Sociology of Religion Books

New and Published Books

1. Network Governance of Global Religions

   Jerusalem, Rome, and Mecca

   By Michel S. Laguerre

   Series: Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society

   This study seeks to explain three models of network governance embedded in digital practices that the mainstream monotheistic religions—Judaism, Catholic Christianity, and Islam—have used to lead and manage the worldwide distribution of their local nodes, exploring the connection between network...

   Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge
2. Islam, Economics, and Society (RLE Politics of Islam)

   Edited by Syed Nawab Haider Naqvi

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Politics of Islam

   The Islamic perception of the socio-economic process is dynamic and its insistence on social justice is uncompromising. To produce the best social structure, according to this view, man’s economic endeavours should be motivated by a meaningful moral philosophy. In the face of the challenges...

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Structure of Political Competition in Western Europe

   Edited by Zsolt Enyedi, Kevin Deegan-Krause

   Series: West European Politics

   Is European party politics hovering above society? Why do voters pick one party over others? Is it a question of class? Of religion? Of attitudes about taxes or immigration or global warming? Or is it something else entirely? The Structure of Political Competition in Western Europe takes a detailed...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
4. Dealing with Disaster in Japan

   Responses to the Flight JL123 Crash

   By Christopher Hood

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

   Just as the sinking of the Titanic is embedded in the public consciousness in the English-speaking world, so the crash of JAL flight JL123 is part of the Japanese collective memory. The 1985 crash involved the largest loss of life for any single air crash in the world. 520 people, many of whom had...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
5. Law and the Wearing of Religious Symbols

   European Bans on the Wearing of Religious Symbols in Education

   By Erica Howard

   Written in accessible language, Law and the Wearing of Religious Symbols is a comprehensive analysis of a topical subject that is being widely debated across Europe. The book provides an overview of emerging case law from the European Court of Human Rights as well as from national courts and...

   Published May 4th 2013 by Routledge
6. Migrant Politics and Mobilisation

   Exclusion, Engagements, Incorporation

   Edited by Davide Pero, John Solomos

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   In recent years immigration and the integration of migrants and minorities have become politicised in public and policy debates in Britain, the rest of Europe and the United States. In such debates, migrants are commonly treated as objects of politics and spoken in terms of management, national...

   Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
7. Law and Religion in Public Life

   The Contemporary Debate

   Edited by Nadirsyah Hosen, Richard Mohr

   With religion at centre stage in conflicts worldwide, and in social, ethical and geo-political debates, this book takes a timely look at relations between law and religion. To what extent can religion play a role in secular legal systems? How do peoples of various faiths live successfully by both...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
8. Sufis in Western Society

   Global networking and locality

   Edited by Markus Dressler, Ron Geaves, Gritt Klinkhammer

   Series: Routledge Sufi Series

   In recent years Sufism has undergone something of a revival as a spiritual alternative to other manifestations of Islam. This book investigates the development of Sufism in Western societies, with a regional focus on North America and Europe. Exploring a number of issues relating to the dynamic...

   Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge
9. Starting School (Routledge Revivals)

   By Brian Jackson

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1979, this book considers the culture of a multi-racial community through the eyes of six children about to start school. Each child is from a different background but all live in the same street in a town in the north of England. Following the children from home into school,...

   Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge
10. Islam, Law and Identity

    Edited by Marinos Diamantides, Adam Gearey

    The essays brought together in Islam, Law and Identity are the product of a series of interdisciplinary workshops that brought together scholars from a plethora of countries. Funded by the British Academy the workshops convened over a period of two years in London, Cairo and Izmir. The workshops...

    Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge-Cavendish