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Religion Catalogue

World Religions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Introduction to Religion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Islam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

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Christianity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 Judaism Page 1

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Eastern Religions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 Hinduism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 Buddhism

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Biblical and Textual Studies

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Theology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21 Ancient Religions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23 History of Religion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23 Page 2

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Religion in America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25 Alternative Sprituality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25 Religion: Media, Film and Culture . . . . . . . . . . .26 Philosophy of Religion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29 Sociology of Religion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31 Psychology of Religion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33 Women and Religion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

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Introducing World Religions Victoria Kennick Urubshurow, University of Maryland, USA

Edited by Damien Keown, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK and Charles S. Prebish, Utah State University, USA

Introducing World Religions offers an exciting new approach to the study of the world’s religions. Taking its inspiration from performance studies and using an innovative dramatic metaphor, it enables students to explore religious ideas and culture in terms of the players (key figures), the script (foundational texts) and performance (religious practices). The discussion of key players treats human and non-human figures on the world stage, including the principle (God, Dharma, Dao), imaginal figures (angels, baals, bodhisattvas), exceptional persons (founders, prophets, gurus), and historical persons (significant players in the drama of religions). The discussion of the foundational texts includes materials that balance or challenge mainstream texts with an alternative perspective. The section on performance explores non-verbal religious activities such as pilgrimage, icon painting, dance, divination, and meditation. Those concerned with introducing ‘post-colonial’ discourse to students without losing the classic category of ‘the sacred’ should find this textbook to be balanced and evocative. It presents workable concepts from the camps of both ‘religionists’ and ‘reductionists’ and students are challenged to move between ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ positions as they survey what have been called (controversially) ‘world religions’. Specially designed textbook features include:

This exciting series introduces students to the major world religious traditions. Each religion is explored in a lively and clear fashion by experienced teachers and leading scholars in the field of world religions. Up to date scholarship is presented in a student-friendly fashion, covering history, core beliefs, sacred texts, key figures, religious practice and culture, and key contemporary issues. To aid learning and revision, each text includes illustrations, summaries, explanations of key terms, further reading, and companion websites.

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Introducing Christianity James R. Adair, Baptist University of the Américas in San Antonio, Texas, USA ‘For those seeking a phenomenological and historical approach to the study of Christianity, Adair’s text provides a helpful introduction. The book not only surveys the history of Christianity from the origins to the present but also provides students with an extended examination of contemporary varieties of Christianity and of Christianity’s interactions with the world. Adair’s evenhanded exploration of diversified Christian responses to such hotly debated issues as creation and evolution, abortion, embryonic stem cell research, and relations with other religions serves as a useful reminder that there is no monolithic Christian approach to any social or ethical issue.’ – Mary Kathleen Cunningham, North Carolina State University, USA What is Christianity? How did it begin? What do Christians believe? What are their customs and history? How has Christianity developed though the centuries, and how diverse is Christianity today? Introducing Christianity is an essential introduction to one of the world’s great religious traditions. James Adair narrates the history of Christianity: the intellectual and historical context of its origins, its triumph under the Romans, the upheavals of the Crusades, the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the challenges of the Enlightenment and of the modern age. He explores the intriguing new forms Christianity took in the nineteenth century, the evolution of sects such as Mormonism and Jehovah’s witnesses, and its mission to Africa. Adair also interrogates Christianity’s role in the modern world, as he surveys liturgical, geographical and denominational perspectives of contemporary Christianity. He concludes by investigating how Christians interact with modern culture, particularly science, the arts, ethics, political and other religions. Written in a vivid and lively style, by an experienced teacher, Introducing Christianity is the ideal resource for students beginning their studies of Christianity. Richly illustrated, it also includes quotations from original sources, learning goals, summary boxes, questions for discussion, suggestions for further reading, a comprehensive glossary, to aid study and revision, and a companion website (routledge.com/textbook/9780415772129).

• chapter timelines showing key persons, events and dates • themed boxes to encourage methodological enquiry • key-point chapter summaries to support understanding and review • study questions to assist classroom discussion • glossary of key terms and concepts • key reading, a comprehensive bibliography and index • a supporting website at www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415772709 with additional resources. Ideal for one-semester or modular introductory survey courses on the world’s religions, Introducing World Religions is essential reading for any student of religions, worldwide.

Selected Contents: Part 1: Introduction to Christianity 1. Basic Questions 2. Christianity and the Divine Part 2: Historical Overview of Christianity 3. The Historical and Intellectual Context of Christianity 4. The Founder and Foundational Documents 5. Defining Christianity 6. Conflict and Persecution 7. The Triumph of Christianity 8. Power Shift 9. Christendom at its Height 10. Winds of Change 11. Upheaval in the Church 12. Orthodoxy 13. Old World and New World 14. Diversification and Expansion 15. The Church and the Modern World Part 3: The Varieties of Christianity 16. A Denominational/Traditional Perspective 17. A Geographical Perspective 18. A Doctrinal Perspective 19. A Liturgical Perspective Part 4: Christianity’s Interaction with the World 20. Christianity and Science 21. Christianity and the Arts 22. Christian Ethics and Politics 23. Christianity and Other Religions 24. Conclusion. Abbreviations. Glossary. Bibliography December 2007: 246x174: 432pp Hb: 978-0-415-77211-2: £65.00 Pb: 978-0-415-77212-9: £19.99

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Introducing Japanese Religions Robert Ellwood, Distinguished Professor of Religion, Emeritus, University of Southern California, USA Introducing Japanese Religions is the ideal resource for students who are beginning their studies of the religious traditions of Japan. It offers students a living picture of traditional and contemporary Japanese culture, and a rich understanding of the history and practice of religions in Japan. Robert Ellwood explores the religious heritage of this fascinating country, from the dawn of spirituality to the present day. He gives special attention to the traditions of Shinto, the different forms of Buddhism in Japan, including Shingon and Tendai, and Confucianism. He also explores Japanese New Religious Movements, including Aum Shrinrikyo. Each religion is clearly described in terms of its history, practice, sociology and organization, and Ellwood emphasizes how in practice, Japanese religion interacts and intermingles. Finally, Ellwood discusses the influence of Japan on popular culture, including discussion of anime, and the transmission of Japanese spiritual, mythical and religious themes to the rest of the world. Introducing Japanese Religions also includes illustrations, lively quotations from original sources, learning goals, summary boxes, questions for discussion, suggestions for further reading, a glossary, to aid study and revision, and a companion website (routledge.com/textbooks/978041577260). Selected Contents: 1. Encountering the Japanese Religious World: Introduction 2. The Past in the Present: A Survey of Japanese Religions, Starting at Ise and Nara 3. The Way of the Kami: Shinto Then and Now 4. Butsudo: What Buddhism Is and How it Came to Japan 5. Magic Mountains and the Old Court: Heian Buddhism and Culture 6. Warrior Culture, Simple Faith: The Kamakura Buddhist Reformation 7. Swords and Satori: Zen and its Culture 8. Christ and Confucius: The West Arrives, and then Japan Turns Inward 9. The Rising Sun and the Dark Valley: The Meiji Restoration through 1945 10. Chanting and Dancing: The ‘New Religions’ of Japan 11. Pilgrimages: Religion in Japan Today

Introducing Buddhism

Introducing Hinduism

Charles S. Prebish, Utah State University, USA and Damien Keown, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK

Hillary Rodrigues, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

’An up-to-date textbook for beginners as well as advanced students of Buddhism. Its clear structure helps beginners getting oriented in the complex field of Buddhism, and its respective chapters are rich in detailed information for students who already have some basic knowledge. Instructors and students alike will appreciate its didactic tools. I have used this book in my classes, with great success.’ – Oliver Freiberger, University of Texas at Austin, USA Introducing Buddhism is the ideal resource for all students beginning the study of this fascinating religion. Damien Keown and Charles S. Prebish, two of today’s leading Buddhist scholars, explain the key teachings of Buddhism, and trace the historical development and spread of the religion from its beginnings down to the present day. A chapter is devoted to each of the major regions where Buddhism has flourished: India, South East Asia, East Asia and Tibet. In addition to this regional focus, the introduction takes contemporary concerns into account, covering important and relevant topics such as Engaged Buddhism, Buddhist Ethics and Buddhism and the Western World, as well as a chapter devoted to Meditation. Introducing Buddhism also includes illustrations, lively quotations from original sources, learning goals, summary boxes, questions for discussion, suggestions for further reading, to aid study and revision, and a companion website (routledge.com/textbooks/9780415392358). Selected Contents: Acknowledgements. Chronology of Buddhist History. The Buddhist Scriptures. Pronunciation. Guide Introduction: The Background to Buddhism. Part 1: Foundations Karma and Cosmology. The Buddha The Dharma The Sangha Meditation. Part 2: Development Mahayana Buddhism. Buddhism in India. Buddhism in Southeast Asia. Buddhism in East Asia. Buddhism in Tibet. Part 3: Modernity Buddhism in the Western World. Engaged Buddhism. Buddhist Ethics. Reflections on the Nature and Study of Buddhism

’A welcome addition to the current range of introductory materials on Hinduism .... Rodrigues’ treatment is sympathetic and sensitive, managing to suggest a sense of both of the breadth and richness of Hindu tradition and of its underlying unity.’ – Sushil Mittal, James Madison University, USA Introducing Hinduism is the ideal starting point for students wishing to undertake a comprehensive study of this fascinating religion. This lively introduction explores the complexities of Hinduism, including its social structures, especially its caste system, its rituals and many scriptures, its vast mythology and varieties of deities, and its religious philosophies. Hillary Rodrigues, an experienced teacher of the Hindu tradition, emphasizes the importance of Hindu rituals and practice, subjects of particular interest in contemporary scholarship. Illustrated throughout, the book also includes text boxes, summary charts, a glossary and a list of further reading to aid students’ understanding and revision, and a companion website (routledge.com/textbooks/9780415392693). Selected Contents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Vedic Religion 3. Karma and Cosmology 4. Hindu Social Organisation and Values 5. Dharma and the Individual 6. The Sanskrit Language 7. Indian Philosophical Schools 8. The Epics (Ithasa) 9. The Bhagavad Gita and the Rise of the Bhakti 10. Major Hindu Sects 11. Hindu Deities and Puranic Mythologyu 12. Hindu Art and Worship Rituals 13. Vedanta 14. Trantra 15. Reform and Revitalizations 16. Hinduism Beyond India 17. Hinduism and the West 18. Select Themes in Hinduism. Appendix 1. Appendix 2 2006: 246x174: 416pp Hb: 978-0-415-39268-6: £65.00 Pb: 978-0-415-39269-3: £17.99 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

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Introducing Daoism Livia Kohn, Boston University, USA Daoism is one of the major religious traditions of the East, but in the past has not been as well known as Buddhism and Hinduism. With the increased interest in Eastern religions, and alternative spiritual traditions, interest in Daoism is increasing. Introducing Daoism is a lively and accessible introduction to this fascinating religion. Introducing Daoism presents Daoism’s key concepts and major practices in an integrated historical survey. From Daoism’s origins in antiquity, through the Tang, Ming and Quing dynasties, and into the present day, Livia Kohn explores Daoism’s movements and schools, including: Daoist philosophy, the organized religion, and Daoist health practices. Each chapter introduces the main historical events of the period, the leading figures in Daoism, and Daoist scriptures and practices, as well as covering a wealth of fascinating topics such as Chinese cosmology, Daoist understanding of the body, rituals and doctrine, meditation, mythology and poetry. Kohn examines the connections between the defining concepts, history and practices of Daoism, and key issues in Asian and Western comparative religions, making this the essential text for students studying Daoism on World Religions courses. Illustrated throughout, the book also includes text boxes, summary charts, a glossary which includes Chinese characters, and a list of further reading to aid students’ understanding and revision. September 2008: 246x174: 320pp Hb: 978-0-415-43997-8: £60.00 Pb: 978-0-415-43998-5: £18.99 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

The Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion

Religions in the Modern World

Edited by John R. Hinnells, Liverpool Hope University, UK

Edited by Linda Woodhead, Paul Fletcher, Hiroko Kawanami and David Smith

’A companion in the very best sense of the word: it provides the reader with excellent guides and mentors to walk alongside on the path to understanding ... The result is an intelligent, fairminded, thorough, and cutting-edge exploration of the field of religious studies.’ – Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, University of Chicago USA

A comprehensive guide to the latest work in the study of religion. Religion in the Modern World considers the main religious traditions of Asia and the West, as well as new forms of religion and spirituality such as New Age.

Traditions and Transformations

‘This compilation is a welcome addition ... There are many insightful views in the book, which makes it useful for students and scholars alike.’ – Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion The Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion is a major resource for everyone taking courses in religious studies. It begins by explaining the most important methodological approaches to religion – including psychology, philosophy, anthropology and comparative study – before moving on to explore a wide variety of critical issues, such as gender, science, fundamentalism, ritual, and new religious movements. Written by renowned international specialists, and using clear and accessible language throughout, it is an excellent guide to the problems and questions found in exams and on courses.

Introducing Judaism Introducing Judaism surveys the religious character of Judaism. Segal takes a historical approach, focusing on religious topics of Judaism, and religious phenomena, introducing students to topics as they emerge from authentic Jewish documents. Students will gain an understanding of how Judaism is lived by its adherents and the historical and geographical diversity of Jewish beliefs and practices. Part one presents the historical context of Judaism, from the Biblical Era, through the Medieval period to Modern Judaism. Part two presents Jewish Practices and Institutions, focusing on topics such as daily life, worship, temple and synagogue, law, ethics, and education. Part three surveys the important and distinctive values and beliefs of Judaism, including God, Covenant, Israel, exile and homeland, the Torah and its commandments, and the afterlife and resurrection. September 2008: 246x174: 320pp Hb: 978-0-415-44008-0: £60.00 Pb: 978-0-415-44009-7: £18.99 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

Religious Studies A Global View Edited by Gregory Alles, McDaniel College, Westminster, USA Drawing on recent developments in the comparative study of religion, this book explores the trends of the past sixty years from a global perspective. Each of the ten chapters covers the study of religion in a different region of the world, from Europe and the Americas to Asia and the Far East. Topics covered include: • local background to the study of religions • formation of religious studies in the region

• highlights contemporary issues such as globalization, diaspora and politics

• institutions

• important thinkers and writings

• a valuable resource for courses at all levels

Eliezer Segal, University of Calgary, Canada

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• surveys the history of religious studies and the key disciplinary approaches

• explains why the study of religion is relevant in today’s world

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• interregional diversity and interregional connections • emerging issues. This book is a major contribution to the field of religious studies and a valuable reference for scholars, researchers and graduate students.

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List of Contributors: Gregory D. Alles, Gustavo Benavides, Patrice Brodeur, Lee Chang-yick, Chung Chin-hong, Ezra Chitando, Eugen Ciurtin, Steven Engler, Majella Franzmann, Satoko Fujiwara, He Guanghu, Sylvia Marcos, Anatilde Idoyaga Molina, Paulo Barrera Rivera, Rowena Robinson, Vineeta Sinha, Michael Stausberg, Renée de la Torre

Theory for Religious Studies William E. Deal and Timothy K. Beal Series: Theory4 ‘Clear, crisp and cogent: all words the reader will use to describe this superb new reference book on contemporary theories and the study of religion. According to authors William Deal and Tim Beal, theory is a way of seeing, of viewing a subject in order to understand. The authors help us to see religion in many new ways by providing overviews of contemporary theories and their usefulness in viewing religion. Undergraduates, graduate students and faculty members will find this an excellent introduction to contemporary theories and to new ways of understanding religion.’ – Rebecca Chopp, Colgate University, USA

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INTRODUCTION TO RELIGION

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Roman Catholicism: The Basics

The Qur’an: The Basics

Introduction to the Study of Religion

Michael Walsh, Editor of the Heythrop Journal

Massimo Campanini, University of Milan, Italy

From the basic ideas and terms, to its structures and practices, this book offers a plain-speaking introduction to Roman Catholicism. It covers:

Edited by Hillary Rodrigues and John Harding both at University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

This highly topical new introduction to the holy book of Islam includes essential reference resources such as a chronology of the revelation, weblinks and extensive guides to further reading.

• Roman Catholic beliefs and traditions

What is religious studies? How have religions been studied in the past and how and why do we study religions in the present?

• practices and devotional life – rituals, prayer, mass

This engaging textbook is a new, up-to-date student friendly introduction to the study of religion. Written by two experienced teachers it introduces the discipline of religious studies, and the theories and methods of the study of religion which have dominated from the nineteenth century to the present. Topics covered include: definitions of religion; traditional and contemporary perspectives in the teaching and study of religion including theological, philosophical, phenomenological and psychological approaches. Social and cultural perspectives are also explored: anthropological, sociological, political and economic. Literary/analytic and feminist approaches are covered, and the book ends with a discussion of methodology and theory. Students will find arguments for the strengths and limitations of these approaches, understand connections among Religious Studies and other fields and intellectual movements, and develop their own ideas of how they themselves might want to go about the study of religion. Summary boxes, a timeline, a glossary and other pedagogic aids help students readily grasp key concepts, and also enable effective revision. August 2008: 246x174 Hb: 978-0-415-40888-2: £55.00 Pb: 978-0-415-40889-9: £14.99 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

The Basics

• church structures and authorities – from Vatican to parish church

Exploring the Qur’an’s reception through history, its key teachings and its place in contemporary thought and belief, the book analyzes:

• church hierarchies and people – from bishops to the laity • the role of the Church in society. With a glossary, further reading sections and an appendix on the history of the Papacy, this is the perfect guide for anyone wanting to understand more about Roman Catholicism. 2005: 198x129: 216pp Hb: 978-0-415-26380-1: £55.00 Pb: 978-0-415-26381-8: £9.99 eBook: 978-0-203-49906-1 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

• the Qur’an as the word of God • its reception and communication by the Prophet Muhammad • the structure and language of the text • conceptions of God, the holy law and jihad • islamic commentaries on Qur’anic teachings through the ages. The Qur’an: The Basics is a concise and easy-to-read introduction to the text that provides the foundations of Muslim faith, right-living and daily worship.

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Religion: The Basics Malory Nye, Al-Maktoum Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies, Scotland, UK Is religion the same as culture? How does it fit with life in the modern world? Do you have to ‘believe’ to be part of one? From televangelism in the American South to the wearing of hijab in Britain and Egypt; from the rise of paganism to the aftermath of September 11th, this new edition of Malory Nye’s 2003 guide looks at the ways in which religion interacts with the everyday world in which we live. A comprehensive introduction to the world of religion, it includes:

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Islam: The Basics Colin Turner, University of Durham, UK From the doctrines of Islam and the practices of Muslims, to the significance of Islam in the modern world, this clear, jargon-free text provides a concise yet comprehensive introduction to all aspects of the Islamic faith.

• religion and culture • how power operates in religion

Judaism: The Basics

• gender issues

Jacob Neusner, Bard College, New York, USA The oldest of the world’s major faiths, Judaism as practiced today represents a tradition that goes back nearly 6,000 years. Accessible and wide-ranging, Judaism: The Basics is a must-have resource covering the stories, beliefs and expressions of that tradition. • the Torah

• religion in the contemporary world • new material on the Psychology of Religion

• the Koran and its teachings

• thoroughly updated references, case studies, and further reading throughout.

• the life of the Prophet Muhammad

Religion: The Basics offers an invaluable and up-to-date overview for anyone wanting to find out more about this fascinating subject.

• Sufism and Shi’ism

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In line with other titles in the series, the book also includes a glossary of terms, annotated further reading, and a chronology of key dates – making it an engaging learning aid and a highly useful springboard for further study.

• Passover

From the historical to the topical, Islam: The Basics provides an invaluable overview of a fascinating subject, ideal for those studying the area, as well as for anyone wanting to learn more about a topic of intense interest in today’s world.

• Reform Judaism, Orthodox Judaism and Zionism • the impact of the Holocaust. With a glossary of terms and extensive suggestions for further reading, Judaism: The Basics is an essential guide through the rich intricacies of the Jewish faith and people.

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• Islam and the modern world • non-Muslim approaches to Islam.

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• women in Islam

Key topics covered include:

An important and timely addition to the successful Basics series, key areas covered include:

• the role of belief, rituals, and religious texts

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INTRODUCTION TO RELIGION

ISLAM

These two books have been fully updated in line with the Philosophy of Religion and Religious Ethics modules on the 2008 OCR GCE Religious Studies specification and benefit from a companion website with more support material for teachers, including downloadable lesson plans. Each book is structured directly around the specification of the OCR syllabus and each chapter includes:

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The Qur’an An Introduction Abdullah Saeed, University of Melbourne, Australia

• a list of key issues, to introduce students to the topic

There is much more to the Qur’an than the selective quotations favored by Islamic fundamentalists. This book provides a student-friendly guide to the many ways in which the Qur’an can be read.

• OCR specification checklist • explanations of key terminology • discussion questions, thought points and activities • exam practice questions • self-test review questions • helpful summaries • annotated further reading suggestions. To maximize students’ chances of exam success, the books include a chapter dedicated to answering examination questions. The books come complete with lively illustrations, a comprehensive glossary and full bibliography.

Designed for both Muslims and Western non-Muslim students it examines the Qur’an in Western scholarship as well as giving an overview of the rich interpretive traditions from the time of the Prophet Muhammad to the present day. This guide is a concise introduction to all aspects of the Qur’an: history, understanding and interpretation providing: • coverage of both pre-modern and modern periods

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OCR Philosophy of Religion for AS and A2

OCR Religious Ethics for AS and A2

• plenty of examples to illustrate key points and aid student understanding

Jill Oliphant, Angley School, Cranbrook, Kent, UK

• summaries, timelines and a glossary.

Matthew Taylor, Colchester County High School for Girls, UK

Edited by Jon Mayled, senior examiner for A Level Religious Studies

Religious Ethics for AS and A2 is the definitive textbook for students of Advanced Subsidiary or Advanced Level courses, structured directly around the specification of the OCR. The book covers all the topics of the Religious Ethics component of the A-level specification in an enjoyable student-friendly fashion. This new edition updates the book for the 2008 specification, including a new section on business ethics.

