Religious Studies Catalogue April-December 2019

Religious Studies

New Books Catalogue

April-December 2019

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Edited by Jonathan Miles-Watson, Durham University, UK & Vivian Asimos, Durham University, UK

Drawing on over 10 years of experience teaching myth in religious studies and anthropology departments in the UK and USA, the editors have brought together key works in the theory of myth. The book includes an introduction and the Reader outlines a comparative and interpretative framework, each part and sub-section is contextualized by an introduction, each reading is introduced by the editors, companion website provides discussion questions and further reading suggestions, including primary source. From folklore to fairy tales, Levi-Strauss to Segal, Harry Potter to Monsters, this Reader covers the classic and contemporary theories needed to understand what myth is, why they exist, what they do, and what the future holds.

UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 320 pages PB 9781350082250 • £29.99 / $39.95 • HB 9781350082243 • £95.00 / $122.00 Individual eBook 9781350082274 Library eBook 9781350082267 Bloomsbury Academic World English

Hinduism in America A Convergence of Worlds

Jeffery D Long, Elizabeth Town College, USA The is the first survey of both Hindu immigrants and converts in North America, exploring the history and practice of Hindus, as well as the wider influence of Hindu thought and practice on American culture, and Hindu American social and political activism. Topics include Hindu temple building in the United States and Canada, the influence of Hinduism on vegetarianism, and yoga. Includes 30 images, chapter summaries, a glossary, study questions and suggestions for further reading.

UK October 2019 • US October 2019 • 320 pages • 30 bw illus PB 9781474248457 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781474248464 • £65.00 / $88.00 Individual eBook 9781474248488 Library eBook 9781474248471 Bloomsbury Academic

Chinese Religion and Familism

The Basis of Chinese Culture, Society and Government Jordan Paper

Race and New Religious Movements in the USA A Documentary Reader

Edited by Emily Suzanne Clark, Gonzaga University, USA & Brad Stoddard, McDaniel College, USA This documentary reader brings to life new religious movements from the 18th to 20th century. The introduction engages the theory and method students need in order to understand questions of race, religion, and American religious history. Each chapter has an introduction to the movement, including the context of its founding; two to four primary source documents about or from the movement; suggestions for further reading. Movements covered include the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism), the Native American Church, the Moorish Science Temple, and the Nation of Islam.

UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 224 pages PB 9781350063976 • £28.99 / $39.95 • HB 9781350063969 • £90.00 / $122.00 Individual eBook 9781350063990 Library eBook 9781350064003 Bloomsbury Academic World English

Buddhism, Education and Politics in Burma and Thailand From the Seventeenth Century to the Present

Khammai Dhammasami, University of Oxford, UK This is the first book to examine monastic education in Burma, providing an essential contribution to the social, monastic and religious history of Southeast Asia and the growing field of Burmese Buddhist studies. Drawing on primary sources in Pali, Burmese and Thai, Ven. Khammai Dhammasami guides us through the complex history of monastic education in two neighbouring but very different Buddhist societies from monarchy to modernism, from the challenges of the colonial period to the tensions of the present.

This book presents a new way of understanding Chinese Religion as an instance of Familism. This religion is traced in China from the Neolithic to the present, including its movement to countries to which Chinese are immigrating, although it is usually unrecognized.

The discussion includes how the Chinese state for the last several thousand years can be understood as a religious institution, the role of spirit possession, the relationship of other religions in China to Chinese Religion, including Buddhism, Daoism and Judaism, and the issue of freedom of religion in contemporary China.

