Sociology: Sociology of Religion

Edited by W. Cole Durham, Jr., Javier Martinez Torron, Donlu D Thayer

This book examines conceptualizations of religious freedom in various dimensions. The collection brings together leading experts from law, religious studies, social anthropology, and international relations, who present different perspectives which query, define, and clarify aspects of this…

Hardback – 2019-01-15 
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ICLARS Series on Law and Religion

By Jens Kreinath

This introduction presents an anthropological approach to the study of Islam. It focuses on the main tenets of the religion and considers the various aspects of social and cultural life practiced among Muslims. In concentrating on the five pillars of Islam, Jens Kreinath shows ritual practice to be…

Paperback – 2019-01-01 
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Edited by Dorothea Lüddeckens, Jens Schlieter

Hardback – 2019-01-01 
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Routledge Handbooks in Religion

By Chris Baker, Paul Cloke, Andrew Williams, Callum Sutherland

Over recent years there has been a surge of interest in postsecularity. The complex blurring of sacred-secular boundaries has found new expression in particular areas of the public life of cities, with the unexpected resilience and mutation of religion as a powerful political, cultural and global…

Hardback – 2018-12-31 
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Routledge Research in Place, Space and Politics

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 – 2018-12-31 
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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 – 2018-12-31 
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Edited by Alberto Melloni, Francesca Cadeddu

This book examines religious illiteracy in Europe. It seeks to understand religious illiteracy and its effects on the social and political milieu through the framing of the historical, institutional, religious, social, juridical and educational conditions within which it arises. Divided into four…

Hardback – 2018-12-31 
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ICLARS Series on Law and Religion

By Charles Turner

The death of secularization theses keeps being announced but people keep using the word. Historically the transfer of church property to secular use, for sociologists secularization signals a decline in the influence of religious institutions or ideas; yet ‘secularization’ has also been an…

Paperback – 2018-12-30 
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Key Ideas

By Mark MacWilliams

This book explores central issues of religion in an age of globalization, questioning how religion speaks to us in contemporary society, and how representations of religion impact in popular culture. Focusing on Japanese popular culture, MacWilliams examines Japanese comic books in particular:…

Hardback – 2018-12-01 
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By Carole M. Cusack

This is the first book-length study of the Church of All Worlds (CAW) - a modern Pagan religion. Situating the Church of All Worlds within the context of the Pagan revival, the counter-culture of the 1960s, and broader contemporary environmentalist discourses (in particular), Carole Cusack offers…

Hardback – 2018-12-01 
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Routledge New Religions

By Davide Torri

Highlighting patterns of change and adaptation among the Hyolmo of Nepal, their religious life in the villages and in the urban context, this book addresses the Shamanic-Buddhist interface and their dynamics of change, mutual appropriations and negotiations over time. An important contribution to…

Hardback – 2018-12-01 
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Vitality of Indigenous Religions

By Richard K. Fenn

This title was first published in 2001. This work presents a sociological theory of religion. Richard K. Fenn demonstrates that the shape of the sacred depends on what aspects of the psyche and of the environment seem to be beyond the pale of the human and the social, that is, the primitive.…

Paperback – 2018-12-01 
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Routledge Revivals