Critical Concepts in Religious Studies

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1. Spirituality in the Modern World

   Within Religious Tradition and Beyond

   Edited by Paul Heelas

   Series: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies

   It would not be an exaggeration to say that during the last century, most especially during and since the 1960s, the language of spirituality has become one of the most significant ways in which the sacred has come to be understood and judged in the West, and, increasingly, elsewhere. Whether it is...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
2. Fundamentalism and Charismatic Movements

   Edited by David Lehmann, Humeira Iqtidar

   Series: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies

   The term ‘fundamentalism’ carries a wide range of meanings, some of them pejorative. Here it is used to refer to what the French call ‘integrism’, meaning a religious code which encompasses and governs with its prescriptions the entire private and public life of individuals and the collectivity....

   Published October 27th 2011 by Routledge
3. Anthropology of Religion

   Edited by Phillips Stevens Jr.

   Series: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies

   Religious belief is an extremely powerful motivator of human behaviour. Religious considerations permeate and influence all parts of a culture. Religious systems are universal in human cultures, around the world and through all stages of human history and prehistory. Of all academic approaches to...

   Published November 22nd 2010 by Routledge
4. Religion and Science

   Edited by Sara Fletcher Harding, Nancy Morvillo

   Series: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies

   Integral to human nature is the need to seek understanding of the world in which we live, to discover how it works and why. We find our answers to these fundamental questions through different methods; empirical science justifies our observations of the natural world, but religion offers...

   Published October 5th 2010 by Routledge
5. World Christianity

   Edited by Elizabeth Koepping

   Series: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies

   Two-thirds of the world's Christians live in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and this new interdisciplinary Routledge Major Work brings together specialist contributions from around the world, from Europe and North America as well as from the developing world, to present a collection that truly...

   Published September 16th 2010 by Routledge
6. Religion and the Environment

   Edited by Roger S. Gottlieb

   Series: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies

   In the last two decades a new form of religiously motivated social action and a virtually new field of academic study—each based in recognition of the connections between religion and humanity’s treatment of the environment—have developed. Interactions between religion and environmental concern...

   Published June 24th 2010 by Routledge
7. Psychology of Religion

   Edited by Justin L. Barrett

   Series: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies

   Psychology of religion is essentially as old as psychology itself, with over a hundred years of history and claiming some of psychology’s most notable characters as contributors, including William James, Sigmund Freud, Gordon Allport, and Jean Piaget. In recent years, this subfield of psychology...

   Published April 29th 2010 by Routledge
8. Religion and Human Rights

   Edited by Nazila Ghanea

   Series: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies

   Hardly a week goes by without some world event relating to the burgeoning field of religion and human rights. Whether attacks carried out in the name of religion by individuals or states, violations of the rights of individuals or communities due to their religious or other beliefs, or clashes...

   Published March 23rd 2010 by Routledge
9. Women and Christianity

   Edited by Kwok Pui-lan

   Series: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies

   This new four-volume collection from Routledge brings together the best and most influential scholarship on women and Christianity. It presents an up-to-date, multidisciplinary, and comprehensive compilation of women’s reflection on the Bible and Christian doctrines; women’s religious roles and...

   Published December 14th 2009 by Routledge
10. Religion and Politics

    Edited by Jeffrey Haynes

    Series: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies

    The early twenty-first century has witnessed a global resurgence of religious activity and identification. In particular, numerous examples of the growing political influence of religion can be cited, not least in Europe, once thought to be an inexorably secularizing continent. In India, meanwhile,...

    Published October 15th 2009 by Routledge