Selected Contents: Introduction Part 1. 1. The Qur’an in Context 2. The Prophet, Prophesy and Revelation 3. The Qur’an as a ‘Book’ Part 2. 4. The Qur’an and Other Scriptures 5. The Qur’an and Western Scholarship 6. Translations of the Qur’an Part 3. 7. The Qur’an and Traditions of the Prophet 8. Principles of Understanding the Qur’an 9. Early Interpretation of the Qur’an 10. Approaches to Interpretation Today 11. Epilogue 12. Bibliography

Philosophy of Religion for AS and A2 is the definitive textbook for students of Advanced Subsidiary or Advanced Level courses, structured directly around the specification of the OCR. The book covers all the topics of the Philosophy of Religion component of the A-level specification in an enjoyable student-friendly fashion. The companion website has also been enhanced to include more support material for teachers, including free downloadable lesson plans: http://www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415 468244

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Islamic Thought

3RD EDITION

Fifty Key Figures in Islam

An Introduction

Muslims

Roy Jackson

Abdullah Saeed, University of Melbourne, Australia

Their Religious Beliefs and Practices

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’Islamic Thought is ideal for anyone who wants to understand more about Muslim beliefs and the Islamic faith.’ – Oliver Leaman, University of Kentucky, USA Islamic Thought is a fresh and contemporary introduction to the philosophies and doctrines of Islam. Abdullah Saeed, a distinguished Muslim scholar, traces the development of religious knowledge in Islam, from the pre-modern to the modern period. The book focuses on Muslim thought, as well as the development, production and transmission of religious knowledge, and the trends, schools and movements that have contributed to the production of this knowledge. Key topics in Islamic culture are explored, including the development of the Islamic intellectual tradition, the two foundation texts, the Qur’an and Hadith, legal thought, theological thought, mystical thought, Islamic Art, philosophical thought, political thought, and renewal, reform and rethinking today. Through this rich and varied discussion, Saeed presents a fascinating depiction of how Islam was lived in the past and how its adherents practise it in the present. 2006: 234x156: 224pp Hb: 978-0-415-36408-9: £60.00 Pb: 978-0-415-36409-6: £15.99 eBook: 978-0-203-01524-7 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

Andrew Rippin, University of Victoria, Canada ’Provides a scholarly and yet readable introduction to the Islamic tradition. Rippin presents a complex religious tradition in a condensed, welldocumented and up-to-date work.’ – Roxanne D. Marcotte, Studies in Religion The third edition of this popular and successful guide to Islam provides a complete survey of Islamic history and thought, complete with brand new sections on recent developments including the Taliban, Al-Qaeda and Jihad. Selected Contents: Illustrations. Preface to the Third Edition. Transliteration and Other Technical Considerations. Introduction. Part 1: Formative Elements of Classical Islam Part 2: Emergence of Islamic Identity Part 3: Alternate Visions of Classical Islamic Identity Part 4: Consolidation of Islamic Identity Part 5: Modern Visions of Islam Issues of Identity Part 6: Re-Visioning Islam. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography and Further Reading Resources on the Internet. General Index. Index of Qur’an Citations 2005: 216x138: 384pp Hb: 978-0-415-34882-9: £70.00 Pb: 978-0-415-34888-1: £16.99 eBook: 978-0-203-08704-6 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

The perfect resource for those wishing to learn more about the Muslim culture, its people and its teachings, Fifty Key Figures in Islam explores the lives and thoughts of fifty influential individuals in Islam and surveys a heritage that spans 1,500 years. Covering key figures such as the Prophet Muhammad, Suleiman ‘the Magnificent’ and El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X), the entry for each figure includes: • biographical details • a presentation and analysis of their main ideas • an account of their impact and influence within and, if appropriate, beyond the Islamic tradition • list of major works and additional reading. Fully cross-referenced for ease of use, this clearly presented work is ideal for those interested in or studying the area, and could not have come at a more fascinating time in history for Islam. 2006: 216x138: 280pp Hb: 978-0-415-35467-7: £55.00 Pb: 978-0-415-35468-4: £12.99 eBook: 978-0-203-00138-7 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

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The Islamic World

Islam: The Key Concepts

Edited by Andrew Rippin, University of Victoria, Canada

Towards a Contemporary Approach

Oliver Leaman, University of Kentucky, USA and Kecia Ali, Brandeis University, USA

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Abdullah Saeed, University of Melbourne, Australia

Series: Routledge Key Guides

Interpreting the Qur’an

How is the Qur’an – central to all Muslims societies – to be understood today in order to meet the needs of these societies? Abdullah Saeed, a distinguished Muslim scholar, explores the interpretation of the ethico-legal content of the Qur’an, while taking into consideration the changing nature of the modern world. Saeed explores the current debates surrounding the interpretation of the Qur’an, and their impact on contemporary understanding of this sacred text. Discussing the text’s relevance to modern issues without compromising the overall framework of the Qur’an and its core beliefs and practices, he proposes a fresh approach, which takes into account the historical and contemporary contexts of interpretation. Inspiring healthy debate, this book is essential reading for students and scholars seeking a contemporary approach to the interpretation of the Qur’anic text.

Islam: The Key Concepts is a clear and concise guide to the religion and culture of Islam. Oliver Leaman and Kecia Ali explore this highly topical subject focusing on key issues including: the Qur’an, faith, theology, gender, fundamentalism, martyrdom, Jihad, Islam in America, Islam in Europe and Islamic Law. This is the ideal study resource and includes: a comprehensive introduction, an alphabetical list of relevant terms (fully cross- referenced), a short bibliographical guide, bibliography, and index. A glossary of all non-English terms is also provided. October 2007: 216x138: 208pp Hb: 978-0-415-39638-7: £60.00 Pb: 978-0-415-39639-4: £14.99 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

The Islamic World is a complete, authoritative and up-to-date one-volume guide to Islamic faith and culture. Written by a distinguished international team of Islamic scholars, it elucidates the history, philosophy and practice of one of the world’s great religious traditions. The perfect reference for all students of Islam, it is ideal for both introductory-level study and use as a definitive reference source. Edited by Andrew Rippin, a leading scholar of Islam, the volume covers the political, geographical, religious, intellectual, cultural and social worlds of Islam, and offers insight into all aspects of Muslim life including the Qur’an and law, philosophy, science and technology, art, literature, and film and much else. It explores the concept of an ‘Islamic’ world: what makes it distinctive and how uniform is that distinctiveness across Muslim geographical regions and through history? May 2008: 246x174: 864pp Hb: 978-0-415-36646-5: £150.00

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The Qur’an and the Secular Mind

Islamic Liberation Theology

Global Iran

A Philosophy of Islam

Resisting the Empire

Camron Michael Amin

Shabbir Akhtar, Old Dominion University, USA

Hamid Dabashi, Columbia University, USA

Series: Globalizing Regions

This book is a radical piece of counter-intuitive thinking on the clash of civilizations theory and global politics. The author argues that after 9/11 we have not seen a new phase in a long running confrontation between Islam and the West, but that such categories have collapsed. The West is no longer a unified actor and Islam is ideologically exhausted in its confrontation with colonialism. Rather we are seeing the emergence of the US as a lone superpower, and a confrontation between a form of imperial globalized capital and a new Islamic theodicy.

In this book, Camron Amin provides a rich yet concise portrait of Iranian society through the lens of globalization. How is economic and cultural globalization affecting Iranians? How are the nation’s two chief natural resources, militant Islam and oil, tied into larger supraregional economic and political currents? To answer this, Amin, a historian, traces the broad outlines of Iranian history, focusing in particular on Shi’ism and nationalism, the dominant faith there. Shi’ism sets it apart from surrounding Sunni regimes, and its nationalism has certainly been a potent global force for decades. He also contrasts Iran’s intense nationalism with its substantial ethnic diversity.

This book is concerned with the rationality and plausibility of the Muslim faith and the Quran, and in particular how they can be interrogated and understood through western analytical philosophy. Selected Contents: Introduction Part 1: Quranic Islam and the Secular Mind 1. Locating Islam in the Modern World 2. Human Reason and Divine Revelation 3. The Moral Challenge of Secular Humanism Part 2: An Arabic Quran: Assessing its Authority 4. The Book Sent Down 5. The Book as ‘The Frustrater’ 6. The Scope of the Book 7. The Authority of the Book Part 3: A Quranic Lebenswelt in a Secular Age 8. A Sign is Enough–For the Wise 9. Faith and the Varieties of Rejection 10. Human Nature and the Quran 11. ‘Greater is God!’ Part 4: Conclusions 12. Preface to a Philosophy of Islam October 2007: 234x156: 448pp Hb: 978-0-415-43782-0: £80.00 Pb: 978-0-415-43783-7: £22.99 eBook: 978-0-203-93531-6

Selected Contents: 1. The End of Islamic Ideology 2. Blindness and Insight 3. For the Last Time Civilization 4. Islam and Globalization 5.‘Ta’ziyeh’ the Theater of Protest 6. Liberation Theodicy 7. Malcolm X as a Muslim Revolutionary December 2007: 234x156: 224pp Hb: 978-0-415-77154-2: £65.00 Pb: 978-0-415-77155-9: £19.99

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Perspectives on Early Islamic Mysticism

Militant Islam A Sociology of Characteristics, Causes and Consequences

A RUSA 2007 OUTSTANDING REFERENCE TITLE

Stephen Vertigans and Philip Sutton, both at Robert Gordon University, UK

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This book provides a sociological framework for understanding the rise and character of recent Islamic militancy. It takes a systematic approach to the phenomenon and includes analysis of cases from around the world, compares them with militancy in other religions, as well as their causes and consequences.

The Qur’an An Encyclopedia Edited by Oliver Leaman, University of Kentucky, USA Authored by forty-three international experts, the objective of The Qur’an: An Encyclopedia is to present this diversity of thought, approach and school without priority, in order to give a strong appreciation of the range of response that the text has provoked throughout its history and providing students and researchers with a powerful one-volume resource covering all aspects of the text and its reception.

Selected Contents: Introduction 1. The Al-Qa’ida Phenomenon: Myths and Realities 2. Militant Islam in Local, National and Transnational Networks 3. Reinterpreting the Ummah: Islamic Nationalism and International Ideologies 4. Social Closure and Takfir 5. Challenging the State: The New Public Spectacle of Death 6. Risk and Fear in the ‘De-Civilizing’ of Global Society 7. Towards a Sociology of Militancy

Islam and the Qur’an are much in the news today and there is a public debate going on in which things are said about the Qur’an without much knowledge or understanding of the book. Every effort has been made to help the reader use the Encyclopedia as an investigative tool in Quranic studies. The volume assumes no previous knowledge of the Qur’an, Islam or Arabic. Technical terms are explained in the text itself and the style of each entry is designed to be as self-contained as possible. Entries are cross-referenced and many include a brief bibliography. At the end of the work there is a substantial annotated bibliography providing a detailed guide to the most significant books, journals and articles in Qur’anic Studies. There is a full index.

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Sara Sviri, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Series: Routledge Sufi Series This book offers a new perspective and insight into the cultural horizon of pre-Sufi mystical Islam, which, especially in the Eastern regions of the Islamic Caliphate, still retained traces of pre-Islamic esoteric traditions. July 2008: 234x156: 288pp Hb: 978-0-415-30283-8: £55.00 Pb: 978-0-415-30307-1: £19.99 eBook: 978-0-203-02272-6 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

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The Naqshbandiyya Orthodoxy and Activism in a Worldwide Sufi Tradition Series: Routledge Sufi Series

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Cities in the Pre-Modern Islamic World The Urban Impact of Religion, State and Society

This volume seeks to present a broad picture of the evolution of the ideas and organizational forms of the Naqshbandi order throughout its history. June 2007: 234x156: 224pp Hb: 978-0-415-32243-0: £70.00 eBook: 978-0-203-94743-2

Edited by Amira K. Bennison and Alison L. Gascoigne, both at University of Cambridge, UK

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Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East

The Qur’an in its Historical Context

This volume is an inter-disciplinary endeavor which brings together recent research on aspects of urban life and structure by architectural and textual historians and archaeologists, engendering exciting new perspectives on urban life in the pre-modern Islamic world.

Edited by Gabriel Said Reynolds, University of Notre Dame, USA

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The World of al-Hak’m al-Tirmidh and His Contemporaries

Itzchak Weismann, University of Haifa, Israel

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Series: Routledge Studies in the Qur’an Providing commentary on the controversial revisionist school of Qur’anic studies, this book explores the origins, scholarship and development of the Qur’an. August 2007: 234x156: 272pp Hb: 978-0-415-42899-6: £75.00 eBook: 978-0-203-93960-4

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Islam and the Everyday World

The Muslim Brotherhood

Sufi Illuminati

Public Policy Dilemmas

Hasan al-Hudaybi and Ideology

Edited by Sohrab Behdad, Denison University, USA and Farhad Nomani, American University of Paris, France

Barbara Zollner, Birkbeck University of London, UK

The Rawshani Movement in Muslim Mysticism, Society and Politics

Series: Routledge Studies in Political Islam

Sergei Andreyev

Series: Routledge Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa This is a new examination of how Shari’a – the Islamic concept of divine law, affects public policy both theoretically and in practice, across a wide range of public policy areas, including human rights and family law. January 2008: 234x156: 288pp Pb: 978-0-415-45305-9: £24.99

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Producing Islamic Knowledge

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Transmission and Dissemination in Western Europe Martin van Bruinessen, International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World, the Netherlands

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Islamic Culture through Jewish Eyes Al-Andalus from the Tenth to Twelfth Century Esperanza Alfonso, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures Islamic Culture through Jewish Eyes analyzes the attitude towards Muslims, Islam, and Islamic culture as presented in sources written by Jewish authors in the Iberian Peninsula between the tenth and the twelfth centuries. By bringing the Jewish attitude towards the ‘other’ into sharper focus, this book sets out to explore a largely overlooked and neglected question – the shifting ways in which Jewish authors constructed communal identity of Muslims and Islamic culture, and how these views changed overtime. The book’s methodological sophistication and wide range of sources make it a valuable resource for scholars and researchers of comparative literature and cultural studies.

From the Atlas to the Indus Edited by Akbar S. Ahmed

Featuring contributions from leading sociologists and anthropologists, the book presents the findings of empirical research in these issues from a range of European countries such as France, Italy, the Netherlands and Great Britain.

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Interpreting Tha’labi’s Tales of the Prophet Temptation, Responsibility and Loss Marianna Klar, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK Series: Routledge Studies in the Qur’an

Edited by Ümit Cizre, Bilkent University, Turkey Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics Concerned with the development of Islamic politics inside Turkey, in particular the rise of the Justice and Development Party that now rules the country, this book examines the changes that have taken place within the party itself, the role of the secular state and wider international issues including accession to the EU.

Islam in Tribal Societies

This book provides a comprehensive discussion of these deceptively simple questions about Islam and Muslims in Europe. Four key areas where the production and/or reproduction of Islamic knowledge take place are singled out for in-depth treatment. The first of these concerns fatwas, authoritative answers in response to explicit questions. The second area is the setting of much formal and informal transmission of Islamic knowledge, the mosque and mosque association. Third is the role of Muslim intellectuals in articulating alternative Muslim discourses. The final area is that of higher Islamic education in Europe, the institutions in which imams and other religious functionaries are trained.

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The Making of the Justice and Development Party

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Series: Routledge Studies in Religion

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Secular and Islamic Politics in Turkey

The history of the Rawshaniyya, a powerful religio-political millenarian movement whose influence was greatly feared by the rulers of Mughal India, is examined in the broader context of tribal policy and opposition to contemporary Muslim authorities.

Klar gives a compelling examination of the prophets Job, Saul, David, Noah and Solomon as portrayed in Tha’labi’s ‘Arais Al-Majalis’ and questions its efficacy as a tool for the exploration for the human condition via a close analysis of the tales of the five figures. April 2008: 234x156: 224pp Hb: 978-0-415-36663-2: £60.00

A lively debate is currently being conducted in the social sciences around the concepts of ‘tribe,’ ‘segmentary societies’ and ‘Islam in society.’ This wide-ranging collection by thirteen distinguished anthropologists contributes to the debate by examining various segmentary Islamic tribal societies from Morocco to Pakistan. December 2007: 234x156: 344pp Hb: 978-0-415-44672-3: £80.00

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Islamic Attitudes to Israel Edited by Efraim Karsh, King’s College, London, UK and P.R. Kumaraswamy, Jawaharlal Nehru, India Drawing on the research of some of the leading scholars in the fields of Jewish-Islamic relations, the Israeli-Arab conflict and political Islam, this collection of essays provides a fresh and highly topical examination of the relationship between Israel and the Islamic world from both a thematic and geo-strategic perspective. The essays are divided into two distinct sections. The first deals with issues relating to contemporary Jewish-Muslim relations and, in particular, looks at the attitude among opinion-makers and religious institutions and leaders in the Muslim world towards the Jewish state. Such key issues as the Islamic attitude to Palestinian suicide-bombing and Arab anti-Semitism are addressed here. The second section examines the attitude of key Muslim nations – Egypt, Iran, Turkey, Indonesia and Pakistan – to the Jewish state and charts the evolving bilateral relationship between these nations and Israel from the birth of the Jewish State in 1948 until the present day. October 2007: 234x156: 240pp Hb: 978-0-415-44025-7: £75.00

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Revelation and Reason in Islam

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A.J. Arberry The ‘Scholastic Problem’ was the focus of much debate in Islam for some centuries before it became the chief crux of learned discussion in medieval Christianity. When originally published in 1957, this volume was the first survey of the subject to appear in English.

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Transnational Islam and Regional Security

Ethno-Nationalism, Islam and the State in the Caucasus

Cooperation and Diversity between Europe and North Africa

Post-Soviet Disorder

Edited by Frederic Volpi, University of St Andrews, UK

Series: Central Asian Studies

This volume investigates the impact of a new brand of transnational terrorism and political violence produced by radical Islamist groups from the Maghreb on the regional security dynamics.

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The region of the Caucasus with its ongoing, and even deteriorating, crises and instability, and its critical strategic and economic importance, is increasingly at the focus of the world’s attention. This book discusses the complexities and interplay among important forces at work in the region, including different brands of Islam, nationalisms, ethnic identities, local bureaucracies, Moscow’s policies and influences from the outside.

Challenging Islamic Fundamentalism

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Culture and Civilization in the Middle East Series Edited by Ian Netton, University of Leeds, UK

Edited by Moshe Gammer, Tel Aviv University, Israel

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Understanding Islam Frithjof Schuon Long regarded as a classic, this book explains the basis of Islamic belief. Its starting point is the theme that Islam is ‘the meeting between God and Man’ and it expounds the Islamic view of life, the role of the Prophet and the Qu’ran, as well as the nature of Sufism and the path of spiritual ascent.

The Three Principles of Mulla Sadra Translated by Colin Turner, University of Durham, UK This is the first translation into English of Seh Asl (Three Principles) by the important sixteenth century thinker Mulla Sadra.

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Comte de Gobineau and Orientalism Selected Eastern Writings

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Edited by Geoffrey Nash, University of Sunderland, UK This book provides an introduction to de Gobineau’s writings on the Middle East and extensive translations of his most important work.

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Radical Islam in the Former Soviet Union

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Edited by Galina Yemelianova, University of Birmingham, UK

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Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series With Islamic radicalization a critical issue in post 9/11 global politics, this book provides a timely examination of Islamic radicalization in the Muslim republics of the former Soviet Union since the end of Communism.

Ibn “Arab”–Time and Cosmology Mohamed Haj Yousef, United Arab Emirates University, UAE This book is the first comprehensive attempt to explain Ibn ‘Arab’s’ distinctive view of time and its role in the process of creating the cosmos and its relation with the Creator. By comparing this original view with modern theories of physics and cosmology, Mohamed Haj Yousef constructs a new cosmological model that may deepen and extend our understanding of the world, while potentially solving some of the drawbacks in the current models such as the historical Zeno’s paradoxes of motion and the recent Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox (EPR) that underlines the discrepancies between Quantum Mechanics and Relativity.

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Iqbal–Islam and Post Colonialism in South Asia Javed Majeed, University of London, UK Series: Pathfinders Muhammad Iqbal was an Indian Muslim poet, philosopher and politician, whose poetry in Persian and Urdu is regarded as among the greatest in modern times. Also famous for his work on religious and political philosophy in Islam, he is credited with first proposing the idea of an independent state for Indian Muslims, which would inspire the creation of Pakistan.

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Islam and the Baha’i Faith A Comparative Study of Muhammad Abduh and Abdul-Baha Abbas

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Oliver Scharbrodt, Western University of Kentucky, USA This book is concerned with the development of Islam and the Baha’i faith in the nineteenth century via the examination of two key reformers.

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CHRISTIANITY

ISLAM

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Islam and Science

The Baha’is of Iran

Christian Ethics

The Intellectual Career of Nizam al-Din al-Nisaburi

Socio-Historical Studies

The End of the Law

Edited by Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, University of Manchester, UK and Seena B. Fazel, University of Oxford, UK

David S. Cunningham, Hope College, Michigan, USA

Robert Morrison, Whitman College, USA This book is the first rigourous attempt to explain the cross-fertilization of scientific and religious thought in Islamic civilization.

Series: Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies The first multi-author volume that comprehensively surveys the emergence and development of the Baha’i community of Iran, the country’s largest non-Muslim religious minority.

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Muslim Women in Law and Society Annotated Translation of al-Tøahir al-Høaddad’s Imra’tuna fi ‘l-sharica wa ‘l-mujtamac, with an Introduction Translated by Ronak Husni and Daniel L. Newman An extremely timely translation of a seminal text on the role of women in Muslim society by the early twentieth century thinker al Taher al-Haddad. Considered as one of the first feminist works in Arab literature, this book will be of considerable interest to scholars of an early ‘feminist’ tract coming from a Muslim in Arab society. November 2007: 234x156: 256pp Hb: 978-0-415-41887-4: £65.00 eBook: 978-0-203-93831-7

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Space and Muslim Urban Life At the Limits of the Labyrinth of Fez Simon O’Meara, Dartmouth College, USA This book develops an academic understanding of space by pursuing the structural logic of the premodern Arab-Muslim city, or medina. July 2007: 234x156: 176pp Hb: 978-0-415-38612-8: £75.00

Christian Ethics provides a biblical, historical, philosophical and theological guide to the field of Christian ethics. Prominent theologian David S. Cunningham explores the tradition of ‘virtue ethics’ in this creative and lively text, which includes literary and musical references as well as key contemporary theological texts and figures.

