Religion Books

New and Published Books

1. Religion and Democracy

   A Worldwide Comparison

   By Carsten Anckar

   Series: Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics

   This important new study empirically assesses the relationship between religion and democracy, looking at the global, regional and individual country picture. Using a wide range of quantitative data, Anckar tests the validity of Huntington’s claim that democracy and religion are tightly connected,...

   Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Head and Heart

   Valour and Self-Sacrifice in the Art of India

   By Mary Storm

   An extensive study of self-sacrificial images in Indian art, this book examines concepts such as head-offering, human sacrifice, blood, suicide, valour, self-immolation, and self-giving in the context of religion and politics to explore why these images were produced and how they became paradigms...

   Published January 30th 2013 by Routledge India
3. Germany, France, Russia and Islam (Routledge Revivals)

   By Heinrich Von Treitschke

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   Heinrich Von Treitschke was a prolific German historian and political writer during the nineteenth century. In Germany, France, Russia and Islam, first published in 1915, he considers European diplomatic relations from the patriotic perspective of imperial Germany, in particular examining...

   Published January 23rd 2013 by Routledge
4. Imagining the Pagan Past

   Gods and Goddesses in Literature and History since the Dark Ages

   By Marion Gibson

   Imagining the Pagan Past explores stories of Britain’s pagan history. These tales have been characterised by gods and fairies, folklore and magic. They have had an uncomfortable relationship with the scholarly world; often being seen as historically dubious, self-indulgent romance and, worse,...

   Published January 22nd 2013 by Routledge
5. Believing in Russia - Religious Policy after Communism

   By Geraldine Fagan

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

   This book presents a comprehensive overview of religious policy in Russia since the end of the communist regime, exposing many of the ambiguities and uncertainties about the position of religion in Russian life. It reveals how religious freedom in Russia has, contrary to the widely held view, a...

   Published January 20th 2013 by Routledge
6. Ramchandra Gandhi

   The Man and His Philosophy

   Edited by A. Raghuramaraju

   Ramchandra Gandhi, famous for his rich and varied interests, left behind a large corpus of writings, both philosophical and non-philosophical. Introducing the readers to the creative Indian philosopher, this volume highlights the principal thrust of his works, critically locates them within the...

   Published December 30th 2012 by Routledge India
7. 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
8. The Postsecular Imagination

   Postcolonialism, Religion, and Literature

   By Manav Ratti

   Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

   The Postsecular Imagination presents a rich, interdisciplinary study of postsecularism as an affirmational political possibility emerging through the potentials and limits of both secular and religious thought. While secularism and religion can foster inspiration and creativity, they also can be...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
9. Tafsir

   Interpreting the Qur'an

   Edited by Mustafa Shah

   Series: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies

   Within the classical Islamic tradition, the field of Qur'anic exegesis, more commonly referred to as tafsir, occupies a revered place among the traditional Muslim sciences. Although tafsir encompasses various approaches to the explication of the Qur’an and these include legal, theological,...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
10. Engaging with a Legacy: Nehemia Levtzion (1935-2003)

    Edited by E. Ann McDougall

    Engaging with a Legacy shows how Nehemia Levtzion shaped our understanding of Islam in Africa and influenced successive scholarly generations in their approach to Islamization, conversion and fundamentalism. The book illuminates his work, career and family life – including his own ‘life vision’ on...

    Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge