Routledge Studies in Religion
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...
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
May 30, 2025
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, ...
Communist Perspectives on Atheism in the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
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By Eva Guigo-Patzelt
May 19, 2025
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,...
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 ...
The Environment of Compassion: Ecology, Religion, and Embodied Story
1st Edition
By Cia Sautter
May 09, 2025
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 ...
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, ...
Understanding Petitionary Prayer: Ask, and Ye Might Receive
1st Edition
By Shane Sharp
April 29, 2025
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 ...
Judaizing Christianity and Christian Zionism in Northern Ireland: For God, Israel, and Ulster
1st Edition
By Véronique Altglas
April 22, 2025
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 ...
Religion Extended: How Perception, Embodiment, and Practice Underlie Religion
1st Edition
By Elena Kalmykova
April 01, 2025
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 ...
Conceptualizing Islam: Current Approaches
1st Edition
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By Frank Peter, Paula Schrode, Ricarda Stegmann
March 31, 2025
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 ...
New Zealand Churches Respond to the Covid-19 Protection Framework: Loving Our Neighbours?
1st Edition
By Miryam Clough
March 04, 2025
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 ...
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 ...