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Three parts examine:

Islam and Human Rights in Practice

• the nature of human action and the people of God as the ‘interpretative community’ within which ethical discourse arises

Perspectives Across the Ummah Edited by Shahram Akbarzadeh and Benjamin MacQueen, both at Monash University, Australia Series: Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies Containing case studies from throughout the Islamic world, this highly topical book examines human rights and Islam through the perspective of reformists attempting to reconcile Western values with those of Muslim societies. February 2008: 234x156: 224pp Hb: 978-0-415-44959-5: £65.00

• the development of a ‘virtue ethics’ approach, placing this in its Christian context • significant issues in contemporary Christian ethics, including the ethics of business and economics, politics, the environment, medicine and sex. This is the essential text for students taking ethics courses in theology, religious studies and philosophy. March 2008: 234x156: 256pp Hb: 978-0-415-37599-3: £65.00 Pb: 978-0-415-37600-6: £18.99 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

Early Christian Literature

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Christ and Culture in the Second and Third Centuries

Nietzsche and Islam Roy Jackson, Freelance Researcher, UK Series: Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies This book provides an original and fresh insight into Nietzsche’s views on religion, showing that his philosophy can make an important contribution to what is considered to be Islam’s key paradigms.

Helen Rhee, Westmont College Santa Barbara, California, USA Series: Routledge Early Church Monographs Tackling broad topics, including theology, asceticism, sexuality and patriotism, this book explores issues of cultural identity and examines how these propagandist writings shaped the theological, moral and political trajectories of Christian faith and contributed largely to the definition of orthodoxy.

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This thorough study will benefit all students of early Christianity and Greco-Roman literary culture and civilization.

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Early Christianity

Studying Christian Spirituality

The Routledge Companion to the Christian Church

Mark Humphries, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland

David B. Perrin, President of St. Jerome’s University, Ontario, Canada ’Dr. Perrin addresses an array of important issues in an impressive manner ... I believe that [this] work will make a significant contribution to an emerging field.’ – Kevin Gillespie, Loyola University, USA Studying Christian Spirituality is the ideal introduction for students wishing to discover how spirituality can be understood beyond the conventional boundaries that religions have established. In nine chapters the book includes discussion of a wide variety of issues and questions, including: • definitions of Spirituality

Edited by Gerard Mannion, Liverpool Hope University, UK and Lewis S. Mudge, San Francisco Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, USA The nature and story of the Christian church is immensely important to theology students and scholars alike. Written by an international team of distinguished scholars, this comprehensive book introduces students to the fundamental historical, systematic, moral and ecclesiological aspects of the study of the church, as well as serving as a resource for scholars engaging in ecclesiological debates on a wide variety of issues. It divides into six parts: • the church in its historical context

• context • Anthropology • History • text • human-spiritual development • spiritual practice • criticism. David B. Perrin explains clearly the traditional relationships between Christian spirituality and theology and history. He also proposes greater connections with the human sciences, such as philosophy, psychology, phenomenology and sociology, and re-shapes the classical approaches to Christian spirituality, its texts, practices and experience. Studying Christian Spirituality will enable students to develop a deeper understanding of Christian spirituality’s research methods and its relevance to the world today.

Examining sources and case studies, this book explores early Christianity, how it was studied, how it is studied now, and how JudaeoChristian values came to form the ideological bedrock of modern western culture. Looking at the diverse source materials available, from the earliest New Testament texts and the complex treaties of third century authors such as Lactantius, to archaeology, epigraphy and papyrology, the book examines what is needed to study the subject, what materials are available, how useful they are, and how the study of the subject may be approached. Case study chapters focus on important problems in the study of early Christianity including:

• global perspectives

• the book of Acts as a text revelatory of the social dynamics of cities and as a text about the inherent tensions in Hellenistic Judaism

• methods and debates in ecclesiology

• Orthodoxy and organization in early Christianity

• key concepts and themes

• early Christianity and the Roman empire.

• ecclesiology and other disciplines: social sciences, philosophy, literature and film.

Also including a comprehensive guide for students that lists major collections of literary and non-literary sources, major journals and series, and major text books, it is an excellent aid to the study of Christianity in history.

• the different denominational traditions

• God

Series: Classical Foundations

Authoritative, accessible and easily navigable, this book is indispensable for everyone interested in the nature and history of the Christian Church. November 2007: 246x174: 704pp Hb: 978-0-415-37420-0: £95.00

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The Routledge Companion to Christian History

The Mysticism of Saint Augustine

Chris Cook, formerly Head of the Modern Archives Unit, UK

Re-Reading the Confessions

Series: Routledge Companions

John Peter Kenney, Saint Michael’s College Vermont, USA

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The Routledge Companion to Christian History is an indispensable aid for anyone seeking comprehensive coverage of the facts in clear, concise and easy to use language. It covers:

Augustine’s vision at Ostia is one of the most influential accounts of mystical experience in the Western tradition, and a subject of persistent interest to Christians, philosophers and historians.

Fifty Key Christian Thinkers

• all key events in the Christian calendar from the persecution of the Roman Empire to the fall of Communism and the rise of Fundamentalism

This book explores Augustine’s account of his experience as set down in the Confessions and considers his mysticism in relation to his classical Platonist philosophy. John Peter Kenney argues that while the Christian contemplative mysticism created by Augustine is in many ways founded on Platonic thought, Platonism ultimately fails Augustine in that it cannot retain the truths that it anticipates. The Confessions offer a response to this impasse by generating two critical ideas in medieval and modern religious thought: firstly, the conception of contemplation as a purely epistemic event, in contrast to classical Platonism; secondly, the tenet that salvation is absolutely distinct from enlightenment.

Peter McEnhill and George Newlands Series: Routledge Key Guides Provides both valuable information and stimulating debate on the lives and work of fifty of the most important Christian theologians, from the emergence of the faith 2000 years ago to the present day.

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• cross-cultural coverage; as well as Western Christendom, the Orthodox churches of the East and the ‘new’ churches of Asia and Africa. Fully cross referenced throughout with a combination of chronologies, glossary and statistics this packed volume contains everything for the first time student or for anyone revisiting the subject. October 2007: 234x156: 224pp Hb: 978-0-415-38362-2: £60.00 Pb: 978-0-415-38363-9: £16.99 eBook: 978-0-203-09963-6

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• the impact of Islam, the Crusades, Monasticism, and the spread of popular religious movements

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CHRISTIANITY

JUDAISM

The Early Church Fathers Theophilus of Alexandria Norman Russell This book provides a new assessment of Theophilus, arguably one of the greatest bishops of the Theodosian era. Translated into English for the first time, these texts present a fresh perspective in the study of early Christianity.

The Early Christian World

Jewish Thought

Edited by Philip F. Esler

An Introduction

Series: Routledge Worlds

Oliver Leaman, University of Kentucky, USA

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Religious Nationalism in Modern Europe If God Be For Us

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Philip W Barker, Centenary College of Louisiana, USA

Evagrius Ponticus Augustine Casiday, Durham University, UK Presenting many texts available for the very first time, Casiday showcases full translations of Evagrius’ letters and notes, and presents an accurate and refreshingly approachable introduction to this early church father. 2006: 216x138: 264pp Hb: 978-0-415-32446-5: £60.00 Pb: 978-0-415-32447-2: £19.99 eBook: 978-0-203-35697-5 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

This fresh and contemporary introduction to the Jewish faith, its philosophies and worldviews, explores debates which have preoccupied Jewish thinkers over the centuries and examines their continuing influence in contemporary Judaism.

Comprehensive and accessible, this lavishly illustrated encyclopaedic collection of papers on all aspects of early Christianity examines how the small movement which formed around Jesus in Galilee became the pre-eminent religion of the ancient world.

Series: Routledge Studies in Nationalism and Ethnicity This book addresses the issue of modern religious nationalism in Europe from a political perspective. It examines the conditions in which it religious nationalism develops and explores why several countries, including Ireland, Yugoslavia, Greece, and Poland, stand in clear contrast to the broader trend of religious decline. May 2008: 234x156: 224pp Hb: 978-0-415-77514-4: £65.00

Written by Oliver Leaman, a leading figure in the field, the book surveys the central controversies in Judaism, including the protracted arguments within the religion itself. Topics range from the relations between Judaism and other religions, such as Islam and Christianity, to contemporary issues such as sex, gender and modernity. Central themes such as authority and obedience, the relations between Jewish and Greek thought, and the position and status of the State of Israel are also considered. The debates are further illustrated by reference to the Bible, as a profoundly realistic text in describing the long interaction between the Jews, their ancestors and God, as well as discussions about major thinkers, and passages from the ancient texts: The Mishnah, Talmud and Midrash. Oliver Leaman’s lively approach and light touch makes Jewish Thought ideal reading for anyone who wants to understand more about the Jewish faith and its outlook, past and present. Selected Contents: 1. Bible–Obedience vs. Revolt 2. Mishnah; Talmud: A View of Halakhah 3. Jews vs. Greeks 4. Jews vs. Christians 5. Karaites vs. Rabbanites 6. Jews vs. Muslims 7. Philosophers vs. Kabbalists 8. Philosophers vs. Halakhists 9. Maskilim vs. Traditionalists 10. Mitnagdim vs. Hasidim 11. Reform vs. Orthodoxy 12. Particularism vs. Universalism: Zionism vs. Anti-Zionism, Hebrew vs. Yiddish, Assimilation vs. Distinctiveness, Feminism vs. Equal but Different 13. The Future of Jewish Thought in a World without Jews Guide to Biographical Resources

Gregory of Nazianzus Brian Daley, University of Notre Dame, USA With an extensive introduction to Gregory’s life, thought and writings, and including detailed notes, this book brings together a new, original survey of the significance of Gregory’s life and work with translations of eight beautiful and profound orations

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Theodoret of Cyrus Istvan Pasztori Kupan, Hungarian Reformed Theological Institute, Transylvania, Romania This book offers a fresh collection of texts from all periods of his career, including two complete treatises, representative selections from two others so far unpublished in English, with a critical introduction concerning his life and legacy.

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History, Belief and Practice

Jerusalem

Economics of American Judaism

Dan Cohn Sherbok

History, Religion and Geography

Carmel Chiswick, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA

Tamar Mayer, Middlebury College, Vermont, USA and Suleiman A. Mourad, Smith College, Massachusetts, USA

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’Judaism by Dan Cohn Sherbok is the most comprehensive introduction to Judaism available to American undergraduates. The concise chapters of this book provide excellent background information on Jewish history, culture, and religion. As a teacher, I can build upon this information when we pursue critical issues in specialized classes in Jewish Studies. My undergraduate students at this liberal arts college praise the encyclopedic character of the book as well as the maps and text samples. Many of my students keep this book as a future reference work.’ – Rivka Ulmer, The John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Chair in Jewish Studies, Bucknell University, USA 2003: 246x189: 608pp Hb: 978-0-415-23660-7: £75.00 Pb: 978-0-415-23661-4: £22.99 eBook: 978-0-203-40251-1 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

This is a multidisciplinary study of one of the world’s great cities, that is of enormous, historical, religious and political significance. Ever since the Temple crowned the skyline of Jerusalem, the city has captured the imagination of religious scholars, artists, politicians, and lay people, creating for Jerusalem an aura that transcends the boundaries of location, time, and reality. The essays in this volume realize the complexity of a city like Jerusalem, especially in terms of the many moods it invokes in those who cherish it, and how its many faces (both real and imagined) came to be formed and reformed throughout the centuries as a result of religious and socio-political factors. Written by many noted scholars in the fields of politics, history, geography, religious studies, sociology, art history, architecture and cultural studies, this is a valuable resource for all those interested in the wonders of Jerusalem.

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Fifty Key Jewish Thinkers Dan Cohn-Sherbok, University of Wales, Lampeter, UK

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Series: Routledge Key Guides ’I know of no book that does what this one accomplishes: to present briefly, but in sufficient detail to be very useful, introductions to the major thinkers of the past 1000 years of Jewish history.’ – Alan Avery-Peck, College of the Holy Cross, USA

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A History of a Revolutionary State Jonathan Adelman, University of Denver, USA Series: Israeli History, Politics and Society This book provides a general history of the rise of Israel since the early Zionist efforts at state building. In particular it seeks to show how unlikely Israel’s creation was and that it should best be understood as a series of revolutions. February 2008: 234x156: 224pp Hb: 978-0-415-77509-0: £80.00 Pb: 978-0-415-77510-6: £20.99

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This work differs from others by explaining the relationship between law and antisemitism through a discussion of key critical thinkers; from Marx to Agamben through Nietzsche, Sartre, Adorno and Horkheimer, Arendt and Lyotard.

Eliash examines the relationship between Ireland and the Zionist movement, and the state of Israel from the context of Palestine’s partition and the delay in Ireland’s recognition of the State of Israel until 1963. April 2007: 234x156: 288pp Hb: 978-0-415-35035-8: £80.00 eBook: 978-0-203-69611-8

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Jewish Eating and Identity Through the Ages

Anglophone Jewish Literature

David C. Kraemer, Jewish Theological Seminary, USA

Edited by Axel Stähler, University of Bonn, Germany

Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature English has become the major language of contemporary Jewish literature. This book shows the transnational character of that literature and how traditional viewpoints need to be reassessed.

This book explores the history of Jewish eating and identity, from the Bible to the present. It pays attention to Jewish eating laws (halakha) in each time and place, but also looks at Jews who eat like Romans or Christians regardless of the law. June 2007: 192pp Hb: 978-0-415-95797-7: £60.00

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The Rise of Israel

Shulamit Eliash, Bar Ilan University, Israel

David Seymour, University of Lancaster, UK

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Ireland, Zionism and the State of Israel

Law, Antisemitism and the Holocaust

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Fifty Key Jewish Thinkers is a panoramic survey of over 2,000 years of Jewish thought, religious and secular, ancient and modern. Now in its second edition, this essential reference guide contains new introductions to the lives and works of such thinkers as: Hannah Arendt, Immanuel Levinas, Judith Plaskow, Sigmund Freud, and Walter Benjamin.

This book collects in one readily-accessible volume the pioneering research of Carmel U. Chiswick on the Economics of American Judaism. Filling a major gap in the social-scientific literature, Chiswick’s economic perspective complements that of other social scientists and historians. She demonstrates clearly that economic analysis can deepen our understanding of the historical experience of American Jewry and provide insights into its current situation.

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JUDAISM

EASTERN RELIGIONS

Routledge Jewish Studies Series Edited by Oliver Leaman, University of Kentucky, USA

Maimonides’ Guide for the Perplexed: Silence and Salvation

Religions of South Asia

Donald McCallum, Civil Service

Edited by Sushil Mittal, James Madison University, Virginia, USA and Gene Thursby, University of Florida, USA

Providing an excellent overview of the latest thinking in Maimonides studies, this book uses a novel philosophical approach to examine whether Maimonides’ Guide for the Perplexed contains a naturalistic doctrine of salvation after death.

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Jewish Cultural Nationalism Origins and Influences David Aberbach, McGill University, Montreal, Canada This volume explores the development of Jewish nationalism from the Bible to modern times, focusing on particular movements and places as well as texts which signified, or themselves brought about, change.

The author examines the apparent tensions and contradictions in the Guide and explains them in terms of a modern philosophical interpretation rather than as evidence of some esoteric meaning hidden in the text. April 2007: 234x156: 240pp Hb: 978-0-415-42111-9: £70.00 eBook: 978-0-203-96195-7

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Amos Morris-Reich, The Hebrew University, Israel

Philosophy and Rabbinic Culture

Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought This book examines the transformation of the human sciences into the social sciences in the third part of the nineteenth century and the linked attempts to develop and implement methods for dealing with social tensions and the rationalization of society

The Quest for Jewish Assimilation in Modern Social Science

The Medieval Jewish Community in Southern France Gregg Stern, Hebrew College, University of Massachussets, USA Philosophy and Rabbinic Culture: The Medieval Jewish Community in Southern France is a study of the great, and curiously underappreciated, engagement of a medieval European Jewish community with the philosophic tradition. This lucid description of southern French Jewry’s multigenerational cultivation of – and acculturation to – scientific and philosophic teachings fulfills a major desideratum in Jewish cultural history.

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An Introduction

South Asia is home to many of the world’s most vibrant religious faiths. It is also one of the most dynamic and historically rich regions on earth, where changing political and social structures have caused religions to interact and hybridize in unique ways. This textbook introduces the contemporary religions of South Asia, from the indigenous religions such as the Hindu, Jain, Buddhist and Sikh traditions, to incoming influences such as Christianity, Judaism and Islam. In ten chapters, it surveys the nine leading belief systems of South Asia and explains their history, practices, values and worldviews. A final chapter helps students relate what they have learnt to religious theory, paving the way for future study. Written by leading experts, Religions of South Asia combines solid scholarship with clear and lively writing to provide students with an accessible and comprehensive introduction. All chapters are specially designed to aid cross-religious comparison, following a standard format covering set topics and issues; the book reveals to students the core principles of each faith, compares it to neighbouring traditions, and its particular place in South Asian history and society. It is a perfect resource for all students of South Asia’s diverse and fascinating faiths. 2006: 246x174: 328pp Hb: 978-0-415-22390-4: £70.00 Pb: 978-0-415-22391-1: £20.99 eBook: 978-0-203-97002-7 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

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Jewish Mysticism and Magic

Taoism

An Anthropological Perspective

The Enduring Tradition

Maureen Bloom, The Royal Anthropological Institute, London, UK

Russell Kirkland This concise and reliable introduction to Taoism (also known as Daoism) brings a fresh dimension to a tradition that has found a natural place in Western societies.

Providing a unique anthropological perspective on Jewish mysticism and magic, this book is a study of Jewish rites and rituals and how the analysis of early literature provides the roots for understanding religious practices. July 2007: 234x156: 256pp Hb: 978-0-415-42112-6: £70.00 eBook: 978-0-203-96201-5

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EASTERN RELIGIONS

Religion in India

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Teachings of the Sikh Gurus

A Historical Introduction

Zoroastrians

Selections from the Sikh Scriptures

Fred Clothey, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Their Religious Beliefs and Practices

’What sets this book apart is (a) the emphasis on the arts, (b) discussion of rituals at various points in the narrative, and (c) its attention to the other [non-Hindu] religions of India and, to some extent, their interaction. This promises to be the best introduction to date on the religion of India.’ – Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida, USA

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Edited by Christopher Shackle, University of London, UK and Arvind Mandair, Hofstra University, New York, USA

Mary Boyce

Religion in India is an ideal first introduction to India’s fascinating and varied religious history. Fred Clothey surveys the religions of India from prehistory and Indo-European migration through to the modern period. Exploring the interactions between different religious movements over time, and engaging with some of the liveliest debates in religious studies, he examines the rituals, mythologies, arts, ethics and social and cultural contexts of religion as lived in the past and present on the subcontinent. Key topics discussed include: • Hinduism, its origins and development over time • minority religions, such as Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Sikhism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism and Buddhism • the influences of colonialism on Indian religion • the spread of Indian religions in the rest of the world • the practice of religion in everyday life, including case studies of pilgrimages, festivals, temples and rituals, and the role of women. Written by an experienced teacher, this student-friendly textbook is full of clear, lively discussion and vivid examples. Complete with maps and illustrations, and useful pedagogical features, including timelines, a comprehensive glossary, and recommended further reading specific to each chapter, this is an invaluable resource for students beginning their studies of Indian religions.

Zoroastrianism is of enormous importance in the history of religions. It became the state religion of the three great Iranian empires and influenced other world faiths: northern Buddhism and Judaism, Christianity and Islam. 2000: 216x138: 280pp Hb: 978-0-415-23902-8: £70.00 Pb: 978-0-415-23903-5: £20.99 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

Religion and Violence in South Asia Theory and Practice Edited by John R. Hinnells, Liverpool Hope University, UK and Robinson College, University of Cambridge, UK and Richard King, Vanderbilt University, USA ’This is a wonderful collection combining excellent historical scholarship with incisive cultural critique. Religion and Violence in South Asia is one of the very few books in this field to illuminate the present by an understanding of religious traditions. It is very well written and thus a good read both for students of social sciences and humanities.’ – Peter van der Veer, Utrecht University This international collection focuses its attention on South Asia to discuss whether religions justify and cause violence or whether they are seen as forces for peace and tolerance.

Teachings of the Sikh Gurus presents a brand new selection of key passages from these sacred scriptures, translated into modern English by leading experts, Christopher Shackle and Arvind Mandair. Including six longer compositions and many shorter hymns thematically organized by topics such as Time and Impermanence, Self and Mind, Authority, and Ethics, the book’s accessible and carefully chosen extracts distil the essence of Sikhism’s remarkable textual and intellectual legacy, depicting how its message of universal tolerance suits the contemporary world. The detailed introduction and notes to the translations aid readers’ comprehension of the hymns’ form and content, as well as providing some historical context, making it an ideal introduction to Sikh literature. 2005: 216x138: 216pp Hb: 978-0-415-26603-1: £60.00 Pb: 978-0-415-26604-8: £18.99 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

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The Jains Paul Dundas Series: The Library of Religious Beliefs and Practices The Indian religion of Jainism, is one of the world’s oldest and least-understood faiths. This revised and expanded edition takes account of new research into Jainism. 2002: 216x138: 368pp Hb: 978-0-415-26605-5: £70.00 Pb: 978-0-415-26606-2: £21.99 eBook: 978-0-203-39827-2 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

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Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

Sikh Nationalism and Identity in a Global Age

Deconstruction and the Ethical in Asian Thought Edited by Youru Wang, Rowan University, USA

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Series: Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies

Islamic Legitimacy in a Plural Asia

Sikh Nationalism and Identity in a Global Age examines the construction of a Sikh national identity in post-colonial India and the diaspora and explores the reasons for the failure of the movement for an independent Sikh state: Khalistan.

