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Esotericism in Western Culture Counter-Normativity and Rejected Knowledge
Wouter J. Hanegraaff
This expanded new edition of Esotericism in Western Culture brings a foundational text in the field up to date. Hanegraaff surveys key topics for which “esotericism” has become the preferred label: gnosticism and hermetism in antiquity, “occult sciences” (astrology, alchemy, magic), Renaissance hermeticism, Rosicrucianism, Christian theosophy, occultism, spiritualism, and related currents up to and including the New Age New sections include Jewish and Islamic Esotericism, global perspectives and politics, and a final chapter on The Future of Esotericism The book has been updated throughout to reflect current scholarship and increased accessibility for non-specialists
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 320 pages • 0 bw illus
PB 9781350459694 • £21 99 / $29 95 • HB 9781350459687 • £65 00 / $90 00
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The Netherworld in Ancient Egypt and China
An Imagined Paradise
Mu-chou Poo, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Considering the striking similarities between the treatment of the dead and conceptions of the netherworld in ancient Egypt and China, how can these traditions be compared?
In this book, Mu-chou Poo considers this question, and provides a new perspective on archaeological materials, including tomb structures and funerary texts, by addressing them in the context of universal human problems such as death, the future of the dead, and the search for happiness in life
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 176 pages • 12 bw illus
PB 9780567702043 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9780567702005
ePub 9780567702036 £76 50 / $103 94
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Bloomsbury Academic
World All Languages (except Chinese)
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion, Gender, and Sexuality in the Ancient Near East
Edited by Shawna Dolansky, Carleton University, Canada & Sarah Shectman, independent scholar, USA
Cutting across disciplinary boundaries and challenging traditional understandings of historical cultures, this handbook examines and interrogates the ways in which gender, sexuality, and religion were mutually constructed and negotiated in ancient Near Eastern societies Chapters look at ritual and ceremonial practices, iconographic representations, mythological and divinatory texts, personal beliefs, and piety, focusing on the intersections of gender, sexuality and religion as a central category of inquiry
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 496 pages
HB 9781350382015 £140 00 / $190 00
ePub 9781350382039 £126 00 / $171 44
ePdf 9781350382022 • £126 00 / $126 00
Bloomsbury Academic
Temporal Explorations in the Anthropology of Religion
History, Cosmology and Spirits
Edited by Diana Espírito Santo, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile & Ruy Blanes, Independent Scholar
How do people make sense of their past, and look forward into their future, through practices – religious, spiritual or otherwise – in places of both modernity and political trauma? This volume investigates how political, social, and individual temporal and historical horizons generated and/or reformulated in relation to embodied, material, and ideological/teleological contexts It also considers how this history-making projects itself onto imagined futures or alternative historical lines and how temporal continuities and discontinuities are created
UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 256 pages • 3 bw illus
HB 9781350467637 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350467651 • £76 50 / $103 94
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Bloomsbury Academic
Metamorphosis of Buddhism in New Era China
Between State, Culture, and Religion
Edited by David L. Wank, Sophia University, Japan, Ji Zhe, National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations, France & Yoshiko Ashiwa, Hitotsubashi University, Japan
This study of contemporary Chinese Buddhism explores the relationship between religion and the state in China, and argues that Buddhism has entered a new era since the mid-2000s Case studies from extended fieldwork in and beyond the People’s Republic of China take readers to Buddhist temples, nunneries, mega-expos, and study centres, exploring multiple traditions, institutions, and regions
This a much-needed contribution to the field of contemporary Buddhism
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 288 pages
HB 9781350504561 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350504585 £76 50 / $103 94
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Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place Bloomsbury Academic
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religious Ecstasy
Edited by Alison Marshall, Brandon University, Canada, Rubina Ramji, Cape Breton University, Canada & Michael Wilkinson, Trinity Western University, Canada
Providing case studies that highlight the diverse voices of people who have ecstatic religious experiences, this book brings together chapters on ecstasy, transformations of the mind and body, and interactions between the living and spirits This book focuses on ecstatic contexts across North and South America, Africa, Japan and beyond In each case, intersectional analysis is used to uncover the links among racial, social, and gendered political margins
Using a wealth of research from both past and present, the authors interrogate institutional contexts of possession, intoxication and exorcism, uncovering group interactions between people and gods, saints, angels, or demons
UK March 2025 • US March 2025
• 320 pages • 7 bw illis
HB 9781350347014 £140 00 / $190 00
ePub 9781350346994 £126 00 / $171 44
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Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic
Women and the Catholic Church
Negotiating Identity and Agency
Tracy McEwan, University of Newcastle, Australia
This book develops a new methodological framework for analysing the power, participation, and identity of women in patriarchal religious institutions It theorises the harm women experience in Catholicism as a quotidian form of gendered violence, and conceptualises and defines “everyday spiritual abuse” The book also critically examines how women negotiate and subvert hegemonic systems of power and knowledge in Catholicism through an in-depth exploration of the lived identities and experiences of Gen X women in Australia
UK April 2025 US April 2025 256 pages
HB 9781350424821 £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350424845 • £76 50 / $103 94
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Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality • Bloomsbury Academic
The Politics of Sacred Places
A View from Israel-Palestine Nimrod Luz, Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee, Israel
A study of the socio-political dimensions of sacred sites in Israel-Palestine, drawing on over 20 years of in-depth ethnographic research which introduces cutting-edge theories on secularization, struggles for recognition and diversity issues
This book focuses on contemporary sacred sites and their sociopolitical meanings for minorities within a hegemonic and a secularizing state-system It argues that sacred places and the ample socio-religious-political practices they entail provide a space which is less scrutinized by the state and hegemonic powers within it, where alternative visions of the socio-political may be produced
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 240 pages • 10 bw illus
PB 9781350295766 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350295728
ePub 9781350295742 • £76 50 / $103 94
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Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place • Bloomsbury Academic
Comics, Culture, and Religion
Faith Imagined
Edited by Kees de Groot, Tilburg University, Netherlands
How do comics function in religions and how does religion appear in comics? And how do graphic narratives inform us about contemporary society and the changing role of religion? With the growing popularity and influence of comics and graphic novels in contemporary culture, this open access book provides a valuable addition to the discussion of the medium, focusing on religious and sociological aspects
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Faculty for Humanities and Education and the University Library at the University of Agder, Norway.
