Religion News & Updates – Page 2
Articles, News, Promotions and Updates from Routledge and the Taylor & Francis Group.
Recent Articles
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An interview with Routledge author Jolyon Mitchell on Religion, Violence and the Media
Jolyon Mitchell is author of Promoting Peace, Inciting Violence: The Role of Religion and Media. This book explores how media and religion combine to play a role in promoting peace and inciting violence. It analyses a wide range of media - from posters, cartoons and stained glass to websites, radio and movie - and draws on diverse examples from around the world, including Iran, Rwanda and South Africa.
In this podcast, Professor Mitchell discusses some of the issues and themes found in: Promoting Peace, Inciting Violence. Listen here.
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New - The Routledge Reader in Christian-Muslim Relations
Interest in Christian-Muslim dialog has grown considerably in recent years. How Islam and Christianity have approached each other theologically is one of the most absorbing ways of understanding the challenge of interreligious relations or Christian-Muslim polemics. This volume provides an indispensable reading and reference tool, showing how Muslim and Christian scholars have shaped the discourse on the varying interfaces between Christianity and Islam.
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New - Making Sense of the Secular
This book offers a wide range of critical perspectives on how secularism unfolds and has been made sense of across Europe and Asia. It evaluates secularism as it exists today, and the focus on these two continents gives critical attention to recent political and cultural developments where secularism and multiculturalism have impinged in deeply problematical ways, raising bristling ideological debates within the functioning of modern state bureaucracies.
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New: Introducing African American Religion
Introducing African American Religion takes a creative and unique approach to the history of African American religion, offering a reader-friendly depiction of the major themes and issues confronted by African Americans involved in a variety of traditions. This book includes illustrations, summaries, discussion questions and suggestions for further reading as well as a glossary and chronology, to help students to become familiar with the main terms of the traditions discussed and to place their development in historical context. Check out the companion website here: www.routledge.com/cw/pinn
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New - Digital Religion: Understanding Religious Practice in New Media Worlds
Digital Religion offers a critical and systematic survey of the study of religion and new media. It covers religious engagement with a wide range of new media forms – from cell phones and video games to blogs and Second Life – and highlights examples of new media engagement in all five of the major world religions.
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Godwired: Religion, Ritual and Virtual Reality
Godwired, by Rachel Wagner, is the latest in our Media, Religion and Culture series. In this book Wagner offers a fascinating exploration of the interesection between religion and virtual reality.
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The Routledge Companion to Religion and Science
The Routledge Companion to Religion and Science brings together an outstanding team of scholars to explore the ways in which science intersects with the major religions of the world and religious naturalism.
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New: World Cinema, Theology, and the Human
Analyzing nine films from around the world, World Cinema, Theology, and the Human by Antonio Sison shows how the cinematic portrayal of humanity connects to religion.
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Religion and Change in Modern Britain
Over the past half-century, the religious make-up of Britain has undergone a complex evolution. Religion and Change in Modern Britain, edited by Linda Woodhead and Rebecca Catto, assembles a team of leading scholars to provide a fresh analysis and overview of religion in Britain since 1945.
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Looking at Buddhism Today
Buddhism in the Modern World, edited by David L. MacMahan, offers a lively and up-to-date overview of contemporary Buddhism, including the challenges of globalization and modernity. Each chapter is written by a distinguished scholar in the field.
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