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Series: Routledge Studies in Religion
The re-emergence of religion as a significant cultural, social and political, force is not gender neutral. Tensions between claims for women’s equality and the rights of sexual minorities on one side and the claims of religions on the other side are well-documented across all major religions and...
To Be Published July 7th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
Understanding and managing inter-religious relations, particularly between Muslims and Christians, presents a challenge for states around the world. This book investigates legal disputes between religious communities in the world’s largest majority-Muslim, democratic country, Indonesia. It...
To Be Published September 15th 2013 by Routledge
The present collection brings together a set of essays which shed light on recent research into non-religion, secularity and atheism—topics which have been emerging as important areas of current research in a number of different disciplines. The essays cover a wide span—in terms of the various...
To Be Published September 22nd 2013 by Routledge
In Benedict XVI and the Politics of Modernity, distinguished scholars from North America and Europe examine Pope Benedict XVI’s searching reflections on the challenges and prospects facing modern Western society. For more than five decades, Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI has made the subject of...
To Be Published September 30th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Religion
The rising importance of community organizing in the US and more recently in Britain has coincided with the developing significance of social movements and identity politics, debates about citizenship, social capital, civil society, and religion in the public sphere. At a time when participation in...
To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
There is a complex relationship between religiosity and secularism in the American experience. America is notable both for its strict institutional separation of church and state, and for the strong role that religion has played in its major social movements and ongoing political life. This book...
To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Religion and Film
Increasingly, as the production, distribution and audience of films cross national boundaries, film scholars have begun to think in terms of ‘transnational’ rather than national cinema. This book is positioned within the emerging field of transnational cinema, and offers a groundbreaking study of...
To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
Islam, Politics and Youth in Malaysia analyses the genesis and role of Islamic movements in terms of their engagement in mainstream politics. Focusing on the case study of the youth wing of Malaysia’s main opposition Islamist party, the Islamic Party of Malaysia (PAS), the book contends that PAS...
To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Central Asia Research Forum
This book analyses the ways in which expressions of political and religious authority have evolved and how they have been adapted to different political contexts in Central Asia. It offers a comprehensive overview of the history of the Ismaili community in Tajikistan, identifies traditional forms...
To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
Laos remains one of the few officially socialist countries in the world. Once a Buddhist kingdom, its involvement into the Vietnam War, the communist revolution of 1975 and the subsequent introduction of reformed socialism have deeply affected Buddhism, the religion of the ethnic majority. With a...
To Be Published February 27th 2014 by Routledge
