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Diversity of Nonreligion
Normativities and Contested Relations
Av Johannes Quack, Cora Schuh m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
593 kr
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This book explores the relational dynamic of religious and nonreligious positions as well as the tensions between competing modes of nonreligion. Across the globe, individuals and communities are seeking to distinguish themselves in different ways from religion as they take on an identity …
Religion Extended
How Perception, Embodiment, and Practice Underlie Religion
Inbunden, 2025
2525 kr
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Religion Extended contributes to discussions of aspects of religion that go beyond the epistemology of belief, incorporating other states such as understanding, emotion, knowledge of persons, knowledge-how, as well as practice. The author looks to bridge the gap in the study of religion between …
Blasphemies Compared
Transgressive Speech in a Globalised World
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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This volume examines both historical developments and contemporary expressions of blasphemy across the world. The transgression of religious boundaries incurs more or less severe sanctions in various religious traditions. This book looks at how religious and political authorities use ideas about …
Religion and Human Security in Africa
Av Ezra Chitando, Joram Tarusarira
Inbunden, 2019
2525 kr
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Across diverse countries and contexts in Africa, religion has direct implications for human security. While some individuals and groups seek to manipulate and control through the deployment of religion, religious belief is also a common facet of those working towards peace and reconciliation. …
Religious Freedom and the Global Regulation of Ayahuasca
Av Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Clancy Cavnar
Inbunden, 2023
2144 kr
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This book offers a comprehensive view of the legal, political, and ethical challenges related to the global regulation of ayahuasca, bringing together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars. Ayahuasca is a psychoactive brew containing N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT), which is a …
Said Nursi and Science in Islam
Character Building through Nursi’s Mana-i harfi
Av Necati Aydin
Inbunden, 2019
2144 kr
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This book examines how the prominent Muslim scholar Said Nursi developed an integrative approach to faith and science known as "the other indicative" (mana-i harfi) and explores how his aim to reconcile two academic disciplines, often at odds with one another, could be useful in an educational …
Holocaust Memory and Britain’s Religious-Secular Landscape
Politics, Sacrality, And Diversity
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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British state-supported Holocaust remembrance has dramatically grown in prominence since the 1990s. This monograph provides the first substantial discussion of the interface between public Holocaust memory in contemporary Britain and the nation’s changing religious-secular landscape.In the first …
American Catholic Bishops and the Politics of Scandal
Rhetoric of Authority
Inbunden, 2019
2525 kr
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This book explores the rhetoric and public communication of the Catholic Church in the United States in the wake of the sexual abuse scandals and offers a demonstration of how large organizations negotiate a loss of public trust while retaining political power. While the Catholic Church remains a …
Reimagining God and Resacralisation
Inbunden, 2019
2525 kr
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This book shows that widespread resacralisation has been taking place, which is producing new ways of perceiving God and the divine. The last century has seen unmistakable changes in religious practices and the concept of spirituality right across the world. There was a broad expectation for much …
Religion and Politics Under Capitalism
A Humanistic Approach to the Terminology
Inbunden, 2019
2525 kr
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This book relates some of the major trends within religion and politics to offer a historical framework with which to assess their interactions and a point of departure for studies to come. The study of the interrelationship between contemporary religious practice and modern politics is divided …
Contemporary Yoga and Sacred Texts
Av Susanne Scholz, Caroline Vander Stichele
Inbunden, 2024
2525 kr
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This book explores the textual traditions that authorize the history, legitimacy, and authenticity of today’s physical posture practice. The volume focuses on why and how yoga communities have adopted various texts that they consider sacred or spiritually meaningful. Among the texts discussed are …
Diversity of Nonreligion
Normativities and Contested Relations
Av Johannes Quack, Cora Schuh m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2144 kr
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This book explores the relational dynamic of religious and nonreligious positions as well as the tensions between competing modes of nonreligion. Across the globe, individuals and communities are seeking to distinguish themselves in different ways from religion as they take on an identity …
Italian American Pentecostalism and the Struggle for Religious Identity
Inbunden, 2019
2525 kr
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While many established forms of Christianity have seen significant decline in recent decades, Pentecostals are currently one of the fastest growing religious groups across the world. This book examines the roots, inception, and expansion of Pentecostalism among Italian Americans to demonstrate how …
Celebrity Morals and the Loss of Religious Authority
Inbunden, 2019
2144 kr
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This book examines American popular culture to demonstrate that celebrities have superseded religious figures as moral authorities. As trust in religious institutions has waned over recent decades, the once frivolous entertainment fringe has become the moral center. Young people and voters …
Seeing God in Our Birth Experiences
A Psychoanalytic Inquiry into Pre and Perinatal Religious Development.
