The implementation of perestroika and the unexpected collapse of the USSR provoked unease that long-underlying ethnic te......more

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Is contemporary Black British gospel music a coloniality? What theological message is really conveyed in these songs? In......more

Founded in 1899 as little more than a train depot for the Uganda Railway, Nairobi has come a long way. This book examine......more

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BESTSELLER "An intimate window into the world of American evangelicalism. Fel......more

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This book examines the understudied role of the interfaith movement in institutionalizing religious pluralism in the pub......more

In these times of rising tensions between Christians and Muslims across the world, the need for harmony and peace has ne......more

Whilst many assume that conservative evangelical support for Trump is motivated by his position on social issues such as......more

Family, Sex, and Faith is the first systematic examination probing what the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) teaches and ho......more

This resource helps readers navigate and better understand the religious, cultural, and political intersections of Ameri......more

Challenges the romantic portrayal of Spanish missions Sites of slavery and spiritual conquest, the California missions p......more

Challenges the romantic portrayal of Spanish missions Sites of slavery and spiritual conquest, the California missions p......more

American baseball cinema has a long history of Christian religious imagery and symbolism, from The Busher in 1919 to Ang......more

This international and interdisciplinary handbook offers a comprehensive and an in-depth overview of contemporary resear......more

How can the emergence of religion be understood consistently as a genuinely social process without resorting to phenomen......more

In the USA, politically conservative and right-wing apocalyptic evangelicals hold that climate change science and Covid-......more

Instant New York Times Bestseller One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of the Year An Economist and Air Mail Best Book o......more

This book is a collection of essays based on the thoughts generated by teaching courses and doing research related to th......more

In The Company of Violent Men, investigative journalist Siddharthya Roy takes us on an unflinching and deeply personal j......more

This volume aims to rethink the intersections of gender and religion, as well as the secular and religious, in implement......more

A smart, irreverent, and accessible guide to thinking more deeply about how religion permeates and shapes the world arou......more

Why are so many Americans leaving church? Half no longer belong to a congregation. A quarter now say they are unchurched......more

Bringing together contributions from anthropology, sociology, religious studies, and philosophy, along with ethnographic......more

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This book uniquely examines, across cultures, the health benefits and detriments of religious beliefs, with important im......more

This book uniquely examines, across cultures, the health benefits and detriments of religious beliefs, with important im......more

This edited volume offers new and exciting perspectives on the social study of science and religion through current scho......more

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Around 20 percent of Americans fall into the category of "spiritual but not religious." Yoga has become a ubiquitous pas......more

Around 20 percent of Americans fall into the category of "spiritual but not religious." Yoga has become a ubiquitous pas......more

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Joshi shows how Chinese wisdom originating many centuries ago is still highly relevant to our lives today as the Daoist ......more

How do Muslims deal with the ever-increasing pressure to assimilate into European societies? Respectable Muslims tells t......more

In recent years, the relevance of religious freedom has spread well beyond academia, becoming a reference point for inte......more

How has faith developed in the US and German societies across the last decades? In a three-wave longitudinal investigati......more

Social forms of religion are communally productive at the same time as they enable individual religious experiences. The......more

Frames restorative justice as a form of moral and spiritual practice with the capacity to transform injustice In the Uni......more

Frames restorative justice as a form of moral and spiritual practice with the capacity to transform injustice In the Uni......more

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Governance has been incorporated into the development models of many countries because of its role in ameliorating inequ......more

Governance has been incorporated into the development models of many countries because of its role in ameliorating inequ......more

On 24 March 1980, Salvadoran archbishop Óscar Romero was assassinated while celebrating mass in San Salvador. During the......more

Post-Christian Religion in Popular Culture: Theology through Exegesis analyzes several theological exegeses of contempor......more

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Two academics, one Jewish and one Muslim, come together to show how much their faiths have in common--particularly in Am......more

This handbook explores the diversity of religious practice in tribal cultures in India. It looks at the interactive spac......more

"In this book, the focus is on five Asian countries/regions (Iran, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, and Japan) that sh......more

Inspired by the current political moment around the globe in which uprisings, protests, revolutions, and movements are o......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 volume explores how religious and spiritual actors engage for environmental protection and fight against climate ch......more

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

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

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

Drawing on the everyday experiences of 43 British-Bangladeshi Muslims living in East London, this book explores stories ......more

Modernity presents itself as an age of increasing social disintegration: secularization and rationalization, urbanizatio......more

While others have speculated on a connection between religion and sex, neuroscientist Andrew Newberg, in Sex, God, and t......more

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

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

This handbook contains up-to-date, informed perspectives on how sustainable development issues can be integrated into re......more

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

Throughout history, the world’s great religions have been profoundly shaped by their encounters with successive empires.......more

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

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