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Christians in the City: Studies in Contemporary Global Christianity

Dyron Daughrity, Pepperdine University, USA

Christians in the City of Hong Kong

Chinese Christianity in Asia's World City

Tobias Brandner, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

A vivid portrayal of Christianity in one of the world’s most densely populated cities Includes portraits of Christians at both the grassroots and the highest echelons of wealth and power, and voices the perspectives of both social activists and conservatives This broad, inclusive, and ecumenical approach to the multiple faith expressions of Christianity in the local context is written by a scholar who has lived and worked in Hong Kong for 25 years

UK November 2023 • US November 2023 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350269088 £19 99 / $26 95 HB 9781350269095 £65 00 / $90 00 ePub 9781350269118 £17 99 / $24 29 ePdf 9781350269101 • £17 99 / $24 29

Series: Christians in the City: Studies in Contemporary Global Christianity • Bloomsbury

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Christians in the City of Shanghai

A History Resurrected Above the Sea

Susangeline Y. Patrick, Nazarene Theological Seminary, USA

As the largest Chinese city, the study of Christians in urban Shanghai over the last 470 years serves as a model highlighting how a minority religion in a city has interacted with other religions, as well as social, political, and economic changes The interactions between the global and local generate insights into multiculturalism, globalization, Sinicization, and ecclesiology The interreligious dialogues between Shanghai Christians and other religions and philosophies such as Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, Islam, and Judaism throughout history also provides valuable reflections on the roles of Christians in a multireligious space

UK November 2023 • US November 2023 • 224 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350330054 • £19 99 / $26 95 • HB 9781350330047 • £65 00 / $90 00 ePub 9781350330078 • £17 99 / $24 29 ePdf 9781350330061 • £17 99 / $24 29

Series: Christians in the City: Studies in Contemporary Global Christianity • Bloomsbury Academic

The Contemporary British Mosque

The Establishment of Muslim Congregations and Institutions

Abdul-Azim Ahmed, Cardiff University, UK Details the establishment of early mosques in Britain during the era of Empire, and the more rapid growth in the years following the Second World War AbdulAzim Ahmed answers the question of what a mosque does, and what role it has for Muslims and the wider society The case of the Muslim congregation, a poorly understood and often overlooked dimension of religion in Britain, is detailed, and through the congregation, issues of diversity, denomination, sacredness, and society are explored Repositioning mosques as social, cultural and political spaces, this volume provides new insights on key contemporary debates

UK June 2024 • US June 2024 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350258976 • £85 00 / $115 00 ePub 9781350258990 • £76 50 / $103 94 ePdf 9781350258983 £76 50 / $103 94

Series: Islam of the Global West Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Muslims and Popular Culture

Edited by Hussein Rashid, Independent Scholar, USA & Kristian Petersen, Old Dominion University, USA

An international team of contributors provide in-depth analysis that chronicles Islamic cultural products in regional and transnational contexts, explores dominant and emerging theories about popularization, and offers provocations in the field of religion and popular culture. The handbook is structured in 8 parts to cover the following aspects of Islam and popular culture: methods, theories and issues; society; place; performance; literature; visual media; art, and fashion

UK October 2023 US October 2023 368 pages 35 bw illus

• £130 00 / $175 00

HB 9781350145399 ePub 9781350145412 ePdf 9781350145405

• £117 00 / $159 29

• £117 00 / $159 29

Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks

• Bloomsbury Academic

Shame, Modesty, and Honor in Islam

Edited by Ayang Utriza Yakin, UCLouvain, Belgium, Adis Duderija, Griffith University, Australia & An Van Raemdonck, Ghent University, Belgium

The book examines various conceptions of hayâ, or feelings of shame, modesty and honor in Islam, and the practices associated with this concept in both Muslim majority and minority contexts It argues that hayâ’ or modesty is the result of social constructions in which ideas, objects and practices interact in social and cultural contexts It then demonstrates how this concept has undergone profound transformations temporally and spatially

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 272 pages

HB 9781350386105 £85 00 / $115 00 ePub 9781350386129 £76 50 / $103 94 ePdf 9781350386112 £76 50 / $103 94

Bloomsbury Academic

Interreligious Resilience

Interreligious Leadership for a Pluralistic World

Michael S. Hogue, Lombard Theological School, USA & Dean Phillip Bell, Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, USA