The striking parallels between Derrida’s deconstruction and certain strategies eschewing oppositional hierarchies in Asian thought, especially in Buddhism and Daoism, have attracted much attention from scholars of both Western and Asian philosophy. This book contributes to this discussion by focusing on the ethical dimension and function of deconstruction in Asian thought.

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South Asian Religions on Display

Religious Commodifications in Asia

Religious Processions in South Asia and in the Diaspora

Marketing Gods

Giorgio Shani, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

Edited by Anthony Reid, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore and Michael Gilsenan, New York University, USA A global debate has emerged within Islam about how to coexist with democracy. This book places the debate in a specifically Asian context, showing how Muslims in Asia have adapted flexibly and creatively to the pluralism with which they have lived, and are likely to continue to do so. December 2007: 234x156: 208pp Hb: 978-0-415-45173-4: £75.00

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Edited by Knut A. Jacobsen, University of Bergen, Norway

Islamist Militancy in Bangladesh

Series: Routledge South Asian Religion Series

A Complex Web Ali Riaz, Illinois State University, USA This book examines the growing Islamist militancy in Bangladesh. It examines the relevance, significance and trajectories of militant Islamist groups in Bangladesh by presenting the complex web of domestic, regional and international events and dynamics that engendered and strengthened Islamist militancy in Bangladesh. December 2007: 234x156: 192pp Hb: 978-0-415-45172-7: £80.00

Religious procession is a significant dimension of religion in South Asia. This volume presents current research on this important phenomenon dealing with interpretations of the role of processions, the recent increase in processions and changes in the procession traditions. January 2008: 234x156: 240pp Hb: 978-0-415-43736-3: £80.00

Bringing together a group of leading scholars from Asia, Europe, Australia and North America, this volume discusses multiple issues regarding religious commodifications and their consequences across Asia’s diverse religious traditions. October 2007: 234x156: 256pp Hb: 978-0-415-43738-7: £80.00

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Shared Idioms, Sacred Symbols, and the Articulation of Identities in South Asia

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Parsis in India and the Diaspora NEW

Edited by Pattana Kitiarsa, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Edited by Kelly Pemberton, George Washington University, USA and Michael Nijhawan, York University, Canada

Teaching Terror?

Edited by John Hinnells, Liverpool Hope University, UK and Robinson College, University of Cambridge, UK and Alan Williams, University of Manchester, UK

Edited by Jamal Malik, Erfurt University, Germany

Series: Routledge South Asian Religion Series

This book discusses the educational system of madrasas in South Asia. It gives a balanced and contextual account on different facets of madrasa education from historical, anthropological, theological, political and religious studies perspectives.

The Parsis are India’s smallest minority community, yet they have exercised a huge influence on the country. This book, written by notable experts in the field, explores various key aspects of the Parsis, spanning the time from their arrival in India to the twenty-first century.

This volume examines evidence of shared idioms of sanctity, ethnicity, and nationality as they emerge in our examples from Indo-Pakistan, in particular how these are articulated at critical junctures in the intersection of social, political, and economic discourses that make ‘normative’, authoritative, and exclusive claims upon the representation of identities.

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Ethno-Religious Violence in Indonesia

An Introduction to Daoist Thought

The Khecarividya of Adinatha

Action, Language, and Ethics in Zhuangzi

From Soil to God

Eske Møllgaard

A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation of an Early Text of Hathayoga

Christopher Joseph Wilson, Previously Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

This is the first work available in English which addresses Zhuangzi’s thought as a whole. It presents an interpretation of the Zhuangzi, a book in thirty-three chapters that is the most important collection of Daoist texts in early China.

This book is a significant contribution to the study of conflict: it presents a general model for the analysis of communal violence that can be applied to conflicts in other parts of the world. It also provides one of the most detailed case studies of religious violence.

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Series: Routledge Studies in Tantric Traditions Made accessible to an English-speaking readership for the first time, this study of the sacred Sanskrit text explores how earlier tantric yogic techniques were developed and mutated into the practices of hathayoga.

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James Mallinson, Clay Sanskrit Library, UK

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Madrasas in South Asia

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Defining Hinduism

Tantric Mantras

Studying Hinduism

A Reader

Studies on Mantrasastra

Key Concepts and Methods

Andre Padoux, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France

Edited by Sushil Mittal, James Madison University, USA and Gene Thursby, University of Florida, USA

Edited by J.E. Llewellyn, Southwest Missouri State University, USA

Series: Routledge Studies in Tantric Traditions

This book is an indispensable resource for students and researchers wishing to develop a deeper understanding of one of the world’s oldest and most multifaceted religious traditions.

Making Andre Padoux’s work accessible to an English-speaking readership for the first time, this book provides a systematic and complete overview of the highest scholarly quality on Tantric mantras. December 2008: 234x156: 208pp Hb: 978-0-415-42386-1: £75.00

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The Tantric Philosophy of Abhinavagupta The Paramarthasara of Abhinavagupta and its Commentary by Yogaraja Lyne Bansat-Boudon, Ecolé Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, France and Kamalesha Datta Tripathi, Banaras Hindu University, India Series: Routledge Studies in Tantric Traditions Offering the first commented English translation of both the text and its commentary by Yogaraja, this edition will be of interest to Indologists and specialists of Kasmir Saivism, as well as to specialists and students of religious studies, philosophy and anthropology. October 2008: 234x156: 256pp Hb: 978-0-415-34669-6: £75.00 eBook: 978-0-203-62448-7

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Anti-Christian Discourse and Statist Ideology in Japan 1600–1900 Kiri Paramore, Leiden University, the Netherlands Series: Routledge/Leiden Series in Modern East Asian History and Politics This volume recasts the history of anti-Christian discourse in Japan in the context of the development of political thought in Japan. March 2008: 234x156: 240pp Hb: 978-0-415-44356-2: £75.00

Sushil Mittal and Gene Thursby, leading scholars in the field, have brought together a rich variety of perspectives which reflect the current lively state of the field. Studying Hinduism is the result of cooperative work by accomplished specialists in several fields that include anthropology, art, comparative literature, history, philosophy, religious studies, and sociology. Through these complementary and exciting approaches, students will gain a greater understanding of India’s culture and traditions, to which Hinduism is integral. The book uses key critical terms and topics as points of entry into the subject, revealing that although Hinduism can be interpreted in sharply contrasting ways and set in widely varying contexts, it is endlessly fascinating and intriguing. Selected Contents: Introduction. Art. Body. Cinema. Cognitive Science. Colonialism. Diaspora. Ecology. Ethnography. Ethnosociology. Exchange. Experience. Fiction. Gender. Intellect. Kinship. Law. Memory. Myth. Nationalism. Orientalism. Postcolonialism. Psychoanalysis. Ritual. Romanticism. Sacred. Stratification. Structuralism. Subaltern

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Edited by Peter Flügel, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK and Gustaaf Houtman, Royal Anthropological Institute, UK Series: Royal Asiatic Society Books Written by experts in the field, this book provides a unique comparative analysis of the Hindu, Jain and Buddhist traditions and their history in relation to questions of power, legitimacy, leadership and asceticism throughout contemporary Asia.

Hindus

Hindus offers us a major study of religious Hinduism. Julius Lipner explains the evolution and multidimensional nature of the religion in a clear and direct fashion. Covering history, belief and practice, he combines factual information with explanation and analysis, and illustrates the material with vivid stories and entertaining asides For this second edition, new features include more coverage of popular Hinduism, the polycentric emphasis of Hinduism, on which Lipner is a recognized authority and more about the place and role of women. The discussion of caste has been restructured and the book now includes a section on pilgrimage. September 2008: 216x138: 416pp Hb: 978-0-415-45676-0: £60.00 Pb: 978-0-415-45677-7: £18.99 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

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The Hindu World Edited by Sushil Mittal, James Madison University, USA and Gene Thursby, University of Florida, USA Series: Routledge Worlds ’A comprehensive introduction to multiple aspects of Hindu realities from scriptural to sociological, and possibly the only textbook on Hinduism organized according to indigenous categories; a wonderful resource for students and scholars at many levels. – Ann Grodzins, Syracuse University, USA

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Julius Lipner, University of Cambridge, UK

Asceticism and Power in South and Southeast Asia

Defining Hinduism is concerned not only with what Hinduism is, but also with what it has been, and with the history of the term ‘Hinduism’. Defining Hinduism brings together essays by some of the most influential and interesting scholars working on the religions of South Asia today. The volume also offers a comprehensive general introduction to the subject as well as individual introductions to each of the three parts of the book. This Reader is a valuable tool for the study of the world’s third largest religion.

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Series: Critical Categories in the Study of Religion

The Hindu World is the most complete, authoritative and up-to-date one-volume guide to Hindu faith and culture available today. Written by the world’s leading scholars on Hinduism, its twenty-four chapters explore the history, philosophy and practice of one of the world’s great religious traditions. The Hindu World offers new insights into all aspects of Hindu life, ranging from the devotional texts of the Vedas and Ramayana to current perspectives on dharma and kama, temple architecture, sacred food, ritual, caste, cosmic philosophy, history and modernization. Selected Contents: Part 1: Introducing the Hindu World 1. On Hinduism and Hinduisms Part 2: Oral Teachings and Textual Traditions 2. Veda and Upanisad 3. Mahabharata 4. Ramayana 5. Purana Part 3: Theistic and Devotional Movements 6. Saiva 7. Sakta 8. Vaisnava 9. Bhakti Part 4: Cosmic Order and Human Goals 10. Dharma 11. Artha 12. Kama 13. Moksa Part 5: Social Action and Social Structure 14. Karma 15. Samskara 16. Varna and Jati 17. Asrama Part 6: Vitality in Persons and in Places 18. Anna 19. Grama 20. Alaya 21. Tirtha Part 7: Linguistic and Philosophic Analysis 22. Bhasa 23. Darsana 24. Kala

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Yoga

Buddhist Meditation

Contemporary Perspectives

An Introduction

Edited by Mark Singleton, St. John’s College, Santa Fe, USA and Jean Marie Byrne, University of Queensland, Australia

Sarah Shaw, University of Oxford, UK

Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series This book is the first study to engage directly with the transformations and adaptations of yoga in the modern world. It addresses the dialectic and ideological exchange between yoga’s ancient precursors and modern praxis, and the development and consolidation of yoga in global settings. May 2008: 234x156: 240pp Hb: 978-0-415-45258-8: £85.00

Theravada Buddhism A Social History from Ancient Benares to Modern Colombo

Sarah Shaw’s lively and engaging introduction to Buddhist meditation offers students and practitioners alike a deeper understanding of what meditation is, and its purpose and place in the context of different Buddhist schools. She describes the historical background to the geographical spread of Buddhism, and examines the way in which some meditative practices developed as this process occurred. Other chapters cover basic meditative practice, types of meditation, meditation in different regions, meditation and doctrine, and the role of chanting within meditation. Although not a practical guide, it outlines the procedures associated with Buddhist practices and suggests appropriate activities in a non-technical style suitable for both students and interested Buddhists. This unique book is brought to life by vivid quotations from Buddhist texts and richly illustrated with photographs and diagrams.

The Chaitanya Vaishnava Vedanta of Jiva Gosvami When Knowledge Meets Devotion Ravi M. Gupta, Centre College, Kentucky, USA Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series In this book, Ravi Gupta sheds new light on the contribution of Chaitanya Vaishnava to the realm of Indian philosophy. Selected Contents: Part 1: Jiva Gosvami’s System of Vedanta 1. Bhakti and Vedanta: Do They Mix? 2. Chaitanya Vaishnava Hermeneutics 3. Sources for Chaitanya Vaishnava Vedanta 4. Vedanta in the Bhagavata Purana Part 2: Jiva Gosvami’s Catuhsutri Tika 5. History of the Written Text 6. A Critical Edition 7. Translation and Notes. Appendix: Overview of the Bhagavata-Sandarbha

Buddhism (Everything You Need to Know) Burkhard Scherer, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK

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Gender and Narrative in the Mahabharata Edited by Simon Brodbeck and Brian Black, both at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series This book brings together many of the most respected scholars in the field of Mahabharata studies, as well as some of its most promising young scholars. By focusing specifically on gender constructions, some of the most innovative aspects of the Mahabharata are highlighted.

‘I am delighted to know that Burkhard Scherer has written a concise historical introduction to Buddhism that gives a clear account of who the Buddha was, what he taught and how that doctrine and the community that followed it developed and grew. I have no doubt that readers interested to know more about Buddhism will find much to intrigue them here.’ – The Dalai Lama This fresh and lively text is the perfect short introduction to Buddhism for beginners and students of this fascinating religion. Beginning with the life of the Buddha, it then introduces the key concepts and beliefs underlying each of the three major strands: Early Buddhism (including Theravada), Mahayana and Vajrayana. Readers will find here information on everything from the Four Noble Truths to the Lotus Sutra, and from the Diamond Way to sexual yoga and working with inner energy. Scherer’s approach to each tradition is balanced and impartial. With its special focus on Buddhist psychology and spirituality, the book is also invaluable reading for Buddhist groups. September 2008: 234x156: 224pp Hb: 978-0-415-45155-0: £55.00 Pb: 978-0-415-45156-7: £14.99

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Series: The Library of Religious Beliefs and Practices Written by the leading authority on Theravada Buddhism, this up-dated edition takes into account recent research to include the controversies over the date of the Buddha and current social and political developments in Sri Lanka. Gombrich explores the legacy of the Buddha’s predecessors and the social and religious contexts against which Buddhism has developed and changed throughout history, demonstrating above all, how it has always influenced and been influenced by its social surroundings in a way which continues to this day.

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Mahayana Buddhism The Doctrinal Foundations Paul Williams Series: The Library of Religious Beliefs and Practices Originating in India, Mahayana Buddhism spread to Central Asia, Tibet, Mongolia, China, Japan and other countries of East Asia. In Tibet and East Asia, Mahayana eventually became the prevalent form of Buddhism. Western interest in Mahayana has increased considerably over the last twenty-five years, reflected both in the quantity of scholarly material produced and also in the attraction of Westerners towards Tibetan Buddhism. This revised and updated new edition of this classic introduction incorporates information on new scholarly research and debates, and an expanded bibliography. June 2008: 216x138: 320pp Hb: 978-0-415-35652-7: £60.00 Pb: 978-0-415-35653-4: £16.99 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

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Richard F. Gombrich, Oxford University, UK

Selected Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Gotama Buddha’s Problem Situation 3. The Buddha’s Dhamma 4. The Sangha’s Discipline 5. The Accommodation between Buddhism and Society in Ancient India 6. The Buddhist Tradition in Sri Lanka 7. Protestant Buddhism 8. Current Trends, New Problems. References. Index

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BUDDHISM

Buddhist Thought

Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism

A Complete Introduction to the Indian Tradition Anthony J. Tribe and Paul Williams Buddhist Thought guides the reader towards a richer understanding of the central concepts of classical Indian Buddhist thought, from the time of Buddha, to the latest scholarly perspectives and controversies. Abstract and complex ideas are made understandable by the authors’ lucid style. Of particular interest is the up-to-date survey of Buddhist Tantra in India, a branch of Buddhism where strictly controlled sexual activity can play a part in the religious path. Williams’ discussion of this controversial practice as well as of many other subjects makes Buddhist Thought crucial reading for all interested in Buddhism. 2000: 198x129: 336pp Hb: 978-0-415-20700-3: £65.00 Pb: 978-0-415-20701-0: £14.99 eBook: 978-0-203-18593-3 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

The Biographies of Rechungpa The Evolution of a Tibetan Hagiography Peter Alan Roberts, formerly Oxford University, UK This book traces the lifestory of Rechungpa (1084–1161) – the student of the famous teacher Milarepa – using rare and little-known manuscripts, and discovers how the image of both Milarepa and Rechungpa underwent fundamental transformations over a period of over three centuries.

The Origin of Buddhist Meditation Alexander Wynne, Clay Sanskrit Library, UK

The Cultural Practices of Modern Chinese Buddhism

Edited by Stephen C. Berkwitz, Missouri State University, USA

Attuning the Dharma

Founding Editors: Charles S. Prebish, Utah State University, USA and Damien Keown, Goldsmiths College, London University, UK

Buddhism in China during the late Qing and Republican period remained a powerful cultural and religious force. This innovative book comes from a rising star in this field, offering a new perspective on the influence of Buddhism on Chinese culture.

Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism is a comprehensive study of the Buddhist tradition. The series explores this complex and extensive tradition from a variety of perspectives, using a range of different methodologies. The Series is diverse in its focus, including historical studies, textual translations and commentaries, sociological investigations, bibliographic studies, and considerations of religious practice as an expression of Buddhism’s integral religiosity. It also presents materials on modern intellectual historical studies, including the role of Buddhist thought and scholarship in a contemporary, critical context and in the light of current social issues. The series is expansive and imaginative in scope, spanning more than two and a half millennia of Buddhist history. It is receptive to all research works that inform and advance our knowledge and understanding of the Buddhist tradition.

Francesca Tarocco, University of Manchester, UK

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Environmental Ethics in Buddhism A Virtues Approach Pragati Sahni, University of Delhi, India With an innovative approach to the subject, this work gives a logical and thorough examination of the metaphysical and ethical dimensions of early Buddhist literature. August 2007: 234x156: 224pp Hb: 978-0-415-39679-0: £75.00

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Embryology in the History of Tibetan Medicine Becoming Human

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Frances Garrett, University of Toronto, Canada

Buddhism, Power and Political Order

By linking aspects of Tibetan medicine to expressions of culture, religion, art, and literature, this book shows that writing on embryology descriptions on the development of the human body from conception to birth can be found in all forms of Tibetan religious literature, as well as in medical texts and in art.

Edited by Ian Harris, University College of St Martin, Lancaster, UK

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This volume brings together the brightest minds in the study of Buddhism in Southeast Asia to create a more coherent account of the relations between Buddhism and political order in the late pre-modern and modern period.

Having identified early material that goes back to the Buddha himself, the author argues that the two teachers of the Buddha were historical figures.

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Mindfulness in Early Buddhism New Approaches through Psychology and Textual Analysis of Pali, Chinese and Sanskrit Sources Tse-fu Kuan, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

Buddhist Rituals of Death and Rebirth Contemporary Sri Lankan Practice and Its Origins Rita Langer, University of Bristol, UK Drawing on early Vedic sutras and Pali texts as well as archaeological and epigraphical material, this book provides a thorough analysis of the rituals and social customs surrounding death in the Theravada tradition of Sri Lanka.

This book examines ‘mindfulness’ in early Buddhism, and explores its central role in early Buddhist practice and philosophy. Using textual analysis and criticism, it takes new approaches to the subject through a comparative study of Buddhist texts in Pali, Chinese and Sanskrit. December 2007: 234x156: 256pp Hb: 978-0-415-43737-0: £80.00

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Fifty Major Cities of the Bible

The New Testament in its Ritual World

John Laughlin, Averett University, Virginia, USA Series: Routledge Key Guides From the ruins of the ancient seaside city of Acco, to the small but archaeologically important town of Yokneam, Fifty Major Cities of the Bible provides readers with a comprehensive guide to the ancient cities that played a vital role in the world from which the Bible originated.

Richard E. DeMaris, Valparaiso University, USA What was life like among the first Christians? For the last thirty years, scholars have explored the historical and social contexts of the New Testament in order to sharpen their understanding of the text itself. This interest has led scholars to focus more and more on the social features of early Christian communities and less on their theologies or doctrines. Scholars are keen to understand what these communities were like, but the ritual life of early Christians remains largely unexplored. Studies of baptism and eucharist do exist, but they are very traditional, showing little awareness of the ritual world, let alone the broader social environment, in which Christians found themselves. Such studies make little or no use of the social sciences, Roman social history, or the archaeological record.

Not only covering renowned cities such as Jerusalem and Jericho, the book also includes lesser known towns like Aroer, Beth-Zur and Gibeah, which have all provided their own valuable contributions to the way in which we now understand the biblical world.

This book argues that ritual was central to, and definitive for, early Christian life (as it is for all social orders), and explores the New Testament through a ritual lens. By grounding the exploration in ritual theory, Greco-Roman ritual life, and the material record of the ancient Mediterranean, it offers new and insightful perspectives on early Christian communities and their cultural environment. In doing justice to a central but slighted aspect of community life, it outlines an alternative approach to the New Testament, one that reveals what the lives of the first Christians were actually like.

• the biblical context of each city or town

A fascinating, easy-to-follow text, key features include:

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• a summary of its known archeological history • non-biblical references to the site • photographs and illustrations • a concise bibliography for further reading • a handy reference map to the major archaeological sites in Israel, as well as chronological tables for easy reference. Concise, informative and high accessible, Fifty Major Cities of the Bible is a superb overview of the cities and towns that made up the Biblical world, and an essential resource for students and enthusiasts. 2005: 216x138: 264pp Hb: 978-0-415-22314-0: £60.00 Pb: 978-0-415-22315-7: £17.99 eBook: 978-0-203-08765-7 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

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The Bible and its Interpretation

Dictionary of Biblical Criticism and Interpretation Edited by Stanley E. Porter, McMaster Divinity College, Ontario, Canada Compiling the results from contemporary and exciting areas of research into one single important volume, this book stands ahead of its field in providing a comprehensive one-stop handbook reference of biblical interpretation. Examining a wide range of articles on many of the recognized interpreters including Augustine, Luther and Calvin, up to the modern figures of Martin Hengel and T.W. Manson, Porter expertly combines the study of biblical interpretation with the examination of the theological and philosophical preconceptions that have influenced it, and surveys the history of interpretation from different perspectives. Key perspectives studied include: • the historical dimension; addressing how interpretation has developed at various periods of time; from early Jewish exegesis to the historical critical method • the conceptual approach; looks at the various schools of thought that have generated biblical interpretation, and compares and contrasts competing conceptual models of interpretation • the personal perspective; addresses the reality of biblical interpretation by individuals who have helped plot the course of theological development. With relevant bibliographies and a guide to further reading, this Dictionary will be an extremely important reference held for many years, not only by libraries, but also by students, scholars, clergy and teachers of this fascinating and high-profile subject.