R E L I G I O U S S T U D I E S – Textbooks / Asi an Re ligion s

The Bloomsbury Reader in the Study of Myth

UK December 2019 • US December 2019 • 200 pages PB 9781350103603 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350103610 • £65.00 / $90.00 Individual eBook 9781350103627 Library eBook 9781350103634 Bloomsbury Academic

Methods in Buddhist Studies Essays in Honor of Richard K. Payne

Edited by Scott A. Mitchell, Institute of Buddhist Studies, USA & Natalie Fisk Quli, Institute of Buddhist Studies, Berkeley, USA Methods in Buddhist Studies features new and original translations of rare materials, now available in English for the first time, as well as new ethnographic studies of rural and understudied areas of Japan. Topics discussed include the resurgence of Buddhism in contemporary China; Buddhist practices around food and consumption; the development of modern Buddhist Universities; rituals; consumerism; and the construction of the canon from such perspectives as history, textual studies, ritual studies. The chapters are drawn from both Payne’s students and his colleagues, demonstrating the breadth of his intellectual interests. Payne’s scholarship has left a remarkable impact on the field, and this volume is essential reading for students and scholars of contemporary Buddhism and Buddhist studies.

UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 248 pages HB 9781350046863 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9781350046887 Library eBook 9781350046870 Bloomsbury Academic

UK July 2019 • US July 2019 • 288 pages PB 9781350123069 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350054240 Individual eBook 9781350054264 Library eBook 9781350054257 Bloomsbury Academic

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R E L I G I O U S S T U D I E S – J apanese Rel i gi on / Anc i ent R el i gi on / Isl a m

Spirits and Animism in Contemporary Japan The Invisible Empire

Edited by Fabio Rambelli, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA This book draws attention to a striking aspect of contemporary Japanese culture: the pervasive nature of discussions and representations of "spirits". Ancestor cults have played a central role in Japanese culture and religion for many centuries; in recent decades, however, other phenomena have contributed to expand and diversify the realm of Japanese animism.

For example, many manga, anime, TV shows, literature, and art works deal with spirits, ghosts, and more in general, with an invisible dimension of reality. This book asks whether these are manifestations of "traditional," ancestral spirituality in their adaptations to contemporary society, or forms of commercial merchandise created by the media for consumption.

UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 240 pages • 20 bw illus HB 9781350097094 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9781350097117 Library eBook 9781350097100 Bloomsbury Academic

A Cognitive Approach

Olympia Panagiotidou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece & Roger Beck, University of Toronto, Canada This is the first full cognitive history of an ancient religion. In this groundbreaking book on one of the most intriguing and mysterious ancient religions, Roger Beck and Olympia Panagiotidou show how cognitive historiography can supplement our historical knowledge and deepen our understanding of past cultural phenomenon. The book identifies the cognitive and psychological processes which took place in the minds and bodies of the Mithraists during their initiation and participation in rituals, enabling the perception, apprehension, and integration of the essential images and assumptions of the cult in its worldview system.

UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 240 pages • 15 bw illus PB 9781472567390 • £24.99 / $33.95 Previously published in HB 9781472567413 Individual eBook 9781472567406 Library eBook 9781472567383 Series: Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation • Bloomsbury Academic

Islam of the Global West Islam and Nationhood in BosniaHerzegovina Surviving Empires

Xavier Bougarel, CETOBAC, France Based on substantial fieldwork and thorough knowledge of written sources, this book provides an analysis of the post-Ottoman and post-Communist history of Bosnian Muslims. It explores little-known aspects of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, unravels the paradoxes of Bosniak national identity, and retraces the transformations of Bosnian Islam from the end of the Ottoman period to today. It offers fresh perspectives on the wars and post-war periods of the Yugoslav space, the forming of national identities and the strength of imperial legacies in Eastern Europe, and Islam’s presence in Europe.

UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 280 pages PB 9781350117082 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350003590 Individual eBook 9781350003606 Library eBook 9781350003613 Series: Islam of the Global West • Bloomsbury Academic World English

American and Muslim Worlds 1500 - 1900

Edited by John Ghazvinian, Associate Director, Middle East Center, University of Pennsylvania, USA & Arthur Mitchell Fraas, University of Pennsylvania Libraries, USA At a time when American politicians freely float the idea that Muslims can somehow be "banned" from the United States or hermetically sealed out of existence, this book is a timely reminder that the "long view" matters. It challenges the assumption that when we talk about "American and Muslim worlds", we are always talking about two entities that have come into conflict and confrontation with each other in the late twentieth century in the form of wars, radicalism, terrorism, and so on. Instead, this book provides an important historical context for contemporary - and past - events.

UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 256 pages HB 9781350109513 • £85.00 / $115.00 Individual eBook 9781350109537 Library eBook 9781350109520 Series: Islam of the Global West • Bloomsbury Academic

Islam and the Governing of Muslims in France

Islam as Critique of Modernity?

Frank Peter, Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies, Hamad bin Khalifa University, Qatar

Khurram Hussain, Lehigh University, USA

Secularism without Religion

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The Roman Mithras Cult

The Traditional Modernisms of Sayyid Ahmad Khan

This book examines the emergence of forms of French Islam by looking at the neglected intellectual production of a major Islamic group in France. Analyzing the concerns and problems these Muslims raise in lectures, sermons, and essays, the book signals the issues – social policies, historical memory, aesthetic practices, and prognoses for the future – that matter to secular politics beyond the management of religious diversity. By reconstructing their arguments, this book sheds light on the modes of reasoning that make up secular politics, revealing new connections between Islamic traditions and secular rationalities.

Islam as Critique? locates Khan within a broader strain in modern Islamic thought that is neither a rejection of the West, nor a wholesale acceptance of liberal or conservative principles, which the author calls Critical Islam. The book offers accounts and evaluations of modernity that are often in conflict with dominant Western interpretations but are also always an engaged response to these interpretations. By bringing Khan’s critical engagement with modernity into conversation with similar critical analyses of the modern by Reinhold Niebuhr, Hannah Arendt, and Alasdair MacIntyre, the author shows how Islam can be read as critique.

UK October 2019 • US October 2019 • 288 pages • 5 bw illus HB 9781350067905 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9781350067929 Library eBook 9781350067912 Series: Islam of the Global West • Bloomsbury Academic

UK September 2019 • US September 2019 • 224 pages HB 9781350006331 • £85.00 / $115.00 Individual eBook 9781350006348 Library eBook 9781350006355 Series: Islam of the Global West • Bloomsbury Academic

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History, Cult and Persona

Edited by Ingvild Saelid Gilhus, University of Bergen, Norway, Alexandros Tsakos, University of Bergen, Norway & Martha Camilla Wright, University of Bergen, Norway This is the first book to take an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the cult and representation of the Archangel Michael, focusing on Africa. Chapters explore both historical and contemporary case studies from Coptic Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia and South Africa, providing a comparative perspectives on the Archangel Michael. The book contains 25 images, and further images can be found on the book’s webpage.

UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 272 pages HB 9781350084711 • £90.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781350084735 Library eBook 9781350084728 Bloomsbury Academic

Religious Evolution and the Axial Age

From Shamans to Priests to Prophets Stephen K. Sanderson, University of California, Riverside, USA Religious Evolution and the Axial Age describes and explains the evolution of religion over the past ten millennia. It shows that an overall evolutionary sequence can be observed, running from the spirit and shaman dominated religions of small-scale societies, to the archaic religions of the ancient civilizations, and then to the salvation religions of the Axial Age. Stephen K. Sanderson draws on ideas from new cognitive and evolutionary psychological theories, as well as comparative religion, anthropology, history, and sociology. He argues that religion is a biological adaptation that evolved in order to solve a number of human problems, especially those concerned with existential anxiety and ontological insecurity.

UK July 2019 • US July 2019 • 320 pages • 1 bw illus PB 9781350123076 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350047426 Individual eBook 9781350047440 Library eBook 9781350047433 Series: Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation • Bloomsbury Academic

A New Theory of Religion and Social Change Sovereignties and Disruptions

Paul-François Tremlett, The Open University, UK This volume explores five theories of social change that are implicated in the contemporary understanding of religion. Arguing that theories of change do not only imply temporal shifts but also spatial ones, PaulFrançois Tremlett outlines a new interpretation of writings by Tylor, Marx, Durkheim, Lévi-Strauss, Deleuze, Laclau and Derrida.