Integrating theory and practice, this book situates the practical tasks of interreligious engagement in theological and social contexts Systemic and multidimensional, it is essential reading for all religious leaders and other community leaders working with religious people in an interreligious world, and shows why interreligious leadership is more difficult and important than ever before

UK December 2023

PB 9781350213708

• US December 2023

• £28 99 / $39 95

• 240 pages • 10 bw illus

Previously published in HB 9781350213661 ePub 9781350213685 ePdf 9781350213678

Bloomsbury Academic

• £76 50 / $103 94

• £76 50 / $103 94

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 October 2023 • US October 2023 • 336 pages • 70 bw illus

HB 9781350214187 • £85 00 / $115 00 ePub 9781350214200 • £76 50 / $103 94 ePdf 9781350214194 • £76 50 / $103 94

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion Bloomsbury Academic

Philosophical Enactment and Bodily Cultivation in Early Daoism

In the Matrix of the Daodejing

Thomas Michael, Beijing Normal University, China

This book centers on the matrix of the Daodejing that harbors a penetrating phenomenology of the Dao together with a rigorous system of bodily cultivation It traces the historical journey of the text from its earliest oral circulations to its later transcriptions seen in a growing collection of ancient Chinese excavated manuscripts It examines the ways in which Huang-Lao thinkers from the Han Dynasty transformed the original phenomenology of the Daodejing into a metaphysics that reconfigured its original matrix, and it explores the success of the Wei-Jin Daoist Ge Hong in bringing the matrix back into its original alignment

UK November 2023 • US November 2023 • 288 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350236691 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350236653 ePub 9781350236677 £81 00 / $110 69 ePdf 9781350236660 £81 00 / $110 69

Bloomsbury Academic

Religion and Tourism in Japan

Intersections, Images, Policies and Problems

Ian Reader, The University of Manchester, UK

This book argues that the relationship between religion and tourism in Japan provides an example of secularization, counteracting scholarship that claims tourism increases religious activity Through case studies of famed pilgrimage routes and temples, such as the Shikoku Pilgrimage, it analyses the nationalistic rhetoric of nostalgia and unique heritage that underpins the promotion of religious sites

UK November 2023 • US November 2023 • 256 pages

HB 9781350418837 • £85 00 / $115 00 ePub 9781350418851 • £76 50 / $103 94 ePdf 9781350418844 • £76 50 / $103 94

Bloomsbury Academic

Religious Diversity in Europe

Mediating the Past to the Young

Edited by Riho Altnurme, University of Tartu, Estonia, Elena Arigita, University of Grenada, Spain & Patrick Pasture, KU Leuven, Belgium

Drawing on research funded by the European Commission, this book explores how religious diversity has been, and continues to be, represented in cultural contexts in Western Europe There is a particular focus on teenagers: in textbooks, museums and exhibitions, popular youth culture including TV and online, as well as in political speech The book offers a fresh and varied perspective on the perception of religious diversity in Europe, including how young people experience it and how they view the representations and discourses they are confronted with

UK October 2023 US October 2023 288 pages 10 bw illus

PB 9781350198623 £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350198586 ePub 9781350198609 • £76 50 / $103 94 ePdf 9781350198593

Bloomsbury Academic

Comics, Culture, and Religion

Faith Imagined

Edited by Kees de Groot, Tilburg University, Netherlands

How do religions use comics? How do comics represent religion? When does reading comics become religious? This open access volume brings together essays from scholars in sociology and religious studies, taking an approach which is firmly embedded in cultural sociology examining how graphic narratives inform us about contemporary society and about the changing role of religion in particular Authors from across the globe, explore a diversity of religions, spirituality and dispersed notions of the sacred, including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Zoroastrianism, Anthroposophy, Hinduism and Norse religion, but also the rituals, ethics, and worldviews that pop up in the comics milieu itself

UK November 2023 • US November 2023 • 256 pages • 25 bw illus

HB 9781350321588 • £85 00 / $115 00 ePub 9781350321601 • £0 00 / $0 00 ePdf 9781350321595 • £0 00 / $0 00

Bloomsbury Academic

• £76 50 / $103 94

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