The emergence of religious fundamentalism in a globalized, post-colonial world poses a significant challenge to the "End of History" narratives common in academic and non-academic literature alike. Globalization, Modernity and the Rise of Religious Fundamentalism proposes that we must seek new…
Hardback – 2019-06-30
Routledge
In 2010 Heythrop College, in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for Ecclesiology and Practical Theology (OxCEPT), produced the Action Research - Church and Society (ARCS) project. This turned out to be a landmark study in the praxis of Anglican and Catholic ecclesiology in the UK, showing how…
Hardback – 2019-06-15
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Explorations in Practical, Pastoral and Empirical Theology
By the late 20th century the Vatican and the World Council of Churches held other religions and their peoples, including especially Islam and Muslims, as worthy of respect and honoured as dialogue-partners. Early in the 21st century, in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the…
Hardback – 2019-06-01
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What is the Bhagavad-Gita? Is it just a religious text? When was it composed? How relevant is it to the modern world? This book answers these foundational questions and more. It critically examines the Bhagavad-Gita in terms of its liberal, humanist and inclusive appeal, bringing out its…
Hardback – 2019-05-27
Routledge India
A Visual Approach to the Study of Religious Orders applies visual methods to the exploration of various facets of religious life, such as everyday lived experience, contemporary monastic identity or monastic architecture. Presenting a series of visual essays, it treats images not as simple…
Hardback – 2019-05-23
Routledge
Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Religion
The academic treatment of the environment and nature, since the 1980s, has been formalized in sub-disciplines like environmental history, environmental philosophy, ecocriticism and ecospirituality. Within these disciplines the concept of nature has been variously employed to reorient humanity to a…
Paperback – 2019-05-20
Routledge
Against Religion applies a psychoanalytic perspective, though with several novel features, to the understanding of some important aspects of religions, particularly to fundamentalist religions. It acknowledges the good in religion, but argues that this is outweighed by the bad. Religious ideology…
Hardback – 2019-05-01
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This book explores the inter-relationship between religious groups and wider society and examines the way religious groups change in relation to societal norms, potentially to the point of undergoing processes of ‘internal secularisation’ within secular and secularist cultures. Received…
Paperback – 2019-04-30
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This set collects together in 19 volumes a wealth of texts on Sociology of Religion. An invaluable reference resource, it contains classic books on a wide range of topics, including: religion and violence, religion and family life, religion and society, culture and class.…
Hardback – 2019-04-04
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Religion
This book, first published in 1989, demonstrates that sociologists have much to gain from a strengthening of the connections between general theories about the changing character of modern western societies and specific studies of religion. It combines an exegesis of sociological classics in the…
Hardback – 2019-04-04
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Religion
This book, first published in 1991, examines the unreligious of America. Most sociologists of religion viewed religious belief and behaviour as having strong positive function for individual well-being – with the implicit assumption that unreligious individuals would lack meaning in life. This book…
Hardback – 2019-04-04
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Religion