Sociology of Religion Books

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1. Muslims in Britain: Making Social and Political Space

   Edited by Waqar Ahmad, Ziauddin Sardar

   This book examines the social and political position of Muslims in Britain. Contributions from academics and policy makers explore issues of religion and politics, Britishness, governance, parallel lives, gender issues, religion in civic space, ethnicity, and inter ethnic and religious relations....

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-59472-1 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. Islamophobia in Western Europe and North America

   Edited by Marc Helbling

   For the first time this volume reunites leading researchers from various countries in Western Europe and North America who focus on survey data to investigate Islamophobia. While we already know quite a lot about how Islam finds its place in Western Europe and North America and how states react to...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-59444-8 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Understanding Religious Ritual: Theoretical Approaches and Innovations

   Edited by JOHN HOFFMANN

   Although numerous studies of religious rituals have been conducted by anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, and religious studies scholars, it is rare to find a work that brings scholars from different disciplines together to discuss the similarities and differences in their research. This...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-78167-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. The Politics of Moral Sin: Abortion and Divorce in Spain, Chile and Argentina

   By Merike Blofield

   This book analyzes the problems that arise when women's rights conflict with the views of conservative organized religion. Specifically, it addresses the legalization – or lack thereof – of divorce and abortion in three recently democratized Catholic countries: Spain, Chile, and...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-80596-4 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. 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...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-59412-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. Women in China's Muslim Northwest: Gender, Social Hierarchy and Ethnicity

   By Ayxem Ali

   The resurgence of Islam in China’s Northwest Xinjiang province among the Uyghurs, the largest ethnic group in the region, has been noted by numerous scholars. However, how this resurgence of Islam relates to Uyghur ethnic identity and how Uyghur women are responding to government policies and...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-55712-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. God, Jews and the Media: Religion's Impact on Israel's Media

   By Yoel Cohen

   The book examines the interactions between Jewish identity and mass media. As such, it covers the Diaspora populations of the US and UK as well as Israel itself. Also included are chapters on journalism, broadcasting, advertising and the internet....

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-47503-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. Believing in Russia - Religious Policy After Communism

   By Geraldine Fagan

   This book presents a comprehensive overview of religion 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 shows how religious freedom in Russia has, contrary to the widely held view, a long...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-49002-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. Suicide Bombings

   By Riaz Hassan

   In an age when the Western world is preoccupied with worries about weapons of mass destruction in terrorist hands, terrorists in many parts of the world are using a more basic device as a weapon - life itself. This use of life as weapon or suicide bombing has become a weapon of choice among...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-58887-4 | Paperback (Routledge)

10. Islam, Law and Identity

    Edited by Marinos Diamantidis, Adam Gearey

    Islam, Law and Identity brings together a range of Muslim and non Muslim scholars in order to focus on recent debates about the nature of sacred and secular law. Law is central to the complex ways in which different Muslim communities and institutions create and re-create their identities...

    April 2011 | 978-0-415-56681-0 | Hardback (Routledge-Cavendish)