Religion Books

New and Published Books

1. Socialism and Religion

   Roads to Common Wealth

   By Vincent Geoghegan

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   In the past decade philosophers and political theorists have increasingly pondered the role of religion in a modern secular society, and of the possible value of religion as a resource for contemporary thinking. The global resurgence of a new religious politics – graphically symbolised by 9/11 -...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. Ritual Texts for the Afterlife

   Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets, 2nd Edition

   By Fritz Graf, Sarah Iles Johnston

   Fascinating texts written on small gold tablets that were deposited in graves provide a unique source of information about what some Greeks and Romans believed regarding the fate that awaited them after death, and how they could influence it. These texts, dating from the late fifth century...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
3. Religion in Contemporary China

   Revitalization and Innovation

   Edited by Adam Yuet Chau

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   Before the modernist transformations of the twentieth century, China had one of the richest and most diverse religious cultures in the world. The radical anti-traditionalist policies of both the Republican and Communist regimes as well as other socio-historical factors posed formidable challenges...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
4. Rastaman (Routledge Revivals)

   The Rastafarian Movement in England

   By E. Cashmore

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1979, this book makes a detailed study of Rastafarianism. It traces the expansion of Rastafarian culture from its origins and development in Jamaica through to the growth of Rastafarian life in Britain. It looks at Rastafarian culture in England in the late 1970s based on the...

   Published February 7th 2013 by Routledge
5. Cultural Anthropology

   Global Forces, Local Lives, 2nd Edition

   By Jack David Eller

   Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces, Local Lives helps students understand the application of anthropological concepts to the contemporary world. It offers an exceptionally clear and readable introduction to cultural anthropology, closely relating it to key topics such as colonialism and...

   Published January 17th 2013 by Routledge
6. 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
7. Media and Ritual

   Death, Community and Everyday Life

   By Johanna Sumiala

   Series: Media, Religion and Culture

   This wide-ranging and accessible book offers a stimulating introduction to the field of media anthropology and the study of religious ritual. Johanna Sumiala explores the interweaving of rituals, communication and community. She uses the tools of anthropological enquiry to examine a variety of...

   Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge
8. Ritual and Recovery in Post-Conflict Sri Lanka

   By Jane Derges

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   Following over twenty years of war, Sri Lanka’s longest cease-fire (2002-2006) provided a final opportunity for an inclusive peace settlement between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). However, hostilities resumed with ever increasing desperation and ferocity...

   Published September 5th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Market and Temple Fairs of Rural China

   Red Fire

   By Gene Cooper

   Series: Asia's Transformations

   During the early communist period of the 1950s, temple fairs in China were both suppressed and secularized. Temples were closed down by the secular regime and their activities classified as feudal superstition and this process only intensified during the Cultural Revolution when even the surviving...

   Published August 12th 2012 by Routledge
10. Muslim Women in Britain

    De-Mystifying the Muslimah

    By Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor

    Series: Islamic Studies Series

    Perceptions of Muslim women in Western society have been shaped by historical and sociological conditions such as colonialism, patriarchy and Orientalism. In Muslim Women in Britain, Sariya Contractor seeks to reinstate the Muslimah as a storyteller who tells her own story. An exploration of the...

    Published July 2nd 2012 by Routledge