Routledge Studies in Religion
Pentecostal Exorcisms in Contemporary Society: An Ethnographic Study of Ritual and the Making of the Religious Other
1st Edition
By Leonardo Vasconcelos de Castro Moreira
November 23, 2026
This book examines Pentecostal exorcisms in contemporary society and offers a framework for understanding how demonization operates as a socially productive force. It focuses on practices within a Global South church with transnational reach, drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork carried out ...
A Contemporary World Sociology of African and Asian Religions
1st Edition
Edited
By Roberto Cipriani, Philippe Portier
November 10, 2026
This book offers a sociological exploration of the genesis and development of African and Asian religions. The chapters cover a variety of religious traditions including Hinduism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, Shinto and Sikhism. They also reflect on the historiography, phenomenology, and ...
Agents of Conversion on the Island of Nias: The Emergence of Indigenous Christianity
1st Edition
By Bianca M. Dinkelaar
November 04, 2026
This book explores the cultural and religious transformations that unfolded on the Indonesian island of Nias during its encounter with German missionaries in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Far from a one-sided story of conversion, it reveals a dynamic process of syncretism, ...
Spiritual Autobiography in the Eastern Orthodox Space
1st Edition
By Iuliu-Marius Morariu
October 21, 2026
This book explores the particularities of spiritual autobiography in the Eastern Orthodox space, including case studies focused on John of Kronstadt, Siloane the Athonite and Nikolai Berdyaev. It draws on a range of sources and provides a sophisticated and nuanced idea of autobiography. The author ...
Correlative Worldviews: A Cognitive Perspective on Premodern Cosmologies in South Asia and Europe
1st Edition
By Per-Johan Norelius
September 07, 2026
This book explores the topic of correlative worldviews from a comparative and cognitive perspective. Correlative worldviews are premodern cosmologies that posit linkages between different planes of existence, e.g. between the elements of the body and of the cosmos. Unlike the correlations of modern...
AI Theism: Technology, Divinity, and the Emergence of a New Religious Myth
1st Edition
By Remington Tonar
September 01, 2026
AI Theism examines stories in which artificially intelligent characters are depicted as divine through the lens of religious studies and mythology. Narratives in which conscious technologies such as artificial intelligences are portrayed as divine have proliferated in parallel with advances in AI ...
Communist Perspectives on Atheism in the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Eva Guigo-Patzelt
August 27, 2026
This book offers an analysis of the wide range of attitudes that communist movements and regimes adopted towards atheism during the 20th century. Despite the well-known violent fight of the Bolsheviks against believers, for example, and religious persecution in communist regimes at different times,...
Religion in the Market Era: The Rise of Market Islam, the Revenge of Confucius, and Other Stories From a Global Age
1st Edition
By François Gauthier
August 27, 2026
This book aims to expand the limits of the social-scientific study of religion and define a coherent model of recent global transformations of religion, challenging the paradigm of secularisation and post-secularisation. Using a wide-ranging selection of case studies, including global Islam, ...
The Environment of Compassion: Ecology, Religion, and Embodied Story
1st Edition
By Cia Sautter
August 27, 2026
The Environment of Compassion explores questions of what it means to be in relationship to nature, if and how it is a religious experience, and how understanding humans as part of nature alters theology. The book offers a performance perspective that looks at ritual, dance, and theatre as a means ...
Conceptualizing Islam: Current Approaches
1st Edition
Edited
By Frank Peter, Paula Schrode, Ricarda Stegmann
July 20, 2026
In recent decades, academic debates on how to conceptualize ‘Islam’ as an object of study and how to approach it theoretically have been revitalized. Not only has research on Islam grown enormously and become much more differentiated, but Islam is also being discussed more intensively in society ...
Judaizing Christianity and Christian Zionism in Northern Ireland: For God, Israel, and Ulster
1st Edition
By Véronique Altglas
July 20, 2026
This book explores the contemporary Judaization of evangelical Christianity through the ethnography of a Messianic congregation in Northern Ireland. A constellation of Messianic "congregations" have expanded worldwide over recent years, combining Jewish liturgy, symbols, and artifacts with ...
New Zealand Churches Respond to the Covid-19 Protection Framework: Loving our neighbours?
1st Edition
By Miryam Clough
July 20, 2026
This book examines the ways in which New Zealand’s churches interpreted Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s “Covid-19 Protection Framework,” which saw unvaccinated New Zealanders excluded from access to many aspects of civil life, including church attendance. The book considers the socio-political ...