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1. Gender and Power in Contemporary Spirituality

   Ethnographic Approaches

   Edited by Anna Fedele, Kim Knibbe

   Series: Routledge Studies in Religion

   This book explores the entanglements of gender and power in spiritual practices and analyzes strategies used by spiritual practitioners to attain what to social scientists might seem an impossible goal: creating spiritual communities without creating gendered hierarchies. What strategies do...

   Published December 19th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Rise of Modern Jewish Politics

   Extraordinary Movement

   By C.S. Monaco

   Series: Routledge Studies in Religion

   The path toward modern Jewish politics, a process that required a dramatic reconstruction of Jewish life, may have emerged during a far earlier time frame and in a different geographic and cultural context than has previously been thought. Drawing upon current sociological understanding of social...

   Published November 26th 2012 by Routledge
3. Making Sense of the Secular

   Critical Perspectives from Europe to Asia

   Edited by Ranjan Ghosh

   Series: Routledge Studies in Religion

   This book offers a wide range of critical perspectives on how secularism unfolds and has been made sense of across Europe and Asia. The book evaluates secularism as it exists today – its formations and discontents within contemporary discourses of power, terror, religion and cosmopolitanism – and...

   Published November 5th 2012 by Routledge
4. Theology and the Science of Moral Action

   Virtue Ethics, Exemplarity, and Cognitive Neuroscience

   Edited by James A. Van Slyke, Gregory Peterson, Warren S. Brown, Kevin S. Reimer, Michael Spezio

   Series: Routledge Studies in Religion

   The past decade has witnessed a renaissance in scientific approaches to the study of morality. Once understood to be the domain of moral psychology, the newer approach to morality is largely interdisciplinary, driven in no small part by developments in behavioural economics and evolutionary biology...

   Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge
5. Religion, Language, and Power

   Edited by Nile Green, Mary Searle-Chatterjee

   Series: Routledge Studies in Religion

   Religion, Language and Power shows that the language of ‘religion’ is far from neutral, and that the packaging and naming of what English speakers call ‘religious’ groups or identities is imbued with the play of power. Religious Studies has all too often served to amplify voices from other...

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
6. Christianity, Tolerance and Pluralism

   A Theological Engagement with Isaiah Berlin's Social Theory

   By Michael Jinkins

   Series: Routledge Studies in Religion

   This book provides a sustained, critical and theological engagement with arguably the most crucial aspect of contemporary society - its diversity. The author finds in the social theory of Isaiah Berlin a number of fruitful ways to reframe the debate over these questions, and to contribute to a more...

   Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
7. A New Science of Religion

   Edited by Greg Dawes, James Maclaurin

   Series: Routledge Studies in Religion

   Religious belief, once in the domain of the humanities, has found a new home in the sciences. Promising new developments in the study of religion by cognitive scientists and evolutionary theorists put forward empirical hypotheses regarding the origin, spread, and character of religious beliefs....

   Published September 23rd 2012 by Routledge
8. Abrogation in the Qur’an and Islamic Law

   By Louay Fatoohi

   Series: Routledge Studies in Religion

   This book examines in detail the concept of "abrogation" in the Qur’an, which has played a major role in the development of Islamic law and has implications for understanding the history and integrity of the Qur’anic text. The term has gained popularity in recent years, as Muslim groups and...

   Published August 23rd 2012 by Routledge
9. Buddhism and Violence

   Militarism and Buddhism in Modern Asia

   Edited by Vladimir Tikhonov, Torkel Brekke

   Series: Routledge Studies in Religion

   It is generally accepted in the West that Buddhism is a ‘peaceful’ religion. The Western public tends to assume that the doctrinal rejection of violence in Buddhism would make Buddhist pacifists, and often expects Buddhist societies or individual Asian Buddhists to conform to the modern Western...

   Published August 7th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Origin of Heresy

    A History of Discourse in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity

    By Robert M. Royalty

    Series: Routledge Studies in Religion

    Heresy is a central concept in the formation of Orthodox Christianity. Where does this notion come from? This book traces the construction of the idea of ‘heresy’ in the rhetoric of ideological disagreements in Second Temple Jewish and early Christian texts and in the development of the polemical...

    Published August 7th 2012 by Routledge