Major Works: Forthcoming Religion

Forthcoming Books

1. Islamic Economics

   Edited by Shafiq Alvi, Amer al-Roubaie

   Series: Critical Concepts in Economics

   The editors of this new collection write: Western economists define economics as the branch of knowledge or science which investigates how scarce resources are best allocated into competing claims upon them. These claims are socially and culturally determined. Islamic economics and its principles...

   To Be Published July 9th 2013 by Routledge
2. Orthodoxy and Heresy in Islam

   Edited by Maribel Fierro

   Series: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies

   SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICE! (Valid until three months after publication) To what extent can concepts such as orthodoxy and heresy—originating from a different religious and cultural tradition—be applied in an Islamic context? This new Routledge collection of major works synthesizes the latest...

   To Be Published October 14th 2013 by Routledge
3. Early Islamic History

   Edited by Teresa Bernheimer, Tamima Bayhom-Daou

   Series: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies

   Insight into the origins and early development of Islam has become relevant not only to the specialist, but underlies a thorough understanding of debates relating to Islam and the Middle East in the contemporary period. Over the past decades, the field has seen the publication of some excellent...

   To Be Published October 27th 2013 by Routledge
4. Sects, Cults and New Religions

   Edited by Carole Cusack, Danielle Kirby

   Series: Critical Concepts in Sociology

   New Religious Movements (NRMs) came into being as a distinct subfield of academic study in the 1970s in response to the explosion of non-traditional religions that took place in the waning years of the Sixties counterculture. (The designation 'New Religion' is a direct translation of a Japanese...

   To Be Published October 29th 2013 by Routledge
5. Spiritualism, 1840-1930

   Edited by Patricia Pulham, Christine Ferguson, Rosario Arias, Tatiana Kontou

   Series: Victorian Concepts

   SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICE! (Valid until 3 months after publication) Since its advent in the 1840s, modern spiritualism has been a topic of popular interest and critical scrutiny. Spiritualism gained increasing prominence in the second half of the nineteenth century, and developed as a religious...

   To Be Published November 14th 2013 by Routledge
6. Comparative Religious Ethics

   Edited by Charles Mathewes, Matthew Puffer, Mark Storslee

   Series: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies

   SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICE! (Valid until 3 months after publication) No collection of this sort has yet been conceived of, let alone accomplished, in this field. In part that may well be due to the extraordinarily nascent character of the field of comparative religious ethics, described as that (...

   To Be Published January 14th 2014 by Routledge
7. Magic and Witchcraft

   Edited by Michael Bailey

   Series: Critical Concepts in Historical Studies

   To Be Published February 14th 2014 by Routledge
8. Hinduism CC 4V

   Edited by Will Sweetman

   Series: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies

   To Be Published March 14th 2014 by Routledge
9. Religion in Contemporary China CC 4V

   Edited by Xinzhong Yao

   Series: Critical Concepts in Asian Studies

   To Be Published April 14th 2014 by Routledge