Av Helen Holmes
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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There has been a recent surge in the examination of the evolutionary roots of religious belief, all trying to identify where the human desire to seek the supernatural and the divine comes from. This book adds a new and innovative perspective to this line of thought by being the first to link …
Domestic Demons and the Intimate Uncanny
Av Thomas G. Kirsch, Kirsten Mahlke m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
2144 kr
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This book explores local cultural discourses and practices relating to manifestations and experiences of the demonic, the spectral and the uncanny, probing into their effects on people’s domestic and intimate spheres of life. The chapters examine the uncanny in a cross-cultural manner, involving …
Religious Entrepreneurism in China’s Urban House Churches
The Rise and Fall of Early Rain Reformed Presbyterian Church
Av Li Ma
Inbunden, 2019
2525 kr
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This book offers a unique historical documentation of the development of the ambitious religious entrepreneurism by leaders of the Early Rain church (and later Western China Presbytery leadership), in an effort to gain social influence in China through local institution-building and global public …
Religion, Modernity, Globalisation
Nation-State to Market
Inbunden, 2019
2525 kr
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This book argues that the last four decades have seen profound and important changes in the nature and social location of religion, and that those changes are best understood when cast against the associated rise of consumerism and neoliberalism. These transformations are often misunderstood and …
Freethought and Atheism in Central and Eastern Europe
The Development of Secularity and Non-Religion
Av Tomáš Bubík, Atko Remmel m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2144 kr
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This book provides the first comprehensive overview of atheism, secularity and non-religion in Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In contrast to scholarship that has focused on the ‘decline of religion’ and secularization theory, the book builds upon recent …
Islam, IS and the Fragmented State
The Challenges of Political Islam in the MENA Region
Av Anoushiravan Ehteshami, Amjed Rasheed m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2144 kr
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This book provides a pioneering and original study of the regional effects of political Islam. It sets out the multifaceted interactions between Islam and politics in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, focussing in particular on the so-called Islamic State (IS) organization in its …
Religion, Family, and Chinese Youth Development
An Empirical View
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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Religion is a fundamental cultural factor profoundly influential on human mental health and behavioural choices, and, in addition, family is the most proximal and intimate socialization agent contributive to youth development. Religion, Family, and Chinese Youth Development explores how religious …
Hindi Christian Literature in Contemporary India
Inbunden, 2019
2759 kr
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This is the first academic study of Christian literature in Hindi and its role in the politics of language and religion in contemporary India. In public portrayals, Hindi has been the language of Hindus and Urdu the language of Muslims, but Christians have been usually been associated with the …
Spirit Possession and Communication in Religious and Cultural Contexts
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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Spirit Possession and Communication in Religious and Cultural Contexts explores the phenomenon of spirit possession, focusing on the religious and cultural functions it serves as a means of communication. Drawing on the multidisciplinary expertise of philosophers, anthropologists, historians, …
Religion, Migration, and Existential Wellbeing
Av Moa Kindström Dahlin, Oscar Larsson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2144 kr
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This book uses the very latest research to examine current interactions between religion, migration and existential wellbeing. In particular, it demonstrates the role of religion and religious organizations in the social, medical and existential wellbeing of immigrants within their host societies. …
Religious Responses to Sex Work and Sex Trafficking
An Outrage Against Any Decent People
Inbunden, 2022
2525 kr
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This book examines the history, theological beliefs and current contextual practices of faith-based NGOs who work in the area of human trafficking that involves the sex industry. There are hundreds of religious organizations around the globe who minister with human trafficking survivors and sex …
Ethology of Religion and Art
Belief as Behavior
Av Bryan Rennie
Inbunden, 2020
2759 kr
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Drawing from sources including the ethology of art and the cognitive science of religion this book proposes an improved understanding of both art and religion as behaviors developed in the process of human evolution. Looking at both art and religion as closely related, but not identical, behaviors …
Media and Science-Religion Conflict
Mass Persuasion in the Evolution Wars
Inbunden, 2020
2144 kr
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This book examines why the religion-science skirmishes known as the Evolution Wars have persisted into the 21st century. It does so by considering the influences of mass media in relation to decision-making research and the Elaboration Likelihood Model, one of the most authoritative persuasion …
Transformational Embodiment in Asian Religions
Subtle Bodies, Spatial Bodies
Av George Pati, Katherine C. Zubko
Inbunden, 2019
2525 kr
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This volume examines several theoretical concerns of embodiment in the context of Asian religious practice. Looking at both subtle and spatial bodies, it explores how both types of embodiment are engaged as sites for transformation, transaction and transgression.Collectively bridging ancient and …
Abuse of Minors in the Catholic Church
Dismantling the Culture of Cover Ups
Av Anthony J. Blasi, Lluis Oviedo
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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This book offers an academically rigorous examination of the biological, psychological, social and ecclesiastical processes that allowed sexual abuse in the Catholic Church to happen and then be covered up. The collected essays provide a means to better assess systemic wrongdoing in religious …
Religion, Discourse, and Society
Towards a Discursive Sociology of Religion
Inbunden, 2021
2525 kr
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This book focuses on the utility and application of discourse theory and discourse analysis in the sociological study of religious change. It presents an outline of what a ‘discursive sociology of religion’ looks like and brings scholarly attention to the role of language and discourse as a …
