, including church attendance. The book considers the socio-political ...
Religion Extended: How Perception, Embodiment, and Practice Underlie Religion
1st Edition
By Elena Kalmykova
July 20, 2026
Religion Extended contributes to discussions of aspects of religion that go beyond the epistemology of belief, incorporating other states such as understanding, emotion, knowledge of persons, knowledge-how, as well as practice. The author looks to bridge the gap in the study of religion between ...
Scientific Atheism in East Germany (1963-1990): How to Turn a Hare into a Lion
1st Edition
By Eva Guigo-Patzelt
July 20, 2026
This book offers an in-depth, archive-based analysis of “scientific atheism”, focused on the development of the field in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Scientific atheism was established as a Soviet import in 1963 at Jena University, with a presence in East German universities, propaganda ...
Understanding Petitionary Prayer: Ask, and Ye Might Receive
1st Edition
By Shane Sharp
July 20, 2026
This book explores the “whats,” “whys,” and “hows” of petitionary prayer. Millions of people every single day ask God or some other supernatural being to make some outcome or event happen, whether it be to keep their children safe during a road trip, to give them the willpower to avoid succumbing ...
Faith Makes You Happy?: Insights from Happiness Research and Theology
1st Edition
By Johan Graafland
July 10, 2026
This book examines how faith and happiness intersect. It reflects on why religion and happiness are positively related, and why believers are often shown to be hap>pier than nonbelievers. The author provides an overview of existing literature on religion and happiness and draws on in-depth ...