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 264 pages • 25 bw illus
PB 9781350321625 • £28 99 / $39 95
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Bloomsbury Academic
Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion
Amy R. Whitehead, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Sensing Islam
Engaging and Contesting the Senses in Muslim Religiosity
Simon Stjernholm
Presents, discusses and analyses historical as well as contemporary examples of how the senses have been engaged and contested in Muslim religiosity
Combining the research fields of Islamic Studies, anthropology of Islam, material religion and sensory studies, this book covers a range of materials, including writings by Muslim religious authorities, ethnographic material, sound recordings and interviews
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Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion
The Archangel Michael Beyond Orthodoxies
History, Politics and Popular Culture
Edited by Alexandros Tsakos, University of Bergen, Norway & Marie von der Lippe
This open access book explores various manifestations of the Archangel Michael in history, politics and popular culture. A highly venerated figure, this book reveals how the Archangel Michael has been linked with magic and ritual power; has guided religious and secular leaders; been “branded” in order to market his blessings and protections; and has been used by groups as diverse as Christians of Adventist beliefs, politicians and New Age leaders
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Bergen.
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 272 pages • 25 bw
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Religion and Tourism in Japan
Intersections, Images, Policies and Problems
Ian Reader, The University of Manchester, UK
In this study, Ian Reader presents new insights into the relationship between religion and tourism more generally and into the contemporary religious situation in Japan He counteracts scholarship that claims tourism increases religious activity, shows that tourism is a factor in increasing secularization in Japan and draws attention to the role of the state in such contexts
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 272 pages
PB 9781350418875 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350418837
ePub 9781350418851 £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350418844 £76 50 / $76 50
Bloomsbury Academic
Devotional Visualities
Seeing Bhakti in Indic Material Cultures
Edited by Karen Pechilis, Drew University, USA & Amy-Ruth Holt, independent scholar, USA
This book is the first to focus on material visualities that shape, convey and expand paths of devotional participation (bhakti) from across India, in the past and present It argues that a central focus on visuality is both at the heart of bhakti expression, and as an academic focus, it changes our understanding of bhakti’s development and impact through analysis of material religion This book shows that examining bhakti’s visualities is crucial for understanding its wide and enduring influence on the field of religion and beyond.
UK May 2025 US May 2025 336 pages 70 bw illus
PB 9781350214224 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350214187
ePub 9781350214200 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350214194 • £76 50 / $76 50
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion • Bloomsbury Academic
The Ministry of Louis Farrakhan in the Nation of Islam
Dawn-Marie Gibson, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Placing Farrakhan’s life and leadership in historical context, this book traces his evolution from a fiery Black Nationalist in 1960s Harlem to a respected leader in sections of the USA and abroad, providing insights into the history of African American Islam, Black Nationalism and Islam in the West. Archives drawn on include the FBI’s files on the NOI and its leaders, Farrakhan’s writings in the Muhammad Speaks newspaper in the 1960s and early 1970s, and lectures and interviews from the late 1970s to the present day
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 200 pages
PB 9781350426337 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350068506
ePub 9781350068520 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350068513 • £76 50 / $76 50
Series: Islam of the Global West • Bloomsbury Academic
Teaching and Learning Religion
Engaging the Work of Eugene V. Gallagher and Patricia O’Connell Killen
Edited by Davina C. Lopez, Eckerd College, USA & Thomas Pearson, Nielsen Center for the Liberal Arts at Eckerd College, USA
Eugene V Gallagher and Patricia Killen have influenced a generation of religious studies professors through their Wabash Center teaching workshops In this volume, contributors pay tribute to their influence and build on their insights in short essays focused on three perennial themes: Place, Plan and Persona The volume contributes to the scholarship of teaching and learning in religious studies and higher education by analyzing Gallagher and Killen's insights, and more generally, by exploring a substantial range of perspectives on core and enduring pedagogical concepts and questions
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 232 pages
PB 9781350278721 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350278684
ePub 9781350278707 £76 50 / $103 94
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