World Religions Products

Edited by Signe Cohen

The Upaniṣads are among the most sacred foundational scriptures in the Hindu religion. Composed from 800 BCE onwards and making up part of the larger Vedic corpus, they offer the reader "knowledge lessons" on life, death, and immortality. While they are essential to understanding Hinduism and Asian…

Paperback – 2019-03-05
Routledge

Edited by Marius Timmann Mjaaland

To talk about religion is to talk about politics, identity, terrorism, migration, gender, and a host of other aspects of society. This volume examines and engages with larger debates around religion and proposes a new approach that moves beyond the usual binaries to analyse its role in our…

Hardback – 2019-02-21
Routledge India
Ethics, Human Rights and Global Political Thought

Edited by David Herbert

This title was first published in 2002: Religion and Social Transformations examines the reciprocal relationship between religion, modernity and social change. The book focuses on the world's three major missionary religions - Buddhism, Christianity and Islam. It explores how these three traditions…

Paperback – 2019-01-29
Routledge
Routledge Revivals

By Gerald Parsons

This title was first published in 2002: Perspectives on Civil Religion introduces the concept of civil religion, examines the use of the concept in recent scholarship and investigates examples of civil religion in the contemporary world. The book sets out to explore tensions and complexities in…

Paperback – 2019-01-16
Routledge

By Matthew Clarke, Anna Halafoff

Community development is most effective and efficient when it is situated and led at the local level and considers the social behaviours, needs and worldviews of local communities. With more than eight out of ten people globally self-reporting religious belief, Religion and Development in the…

Paperback – 2019-01-08
Routledge
Routledge Research in Religion and Development

Edited by Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Xenia Zeiler

This edited volume discusses mediatized religion in Asia, examining the intensity and variety of constructions and processes related to digital media and religion in Asia today. Individual chapters present case studies from various regions and religious traditions in Asia, critically discussing the…

Hardback – 2018-12-06
Routledge
Routledge Research in Digital Media and Culture in Asia

By Joseph T. O'Connell

Edited by Rembert Lutjeharms

Within the broad Hindu religious tradition, there have been for millennia many subtraditions generically called Vaiṣṇava, who insist that the most appropriate mode of religious faith and experience is bhakti, or devotion, to the supreme personal deity, Viṣṇu. Caitanya Vaiṣṇavas are a community…

Hardback – 2018-11-15
Routledge
Routledge Hindu Studies Series

Edited by Graham Harvey, Amy Whitehead

Scholarly attention to Indigenous religions has grown massively in the last twenty years. Within varied forms of Indigenous Studies (e.g. Native American Studies, Maori Studies), as a field itself, and within ethnological disciplines such as Anthropology and Religious Studies, issues related to…

Hardback – 2018-10-26
Routledge
Critical Concepts in Religious Studies

Edited by Jean La Fontaine

A number of cases of serious child abuse have resulted from beliefs that children may be possessed by evil spirits and may then be given the power to bewitch others. Misfortune, failure, illness and even death may be blamed on them. The 'cure', nowadays called deliverance rather than exorcism, is…

Paperback – 2018-09-27
Routledge

By Keren Arbel

This book offers a new interpretation of the relationship between 'insight practice' (satipatthana) and the attainment of the four jhànas (i.e., right samàdhi), a key problem in the study of Buddhist meditation. The author challenges the traditional Buddhist understanding of the four jhànas as…

Paperback – 2018-09-27
Routledge
Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism

By Michael Dillon

There has been a significant increase in the twenty-first century in the frequency and intensity of violent incidents in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, the far northwest province of China, where the Uyghurs, the Turkic-speaking Muslim people who historically constituted the majority…

Hardback – 2018-09-19
Routledge
Routledge Contemporary China Series

Edited by Elisabeth Arweck

Investigating the hitherto unexplored topic of how young people understand and relate to religious diversity in the social context in which they are growing up, this book makes a significant contribution to the existing body of literature on religious diversity and multiculturalism. It closes a gap…

Paperback – 2018-09-18
Routledge