Edited by George Brooke The Bible and its Interpretation explores how the texts of the scrolls contribute to our understanding of the Bible. George Brooke, an acknowledged authority on the scrolls, systematically examines the relationship between the Scriptures and the scroll texts, ranging from the Books of the Law, the former and latter prophets, to narrative, legal, poetic and prophetic interpretations. This volume, which includes indices of biblical and scroll passages as well as a subject index, is an accessible and informative introduction to the interpretation of the Bible and the canon of writings associated with it.

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Selected Contents: 1. The Pre-Biblical Bible 2. The Books of the Law 3. The Former Prophets 4. The Latter Prophets 5. The Writings 6. Narrative Interpretation 7. Parenetic Interpretation 8. Legal Interpretation 9. Poetic Interpretation 10. Prophetic Interpretation. Glossary. Bibliography. Indexes: Biblical Passages, Scrolls Passages, Subject Index

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THEOLOGY

The Bible in Western Culture

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The Student’s Guide

Radical Orthodoxy Reader

Radical Orthodoxy

Dee Dyas, University of York, UK and St. John’s College, Nottingham, UK and Esther Hughes

Edited by John Milbank and Simon Oliver

An Introduction

This Reader presents a selection of key readings in the field of Radical Orthodoxy, the most influential theological movement in contemporary academic theology. Radical Orthodoxy draws on pre-Enlightenment theology and philosophy to engage critically with the assumption and priorities of secularism, modernity, postmodernity and associated theologies. In doing so it explores a wide and exciting range of issues: music, language, society, the body, the city, power, motion, space, time, personhood, sex and gender. As such it is both controversial and extremely stimulating; provoking much fruitful debate amongst contemporary theologians.

Simon Oliver, University of Lampeter, UK

The influence of the Bible in Western culture is immeasurable, but these days few of us know much about it. Presenting concise and accessible introductions to the Bible’s most important characters, stories and themes, this text encourages better understanding, study and analysis of the Christian element in Western culture. With no prior biblical knowledge required, this clearly presented volume delivers a framework of understanding for those studying Western literature, art, historical events, or for those simply wanting to improve their general knowledge. Filling a gap in the market for an introductory text of this kind, this genuinely multi-disciplinary book provides:

To assist those encountering Radical Orthodoxy for the first time, each section has an introductory commentary, related reading and helpful questions to encourage in-depth understanding and further study.

• edited extracts from the Bible • explanations of the context and beliefs of each passage • links to related biblical texts • examples of related key works of art and literature • brief biographies of key figures • a comprehensive glossary defining specialist terms • chronology

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Enabling readers to encounter key Bible stories directly, the book also provides useful background information on issues of content, context and influence. Easy to use and follow, it is the essential guide for those wishing to find out more about the Bible and its impact on the world around us. 2005: 198x129: 272pp Hb: 978-0-415-32617-9: £55.00 Pb: 978-0-415-32618-6: £10.99 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

The Biblical World Edited by John Barton Series: Routledge Worlds The Biblical World is a comprehensive guide to the contents, historical settings and social context of the Bible. 2004: 246x174: 1152pp Hb: 978-0-415-16105-3: £170.00 Pb: 978-0-415-34954-3: £60.00 eBook: 978-0-203-30949-0

NEW Divine Multiplicity in a World of Difference Laurel Schneider, Chicago Theological Seminary, USA ’This book is a beautifully written and passionately adventurous effort to render fluid and supple again Christianity’s frozen fixation with the One ... Part history lesson, ethical entreaty, philosophical rumination, and flight of fancy, Schneider’s book is a model for how theology should be done today.’ – Kathryn Tanner, University of Chicago Divinity School, USA

• language and praise • desire and the human person • Christ and reconciliation • politics and theology • culture and the Church. An essential text across denominations and academic disciplines, this is a far reaching and stimulating discussion on the impact and implications of this exciting area of contemporary theology. Selected Contents: 1. The Origins and Context of Radical Orthodoxy 2. God and Truth, Faith and Reason 3. Language and Praise 4. Desire and the Human Person 5. Christ and Reconciliation 6. Politics and Theology 7. Culture and the Church. Glossary. Index

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Christian Theology: The Key Concepts Peter McEnhill Series: Routledge Key Guides An accessible and fully cross-referenced A-Z Guide, Christian Theology: The Key Concepts aims to address the main ideas crucial to an understanding of this important field. Definitions of nearly 200 key terms, a combination of shorter and longer entries, will provide the student of Religious Studies or Theologies will all they need to know. Examples of the key concepts include: • analogy • arianism

Central to this work is the notion that individual and communal experiences of divine presence, of revelation, are real and authoritative, while also being manifold and irreducible. Beyond Monotheism is a cutting-edge work that presents theology for a democratic and pluralist twenty-first century.

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• God and truth, faith and reason

Do the theological projects of liberationist, queer, and feminist thinkers require moving beyond monotheism? Does theological monotheism reflect the actual experiences of the divine? Laurel Schneider addresses key tensions in contemporary ideas of God and asks whether monotheism is appropriate to the condition of our world today.

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• suggested further reading.

Simon Oliver explores the origins and context of Radical Orthodoxy. He explains the arguments of the key thinkers with whom Radical Orthodoxy engages, and examines the contributions made to the field by leading theologians, as well as Radical Orthodoxy’s understanding of the nature of the theological challenge in our own time.

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THEOLOGY

Jesus Dub Robert Beckford, University of Birmingham, UK Robert Beckford explores the dialogue between two central institutions in African Caribbean life: the church and the dancehall. He highlights how Dub – one of the central features of dancehall culture – can be mobilized as a framework for re-evaluating theology, taking apart doctrine and reconstructing it under the influence of a guiding theme. Engaging with the social and cultural heritage that informs Christian African Caribbean culture, including the influence of slavery, Revival Christianity and working class Jamaican life, Black theology and music ranging from post-war Sound System to American Hip Hop, Jesus Dub is a detailed exploration of how throughout history, music and faith have been transformed in response to racialised oppression. Finally, Beckford demonstrates that dub style appears in the teachings of Jesus, and that Dub is a tool which can provide new ways of envisaging and practising spiritual gifts and financial giving, proposing a more inclusive theology for everyone. 2006: 216x138: 192pp Hb: 978-0-415-31018-5: £65.00 Pb: 978-0-415-31019-2: £19.99 eBook: 978-0-203-41339-5 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

Faithful Reason Essays Catholic and Philosophical John Haldane ‘Not merely readable, but elegant. The essays in this book are learned, clear and suggestive. The result is a book that is a pleasure to read.’ – Paul Weithman, University of Notre Dame 2004: 234x156: 304pp Hb: 978-0-415-20702-7: £70.00 Pb: 978-0-415-20703-4: £23.99 eBook: 978-0-203-64478-2 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

The Face of the Deep A Theology of Becoming

Radical Orthodoxy

The Routledge Radical Orthodoxy Series

Theology, Music and Social Change

A New Theology Edited by John Milbank, Catherine Pickstock and Graham Ward 1998: 234x156: 304pp Hb: 978-0-415-19698-7: £70.00 Pb: 978-0-415-19699-4: £22.99

Augustine and Modernity Michael Hanby 2003: 234x156: 304pp Hb: 978-0-415-28468-4: £65.00 Pb: 978-0-415-28469-1: £23.99 eBook: 978-0-203-45185-4

Speech and Theology Language and the Logic of Incarnation James K.A. Smith 2002: 234x156: 200pp Hb: 978-0-415-27695-5: £70.00 Pb: 978-0-415-27696-2: £23.99 eBook: 978-0-203-46324-6 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

Being Reconciled Ontology and Pardon John Milbank 2003: 234x156: 256pp Hb: 978-0-415-30524-2: £75.00 Pb: 978-0-415-30525-9: £22.99 eBook: 978-0-203-32868-2 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

Truth in Aquinas

Cities of God

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Truth in the Making Creative Knowledge in Theology and Philosophy Robert C. Miner

Culture and the Thomist Tradition After Vatican II 2003: 234x156: 208pp Hb: 978-0-415-30526-6: £70.00 Pb: 978-0-415-30527-3: £23.99 eBook: 978-0-203-71205-4 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

Liberation Theology in Chicana/o Literature Manifestations of Feminist and Gay Identities Alma Rosa Alvarez, Southern Oregon University, USA

Divine Economy Theology and the Market

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D. Stephen Long 2000: 234x156: 336pp Hb: 978-0-415-22672-1: £75.00 Pb: 978-0-415-22673-8: £23.99 eBook: 978-0-203-46544-8 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

Liberation Theology in Chicana/o Literature: Manifestations of Feminist and Gay Identities looks at the ways in which Chicana/o authors who have experienced cultural disconnection or marginalization because of their gender, gender politics and sexual orientation attempt to forge a connection back to Chicana/o culture through their use of liberation theology.

Genealogy of Nihilism Conor Cunningham

Catherine Keller The Face of the Deep is more than a provocative challenge to the abstract orthodoxies. It seeks to relate the swirling maternal floods of the biblical chaos to the complex interdependencies of our embodied, material beings. 2002: 234x156: 336pp Hb: 978-0-415-25648-3: £75.00 Pb: 978-0-415-25649-0: £23.99 eBook: 978-0-203-45173-1 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

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Tracey Rowland

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The Possibility of Christian Philosophy Maurice Blondel at the Intersection of Theology and Philosophy Adam C. English, Campbell University, USA

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ANCIENT RELIGIONS

HISTORY OF RELIGION

Ritual Texts for the Afterlife Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets Fritz Graf, Ohio State University, USA and Sarah Iles Johnston

The Church in the Age of Constantine

Medieval Religion

The Theological Challenges

Edited by Dominic Bellenger, Downside Abbey, UK and Roberta Anderson, Bath Spa University College, UK

A Sourcebook

Johannes Roldanus

Fascinating texts written on small gold tablets that were deposited in graves provide a unique source of information about what some Greeks and Romans believed regarding the fate that awaited them after death, and how they could influence it. These texts, dating from the late fifth century BCE to the second century, CE, have been part of the scholarly debate on ancient afterlife beliefs since the end of the nineteenth century. Recent finds and analysis of the texts have reshaped our understanding of their purpose and of the perceived afterlife. The tablets belonged to those who had been initiated into the mysteries of Dionysus Bacchius and relied heavily upon myths narrated in poems ascribed to the mythical singer Orpheus. After providing the Greek text and a translation of all the available tablets, the authors analyze their role in the mysteries of Dionysus, and present an outline of the myths concerning the origins of humanity and of the sacred texts that the Greeks ascribed to Orpheus. Related ancient texts are also appended in English translations. Providing the first book-length edition and discussion of these enigmatic texts in English, and their first English translation, this book is essential to the study of ancient Greek religion.

Relating biblical essentials to ancient cosmology and anthropology and providing models for reflection on inculturation, this book presents a refined theological screening of the doctrinal and ethical thinking during the fourth century.

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This book provides a wideranging collection of original source material that covers the history of medieval religion from the fall of the Roman Empire to the Renaissance. Easy-to-read and accessible to students, with introductions to each section explaining the main themes and issues raised, it provides coverage of the key elements of the history of the Western Church in the period, including: • the Papacy

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New Identities

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Pagan and Christian Narratives from the Roman Empire

• popular piety and devotion • sections on the Eastern Church, Judaism, Islam and Mysticism.

Judith Perkins, St Joseph College, USA This book explores the ways in which fictional narratives were used to explore tensions between the individual and the dominant culture attendant on the rise of Christianity, and the displacement of Greeks from the hegemonic position in the Roman empire. August 2008: 234x156: 224pp Hb: 978-0-415-39744-5: £60.00

The texts selected are arranged clearly in chronological order and each one is introduced by a brief editorial note to provide context. Medieval Religion also includes a comprehensive further reading section. Students of medieval religion will find this a valuable companion in their studies. 2006: 246x174: 304pp Hb: 978-0-415-37027-1: £60.00 Pb: 978-0-415-37028-8: £19.99 eBook: 978-0-203-02978-7 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

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The Many Deaths of Judas Iscariot

The Persistence of the Palestinian Question

A Meditation on Suicide Aaron Maurice Saari

Essays on Zionism and the Palestinians

In this bold, captivating and controversial book, the author combines his own intensely moving personal accounts with incisive scriptural analysis, and challenges the reader to reassess what they think they know about Judas Iscariot and suicide.

Joseph Massad, Columbia University, USA ‘Massad is no practitioner of political correctness and one may not agree with everything he says. But his critique of Zionist ideology and practise is thoroughly researched, powerfully argued and often brilliantly insightful.’ – Walid Khalidi, formerly of Harvard University, USA ‘The title of this book does not do justice to the contribution this book makes to the history of Zionism, Israel, and the Jews. Massad’s brilliant and scholarly work is profoundly illuminating not only for the history of Palestine and the discourses surrounding it, but for the history of Europe and the United States and, finally, as an account that raises compelling theoretical questions.’ – Anne Norton, Journal of Palestine Studies

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HISTORY OF RELIGION

7TH EDITION

Religion in World History

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The Routledge Atlas of Jewish History

The Persistence of Imperial Communion

Popular Religion in Russia

John C. Super and Briane K. Turley

Martin Gilbert

Series: Themes in World History

‘Double Belief’ and the Making of an Academic Myth

Series: Routledge Historical Atlases

Examining the value of religion for interpreting the human experience in the past and present, this authoritative book is one of the few to examine religion’s role in geo-political affairs.

Revised and updated to include new maps, this is the seventh edition of Martin Gilbert’s Atlas tracing the world-wide migrations of the Jews from ancient Mesopotamia to modern Israel. Spanning over four thousand years of history in over 140 maps, it presents a vivid picture of a fascinating people and the trials and tribulations which have haunted their story. The themes covered include:

Stella Rock, University of Sussex, UK Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe This book dispels the widely-held view that paganism survived in Russia alongside Orthodox Christianity, demonstrating that ‘double belief’, dvoeverie, is in fact an academic myth. August 2007: 234x156: 256pp Hb: 978-0-415-31771-9: £80.00

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• prejudice and violence • migrations and movements

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• society and status

Religion, Language, and Power

• trade and culture

Edited by Nile Green and Mary Searle-Chatterjee, both at University of Manchester, UK

• politics, government and war. All students of history, and of Jewish history in particular will find this new edition as useful, helpful and invaluable as its six predecessors. 2006: 246x174: 176pp Hb: 978-0-415-39965-4: £60.00 Pb: 978-0-415-39966-1: £15.99 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

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This unique Atlas traces the history of Jerusalem from biblical times to the present day. Each map is illustrated by a facing page of prints or photographs, to give a complete pictorial and cartographic overview of this fascinating city of the Middle East. Coverage begins in ancient times, showing the impact of the Jews, Christians, Muslims, Romans and Crusaders on the development of this holy city. Special emphasis is placed on the last hundred and fifty years, during which Jerusalem grew from a remote and impoverished town of the Ottoman Empire to a flourishing capital city. Up-to-date maps and figures show the recent expansion of suburbs and settlements, the Wall and new urban and political developments. An extensive bibliography provides a rich source of information on further reading.

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Misconceptions about the Middle Ages Edited by Stephen Harris, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA and Bryon L. Grigsby, Centenary College New Jersey, USA Series: Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture Misconceptions about the Middle Ages has brought together a representative study of some of the many misinterpretations that have evolved concerning the medieval period including: the church, war, science, art, and society. With an impressive, international array of contributions, the book will be essential reading for students and scholars involved with medieval religion, history and culture. November 2007: 320pp Hb: 978-0-415-77053-8: £65.00

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This volume treats religions as discourses that are the products of a particular moment in history. It foregrounds the study of the power that lies both behind the production of religious language, whether written or oral. Its approach is comparative and historical, with case studies ranging from China and Iran to India, Britain, America and Kurdistan. April 2008: 208pp Hb: 978-0-415-96368-8: £60.00

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RELIGION IN AMERICA

ALTERNATIVE SPIRITUALITY

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God in the Details

Wicca and the Christian Heritage

The Lure of Images

American Religion in Popular Culture

Ritual, Sex and Magic

A History of Religion and Visual Media in America

Edited by Eric Michael Mazur and Kate McCarthy

Joanne Pearson

God in the Details offers a provocative look at the breadth, diversity, and persistence of religious themes in contemporary American consciousness. Throughout the book, the contributors critically assess the ways in which American popular culture reappropriates traditional religious symbols to serve the purposes of particular communities.

What is Wicca? Is it witchcraft, Paganism, occultism, esotericism, magic, spirituality, mysticism, nature religion, secrecy, gnosis, the exotic or ‘other?’ Wicca has been defined by and explored within all these contexts over the past thirty years by anthropologists, sociologists and historians, but there has been a tendency to sublimate and negate the role of Christianity in Wicca’s historical and contemporary contexts.

David Morgan, Christ College Valparaiso University, USA Series: Religion, Media and Culture ’By viewing familiar events, themes, and figures in a different light, this astonishing book offers readers a radically new perspective on American religion. Whether examining tract societies, Jewish kitchens or Thomas Kincade’s paintings, Morgan’s capacious intellect and illumining creativity demonstrate the lure of images hidden in plain sight. Written in elegant, straight-forward prose, Morgan’s latest book will appeal to anyone interested in the interplay between religion and visual culture.’ – Diane Winston, University of Southern California, USA ‘It’s an excellent portrait of the diverse, scattered, but pervasive religious atmosphere that continues to inform the popular American imagination.’ – James Elkins, Art Institute of Chicago, USA This is the history of the relationship between mass produced visual media and religion in the United States. It is a journey from the 1780s to the present day – from early evangelical tracts to teenage witches and televangelists, and from illustrated books to contemporary cinema. David Morgan explores the cultural marketplace of public representation, showing how American religionists have made special use of visual media to instruct the public, to practice devotion and ritual, and to form children and converts. Examples include: • studying Jesus as an American idol • Jewish kitchens and Christian Parlors • Billy Sunday and Buffy the Vampire Slayer • Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the anti-slavery movement. This unique perspective reveals the importance of visual media to the construction and practice of sectarian and national community in a nation of immigrants old and new, and the tensions between the assimilation and the preservation of ethnic and racial identities. As well as the contribution of visual media to the religious life of Christians and Jews, Morgan shows how images have informed the perceptions and practices of other religions in America, including New Age, Buddhist and Hindu spirituality, and Mormonism, Native American Religions and the Occult.

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Protestant Missionaries, Asian Immigrants, and Ideologies of Race in America, 1850–1924 Jennifer Snow, Vassar College, USA Series: Studies in Asian Americans This book examines how in defending Asian rights and their own version of Christian idealism against scientific racism, missionaries developed a complex theology of race that prefigured modern ideologies of multiculturalism and reached its final, belated culmination in the liberal Protestant support of the civil rights movements in the 1960s. 2006: 234x156: 176pp Hb: 978-0-415-95583-6: £60.00

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Responses and Redefinitions

Evelyn Lehrer, University of Illinois at Chicago

Elisabeth Arweck, CEDAR, University of Warwick, UK

Series: Routledge Studies in Religion

This cutting-edge analysis of American and European new religious movements explores the controversies between religious groups and the majority interests which oppose them. It asks how modern societies can best respond to new religious movements,

Over the past several years, Evelyn Lehrer has written a number of influential papers examining how religion affects various aspects of the economic and demographic behavior of individuals and families in the United States. This book does an important service in putting together these articles in one place. March 2008: 234x156: 256pp Hb: 978-0-415-70194-5: £65.00

Liberation Theology after the End of History

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The Refusal to Cease Suffering Daniel Bell 2001: 234x156: 224pp Hb: 978-0-415-24303-2: £70.00 Pb: 978-0-415-24304-9: £24.99 eBook: 978-0-203-19244-3

New Religious Movements in the Twenty-First Century Legal, Political, and Social Challenges in Global Perspective

Philosophy, God and Motion Simon Oliver, Hertford College, Oxford University, UK 2005: 234x156: 264pp Hb: 978-0-415-36045-6: £85.00 eBook: 978-0-203-00819-5

Joanne Pearson ‘prowls the borderlands of Christianity’ to uncover the untold history of Wicca. Exploring the problematic nature of the Wiccan claim of marginality, it contains a groundbreaking analysis of themes in Christian traditions that are inherent in the development of contemporary Wicca. These focus on the accusations which have been leveled against Catholicism, heterodoxy and witchcraft throughout history: ritual, deviant sexuality and magic.

Researching New Religious Movements

Religion, Economics and Demography

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ALTERNATIVE SPIRITUALITY

RELIGION: MEDIA, FILM AND CULTURE

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The Paganism Reader

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Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements

Edited by Chas Clifton and Graham Harvey

Brands of Faith

Edited by Peter B Clarke, King’s College, University of London and University of Oxford, UK ’This Encyclopedia offers a truly fascinating, authoritative overview of new religious movements in a global context. What sets this work apart is its assessment of the global significance of a movement (how it progresses cross-culturally) with attention to its transformative appeal (how it seeks to transform its individual adherents or the larger society). This is an outstanding reference source – scholarly, timely, important, and worth the price for academic libraries. Summing Up: Essential.’ – Choice

The Paganism Reader provides a definitive collection of key sources in Paganism, ranging from its ancient origins to its twentieth century reconstruction and revival. 2004: 246x174: 400pp Hb: 978-0-415-30352-1: £70.00 Pb: 978-0-415-30353-8: £22.99 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

Marketing Religion in a Commercial Age Mara Einstein, Queens College, New York, USA Series: Religion, Media and Culture In a society overrun by commercial clutter, religion has become yet another product sold in the consumer marketplace, and faiths of all kinds must compete with a myriad of more entertaining and more convenient leisure activities. Brands of Faith argues that in order to compete effectively, faiths have had to become brands – easily recognizable symbols and spokespeople with whom religious prospects can make immediate connections. Mara Einstein shows how religious branding has expanded over the past twenty years to create a blended world of commerce and faith where the sacred becomes secular and the secular sacred. In a series of fascinating case studies of faith brands, she explores the significance of branded church courses, such as, ‘Alpha’, and, ‘The Purpose Driven Life’, mega-churches, and the popularity of the televangelist Joel Olsteen and television presenter Oprah Winfrey, as well as the rise of Kabbalah. She asks what the consequences of this religious marketing will be, and outlines the possible results of religious commercialism – good and bad. Repackaging religion – updating music, creating teen-targeted bibles – is justifiable and necessary. However, when the content becomes obscured, religion may lose its unique selling proposition – the very ability to raise us above the market.

