At the core of much of African American religion’s response to social inequalities is a symbiotic relationship between socio-political activism and spiritual restoration. Drawing on archival material and ethnographic fieldwork from African American Spiritual Churches in the USA, this book examines…
Hardback – 2017-12-01
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Routledge Studies in Religion
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 – 2017-11-30
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Key Ideas
First published in 1957, this book is a detailed analysis on Christian Democracy, a movement backed by Protestants as well as Catholics, which has become one of the great social forces of Western Europe. It is strong in eight countries. The first half of Fogarty’s book sets out what the many…
Hardback – 2017-11-26
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Skepticism is one of the most enduring and profound of philosophical problems. With its roots in Plato and the Sceptics to Descartes, Hume, Kant and Wittgenstein, skepticism presents a challenge that every philosopher must reckon with. In this outstanding collection philosophers engage with…
Hardback – 2017-11-24
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It is increasingly clear that histories of secularization are not simply dispassionate descriptions of the decline of religious belief and practice in the West. Rather, such narratives often seek to celebrate secularization, promote some version of it, lament it, or otherwise oppose it in favour of…
Hardback – 2017-11-20
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In the Western world, magic has often functioned as an umbrella term for various religious beliefs and ritual practices that seek to influence events by harnessing supernatural power. The definition of these myriad occult and esoteric traditions have, however, usually come from those that are…
Hardback – 2017-11-20
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Gnostica
This book explores Islamophobia in Australia, shifting attention from its victims to its perpetrators by examining the visceral, atavistic nature of people’s feelings and responses to the Muslim ‘Other’ in everyday life. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, Islamophobia and Everyday Multiculturalism…
Hardback – 2017-11-17
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Studies in Migration and Diaspora
Northeast India has witnessed several nationality movements during the 20th century. The oldest and one of the most formidable has been that of the Nagas — inhabiting the hill tracts between the Brahmaputra river in India and the Chindwin river in Burma (now Myanmar). Rallying behind the slogan, ‘…
Paperback – 2017-11-07
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Transition in Northeastern India
English Christendom has never been a static entity. Evangelism, politics, conflict and cultural changes have constantly and consistently developed it into myriad forms across the world. However, in recent times that development has seemingly become a general decline. This book utilises the motif of…
Hardback – 2017-11-02
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Routledge Contemporary Ecclesiology
Sufism is generally perceived as being spiritually focused and about the development of the self. However, Sufi orders have been involved historically as important civic and political actors in the Muslim world, having participated extensively in inter-faith dialogue, and political challenges to…
Hardback – 2017-10-31
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Routledge Religion in Contemporary Asia Series
The creation of Turkish nationhood, citizenship, economic transformation, the forceful removal of minorities and national homogenisation, gender rights, the position of armed forces in politics, and the political and economic integration of Kurdish minority in Turkish polity have all received major…
Hardback – 2017-10-30
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Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics
Bringing together empirical cultural and media studies of religion and critical social theory, Technologies of Religion: Spheres of the sacred in a post-secular modernity investigates powerful entanglement of religion and new media technologies taking place today, taking stock of the repercussions…
Paperback – 2017-10-25
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Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society