Routledge Studies in Religion
Religions Are Remixes: Rethinking Originality, Authenticity, and Authority in the Study of Religion
1st Edition
By Seth M. Walker
December 26, 2025
This book utilizes an approach that centers on remix theory and conceptual metaphor theory, arguing for an examination of the study of religion via a model for analyzing cultural constructs that the author terms Remix+/-. After discerning the metaphorical correspondences underlying his argument, ...
Retired Missionaries and Faith in a Changing Society
1st Edition
By Carmel Gallagher
December 26, 2025
Retired Missionaries and Faith in a Changing Society offers a sociological study of the Irish missionary diaspora. It draws on a series of interviews with female and male Catholic missionaries, mainly nuns and priests, who have worked in Asia, Africa and Central and South America, and who have ...
Religious Authorities and Practices of Conflict Resolution
1st Edition
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By Carla Bagnoli, Vincenzo Pacillo
November 18, 2025
Religious diversity raises challenges that reverberate at multiple social and political levels. Religious institutions are sources of authoritative claims for believers. They play a crucial role in the articulation and negotiation of domestic conflicts within multicultural societies as well as at ...
Event Religion and European Festival Experience: Concepts and Case Studies
1st Edition
By Sára E. Heidl
November 14, 2025
This book contributes to empirical research on festivals and presents a model of "event religion" for interpreting festival experiences from a religious studies perspective. It features a comparison of three Hungarian case studies with different backgrounds - a mindfulness festival, a ...
Women in Chinese Buddhism: Rights, Spirituality and the Path to Freedom
1st Edition
By Jessica Huset Tilton
September 30, 2025
Tilton examines how cultural, political and economic forces exert pressures on the levels of freedom and equality for female Buddhists within the Buddhist community as well as women’s rights within society. The book charts women’s spiritual paths over four periods, beginning with the Buddha and his...
Millennialism, Millerites, and Prophecy in Bahá’í Discourse
1st Edition
By William P. Collins
September 23, 2025
This book explores the role of millennialism, the Millerites, and prophecy in the historical development of the Bahá’í faith, especially in North America. The author demonstrates the importance of the Bahá’í religion to millennialism studies and its connection to certain Protestant American and ...
The Making and Unmaking of the Psychology of Religion
1st Edition
By Matei Iagher
July 31, 2025
This book examines the rise and demise of the psychology of religion in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Europe and the United States. It considers the formation of the psychology of religion as an international movement, an enterprise whose goal was to refashion the science of religion at...
Islamic Philosophy of Religion: Essays from Analytic Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Mohammad Saleh Zarepour
June 27, 2025
This volume focuses on Islamic philosophy of religion with a range of contributions from analytic perspectives. It opens with methodological discussions on the relationship between the history of Islamic philosophy and contemporary analytic philosophy. The book then offers a philosophical ...
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, ...
Tolerance and Intolerance in Religion and Beyond: Challenges from the Past and in the Present
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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 ...
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
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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 ...