Sociology of Religion Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. 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
3. Rank and Religion in Tikopia (Routledge Revivals)

   A Study in Polynesian Paganism and Conversion to Christianity.

   By Raymond Firth

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   Originally published in 1970, this book represents a unique study of beliefs and ritual practices in a pagan religion, and of the processes by which a transformation to Christianity took place. Christianity came to the major islands of Polynesia nearly two centuries ago, and within a couple of...

   Published November 21st 2012 by Routledge
4. Tikopia Ritual and Belief (Routledge Revivals)

   By Raymond Firth

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1967, this book gives some of the fruits of the author's study of Tikopia ways of thought as the result of three field expeditions. Most Polynesians became Christians more than a century ago but Tikopia had a substantial pagan population until quite recent years. This book ...

   Published November 21st 2012 by Routledge
5. Religion in Today’s World

   Global Issues, Sociological Perspectives

   Edited by Melissa Wilcox

   Series: Contemporary Sociological Perspectives

   Religion is a major force in contemporary society. It is also one of the least understood social and political influences on individuals and communities. In this innovative collection of original essays and classic readings, experts explore the significance of contemporary religiosity: as a source...

   Published November 18th 2012 by Routledge
6. Gender and Diversity in the Middle East and North Africa

   Edited by Zahia Smail Salhi

   The images of women in chadors or burqas as contrasted with images of belly dancers which circulate today as representations of Muslim/Middle Eastern women do not fluctuate from the images propagated by Orientalist paintings and colonial photographs which also offer contrasting representations of...

   Published November 13th 2012 by Routledge
7. Anti-Muslim Prejudice

   Past and Present

   Edited by Maleiha Malik

   This collection makes a unique contribution to the study of anti-Muslim prejudice by placing the issue in both its past and present context. The essays cover historical and contemporary subjects from the eleventh century to the present day. They examine the forms that anti-Muslim prejudice takes,...

   Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
8. Studying Religion and Society

   Sociological Self-Portraits

   Edited by Titus Hjelm, Phil Zuckerman

   How do you study religion and society? In this fascinating book, some of the most famous names in the field explain how they go about their everyday work of studying religions in the field. They explain how the ideas for their projects and books have come together, how their understanding of...

   Published November 7th 2012 by Routledge
9. 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
10. Digital Religion

    Understanding Religious Practice in New Media Worlds

    Edited by Heidi A. Campbell

    Digital Religion offers a critical and systematic survey of the study of religion and new media. It covers religious engagement with a wide range of new media forms and highlights examples of new media engagement in all five of the major world religions. From cell phones and video games to blogs...

    Published October 18th 2012 by Routledge