Religion

Introducing African American Religion takes a creative and unique approach to the history of African American religion, offering a reader-friendly depiction of the major themes and issues confronted by African Americans involved in a variety of traditions. This book includes illustrations, summaries, discussion questions and suggestions for further reading as well as a glossary and chronology, to help students to become familiar with the main terms of the traditions discussed and to place their development in historical context. Check out the companion website here: www.routledge.com/cw/pinn
 

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 – from cell phones and video games to blogs and Second Life – and highlights examples of new media engagement in all five of the major world religions.

Interest in Christian-Muslim dialog has grown considerably in recent years. How Islam and Christianity have approached each other theologically is one of the most absorbing ways of understanding the challenge of interreligious relations or Christian-Muslim polemics. This volume provides an indispensable reading and reference tool, showing how Muslim and Christian scholars have shaped the discourse on the varying interfaces between Christianity and Islam.

This book offers a wide range of critical perspectives on how secularism unfolds and has been made sense of across Europe and Asia. It evaluates secularism as it exists today, and the focus on these two continents gives critical attention to recent political and cultural developments where secularism and multiculturalism have impinged in deeply problematical ways, raising bristling ideological debates within the functioning of modern state bureaucracies.

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 religion has changed over the years, and how their own beliefs have affected their work.

Jolyon Mitchell is author of Promoting Peace, Inciting Violence: The Role of Religion and Media. This book explores how media and religion combine to play a role in promoting peace and inciting violence. It analyses a wide range of media - from posters, cartoons and stained glass to websites, radio and movie - and draws on diverse examples from around the world, including Iran, Rwanda and South Africa.

In this podcast, Professor Mitchell discusses some of the issues and themes found in: Promoting Peace, Inciting Violence. Listen here.

Professor Linda Woodhead, co-editor of of Religions in the Modern World (2nd edition, Routledge 2009) and Religion and Change in Modern Britain (Routledge 2012), has been awarded a Member of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2013 New Year Honour's list for her services to Higher Education. Read more here.

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