‘Its “global” perspective differentiates it from other reference resources currently available.’ – Reference Reviews The Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements provides uniquely global coverage of the phenomenon, with entries on over three hundred movements from almost every country in the world. Coverage includes movements that derive from the major religions of the world and to neo-traditional movements, movements often overlooked in the study of NRMs. The marked global approach and comprehensiveness of the Encyclopedia enable an appreciation of the innovative energy of NRMs, of their extraordinary diversity, and the often surprising ways in which they can propagate geographically. The most ambitions publication of its sort, the Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements is a major addition to the reference literature for students and researchers of the field in religious studies and the social sciences. Entries are cross-referenced with short bibliographies for further reading and there is a full index

Selected Contents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. The Changing Religious Marketplace 3. The Business of Religion 4. Branding Faith 5. The Course to God 6. The New Televangelists 7. Kabbalah: Marketing Designer Spirituality 8. The Politics of Faith Brands 9. Has Religious Marketing Gone Too Far? September 2007: 234x156: 256pp Hb: 978-0-415-40976-6: £65.00 Pb: 978-0-415-40977-3: £19.99

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Cyberhenge Modern Pagans on the Internet Douglas E. Cowan Cyberhenge examines the use of Internet technology in shaping religious traditions and rituals. Cowan asks how and why Neopaganism has embraced the Internet in such an innovative and imaginative way.

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RELIGION: MEDIA, FILM AND CULTURE

Religion in the Media Age

Trance Formation

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Stewart M. Hoover, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

The Spiritual and Religious Dimensions of Global Rave Culture

The Religion and Film Reader

Series: Religion, Media and Culture

Robin Sylvan

’Few, if any, media scholars are as capable as Stewart Hoover of writing this book. It provides an insightful review of religion’s generally neglected place in the history of media in modernity ... The result is a subtle, profound and clear-sighted analysis of some of the most difficult questions that contemporary media and society raise, which I cannot recommend highly enough.’ – Nick Couldry, London School of Economics, UK

Robin Sylvan combines colorful firsthand accounts, extensive interviews with ravers, and cutting edge scholarly analysis to paint a compelling portrait of global rave culture as an important new religious and spiritual phenomenon that also serves as a template for mapping the future evolution of new forms of religion and spirituality in the twenty-first century.

Looking at the everyday interaction of religion and media in our cultural lives, Hoover’s new book is a fascinating assessment of the state of modern religion.

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Edited by Jolyon Mitchell, University of Edinburgh, UK and S. Brent Plate, Texas Christian University, USA ’The Reader is a goldmine of resources and reflection for anyone interested in the study of film and religion. Mitchell’s and Plate’s purview includes both scholar and filmmaker, the international and the local, film studies and religious studies, biblical connections and theological dialogue, everyday life and the mystical, religion in film and film as religion, the interrogatory and the devotional. Here is a volume that stands alone in its usefulness.’ – Robert K. Johnston, Fuller Theological Seminary, USA Edited by leading experts in the field, The Religion and Film Reader brings together the key writings in this exciting and dynamic discipline. In over sixty interviews, essays and reviews from numerous directors, film critics and scholars, this eagerly anticipated anthology offers the most complete survey of this emerging field to date.

Recent years have produced a marked turn away from institutionalized religions towards more autonomous, individual forms of the search for spiritual meaning. Film, television, the music industry and the Internet are central to this process, cutting through the monolithic assertions of world religions and giving access to more diverse and fragmented ideals.

Film is now widely studied and researched in theology and religious studies departments, The Religion and Film Reader is therefore ideal for students and researchers, introduced and organized into the following thematic and chronological sections, each with an introduction by the editors:

While the sheer volume and variety of information traveling through global media changes modes of religious thought and commitment, the human desire for spirituality also invigorates popular culture itself, recreating commodities – film blockbusters, world sport and popular music – as contexts for religious meanings.

• the dawn of cinema: adherents and detractors • the birth of film theory: realism, formalism, and religious vision • directors and critics: global perspectives – African and Middle-Eastern perspectives; Asian and Australisian perspectives; European perspectives; South and North American perspectives

Drawing on research into household media consumption, Hoover charts the way in which media and religion intermingle and collide in the cultural experience of media audiences.

• theological and Biblical approaches to analyzing film • recent reflections on the relation between religion and film.

Religion in the Media Age is essential reading for everyone interested in how today mass media relates to contemporary religious and spiritual life.

This Reader brings together a huge amount of material in a student-friendly format and will be an invaluable resource for courses within both theology and religious studies.

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List of Contributors: Woody Allen, Roy Anker, Guillermo Arriaga, Antonin Artaud, Jolyon Baraka Thomas, Lloyd Baugh, Andre Bazin, Ingmar Bergman, Michael Bird, Stan Brakhage, R.G. Burnett, David Cronenberg, Francisca Cho, Eric Christianson, Julie Dash, Christopher Deacy, Nathaniel Dorsky, Rachel Dwyer, Jean Epstein, Cheryl Exum, Costa-Gavras, Amos Gitai, Robert Jewett, Robert Johnston, Herbert Jump, Geeta Kapur, Abbas Kiarostami, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Larry J. Kreitzer, Im Kwon-Taek, William R. LaFleur, Spike Lee, Anna Lee Ward, Gerard Loughlin, Jean-Luc Godard, George Lucas, Philip Lutgendorf, John C. Lyden, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Derek Malcolm, Clive Marsh, E.D. Martell, Joel Martin, John R. May, Birgit Meyer, Mira Nair, D.G. Phalke, Pope Pius XI, Adele Reinhartz, Erin Runions, Walter Salles, Theresa Sanders, Paul Schrader, Martin Scorsese, Ousmane Sembene, Antonio Sison, Cheick Oumar Sissoko, Steven Spielberg, Percy Stickney Grant, Elia Suleiman, Andrey Tarkovsky, Lars von Trier, Judith Weisenfeld, Peter Weir, Melanie Wright

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RELIGION: MEDIA, FILM AND CULTURE

Theology Goes to the Movies

Filming the Gods

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An Introduction to Critical Christian Thinking

Religion and Indian Cinema

Clive Marsh, University of Nottingham, UK

Rachel Dwyer, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK

Introducing Anthropology of Religion

’By starting from issues explored in particular films, the book helps to ground theological debates in relation to human questions and experience. This really helps to bring the discipline of theology alive, and I wish this book had been available when I was a theology student.’ – Gordon Lynch, Senior Lecturer in Religion and Culture, University of Birmingham, UK ‘Marsh is correct! Theology is not just cognitive, but affective, aesthetic and ethical. And film has become a primary resource. Here is a helpful work-book for culturally-savy theology students and theologically-interested film-lovers.’ – Robert K. Johnston, Author of Reel Spirituality: Theology and Film in Dialogue Drawing a comparison between religion and cinema-going, this text examines a range of contemporary films in relation to key theological concepts. Cinema as a religion-like activity is explored through cognitive, affective, aesthetic and ethical levels, identifying the religious aspects in the social practice of cinema-going. Written by a leading expert in the field, Theology Goes to the Movies analyzes: • the role of cinema and Church in Western culture • the power of Christian symbols and images within popular culture • theological concepts of humanity, evil and redemption, eschatology and God. This is an ideal text for students seeking a new way into the study of theology. Selected Contents: Part 1: Contextualizing Theology in a Media Age Part 2: A Systematic Theology through Film Part 3: Christian Theology in Practice February 2007: 234x156: 208pp Hb: 978-0-415-38011-9: £60.00 Pb: 978-0-415-38012-6: £18.99 eBook: 978-0-203-08883-8 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

’Scholarship is at its finest when it makes you think and Dwyer’s book certainly does ... For anyone who wants to understand why Indians – or at least predominantly Hindi-speaking Indians – like their entertainment the way it is, this is a book both wise and witty. Let the critics call Hindi cinema kitschy. Dwyer knows why many Indians are devoted to it.’ – India Today The exciting book explores Indian cinema’s portrayal of religion and the gods, from early film-makers’ first forays onto the silent screen to the technicolour spectacles of modern Bollywood. 2006: 234x156: 208pp Hb: 978-0-415-31424-4: £65.00 Pb: 978-0-415-31425-1: £20.99 eBook: 978-0-203-08865-4 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

Culture to the Ultimate Jack Eller, Metropolitan State College of Denver and Community Colleges of Denver and Aurora, USA ’One of the most engaging, comprehensive, and compelling overviews of anthropology of religion ever published. Eller successfully integrates and interprets a wide array of ethnographic information, giving ample attention to both past contributions and contemporary perspectives. Beginning students and specialists alike will learn much from this volume.’ – Stephen D. Glazier, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Written by an experienced teacher, this basic introduction to the anthropology of religion explores key contemporary issues such as: definitions, theories, beliefs, symbols and language, and behavior. The second part of the book analyzes:

Religion and Cyberspace

• religion in the modern world

Edited by Morten Hojsgaard and Margit Warburg both at University of Copenhagen

• violence

In the twenty-first century, religious life is increasingly moving from churches, mosques and temples onto the Internet. Today, anyone can go online and seek a new form of religious expression without ever encountering a physical place of worship, or an ordained teacher or priest. The digital age offers virtual worship, cyber-prayers and talk-boards for all of the major world faiths, as well as for pagan organizations and new religious movements. It also abounds with misinformation, religious bigotry and information terrorism. Scholars of religion need to understand the emerging forum that the web offers to religion, and the kinds of religious and social interaction that it enables. Religion and Cyberspace explores how religious individuals and groups are responding to the opportunities and challenges that cyberspace brings. It asks how religious experience is generated and enacted online, and how faith is shaped by factors such as limitless choice, lack of religious authority, and the conflict between recognized and non-recognized forms of worship. Combining case studies with the latest theory, its twelve chapters examine topics including the history of online worship, virtuality versus reality in cyberspace, religious conflict in digital contexts, and the construction of religious identity online.

• fundamentalism • key world religions and new religious movements. Unlike other introductions which have tended to focus solely on traditional anthropological areas, this book also shows how to apply an anthropological approach to contemporary world religions, reflecting broader trends. Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, this is the perfect resource for students. July 2007: 246x174: 368pp Hb: 978-0-415-40895-0: £65.00 Pb: 978-0-415-40896-7: £19.99 eBook: 978-0-203-94624-4 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

Faith Schools Consensus or Conflict? Edited by Jo Cairns, Roy Gardner and Denis Lawton, all at University of London, UK This text is an accessible overview of the debates, issues and practicalities of faith-based education. It sets out the challenges and opportunities of different approaches to faith schools and addresses the choices faced by parents. 2005: 234x156: 288pp Hb: 978-0-415-33525-6: £85.00 Pb: 978-0-415-33526-3: £26.99 eBook: 978-0-203-41610-5 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

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PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION

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Key Words in Religion, Media and Culture

Dickens and Religion

The Philosophy of Religion Reader

Dennis Walder

Edited by David Morgan, Christ College Valparaiso University, USA

Walder’s thoroughly researched and lively book provides students of Dickens and the Victorian period with an original perspective on the novelist’s methods and attitudes. He offers a judicious and informed exploration of Dickens’ obsessive themes, from the ‘fall’ of innocence in Pickwick Papers, to the search for a religious ‘answer’ in Little Dorrit. Each chapter focuses upon the striking congruences revealed between individual novels, or groups of novels, and particular religious themes. The views expressed in Dickens’ lesser fiction and non-fiction are drawn on throughout, as are those in the influential contemporary press.

Edited by Chad Meister, Director of Philosophy, Bethel College, USA

The study of religion and media is rapidly coming of age. Key Words in Religion, Media and Culture offers a sophisticated and theoretically up to date discussion of the essential terms and concepts applicable for the study of this important area. Written by a first class team of contributors drawn from North America, Europe and Australia, the chapters cover the core concepts in the field, from Aesthetics and Audiences through to Text and Touch. Each chapter explores a cluster of related terms, explaining their significance and relating them to those covered by other chapters. The introduction offers an overview of the field and its historiography, while the bibliography provides further resources for student use. All the contributors have produced work which is influential in the field and this book will help to clarify its conceptual foundations. It will be essential reading for students and scholars alike. August 2008: 234x156: 256pp Hb: 978-0-415-44862-8: £60.00 Pb: 978-0-415-44863-5: £19.99

Mother Teresa Saint or Celebrity? Gëzim Alpion ’In his unparalleled scholarly book, Alpion has presented a multidimensional portrait of Mother Teresa. And she appears human as she rarely did in any discourse about her.’ – Gaston Roberge, The New Leader ‘In its depth, breadth, and seriousness, this volume may stand for some time to come as the single most important biography of Mother Teresa in English ... A great value of this book is that [Alpion] has provided us with the fullest portrait yet of her native culture and her maturation.’ – Center for Islamic Pluralism Mother Teresa was one of the most written about and publicized women in modern times. Apart from Pope John Paul II, she was arguably the most advertised religious celebrity in the last quarter of the twentieth century. During her lifetime as well as posthumously, Mother Teresa continues to generate a huge level of interest and heated debate.

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Religion and Teaching Ronald D. Anderson, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA This text engages preservice and practicing teachers in considering some of the complex issues related to religion and teaching that all educators face in their interactions with students, parents, administrators, and fellow teachers. The questions are not just about what is legal and what is not, but how a teacher should act in the best interests of all students, both those who are religious and those who are not.

Reflecting current trends and research interests in the field – including the growing interest in religious diversity and global philosophy of religion – this broad and up to date introduction explores key writings from both the Western theistic tradition and from non-Western, non-theistic sources. The nine sections cover: • religious diversity • the nature and attributes of God • arguments for and against the existence of God • science

This book does not provide answers. Its goal is to cause readers to reflect deeply on issues related to their professional decisions and actions regarding religion and teaching.

• faith and miracles

Religion and Teaching is pertinent for all prospective and practicing teachers at any stage in their teaching careers. It can be used in any undergraduate or graduate course that addresses issues of religion and teaching.

• the problem of evil and suffering

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Spiritual Education in a Divided World

Edited by Cathy Ota, University of Brighton, UK and Mark Chater Series: Spirituality in Education In the era of globalization, debate has turned to the vital need for a thorough understanding of its impact on the spirituality and health of the youth of today. Spiritual Education in a Divided World recognizes the urgent need for effective research in this area. This exceptional volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to tackle the key questions. Bringing together leading international experts, including Zygmunt and Mary Grey, the book combines research and training issues with practical professional experiences.

• the Self and human condition • religious experience • death and the afterlife. With section introductions, discussion questions, extensive bibliographies and a supporting website featuring additional material, it is the ideal reference tool to help clarify important points and reinforce understanding. List of Contributors: Marilyn McCord Adams, Pamela Sue Anderson, Anselm of Canterbury, Thomas Aquinas, Sri Aurobindo, Michael J. Behe, Augustine, Avicenna, Boethius, W.K. Clifford, Robin Collins, Paul Copan, William Lane Craig, The Dalai Lama, Stephen T. Davis, Daniel C. Dennett, Ludwig Feuerbach, Sigmund Freud, R. Douglas Geivett, Roger S. Gottlieb, Guanilo of Marmoutier, Charles Hartshorne, William Hasker, John Hick, David Hume, William James, K.N. Jayatilleke, Julian of Norwich, David J. Kalupahana, Immanuel Kant, Sallie King, Robin LePoidevin, J.L. Mackie, Moses Maimonides, Mencius, J.P. Moreland, Thomas V. Morris, Paul K. Moser, Nagarjuna, Friederich Nietzsche, William Paley, Blaise Pascal, Alvin Plantinga, Plato, Ramanuja, Nicholas Rescher, William L. Rowe, Joseph Runzo, Shankara, Quentin Smith, D.T. Suzuki, Richard Swinburne, Charles Taliaferro, Lao Tzu, Keith Ward September 2007: 246x174: 744pp Hb: 978-0-415-40890-5: £75.00 Pb: 978-0-415-40891-2: £27.99 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

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Social, Environmental and Pedagogical Perspectives on the Spirituality of Children and Young People

Gëzim Alpion explores the significance of Mother Teresa to the mass media, to celebrity culture, to the Church and to various political groups. A section explores the ways different vested interests have sought to appropriate her after her death, and also examines Mother Teresa’s own attitude to her childhood and to the Balkan conflicts in the 1980s and 1990s. This book sheds a new and fascinating light upon this remarkable and influential woman.

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‘This is an excellent set of readings in the philosophy of religion. It is notable for the breadth of coverage of material it provides for students in and teachers of the subject. It offers both contemporary and classical readings on a wide range of topics. It will be of great benefit to those interested in the philosophy of religion as a subject embracing religious traditions outside of the West and will helpfully support the teaching of the subject in a comparative spirit.’ – Peter Byrne, Professor of Ethics and Philosophy of Religion, King’s College London, UK

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PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION

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Introducing Philosophy of Religion

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Religion

2ND EDITION

Edited by Chad Meister, Director of Philosophy, Bethel College, USA and Paul Copan, Palm Beach Atlantic University, USA

Ninian Smart Edited by Oliver Leaman, University of Kentucky, USA

Chad Meister, Director of Philosophy, Bethel College, USA Does God exist? How does faith relate to science? What about evil and suffering? Is there life after death? These questions fascinate everyone and lie at the heart of philosophy of religion. Chad Meister offers an up-to-date introduction to the field, focusing not only on traditional debates but also on up to date issues such as the concept of an intelligent creator. Students are encouraged to broaden their horizons by considering key issues such as questions of divine reality and the self and religious experience in relation to other faiths as well as Christianity. • Offers a lucid overview of contemporary philosophy of religion • Introduces the key figures in the history of philosophy of religion • Explore the impact of religious diversity and pluralism • Examines the main arguments for an against the existence of God and the nature of the divine • Looks at science and issues of faith and reason • Explores how the different religious traditions approach the concept of life after death The wealth of student-friendly features, including tables listing essential information for easy reference, questions for reflection, summaries, glossary and recommendations for further reading make the book ideal for student use. Along with its accompanying Reader, this is the perfect up to date introductory package for undergraduate philosophy of religion courses. July 2008: 246x174: 288pp Hb: 978-0-415-40326-9: £60.00 Pb: 978-0-415-40327-6: £16.95 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

Series: Routledge Philosophy Companions ’Not only philosophers of all stripes, but also religious persons, scholars of religion and comparativists turn to the philosophy of religion as a crucial resource. Much work in the field has been rendered unhelpful by its narrow or exclusively Western focus. Here, finally, is a volume to fill the gap. With its comprehensive span of topics and chapters written by leading authorities, this will be a defining text for the emerging global approach to the philosophy of religion ... The most up-todate and authoritative introduction to the immediate past and the immediate future of the discipline currently available.’ – Philip Clayton, Harvard University, USA ‘This book is distinguished by its comprehensive range and by the eminent list of philosophers who have written for it. It will be an indispensable guide to current thinking in the philosophy of religion.’ – Keith Ward, Christ Church College, Oxford, UK The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Religion is an indispensable guide and reference source to the major themes, movements, debates and topics in philosophy of religion. A team of renowned international contributors provide sixty-five accessible entries organized into nine clear parts: • philosophical issues in world religions

World Philosophies

Reviews from the first edition: ‘Smart’s analysis of such crucial thinkers as Buddha, Confucius, Descartes and Derrida is impeccable.’ – Karen Armstrong, The Times ‘Imagine ... all the philosophies of the world in a single book ... it can stimulate our interest in aspects of philosohy which may be new to us, motivating us to be more open-minded ... and to rethink our own worldviews.’ – The Philosopher’s Magazine World Philosophies is a remarkable book which presents in one volume a superb introduction to all the world’s major philosophical and religious traditions. Covering all corners of the globe, the late Ninian Smart’s unique work offers a comprehensive and global philosophical and religious picture. In this revised and expanded second edition a team of world renowned scholars led by Oliver Leaman bring Ninian Smart’s masterpiece up to date for the twenty-first century. Each chapter has been revised by an expert in the field to include recent philosophical developments, and a new bibliographic guide to resources in world philosophies signposts students and researchers to the latest scholarship. A brand new introduction which celebrates the career and writings of Ninian Smart, and his contribution to the study of world religions, ensures that this invaluable and definitive guide to the scholar and his work will continue as a significant text for the future. August 2008: 246x174: 512pp Hb: 978-0-415-41188-2: £70.00 Pb: 978-0-415-41189-9: £21.99 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

• key figures in philosophy of religion • religious diversity

The Question of God

• the theistic conception of God

An Introduction and Sourcebook

• arguments for the existence of God • arguments against the existence of God

Michael Palmer This text introduces the six great arguments for the existence of God. It requires no specialist knowledge of philosophy and includes a wealth of primary sources from classic and contemporary texts.

