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  1. Material Religion and Popular Culture

    By E. Frances King

    Series: Routledge Studies in Religion

    In this study, E. Frances King explores how people first learn to relate to the images and artefacts of religious belief within their domestic environments. As a sense of religious belonging is instilled on a daily basis in the home, it also becomes emotionally linked to family, community, and...

    Published August 5th 2009 by Routledge

  2. Theology, Creation, and Environmental Ethics

    From Creatio Ex Nihilo to Terra Nullius

    By Whitney Bauman

    Series: Routledge Studies in Religion

    Winner of the John Templeton Award for Theological Promise, 2009 This book argues that the Christian doctrine of creatio ex nihilo (creation out of nothing) sets up a support system for a "logic of domination" toward human and earth others. Conceptually inspired by the work of theologian Catherine...

    Published March 2nd 2009 by Routledge

  3. Shared Idioms, Sacred Symbols, and the Articulation of Identities in South Asia

    Edited by Kelly Pemberton, Michael Nijhawan

    Series: Routledge Studies in Religion

    How do text, performance, and rhetoric simultaneously reflect and challenge notions of distinct community and religious identities? This volume examines evidence of shared idioms of sanctity within a larger framework of religious nationalism, literary productions, and communalism in South Asia....

    Published December 16th 2008 by Routledge

  4. Negative Theology and Modern French Philosophy

    By Arthur Bradley

    Series: Routledge Studies in Religion

    This book provides a significant and insightful exploration of the so-called 'theological turn' in contemporary French thought. The philosopher Jacques Derrida speaks of a deeply ambiguous desire to 'save the name' of God in his work on negative theology, and this desire resonates in different ways...

    Published April 21st 2004 by Routledge

  5. Religious Conversion and Identity

    The Semiotic Analysis of Texts

    By Massimo Leone

    Series: Routledge Studies in Religion

    The way in which people change and represent their spiritual evolution is often determined by recurrent language structures. Through the analysis of ancient and modern stories and their words and images, this book describes the nature of conversion through explorations of the encounter with the...

    Published September 17th 2003 by Routledge

  6. Foucault, Christianity and Interfaith Dialogue

    By Henrique Pinto

    Series: Routledge Studies in Religion

    Foucault, Christianity and Interfaith Dialogue develops a new model for interfaith dialogue using the work of the French historian of ideas, Michel Foucault. The author argues that it is the injustice done to the 'Other' by Roman Catholic, Protestant and other centred and unitary models of...

    Published September 3rd 2003 by Routledge

  7. Metaphysics and Transcendence

    By Arthur Gibson

    Series: Routledge Studies in Religion

    Metaphysics and Transcendence takes up this story for the future. Arthur Gibson presents a new metaphysics with a genealogy based on counter-intuition and locates counter-intuition and complexity at the foundations of truth. Having devised fresh concepts on the basis of the new frontiers of science...

    Published July 23rd 2003 by Routledge

  8. Language, Desire and Theology

    A Genealogy of the Will to Speak

    By Noëlle Vahanian

    Series: Routledge Studies in Religion

    This interesting and provocative work develops a new theological approach to language in the light of contemporary critical theory....

    Published June 4th 2003 by Routledge

  9. Judaism and Collective Life

    Self and Community in the Religious Kibbutz

    By Aryei Fishman

    Series: Routledge Studies in Religion

    Examining the relationship between Judaism as a religious culture and kibbutz life, this is a ground-breaking work in the research of Judaism.The book takes as its point of departure the historical fact that it was Orthodox pioneers of German origin, in contrast to their Eastern European...

    Published August 21st 2002 by Routledge

Forthcoming Books

  1. Religion, Gender, and the Public Sphere
    Edited by Niamh Reilly, Stacey Scriver
    To Be Published July 10th 2013
  2. An Introduction to Jacob Boehme: Four Centuries of Thought and Reception
    Edited by Ariel Hessayon, Sarah Apetrei
    To Be Published August 7th 2013
  3. Religious Conversion and Identity: The Semiotic Analysis of Texts
    By Massimo Leone
    To Be Published September 26th 2013
  4. Language, Desire and Theology: A Genealogy of the Will to Speak
    By Noëlle Vahanian
    To Be Published September 26th 2013
  5. Globalization and Orthodox Christianity: The Transformations of a Religious Tradition
    By Victor Roudometof
    To Be Published September 29th 2013
  6. Contemporary Jewish Writing: Austria After Waldheim
    By Andrea Reiter
    To Be Published October 15th 2013
  7. Religious Ethics and Migration: Doing Justice to Undocumented Workers
    By Ilsup Ahn
    To Be Published November 14th 2013
  8. A Theology of Community Organizing: Power to the People
    By Chris Shannahan
    To Be Published November 17th 2013
  9. Miraculous Birth Across the Ancient Mediterranean
    By Marguerite Rigoglioso
    To Be Published June 14th 2014

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