Religion Books

New and Published Books

1. Postcolonial Theology of Religions

   Particularity and Pluralism in World Christianity

   By Jenny Daggers

   This original and ambitious book considers the terms of engagement between Christian theology and other religious traditions, beginning with criticism of Christian theology of religions as entangled with European colonial modernity. Jenny Daggers covers recent efforts to disentangle Eurocentrism...

   Published May 16th 2013 by Routledge
2. Religion in International Relations Theory

   Interactions and Possibilities

   By Nukhet Sandal, Jonathan Fox

   Series: Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics

   There is a growing realization among international relations scholars and practitioners that religion is a critical factor in global politics. The Iranian Revolution, the September 11 attacks, the ethno-religious conflicts such as the ones in the former Yugoslavia and Sri Lanka are among the many...

   Published May 15th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Puzzle of Existence

   Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?

   Edited by Tyron Goldschmidt

   Series: Routledge Studies in Metaphysics

   This groundbreaking volume investigates the most fundamental question of all: Why is there something rather than nothing? The question is explored from diverse and radical perspectives: religious, naturalistic, platonistic and skeptical. Does science answer the question? Or does theology? Does...

   Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
4. Routledge Library Editions: Politics of Islam

   Edited by Various

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Politics of Islam

   Routledge Library Editions: Politics of Islam brings together as one set, or individual volumes, a series of previously out-of-print classics from a variety of academic imprints. With titles ranging from Islam and Politics in the Modern Middle East (1984) to Islamic Fundamentalism and...

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
5. Arabic Thought and Islamic Societies (RLE Politics of Islam)

   By Aziz Al-Azmeh

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Politics of Islam

   This is a study of the structure and composition of the official learning current in medieval Arabic culture. This comprises natural sciences both exoteric and esoteric (medicine, alchemy, astrology and others), traditional and religious sciences (such as theology, exegesis and grammar),...

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
6. Islam and Politics in the Modern Middle East (RLE Politics of Islam)

   Edited by Metin Heper, Raphael Israeli

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Politics of Islam

   The recent resurgence of Islam in the Middle East is a far more complex phenomenon than is often suggested by those analyses which reduce recent developments in the area to no more than an intensification of religiosity. Islam and Politics in the Modern Middle East challenges that perception of the...

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
7. Islam and Power (RLE Politics of Islam)

   Edited by Alexander Cudsi, E. Hillal Dessouki

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Politics of Islam

   The 1970s witnessed a mushrooming of Islamic movements and ideas which was described variously as Islamic revival, Islamic resurgence and Islam on the march. Whether as part of the majority or minority, whether under capitalist or socialist regimes, Muslims have been moved by this reawakening. But...

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
8. Islam and the Politics of Meaning in Palestinian Nationalism (RLE Politics of Islam)

   Edited by Nels Johnson

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Politics of Islam

   The intention of this book is to explore the relationship between an ideological idiom and the changing social movement in which it operates. The basic question is that of what roles an Islamic symbol complex played in different phases of the Palestinian nationalist movement, and what were the...

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
9. Islam in Perspective (RLE Politics of Islam)

   A Guide to Islamic Society, Politics and Law

   Edited by Patrick Bannerman

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Politics of Islam

   There has been a significant upsurge of western interest in the political manifestations and significance of Islam in the last decade, fuelled by the notion of Islamic ‘revival’, the Iranian revolution and by events in countries as diverse as Egypt, Pakistan and Sudan. Oil power and its effect on...

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
10. Islam in the Modern World (RLE Politics of Islam)

    Edited by Denis MacEoin, Ahmed Al-Shahi

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Politics of Islam

    In recent years, events in the Islamic world have captured the attention of the West to an unprecedented degree. However, much of the media coverage of events like the Islamic revolution in Iran has merely reinforced current prejudices and misconceptions about Islam. This collection of essays, by...

    Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge