Routledge Studies in Religion
Gender Inequality in the Ordained Ministry of the Church of England: Examining Conservative Male Clergy Responses to Women Priests and Bishops
1st Edition
By Alex D.J. Fry
December 18, 2024
This book offers a fresh social scientific analysis of how theologically conservative male clergy respond to the ordination of women to the priesthood and their consecration as bishops within the Church of England. The question of women’s place in the formal structures of England’s Established ...
Religious Responses to Pandemics and Crises: Isolation, Survival, and #Covidchaos
1st Edition
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By Sravana Borkataky-Varma, Christian A. Eberhart, Marianne Bjelland Kartzow
December 18, 2024
Religious Responses to Pandemics and Crises explores various dimensions of the interrelations between the individual, community, and religion. With their global scope, the contributions to this volume represent reflections on the rich and multifaceted spectrum of human responses in a variety of ...
Scientific Atheism in East Germany (1963-1990): How to Turn a Hare into a Lion
1st Edition
By Eva Guigo-Patzelt
December 02, 2024
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 ...
Modern Debates on Prophecy and Prophethood in Islam: Muhammad Iqbal and Said Nursi
1st Edition
By Mahsheed Ansari
November 28, 2024
While prophethood is the backbone of the Islamic tradition and an uncompromised tenet of faith, the impact of modernity with its ambivalent status afforded to the prophet and institution of prophethood shook many Muslim scholars. Through analysis of these modern debates on prophethood in Islam, ...
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 ...