Religion Books

New and Published Books

1. Cults, New Religions and Religious Creativity (Routledge Revivals)

   By Geoffrey Nelson

   The twentieth century has been marked by an unprecedented outburst of religious activity on a world-wide scale, and in particular by a mushrooming of numerous religious movements. This work, first published in 1987, takes a fresh approach to the understanding of this phenomenon, an approach...

   Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge
2. Jewish Eating and Identity Through the Ages

   By David C. Kraemer

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   This book explores the history of Jewish eating and Jewish identity, from the Bible to the present. The lessons of this book rest squarely on the much-quoted insight: 'you are what you eat.' But this book goes beyond that simple truism to recognise that you are not only what you eat, but also how,...

   Published April 4th 2012 by Routledge
3. Tibetan Rituals of Death

   Buddhist Funerary Practices

   By Margaret Gouin

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism

   This book describes and analyses the structure and performance of Tibetan Buddhist death rituals, and situates that performance within the wider context of Buddhist death practices generally. Drawing on a detailed and systematic comparative survey of existing records of Tibetan funerary practices,...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
4. Religious Cultures in Early Modern India

   New Perspectives

   Edited by Rosalind O'Hanlon, David Washbrook

   Series: Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series

   Religious authority and political power have existed in complex relationships throughout India’s history. The centuries of the ‘early modern’ in South Asia saw particularly dynamic developments in this relationship. Regional as well as imperial states of the period expanded their religious...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
5. Sexuality, Religion and the Sacred

   Bisexual, Pansexual and Polysexual Perspectives

   Edited by Loraine Hutchins, H. Sharif Williams

   Sexuality, Religion and the Sacred is a thoughtful collection of bisexual, polysexual and pansexual scholarship on religion and spirituality. It examines how religious and spiritual traditions address sexuality, whilst also exploring the ways in which bisexually-, polysexually-, and...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
6. The Anthropology of Islam Reader

   Edited by Jens Kreinath

   The Anthropology of Islam Reader brings together a rich variety of ethnographic work, offering an insight into various forms of Islam as practiced in different geographic, social, and cultural contexts. Topics explored include Ramadan and the Hajj, the Feast of Sacrifice, and the representation of...

   Published November 8th 2011 by Routledge
7. Critical Realism and Spirituality

   Edited by Mervyn Hartwig, Jamie Morgan

   Series: New Studies in Critical Realism and Spirituality

   Critical Realism and Spirituality contextualizes, delineates, explores and critiques the turn to spirituality and religion in critical realism, which has been under way since the mid-1990s, as well as telling its story. It provides incisive discussion and anaysis of the following broad questions:...

   Published September 28th 2011 by Routledge
8. Varieties of Secularism in Asia

   Anthropological Explorations of Religion, Politics and the Spiritual

   Edited by Nils Ole Bubandt, Martijn Van Beek

   Series: Anthropology of Asia

   Varieties of Secularism is an ethnographically rich, theoretically well-informed, and intellectually coherent volume which builds off the work of Talal Asad, Charles Taylor, and others who have engaged the issue of secularism(s) and in socio-political life. The volume seeks to examine theories of...

   Published September 28th 2011 by Routledge
9. Diaspora and Citizenship

   Edited by Claire Sutherland, Elena Barabantseva

   This collection of papers discusses the impact of diasporas on the articulations and practices of legal, political, cultural and social citizenship in their country of origin. While the majority of current citizenship debates focus on the challenges and directions in which diasporic and migrant...

   Published September 27th 2011 by Routledge
10. Religious Commodifications in Asia

    Marketing Gods

    Edited by Pattana Kitiarsa

    Series: Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy

    This book addresses the growing academic concerns of the market-religion convergences in Asia. Bringing together a group of leading scholars from Asia, Europe, Australia and North America, it discusses multiple issues regarding religious commodifications and their consequences across Asia’s...

    Published September 14th 2011 by Routledge