This book explores some of the political and methodological directions that collectively lead to the repositioning of Is......more

Atheists are a growing but marginalized group in the American religious patchwork and they have been the target of ridic......more

Based on a content analysis of writing assignments from a class on death and dying, this book focuses on the manner in w......more

This book is a sociological study of the resilience of Tingkao Ragwang Chapriak - one of the indigenous religions of the......more

This volume reveals how religion interfaces with inequality in different African contexts. Some contributors undertake d......more

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Exploring the subtle political philosophy within the Biblical narrative, this book presents enduring insights that compl......more

Exploring the subtle political philosophy within the Biblical narrative, this book presents enduring insights that compl......more

This book delves into an in-depth discussion around dress and languages and how they have shaped the changes in the Brit......more

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A Pulitzer Prize winner’s intimate portrait of a church, its radical mission, and its riveting crisis. "The revolution I......more

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What role does religion play in modern societies? Is it merely an anachronism that hinders our economic growth? Is it a ......more

What role does religion play in modern societies? Is it merely an anachronism that hinders our economic growth? Is it a ......more

This book is the first ’groundwork’ on Muslim NGOs in contemporary Ghana. It builds upon a database of more than 600 Mus......more

Interdisciplinary youth culture research On materiality in youth scenes Studies on belonging and lines of difference...more

Examines the historical, political, religious, and social dynamics of Muslim minority status in Uganda, and important th......more

This book constitutes the second volume of ’Religion Matters: The Contemporary Relevance of Religion’ (Springer, 2020). ......more

In this book, Juli Gittinger argues that America’s fascination (obsession?) with the apocalypse is a synthesis of religi......more

The evolution and spread of Protestantism has been shaped largely by its focus on reading and interpreting the Bible. Fo......more

This concise and accessible textbook introduces students to the anthropological study of religion. It examines religious......more

This concise and accessible textbook introduces students to the anthropological study of religion. It examines religious......more

This book rethinks the anthropology of friendship from the perspective of theology and disability, and suggests the resp......more

This edited book brings together leading scholars in the field of Indigenous religions working with Indigenous Peoples f......more

The Problem of Orthodoxy: Evangelicals at the Crossroads of Truth and Power reexamines Christian orthodoxy, especially c......more

This book draws on a four-year ethnographic study conducted in the prisons and on the streets of Greater Manchester, Eng......more

Places of worship are important anchor institutions in communities, helping to create social capital through discussion ......more

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This book explores the decolonization of Holy Cross education in Bangladesh. It reveals how the church’s educational mis......more

Religion Today introduces students to key concepts in religious studies through a compelling problem-solving framework. ......more

This volume aims to revitalize the exchange between sociological differentiation theory and the sociology of religion, w......more

Assessing issues related to the Orthodox Church from an academic, secular point of view is a sensitive matter. However, ......more

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Migration presents the story of religion and migration predominantly through the......more

Park investigates the unexpected success of early Korean creationists, who were mostly scientists, and argues that creat......more

Have you ever felt like your work has no meaning? Or like faith and daily life fall into separate days of the week? The ......more

Governing Religious Diversity in Cities provides original insights into the governance of religious diversity in urban c......more

This volume explores how different forms of Christianity shape people’s visions of pasts and futures, and how the transc......more

These are some of the most fundamental and enduring questions we have about the mysteries of religion, and they may well......more

This book explores modern European religious and non-religious rituals and their main features by focusing on music as a......more

Ecology, Spirituality, and Cosmology in Edwidge Danticat: Crossroads as Ritual employs nature, literary tradition, and t......more

I wish to express that I fundamentally believe life has a purpose and that human life is exceptional among all life. I b......more

In the 20th and 21st centuries, where violence has scarred countless lives, the interplay between religion, politics, an......more

Written by Karim F Hirji, a retired professor of Medical Statistics, Religion, Politics and Society focuses on the four ......more

Retired Missionaries and Faith in a Changing Society offers a sociological study of the Irish missionary diaspora. It dr......more

How do urbanization and development intersect with religious dynamics to shape contemporary African cityscapes? To answe......more

Over the past few decades, whilst evading severe governmental restrictions in Iran, the Iranian Evangelical diaspora has......more

Leviticus 17-26, an ancient law text known as the Holiness Code, prescribes how particular persons are to behave in conc......more

This book discusses the cultural importance of spirits, what spirits want, and how humans interact with them, using exam......more

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing......more

This book takes religion as an entry point for a deeper exploration into why practices of gender-based violence continue......more

This edited volume focuses on the (un)equal access to the public space granted to the various groups that make up hybrid......more

Are most white American Christians actually committed to a Religion of Whiteness? Recent years have seen a growing recog......more

Diversity characterises internal dynamics and external relations of all religious groups in their different dimensions: ......more

Religion in the twenty-first century is alive and well across the world, despite its apparent decline in North America a......more

This book explores the phenomenon of conversion to Shi’a Islam in Italy. It thoroughly examines the motivations behind t......more

This book examines the changing significance of intra-European labor mobility in the 21st century. The focus is on the d......more

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This book investigates the origins and development of the theory of four stages of liberation in Pāli literature. This t......more

Populism is a growing threat to human rights. They are appropriated, distorted, turned into empty words or even their op......more

Faith Development Interviews offer great insight into people’s ways of (non-)religious meaning-making, and of looking at......more

Since at least the high point of the civil rights movement, African American Christianity has been widely recognized as ......more

Since at least the high point of the civil rights movement, African American Christianity has been widely recognized as ......more

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This book focuses on Islam in Indonesia, showcasing the wide range of Muslim organisations, belief systems and movements......more

Inspired by the success of the US Christian Right and the rise of the global far-right, ultraconservative Christians in ......more

This book details how British Catholic communities view abortion, highlighting the diversity of positions which often co......more

This open access book offers a concise overview of the theories constructed within the various human sciences around the......more

Repositioning mosques as social, cultural and political spaces, this book provides new insights on key contemporary deba......more

"Impressively researched and written with storytelling verve" (The Wall Street Journal), this is the definitive account ......more

From the 1960s until his death in 2013, Robert N. Bellah was the preeminent figure in the study of religion and society.......more

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"This book considers the impact of globalization on religious tourism. It presents a range of contemporary case studies ......more