• philosophical theology • christian theism • recent topics in philosophy of religion. Covering key world religions including Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam, and key figures such as Augustine, Aquinas and Kierkegaard, the book explores the central topics in theism such as the ontological, cosmological and teleological arguments for God’s existence. Three final parts consider Catholicism, Protestantism, Eastern orthodoxy and current debates including phenomenology, reformed epistemology, religious experience, and religion and science. This is essential reading for anyone interested in philosophy, religion and related disciplines. July 2007: 246x174 Hb: 978-0-415-38038-6: £95.00

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PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION

SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION

Godel’s Proof

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New Religions in Global Perspective

Ernest Nagel and James R. Newman

Consciousness and the Existence of God

Religious Change in the Modern World

Series: Routledge Classics The first book to present a readable explanation of Godel’s theorem to both scholars and non-specialists, this is a gripping combination of science and accessibility, offering those with a taste for logic and philosophy the chance to satisfy their intellectual curiosity. 2005: 198x129: 104pp Pb: 978-0-415-35528-5: £9.99 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

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Keeping Faith Philosophy and Race in America

J.P Moreland Series: Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Religion In Consciousness and the Existence of God, J.P Moreland argues that the existence of finite, irreducible consciousness (or its regular, law-like correlation with physical states) provides evidence for the existence of God. Considering Searle’s contingent correlation, O’Connor’s emergent necessitation, and Nagel’s mysterian ‘naturalism,’ Moreland concludes that these versions of naturalism should be rejected in favor of what he calls ‘the Argument from Consciousness.’ February 2008: 234x156: 192pp Hb: 978-0-415-96240-7: £60.00

Cornel West Series: Routledge Classics First published in 1993, Keeping Faith is the richest account available of the work of Cornel West, one of the leading African American intellectuals of our age. This powerful collection of essays ranges widely across politics and philosophy in America, the role of the black intellectual, legal theory and the future of liberal thought, and the fate of African Americans. In West’s hands issues of race and freedom are inextricably tied to questions of philosophy and, above all, to a belief in the power of the human spirit.

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Acts of Religion

Political Philosophy and Religion

Jacques Derrida Edited by Gil Anidjar

Patrick Neal, University of Vermont, USA Series: Routledge Contemporary Political Philosophy Beginning with an exploration of the traditional approaches to thinking about the relationship between religious and political authority, Patrick Neal explores and explains the four models that have been used to understand this relation: Erastianism; Liberalism; Ecclesiasticism; and Theocracy, and illustrates the way in which these models have been taken up by modern political theorists such as Hobbes, Rousseau and Locke. Subsequent chapters explore liberal arguments for and against the separation of church and state in the works of John Rawls, Robert Audi, Richard, Richard Neuhaus and Stephen Carter. The concluding chapter offers a clear and sustained critique the liberal tradition from the position of a dominant world religion – Christianity.

The Metaphysics of Perfect Beings Michael Almeida, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Series: Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Religion The Metaphysics of Perfect Beings addresses the problems an Anselmian perfect being faces in contexts involving unlimited options.

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Karl Rahner

Peter Clarke, King’s College, University of London and University of Oxford, UK ’Peter Clarke provides us with an excellent contemporary theoretical account of the field and a comprehensive source of information on a plethora of religious groups ... I strongly recommend it.’ – Adam Possamai, University of Western Sydney, Australia Peter Clarke’s in-depth account explores the innovative character of new religious movements and new forms of spirituality from a global vantage point. Ranging from North America and Europe to Japan, Latin America, South Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, it is the perfect introduction to NRMs such as Falun Gong, Aum Shinrikyo, the Brahma Kumaris, the Ikhwan or Muslim Brotherhood, Sufism, the Engaged Buddhist and Engaged Hindi movements, Messianic Judaism and Rastafarianism. Charting the cultural significance and global impact of NRMs, he discusses the ways in which various religious traditions are shaping, rather than displacing, each other’s understanding of notions such as transcendence and faith, good and evil, of the meaning, purpose and function of religion, and of religious belonging. He then examines the responses of governments, churches, the media and general public to new religious movements, as well as the reaction to older, increasingly influential religions, such as Buddhism and Islam, in new geographical and cultural contexts. Taking into account the degree of continuity between old and new religions, each chapter contains not only an account of the rise of the NRMs and new forms of spirituality in a particular region, but also an overview of change in the regions’ mainstream religions. 2006: 234x156: 408pp Hb: 978-0-415-25747-3: £70.00 Pb: 978-0-415-25748-0: £18.99 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

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SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION

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Religions in Global Society

Sociology, Religion and Grace

Religion and Everyday Life

Peter Beyer, University of Ontario, Ottawa, Canada

Arpad Szakolczai, University of Cork, Ireland

Peter Beyer, a distinguished sociologist of religion, presents a way of understanding religion in a contemporary global society – by analyzing it as a dimension of the historical process of globalization. Introducing theories of globalization and showing how they can be applied to world religions, Beyer reveals the nature of the contested category of ‘religion’: what it means, what it includes and what it implies in the world today.

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Series: The New Sociology ‘This book is impressive for its scope and confidence ... [It] makes better sense of the contemporary religious field than its rivals.’ – Times Higher Education Supplement ‘For anyone interested in a sound and well-paced presentation and assessment of leading theories and important empirical findings generated by the top sociologists of religion today, this volume is highly recommended.’ – Journal of Contemporary Religion This introductory text explores the historical and contemporary relevance of religion to social life, through an examination of practice and belief. Stephen Hunt reconsiders how theories and concepts are lived at the level of selfhood and cultural identity, through religious and spiritual belief. At the same time he looks at contemporary changes in religious life and how these are impacted by socialization, institutional belonging, and belief, and at the significance of class, gender, age and ethnicity. Individual chapters cover a range of issues, such as:

Written with exceptional clarity and illustrated with lively and diverse examples ranging from Islam and Hinduism to African traditional religions and new age spirituality, this is a fascinating overview of how religion has developed in a globalized society. It is recommended reading for students taking courses on sociology of religion, religion and globalization, and religion and modernity. 2006: 234x156: 336pp Hb: 978-0-415-39318-8: £70.00 Pb: 978-0-415-39319-5: £23.99 eBook: 978-0-203-08787-9

Selling Spirituality

• secularization and pluralism

The Silent Takeover of Religion

• traditional Christianity: change and continuity

Jeremy Carrette and Richard King

• globalization and the global context

’This book is a long-needed, highly insightful critique of the spiritual supermarket, site of the prostitution of spirituality for personal profit and corporate gain. Jeremy Carrette and Richard King have provided a powerful indictment of the corporate exploitation of “the spiritual,” using advertising and the media to distort the ethical and philosophical teachings of the world religious traditions to buttress their control of the minds of the people they wish to dominate as their loyal consumers. Serious students and teachers of spiritual thought or practice are well-advised to cultivate their self-critical alertness and hone their critical insight with the help of this hardedged and illuminating book.’ – Robert Thurman, Columbia University, USA

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Ritual and Religious Belief A Reader Edited by Graham Harvey, The Open University, UK Series: Critical Categories in the Study of Religion What is ritual’s relation to belief? to performance? Does ritual have its own logic? Ritual and Religious Belief is a reader that brings together material exploring the problem of ritual from many perspectives. Selections from the sixteenth century to the present explore the idea of ritual as a type of religious behavior, ritual in relation to belief and thought, and ritual as “vain repetition.” This anthology considers many perspectives, enabling the student and scholar to consider the richness of the questions surrounding the concept of ritual. 2005: 246x174: 320pp Pb: 978-0-415-97448-6: Not Available from Routledge in the UK

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Selling Spirituality shows how spirituality today functions as a powerful commodity in the global marketplace, promising to soothe away the ills of modern life whilst functioning as a silent form of economic, cultural and political restraint.

Queer Inclusion in the United Methodist Church Amanda Udis-Kessler, The Colorado College, USA Series: New Approaches in Sociology The United Methodist Church has been in conflict over lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender inclusion issues since 1972. That year, in response to the gay liberation and gay rights movements, working was added to the UMC Book of Discipline characterizing homosexuality as ‘incomplete with Christian teaching.’ Since then, United Methodist ministers have been forbidden to perform same-sex commitment ceremonies, a rule has been passed that non-heterosexual United Methodist ministers must be celibate, and the UMC has forbidden to fund any program or organization ‘supporting’ homosexuality. These policies have been met with significant resistance by those fighting for GLBT inclusion. In this groundbreaking book, Udis-Kessler examines this struggle, analyzing both sides of this divisive debate among one of the most prominent religious organizations in the United States. February 2008: 234x156: 192pp Hb: 978-0-415-96249-0: £60.00

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The text challenges much current sociological thought and deals with contemporary Christianity, a range of world faiths and new and developing expressions of religion and spirituality. With tables and diagrams to illustrate key points and trends, it provides an accessible and captivating introduction to the sociology of religion.

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• religion, identity and community

• religion and ethnicity.

Grace is a central concept of theology, while the term also has a wide range of meanings in many fields. For the first time in book format, the sociology of grace (or enchantment) is comprehensively explained in detail, with fascinating results.

Stephen Hunt, University of West England, Bristol, UK

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PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION

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Religion and Critical Psychology

2ND EDITION

Psychology and the Occult

Religious Experience in the Knowledge Economy

Psychology and Religion

C.G. Jung

Jeremy Carrette, University of Kent, UK

An Introduction

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’Jeremy Carrette’s interrogation of the psychology of religion not only lays the groundwork for revitalizing this specific field, but also initiates a new trajectory for theory in all areas of the humanities and human sciences. Drawing on his extensive cross-disciplinary knowledge of contemporary theory in both Europe and North America, Carrette argues with passionate intensity and assured erudition that theorists in all disciplines have an ethical duty to resist the totalizing closure that restricts political inquiry and homogenizes emotional experience in the various academies and institutions of late modernity. He writes persuasively and eloquently about the need for an “ethics of not-knowing” to create a fluid space between the binaries of exteriority and interiority, self and other, and individual and social. Religion and Critical Psychology is a benchmark work by one of the most talented and original theorists writing today. It will be read and re-read, dissected and debated for years to come.’ – Professor Naomi Goldenberg, University of Ottawa, Canada

Michael Argyle Revised by Anne Lee, University of Oxford, UK

Jeremy Carrette argues that the psychology of religion is no longer sustainable without a social critique, and that as William James predicted, the project of the modernist psychology of religion has failed. Controversially he champions greater social and philosophical analysis within the field to challenge the political naivety and disciplinary illusions of the traditional approaches to psychology of religion.

Michael Argyle’s clear and accessible textbook is the ideal introduction to the field of the psychology of religion. One of the world’s most famous social psychologists, Argyle explores the whole of psychology to look at the results of psychology’s study of religion, including his own empirical research, Areas covered include: • the importance of religion to pioneers of psychology such as Freud, Jung and James • the effect of religion on the behavior of individuals and groups • how key religious activities like worship, prayer and ritual are studied by psychologists • how psychologists have revealed the significance of change in religion, particularly in understanding the impact of new religious movements. This revised and expanded edition, updated by Anne Lee who has taught the subject for many years, includes engagement with recent research, inclusion of the most contemporary issues in religion, including homosexuality and the debates surrounding evolution and creationism, as well as new pedagogical features: illustrations and diagrams, textboxes and a glossary. December 2008: 234x156: 256pp Hb: 978-0-415-42535-3: £65.00 Pb: 978-0-415-42536-0: £16.99

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The Varieties of Religious Experience William James Series: Routledge Classics

Psychology and the East

’Is life worth living? Yes, a thousand times yes when the world still holds such spirits as Professor James.’ – Gertrude Stein

C.G. Jung Series: Routledge Classics ’These writings of his are strongly alive; in most instances Jung does not present us with final solutions and last words about any of the great EastWest problems, but rather with suggestions for a deeper kind of approach, thus opening up new planes of investigation.’ – Journal of Analytical Psychology

• psychoanalysis • humanistic psychology • cognitive neuroscience.

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A fifteen year old girl who claimed regular communications with the spirits of her dead friends and relatives was the subject of the very first published work by the now legendary Psychoanalyst C.G. Jung. Collected here, alongside many of his later writings on such subjects as life after death, telepathy and ghosts, it was to mark just the start of a professional and personal interest – even obsession – that was to last throughout Jung’s lifetime. Written by one of the greatest and most controversial thinkers of the twentieth century, Psychology and the Occult represents a fascinating trawl through both the dark, unknown world of the occult and the equally murky depths of the human psyche.

A Study In Human Nature

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Carrette discusses the relevance of the social and economic factors surrounding the debates of psychology and religion, through three critical examples:

Religion and Critical Psychology provides a new dimension to the debates surrounding religious experience. It will be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of critical psychology, religious experience and the psychology of religion and extends an interdisciplinary challenge to the separation of psychology, sociology, politics, economics and religion.

’Jung ... made the occult and the paranormal respectable areas of enquiry.’ – The Independent

‘My own world of European consciousness had become peculiarly thin ... it is quite possible that India is the real world and that the white man lives in a madhouse of abstractions.’ C.G. Jung was inspired to write these words after his very first visit to India. Long concerned with the hold that myth and archetype had on the human psyche, it was inevitable that the legendary psychoanalyst would turn his attention to Eastern modes of thought. Psychology and the East collects together many of Jung’s most memorable writings on the subject, including his Psychological commentaries on the I Ching and The Tibetan Book of the Dead, his thoughts on Buddhism and Islam and a full travelogue of that fateful first encounter with India in 1936.

A classic of American thought, William James’ The Varieties of Religious Experience is an extraordinary study of human spirituality in all its forms and one of the most profound works of Psychology ever written. When the book was published in 1902 the study of the human mind was a thrillingly new field of scientific enquiry: James was one of the first to seriously examine the psychology of religious faith and where he led, both Jung and Freud would follow. Yet for all its historical significance, this is a book full of humanity, wit and some deeply personal stories of revelation, religious devotion and mystical experience. This edition makes available in paperback for the first time the Centenary Edition with new introductions on the historical and contemporary significance of James’ work and a foreword by the author’s grandson, Micky James. February 2008: 216x138: 480pp Pb: 978-0-415-77382-9: £12.99

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RELIGION AND POLITICS

The New Catholic Feminisim

Quaker Women

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Theology, Gender Theory and Dialogue

Personal Life, Memory and Radicalism in the Lives of Women Friends, 1780–1930

Religion, Terror and Violence

Tina Beattie, University of Surrey Roehampton, UK It is hard to over-estimate the challenge that feminism poses to Roman Catholicism. Pope John Paul II’s call for a ‘new feminism’ has led to the development of a Catholic theological response to the so-called ‘old feminism.’ The New Catholic Feminism sets up a dramatic encounter between the orthodox Catholic establishment and contemporary critical theory, including feminist theology and philosophy, queer theory, and French psycholinguistics, in order to explore fundamental questions about human identity, personhood and gender. From the naked bodies of Eden to the ‘gay nuptials’ of liturgy, it argues that the strange and volatile world of Catholic sexual symbolism cannot be ‘tamed’ to meet the ideological agendas of either feminist theology or conservative Catholicism. Only through a radical re-evaluation of the sacramental significance of the sexed human body might the Catholic Church provide a redemptive response to the sexual politics of contemporary society. 2004: 234x156: 224pp Hb: 978-0-415-30147-3: £75.00 Pb: 978-0-415-30148-0: £22.99 eBook: 978-0-203-50067-5 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

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Gender Pluralism Southeast Asia since Early Modern Times Michael G. Peletz, Emory University, New York, USA This account provides an understanding of the deep historical traditions of cross-dressing in ancient societies as well as the current political climate towards transvestites and homosexuals in Asia. Peletz focuses on two highly publicized court cases in Malaysia; the first involving a woman posing as a man who married a woman; the second involving a former Deputy Prime Minister who has been in prison since 1998 on allegations of sodomy.

Sandra Stanley Holton, University of Adelaide, Australia Series: Women’s and Gender History One nineteenth-century commentator noted the ‘public’ character of Quaker women as signalling a new era in female history. This study examines such claims through the story of middleclass women Friends from among the kinship circle created by the marriage in 1839 of Elizabeth Priestman and the future radical Quaker statesman, John Bright. The lives discussed here cover a period from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, and include several women Friends active in radical politics and the women’s movement, in the service of which they were able to mobilise extensive national and international networks. They also created and preserved a substantial archive of private papers, comprising of letters and diaries full of humour and darkness, the spiritual and the mundane, family confidences and public debate, the daily round and affairs of state. The discovery of such a collection makes it possible to examine the relationship between the personal and public lives of these women Friends, explored through a number of topics including the nature of Quaker domestic and church cultures; the significance of kinship and church membership for the building of extensive Quaker networks; the relationship between Quaker religious values and women’s participation in civil society and radical politics and the women’s rights movement. There are also fresh perspectives on the political career of John Bright, provided by his fond but frank women kin. This new study is a must read for all those interested in the history of women, religion and politics. April 2007: 234x156: 304pp Hb: 978-0-415-28143-0: £80.00 Pb: 978-0-415-28144-7: £24.99 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

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Feminism and the Women’s Movement in Malaysia

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Female Homosexuality in the Middle East Histories and Representations Samar Habib, University of Sydney, Australia Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society This book dares to probe the biggest taboo in contemporary Arab culture with the very first in-depth study of female homosexual relations in Arabic-speaking and neighboring countries. July 2007: 234x156: 176pp Hb: 978-0-415-95673-4: £60.00

Edited by Bryan Rennie, Westminster College, USA and Philip Tite Bringing together a group of distinguished scholars from a range of backgrounds and disciplines, this book explores the claim that acts of violence – most spectacularly the attack of September 11, 2001 and the international reaction to it – are intimately linked to cultural and social authorizing processes that could be called ‘religious.’ April 2008: 234x156: 320pp Hb: 978-0-415-44230-5: £60.00 Pb: 978-0-415-44231-2: £19.99

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Routledge Handbook of Religion and Politics Edited by Jeff Haynes, London Guildhall University, UK From the United States to the Middle East and Africa, religion has become an increasingly important factor in political activity and organization. This Handbook provides a definitive global survey of the interaction of religion and politics. It features contributions from an international team of experts and examines the political aspects of all the world’s major religions and such crucial contemporary issues as religious fundamentalism, terrorism, the war on terror, the ‘clash of civilizations’ and science and religion. Selected Contents: Part 1: The World Religions and Politics Buddhism. Christianity: Protestantism. Christianity: Catholicism and the Catholic Church. (Neo-)Confucianism. Hinduism. Shia Islam. Sunni Islam. Judaism. Part 2: Religion and Governance Religion and Secularisation. Religious Fundamentalisms. Church and State. Religion and Democracy. Religion and Political Parties. Religion and Civil Society. Part 3: Religion and International Relations Religion and International Relations Theory. Religion and Foreign Policy. Religious Transnational Actors. Religion and Globalisation. Part 4: Religion, Security and Development Terrorism. ‘War on Terror.’ ‘The Clash of Civilisations.’ Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding. Religion and Conflict. Gender. Faith-Based Development Aid. Religion and Science. July 2008: 246x189: 512pp Hb: 978-0-415-41455-5: £75.00

An Unsung (R)evolution Maznah Mohamad, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia, Cecilia Ng, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand and Tan Beng Hui Combining both personal and academic insights into the Malaysian women’s movement, this study provides an in-depth account of the multiple struggles of the Malaysian women’s movement, from securing gender equality in a patriarchal society to achieving unity among members of a multi-ethnic society that are further divided along class and religious lines.

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RELIGION AND SCIENCE

New Religions and the Nazis

For Goodness Sake

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Karla Poewe, University of Calgary, Canada

Religious Schools and Education for Democratic Citizenry

God and Evolution

’Poewe’s analysis is of a very high standard ... Poewe offers excellent analysis.’ – Journal for the Study of Radicalism

Walter Feinberg, University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign, USA

This book sheds light on an important but neglected part of Nazi history – the contribution of new religions to the emergence of Nazi ideology in 1920s and 1930s Germany. Post-World War One conditions threw Germans into major turmoil. The loss of the war, the Weimar Republic and the punitive Treaty of Versailles all caused widespread discontent and resentment. As a result Germans generally and intellectuals specifically, took political, paramilitary, and religious matters into their own hands to achieve national regeneration. Taken together such cultural figures as Jakob Wilhelm Hauer, Mathilde Ludendorff, Ernst Bergmann, Hans F.K. Günther, and nationalist writers like Hans Grimm created a mind-set that swept across Germany like a tidal wave. By fusing politics, religion, theology, Indo-Aryan metaphysics, literature and Darwinian science they intended to craft a new, genuinely German faith-based political community. What emerged instead was an antiSemitic totalitarian political regime known as National Socialism. Looking at modern paganism as well as the established Church, Karla Poewe reveals that the new religions founded in the pre-Nazi and Nazi years, especially Jakob Hauer’s German Faith Movement, present a model for how German fascism distilled aspects of religious doctrine into political extremism. 2005: 234x156: 240pp Hb: 978-0-415-29024-1: £70.00 Pb: 978-0-415-29025-8: £19.99 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

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Bassam Tibi, University of Goettingen, Germany This book is concerned with political Islam and in particular the global challenges posed by Islamists and Jihadists. There is special emphasis on the philosophical and political conflict in Europe between an Islamist agenda and democratic values. Bassam Tibi makes clear that the problem is not Islam as a religion, but its politicization as a belief system. Political Islam, World Politics and Europe will be of interest to students and scholars of Middle East politics, Political Islam, and politics and international relations.

• to what extent do students in religious schools experience such an ideal kind of instruction? Walter Feinberg offers a fascinating analysis of what he witnessed in classrooms through his observations of both teachers and students. 2006: 234x156: 272pp Hb: 978-0-415-95378-8: £70.00 Pb: 978-0-415-95379-5: £16.99

Totalitarianism and Political Religions, Volume II Concepts for the Comparison Of Dictatorships Edited by Hans Maier, University of Munich, Germany, Michael Schäfer and Jodi Bruhn Series: Totalitarianism and Political Religions Totalitarianism and Political Religions, Vol. II, available for the first time in English translation, features contributions from leading scholars of political extremism, sociology and modern history. Based upon a seminal conference on political religions, edited by the eminent Hans Maier, the book seeks to define the term and explore its application to the interpretation of a wide variety of totalitarian movements in Europe in the twentieth century.

Totalitarianism and Political Religions, Volume III Concepts for the Comparison of Dictatorships – Theory & History of Interpretations Edited by Hans Maier, University of Munich, Germany and Jodi Bruhn Series: Totalitarianism and Political Religions The third volume of Totalitarianism and Political Religions provides a comprehensive overview of key theories and theorists of totalitarianism and of political religions from Hannah Arendt and Raymond Aron to Leo Strauss and Simone Weill.

