There has been much dialogue among higher education scholars regarding the implications of the emergent postmodern paradigm, and thought leaders in the evangelical world have noted with concern the postmodern challenge to exclusivist truth claims. However, few have sought to situate the challenges…
Hardback – 2019-03-15
Routledge
Routledge Research in Religion and Education
Hardback – 2019-02-28
Routledge
Routledge International Handbooks
Islamophobic hate crimes have increased significantly following the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and 7/7. More recently, the rhetoric surrounding Trump’s election and presidency, Brexit, the rise of far-right groups and ISIS-inspired terrorist attacks worldwide have promoted a climate where…
Hardback – 2019-02-15
Routledge
Routledge International Handbooks
In the post-9/11 environment, the figure of the Muslim woman is at the forefront of global politics. Her representation is often articulated within a rights discourse that is embedded within liberal-secular sensibilities. These sensibilities include notions of rights, freedom, equality, rational…
Hardback – 2019-02-01
Routledge
Global Gender
This book offers a sociological analysis of globalized capitalist markets, advancing the notion of ‘disembedded markets’ to challenge the idea of ‘social embeddedness’ common in economic sociology. Avoiding an exclusive focus on institutions, networks and trust relationships surrounding markets,…
Hardback – 2019-01-31
Routledge
Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
This book examines the history and evolution of Ayurveda and other indigenous medical traditions in juxtaposition with their encounter with colonial modernity. Through the lens of hereditary folk and Ayurvedic practitioners, it focuses on Kerala’s heterogeneous medical traditions and presents them…
Hardback – 2019-01-31
Routledge India
There has also been a recent critique of Western Buddhist feminism, and a need to develop a greater understanding of intersections between feminism and Buddhism, Buddhism in the East and West, and of ‘convert’ and ‘ethnic’ Buddhists. This book is the first multi-tradition study of ordained Buddhist…
Hardback – 2019-01-30
Routledge
Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
This book explores the interconnections between Christianity, sexuality and citizenship in sub-Saharan Africa, chronicling the ways in which citizenship in the region has undergone profound changes in recent decades as a result of growing interaction between Christianity and politics, and the…
Hardback – 2019-01-16
Routledge
Much previous literature on sacred natural sites has been written from a non-indigenous perspective. In contrast, this book facilitates a greater self-expression of indigenous perspectives regarding treatment of the sacred and its protection and governance in the face of threats from various forms…
Paperback – 2019-01-15
Routledge
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
Routledge
This book explores the hopeful possibility that emerging geographies of postsecularity are able to contribute significantly to the understanding of how common life may be shared, and how caring for the common goods of social justice, well-being, equality, solidarity and respect for difference may…
Hardback – 2018-12-31
Routledge
Routledge Research in Place, Space and Politics
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
Routledge
Routledge Revivals