Religion category: 228605 books
Religion in Development
Rewriting the Secular Script
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Development practice is full of examples of the importance of religion in the lives of people in developing countries. However, religion has largely remained unexplored in development studies. This timely new book aims to fill that gap. The authors expertly review how religion has been treated in...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
In recent years, there has been growing awareness across a range of academic disciplines of the value of exploring issues of religion and the sacred in relation to cultures of everyday life. Exploring Religion and the Sacred in a Media Age offers inter-disciplinary perspectives drawing from theology,...
Religion and Reality TV
Faith in Late Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Why is reality television flourishing in today's expanding media market? Religion and Reality TV: Faith in Late Capitalism argues that the reality genre offers answers to many of life's urgent questions: Why am I important? What gives my life meaning? How do I present my best self to the world? Case...
The Redcoat and Religion
The Forgotten History of the British Soldier from the Age of Marlborough to the Eve of the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This compelling study presents the most comprehensive examination available of the role of religion in the army during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Through extensive analysis of official military sources, religious publications and personal memoirs, Michael Snape challenges the...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
This international volume provides a comprehensive account of contemporary research, new perspectives and cutting-edge issues surrounding religion and spirituality in social work. The introduction introduces key themes and conceptual issues such as understandings of religion and spirituality as well...
For the Civic Good
The Liberal Case for Teaching Religion in the Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Why teach about religion in public schools? What educational value can such courses potentially have for students?
In For the Civic Good, Walter Feinberg and Richard A. Layton offer an argument for the contribution of Bible and world religion electives. The authors argue that such courses can,...
Modernities, Memory and Mutations
Grace Davie and the Study of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Grace Davie, one of the world’s most influential scholars in contemporary sociology of religion, has furthered a tradition developed by David Martin and others in comparative sociology of religion and modernity in European and international perspective. Davie’s writings on belief and belonging,...
by Tirthankar Bhattacharjee
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
The world where we live in represents a massive market place and is driven or regulated by a set of many written, documented or implied principles. And the appropriate term that defines both the massive market place and all the principles that exists simultaneously, should be “Corporate Religion”...
Intersections of Religion and Migration
Issues at the Global Crossroads
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
This innovative volume introduces readers to a variety of disciplinary and methodological approaches used to examine the intersections of religion and migration. A range of leading figures in this field consider the roles of religion throughout various types of migration, including forced, voluntary,...
Understanding Theories of Religion
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Featuring comprehensive updates and additions, the second edition of Understanding Theories of Religion explores the development of major theories of religion through the works of classic and contemporary figures.
• A new edition of this introductory text exploring the core methods and theorists...
Homo Religiosus?
Exploring the Roots of Religion and Religious Freedom in Human Experience
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Are humans naturally predisposed to religion and supernatural beliefs? If so, does this naturalness provide a moral foundation for religious freedom? This volume offers a cross-disciplinary approach to these questions, engaging in a range of contemporary debates at the intersection of religion, cognitive...
Materializing Religion
Expression, Performance and Ritual
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The material symbol has become central to understanding religion in late modernity. Overtly theological approaches use words to express the values and faith of a religion, but leave out the 'incarnation' of religion in the behavioural, performative, or audio-visual form. This book explores the lived...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Religion is back again in Europe after never having been gone. It is manifest in the revival of religious institutions and traditions in former communist countries, in political controversies about the relationship between the church(es) and the state and about the freedom of religion and the freedom...
Religiosity, Cultural Capital, and Parochial Schooling
Psychological Empirical Research
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
This book examines whether or not and how personal religion associates with school cultural capital. Specifically, on one level, the book offers insights and empirical data on who is choosing, teaching, and working in parochial schools and what motivates them to do so in the schools, issues that still...