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The first book of its kind, this Reader represents the diversity of views which surround the interaction of evolutionary theory and the Christian tradition. Ideal for students with no previous knowledge of the field, the book introduces the methodologies of the study of science and religion, and evolutionary biology, and presents the views of influential thinkers from a variety of disciplines, including: • the natural sciences • history • philosophy.

November 2007: 234x156: 352pp Hb: 978-0-415-44711-9: £85.00 eBook: 978-0-203-94245-1

Edited by Mary Kathleen Cunningham, North Carolina State University, USA

• theology

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• what kind of religious/moral education in parochial schools best prepares youths to participate constructively in a multi-faith American democracy?

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Political Islam, World Politics and Europe

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Driven by a concern for how religious instruction in patriarchal schools affects the fate of democracy in a multicultural, multi-faith America, For Goodness Sake takes the readers to a variety of religious education classrooms in some of America’s private schools, examining Roman Catholic, Jewish and Lutheran in an attempt to answer the questions of:

A Reader

From current scientific developments to contemporary philosophical perspectives, Darwin to Dawkins, Creationism to Intelligent Design, God and Evolution highlights neglected but important views, such as those of feminist scholars, and contemporary revisionists, as well as some of the best known writers in the field. Selected Contents: Part 1: Methodology 1. The Protestant Rule of Faith Charles Hodge 2. Metaphor Sallie McFague 3. How Myths Work Mary Midgley 4. The Structures of Science and Religion Ian G. Barbour Part 2: Evolutionary Theory 5. On the Origin of Species Charles Darwin 6. The Evolution of Life: An Overview Francisco J. Ayala 7. Is There a Limit to Our Knowledge of Evolution? Michael Ruse Part 3: Creationism 8. Genesis 1-2 9. The Creationists Ronald L. Numbers Part 4: Intelligent Design 10. Natural Theology William Paley 11. Irreducible Complexity: Obstacle to Darwinian Evolution Michael J. Behe 12. Answering the Biochemical Argument from Design Kenneth R. Miller Part 5: Naturalism 13. The Blind Watchmaker Richard Dawkins 14. God’s Utility Function Richard Dawkins 15. Darwin’s Dangerous Idea Daniel C. Dennett 16. The Quest for a Universal Acid Mary Midgley 17. Methodological Naturalism under Attack Michael Ruse Part 6: Evolutionary Theism 18. The Creation: Intelligently Designed or Optimally Equipped? Howard J. Van Till 19. Biological Evolution – A Positive Theological Appraisal Arthur Peacocke 20. God’s Kenosis in the Creation and Consummation of the World Jürgen Moltmann 21. Does God Play Dice? Divine Providence and Chance Elizabeth A. Johnson Part 7: Reformulations of Tradition 22. Evolution, Tragedy, and Cosmic Purpose John F. Haught 23. God and the World Sallie McFague 24. Panentheism and Pansyntheism: God in Relation Ruth Page 25. On Thinking of God as Serendipitous Creativity Gordon D. Kaufman. Index July 2007: 234x156: 408pp Hb: 978-0-415-38013-3: £65.00 Pb: 978-0-415-38014-0: £35.95 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY

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Encyclopedia of Buddhism

God and Evolution An Introduction

Near Death Experiences: Exploring the Mind-Body Connection

Edited by Damien Keown, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK and Charles S. Prebish, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Mary Kathleen Cunningham, North Carolina State University, USA

Ornella Corazza, Fellow, Department of the Study of Religions, SOAS

Can we reconcile belief in God and Darwinism, divine action and an evolutionary world? Such questions are central to studies of science and religion, and these debates are hotly disputed in the interaction between evolutionary theorists and the Christian tradition. This book offers a guide to the issues, taking a non-polemical stance and reflecting the depth and complexity of the debates.

Near death experiences (or NDE) fascinate everyone, from theologians to sociologists and neuroscientists. This lively, groundbreaking book introduces the phenomenon of near death experiences, their personal impact and the dominant scientific explanations. Taking a strikingly original cross-cultural approach and incorporating new medical research, it combines new theories of mind and body with contemporary research into how the brain functions.

The Encyclopedia of Buddhism is a complete, careful, accurate and up-to-date one-volume desk reference, documenting the history, doctrines, schools, rituals, sacred places, basic ideas and concepts, and globalization of the entire Buddhist tradition. In addition, it provides bibliographic references to the leading scholarship by scholar from around the world. As such, it is an indispensable tool for students, teachers, and researchers from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds, as well as to the general reader.

Mary Kathleen Cunningham introduces the different views of the relationship of science and religion in general and the interaction of evolutionary theory and Christian theism in particular. In her opening chapters she compares the different methodologies used in the disciplines of science and religion, and examines Darwin, Darwinism, and the Neo-Darwin Synthesis, then moves on to focus on the issue of the compatibility of evolutionary theory and divine action. The volume explores challenges to Darwinism coming from creationists and adherents of Intelligent Design, as well as the thought of naturalistic critics of theism. The final chapter examines the work of diversified thinkers who attempt to get beyond the polarization of evolution and theism. Ideal for those with no previous knowledge of the field, this is the essential textbook for students exploring this fascinating topic. For those who wish to pursue their studies further, the accompanying reader, God and Evolution, features many of the writers discussed in the textbook. September 2008: 234x156: 224pp Hb: 978-0-415-44349-4: £60.00 Pb: 978-0-415-44350-0: £16.99

Ornella Corazza begins by discussing dualist models of the mind and body, and argues for an understanding of the mind as an ‘embodied phenomenon’ as a way of shedding new light on NDE. She discusses the main features of NDE as reported by many people who have experienced it. Study of the use of ketamine both as an anaesthetic and as a recreational drug shows how the central characteristics of NDE can be chemically induced without being close to death. This evidence challenges the conventional ‘survivalist hypothesis,’ according to which NDEs are a proof of the existence of an afterlife, but also suggests that NDE can be seen to have a more lasting effect on people’s lives than does the use of ketamine. The final section investigates the various possible explanations for NDEs and uses Japanese concepts of embodiment to argue for a holistic view of the human body. This remarkable book concludes that we need to move towards a more integrated view of embodiment, in order to understand what human life is and also what it can be. June 2008: 234x156: 224pp Hb: 978-0-415-45519-0: £60.00 Pb: 978-0-415-45520-6: £16.99

Reinventing Eden The Fate of Nature in Western Culture

2ND EDITION

Carolyn Merchant Visionary quests to return to the Garden of Eden have shaped Western Culture. This book traces the idea of rebuilding the primeval garden from its origins to its latest incarnations and offers a bold new way to think about the earth.

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This Sacred Earth Religion, Nature, Environment Edited by Roger Gottlieb From Christian ecotheology and Buddhist critiques of economic globalization to religious environmental activism and spiritual practices to celebrate the sacredness of nature, this book includes careful scholarship, groundbreaking theology, historical analysis, and accounts of real world struggles. Fully engaged with both the world’s religious traditions and the worldwide environmental crisis, This Sacred Earth is an invaluable teaching resource and inspiring introduction to religion’s complex relationship to the environment.

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The Encyclopedia of Taoism Edited by Fabrizio Pregadio, Stanford University, USA The Encyclopedia of Taoism provides comprehensive coverage of Taoist religion, thought and history, reflecting the current state of Taoist scholarship. Taoist studies have progressed beyond any expectation in recent years. Researchers in a number of languages have investigated topics virtually unknown only a few years previously, while others have surveyed for the first time textual, doctrinal and ritual corpora. The Encyclopedia presents the full gamut of this new research. The work contains approximately 1,750 entries, which fall into the following broad categories: surveys of general topics; schools and traditions; persons; texts; terms; deities; immortals; temples and other sacred sites. Terms are given in their original characters, transliterated and translated. Entries are thoroughly cross-referenced and, in addition, ‘see also’ listings are given at the foot of many entries. Attached to each entry are references taking the reader to a master bibliography at the end of the work. There is chronology of Taoism and the whole is thoroughly indexed. August 2007: 234x156: 1300pp Hb: 978-0-7007-1200-7: £145.00 eBook: 978-0-203-69548-7

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Political Islam

Encyclopedia of Hinduism

Encyclopedia of Missions and Missionaries

Edited by Barry Rubin, Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center, Israel

Edited by Denise Cush and Catherine Robinson, both at Bath Spa University, UK, Michael York and Lynn Foulston, University of Wales, Newport, UK The Encyclopedia of Hinduism contains over 900 entries reflecting recent advances in scholarship which have raised new theoretical and methodological issues as well as identifying new areas of study which have not been addressed previously. The debate over the term ‘Hinduism’ in the light of post-Orientalist critiques is just one example of how once standard academic frameworks have been called into question. Entries range from 150-word definitions of terms and concepts to 5,000-word indepth investigations of major topics. July 2007: 246x174: 1128pp Hb: 978-0-7007-1267-0: £135.00

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Encyclopedia of Islamic Civilization and Religion Edited by Ian Richard Netton, University of Leeds, UK The Encyclopedia of Islamic Civilization and Religion provides scholarly coverage of the religion, culture and history of the Islamic world, at a time when that world is undergoing considerable change and is a focus of international study and debate. With well over a thousand entries on Islamic theology, history, arts, science, law and institutions, and coverage of Islam in individual countries and cities around the world, the Encyclopedia of Islamic Civilization and Religion provides an extremely rich resource for students and researchers in religious studies and Middle Eastern studies. Entries are cross-referenced and bibliographies are provided and there is a full index. September 2007: 246x174: 848pp Hb: 978-0-7007-1588-6: £150.00

Routledge Library Editions: Islam 50 Volumes This is a multi-volume collection by leading authors in Islamic Studies. The volumes were originally published between 1867 and 1987. The collection reprints texts carefully selected on the basis of their influence and prestige, written by pre-eminent scholars of Islamic history, philosophy and religion. The majority of the volumes reprint the original, first editions, but where appropriate, updated, enlarged editions are sometimes selected. December 2007: 234x156: 20,000pp Set: 978-0-415-42600-8: £3,600.00

Series: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies

Edited by Jonathan Bonk Series: Religion and Society The Encyclopedia of Missions and Missionaries is volume nine in the Religion and Society series, which examines the complex and varied interactions between society and religion. Each stand-alone volume in the series focuses on one aspect of religiousness, analyzing its impact on individuals and societies worldwide and historically. The Encyclopedia of Missions and Missionaries examines the nature and effects of missionary work around the world and throughout history, analyzing how secular and clerical people from major religions (especially Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam) have brought social changes along with words of a new faith. Although coverage of Christianity is prominent because of its global importance and unique focus on conversion, other world religions’ missionary activities (eg. Buddhism or Islam) are discussed as well. The conflicts and ways in which Christianity has accommodated other religious traditions in various parts of the world are also presented. Topics focus on the nature and effects of missionary work, the organization of missionary activity, as well as missionary and mission societies across time and cultures. Sidebars provide additional information, including biographical data and primary source excerpts.

Bringing together canonical and the best cuttingedge scholarship in one useful reference resource, the shortcomings as well as the successes of Islamism are fully examined in this three volume collection of seventy-five key journal articles on all aspects of modern political Islamism. This work is organized into sections discussing the origins and world view of political Islam and its relationship with the issues of terrorism and democracy. The collection also includes a number of case studies that examine the ideas, strategy, tactics, leadership, and opposition to the movement both in the Middle East and in other parts of the world. 2006: 234x156: 1440pp Set: 978-0-415-40453-2: £495.00

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Shi’ism Edited by Colin Turner and Paul Luft, both at University of Durham, UK Series: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies

Encyclopedia of the Historical Jesus

The four volumes of this set bring together some of the most significant modern and pre-modern contributions to the study of Shi’ism, giving readers access to material that has hitherto been scattered and often difficult to locate. While the lion’s share of the material stems from the past fifty years, classic studies from earlier periods have been included, thus providing insight into the developmental dynamics of the field. Drawn from a wide range of journals, research monographs, occasional papers and edited volumes, the articles that comprise this collection reflect the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of Shi’ite studies as it stands today. An introductory essay at the beginning of the first volume draws together the thematic strands and places each article in its broader context.

Edited by Craig A. Evans, Acadia Divinity College, Canada

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This Encyclopedia will bring together the vast array of historical research into the reality of the man, the teachings, the acts, and the events ascribed to him that have served as the foundational story of one of the world’s central religions. This kind of historiography is not biography. The historical study of the Jesus stories and the transmission of these stories through time have been of seminal importance to historians of religion. Critical historical examination has provided a way for scholars of Christianity for centuries to analyze the roots of legend and religion in a way that allows scholars an escape from the confines of dogma, belief, and theological interpretation. In recent years, historical Jesus studies have opened up important discussions concerning anti-Semitism and early Christianity and the political and ideological filtering of the Jesus story of early Christianity through the Roman Empire and beyond.

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Sufism Edited by Lloyd Ridgeon, University of Glasgow, UK Series: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies In this new set, Lloyd Ridgeon has gathered approximately sixty articles into four volumes, focusing on the origins and early development, theory and beliefs, ritual and society, and Sufism in the modern period. These volumes draw together the most important and valuable contributions to the field, offering a unique resource for scholars, students, and professionals alike. March 2008: 234x156: 1600pp Set: 978-0-415-41943-7: £595.00

Entries will cover the classical studies that initiated the new historiography, the theoretical discussions about authenticating the historical record, the examination of sources that have led to the western understanding of Jesus’ teachings and disseminated myth of the events concerning Jesus’ birth and death.

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JOURNALS

The Muslim World 1100–1700

Contemporary Buddhism

Journal of Contemporary Religion

Early Sources on Middle East History, Geography and Travel (Royal Asiatic Society Classics 2)

Editors: Michael McGhee, University of Liverpool, UK and John Peacocke, University of Bristol and Sharpham College, UK

Editors: Peter B. Clarke, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, UK and Elisabeth Arweck, University of Warwick, UK

Contemporary Buddhism publishes articles on the current state of Buddhism from across the human sciences. The journal presents work from philosophers, theologians, historians, psychologists, anthropologists, sociologists and political scientists. Contemporary Buddhism examines the historical, doctrinal and political developments that have formed contemporary versions of Buddhism.

Journal of Contemporary Religion is an international journal which is concerned with the discussion and analysis of new religious movements, contemporary trends in the religions of the world, and new approaches to the study of religion. The purpose of the Journal is to both document and evaluate the anthropological, sociological, psychological, and philosophical aspects of emerging manifestations of religiosity and spirituality, whether they occur in innovative religious movements or within the mainstream churches.

Edited by Hiroyuki Mashita, Kobe University, Japan The Royal Asiatic Society, founded in 1823, was the main centre in Britain for scholarly work on Asia in the nineteenth century, and has been a publisher since 1829. The Muslim World 1100–1700 is the second fivevolume collection of RAS Classics reissued by Routledge in association with the Society. The first, Theology, Ethics and Metaphysics (978-0700-716708), was published in February 2003. August 2007: 234x156: 3000pp Hb: 978-0-415-39102-3: £725.00

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Aberbach, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 Abramson, Glenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39 Acts of Religion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31 Adair, James R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Adelman, Jonathan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 Agius, Dionisius A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39 Ahluwalia, Pal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38 Ahmed, Akbar S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 Akbarzadeh, Shahram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 Akhtar, Shabbir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Alfonso, Esperanza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 Alles, Gregory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Al-Masaq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Almeida, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31 Alpion, Gëzim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29 Alvarez, Alma Rosa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 Amin, Camron Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 An Introduction to Daoist Thought . . . . . . . . .16 Anderson, Roberta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23 Anderson, Ronald D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29 Andreyev, Sergei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 Anglophone Jewish Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 Anidjar, Gil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31 Anne, Lee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33 Anthony, Reid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Anti-Christian Discourse and Statist I deology in Japan 1600-1900 . . . . . . . . . . . .17 Aquinas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30 Arberry, A.J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8, 38 Arbor, Ann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38 Arguments of the Philosophers Series . . . . . . .30 Argyle, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33 Arweck, Elisabeth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25, 38 Asceticism and Power in South and Southeast Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 Augustine and Modernity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

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East European Jewish Affairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39 Economics of American Judaism . . . . . . . . . . .13 Einstein, Mara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26 Eliash, Shulamit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 Eller, Jack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28 Ellwood, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Embryology in the History of Tibetan Medicine 19 Encyclopedia of Buddhism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36 Encyclopedia of Hinduism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37 Encyclopedia of Islamic Civilization and Religion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37 Encyclopedia of Missions and Missionaries . . .37 Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements . . .26 Encyclopedia of Taoism, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36 Encyclopedia of the Historical Jesus . . . . . . . . .37 English, Adam C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 Environmental Ethics in Buddhism . . . . . . . . . .19 Esler, Philip F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

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.................................... Face of the Deep, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 Faith Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28 Faithful Reason . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 Fazel, Seena B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 Feinberg, Walter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35 Feldman, Matthew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39 Female Homosexuality in the Middle East . . . .34 Feminism and the Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Movement in Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34 Fifty Key Christian Thinkers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 Fifty Key Figures in Islam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Fifty Key Jewish Thinkers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 Fifty Major Cities of the Bible . . . . . . . . . . . . .20 Filming the Gods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28 Fletcher, Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 FlĂźgel, Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 For Goodness Sake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35 Foulston, Lynn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37

G ................................... Gammer, Moshe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 Gardner, Roy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28 Garrett, Frances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19 Gascoigne, Alison L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Gender and Narrative in the Mahabharata . . .18 Gender Pluralism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34 Genealogy of Nihilism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 Gilbert, Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24 Gilsenan, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Global Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Globalizing Regions Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 God and Evolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35, 36 God in the Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25 Godel's Proof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31 Gombrich, Richard F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18 Gottlieb, Roger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36 Graf, Fritz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23 Green, Nile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24 Gregory of Nazianzus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 Griffin, Roger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39 Grigsby, Bryon L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24 Gupta, Ravi M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Habib, Samar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34 Haj Yousef, Mohamed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 Haldane, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 Hall, Christine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38

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Llewellyn, J.E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 Long, D. Stephen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 Lucas, Phillip Charles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25 Luft, Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37 Lure of Images, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

M MacQueen, Benjamin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 Madrasas in South Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Mahayana Buddhism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18 Mahmood, Saleha S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39 Maier, Hans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35 Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed: Silence and Salvation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 Maimonides, Moses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38 Majeed, Javed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 Malik, Jamal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Mallett, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39 Mallinson, James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Mandair, Arvind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15 Mandair, Arvind-Pal S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38 Mannion, Gerard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 Many Deaths of Judas Iscariot, The . . . . . . . . .23 Marsh, Clive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28 Mashita, Hiroyuki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38 Massad, Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23 Mayer, Tamar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 Mayled, Jon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 Mazur, Eric Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25 McCarthy, Kate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25 McEnhill, Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11, 21 McGhee, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38 Medieval Religion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23 Meister, Chad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29, 30 Merchant, Carolyn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36 Metaphysics of Perfect Beings, The . . . . . . . . .31 Milbank, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21, 22 Militant Islam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Mindfulness in Early Buddhism . . . . . . . . . . . .19 Miner, Robert C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 Misconceptions about the Middle Ages . . . . . .24 Mitchell, Jolyon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27 Mittal, Sushil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14, 17 Mohamad, Maznah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34 Møllgaard, Eske . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Moreland, J.P . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31 Morgan, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25, 29 Morrison, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

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Peacocke, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38 Pearson, Joanne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25 Peletz, Michael G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34 Pemberton, Kelly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Perkins, Judith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23 Perrin, David B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 Persistence of the Palestinian Question, The . .23 Perspectives on Early Islamic Mysticism . . . . . . .7 Peters, Ted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38 Philosophy and Rabbinic Culture . . . . . . . . . . .14 Philosophy of Religion Reader, The . . . . . . . . .29 Philosophy, God and Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25 Pickstock, Catherine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 Plate, S. Brent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27 Poewe, Karla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35 Political Islam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37 Political Islam, World Politics and Europe . . . . .35 Political Philosophy and Religion . . . . . . . . . . .31 Pollack, Detlef . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32 Popular Religion in Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24 Porter, Stanley E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20 Possibility of Christian Philosophy, The . . . . . . .22 Prebish, Charles S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1, 2, 19, 36 Pregadio, Fabrizio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36 Producing Islamic Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 Protestant Missionaries, Asian Immigrants, and Ideologies of Race in America, 1850-1924 . .25 Psychology and Religion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33 Psychology and the East . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33 Psychology and the Occult . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

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T Tantric Mantras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 Tantric Philosophy of Abhinavagupta, The . . . .17 Taoism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 Tarocco, Francesca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19 Taylor, Matthew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 Teachings of the Sikh Gurus . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15 Themes in World History Series . . . . . . . . . . . .24 Theodoret of Cyrus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 Theology and Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38 Theology Goes to the Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . .28 Theophilus of Alexandria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 Theory for Religious Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Theory4 Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Theravada Buddhism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18 This Sacred Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36 Thomas, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39 Thursby, Gene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14, 17 Tibi, Bassam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

Wicca and the Christian Heritage . . . . . . . . . .25 Williams, Alan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Williams, Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18, 19 Wilson, Christopher Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Women's and Gender History Series . . . . . . . .34 Woodhead, Linda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 World Philosophies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30 World Religions Reader, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 World Religions Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1, 2, 3 Wynne, Alexander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

Y Yemelianova, Galina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 Yoga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18 York, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37

Z Zollner, Barbara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 Zoroastrians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Tite, Philip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34 Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39 Totalitarianism and Political Religions Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35 Totalitarianism and Political Religions, Volume II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35 Trance Formation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27 Transnational Islam and Regional Security . . . . .9 Tribe, Anthony J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19 Tripathi, Kamalesha Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 Truth in Aquinas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 Truth in the Making . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 Turley, Briane K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24 Turner, Colin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4, 9, 37

U Udis-Kessler, Amanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32 Understanding Islam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

V Van Bruinessen, Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 Varieties of Religious Experience, The . . . . . . .33 Vertigans, Stephen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Volpi, Frederic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

W Walder, Dennis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29 Walsh, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Wang, Youru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Warburg, Margit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28 Ward, Graham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

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