Drawing on research conducted in London, Hong Kong and the Philippines, Tremlett argues that theories of change are implicated in shifting imaginaries of religion, biology and mathematics. He demonstrates that theories of temporal change tend to construct religion in terms of belief and nature as something fixed, while theories of spatial change tend to emphasize changing religious forms and theories of biological complexity.

UK October 2019 • US October 2019 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781474272568 • £85.00 / $115.00 Individual eBook 9781474272575 Library eBook 9781474272582 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place • Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Studying Christians

Edited by Stephen E. Gregg, University of Wolverhampton, UK & George D. Chryssides, York St John University, UK Approaching Christianity as a lived religion and drawing on a range of methodologies, this handbook shifts attention from normative textual and doctrinal matters to issues of materiality and everyday life.

Themes covered include sacred space, cyber-Christianity, food, prayer, fundamentalism and sexuality. Issues of gender, race and ethnicity are treated throughout. Clearly and accessibly organised, the book includes an A to Z of key terms, extensive guides to further resources, a comprehensive bibliography, and a timeline of major developments in the field such as the emergence of new groups, publications, legal decisions, and historical events.

UK December 2019 • US December 2019 • 456 pages HB 9781350043381 • £130.00 / $176.00 Individual eBook 9781350043398 Library eBook 9781350043404 Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic

All Religion Is Inter-Religion Engaging the Work of Steven M. Wasserstrom

Edited by Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, Reed College, USA & Paul Robertson, University of New Hampshire, USA Calling on religious studies scholars to rethink their work, this book is an important contribution to the way ‘religion’ is defined and used. Through comparative work and empirical studies, essays test concepts of inter-religion and deep pluralism, and present new perspectives on topics including Hemeticism, Gnosticism, modernism, Judaism and inter-Abrahamic thought. It also explores the influence of western mysticism on the modern study of religion, and the relationship between modernity, idealism, Judaism, and Islam.

R E L I G I O U S S T U D I E S – Chri sti ani ty / The ory an d M e th od

The Archangel Michael in Africa

UK July 2019 • US July 2019 • 288 pages HB 9781350062214 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9781350062238 Library eBook 9781350062221 Bloomsbury Academic

New Atheism

Competitive Secular Views in a Postsecular World Alan G. Nixon, Western Sydney University, Australia This is the first full-length exploration of New Atheism within its wider social, cultural, intellectual, political contexts. The book provides and draws on extensive global ethnographic data from digital fieldwork sites, as well as empirical work from Australia, which has been neglected in research to date, and provides linguistic and cultural data of relevance to scholars particularly in the US, UK and Canada where the movement largely began.

Essential reading for anyone wanting to know where New Atheism came from, why, and its ongoing impacts on nonreligious thought and culture.

UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 256 pages HB 9781350080492 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9781350080508 Library eBook 9781350080515 Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies • Bloomsbury Academic

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Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place Landscapes of Christianity

Destination, Temporality, Transformation Edited by James S. Bielo, Miami University, USA & Amos S. Ron, Ashkelon Academic College, Israel Explores how Christianity intersects with nature to create unique religious landscapes. Case studies range from the Mormon Trail across the USA completed by thousands every year, to the Catholic devotional cult of and shrine to St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina. Contributors examine the entangled forms of agency between nature and culture that are at work as Christians produce, consume, experience, imagine, inhabit, manage, and struggle over formations of land. Focusing on Christian engagements with land forms in the early 21st century, this book advances the spatial turn in the study of religion and contributes to the anthropology of religion and the study of global Christianities.

UK October 2019 • US October 2019 • 256 pages • 15 bw illus HB 9781350062894 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9781350062917 Library eBook 9781350062900 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place • Bloomsbury Academic

Global Trajectories of Brazilian Religion Lusospheres

Edited by Martijn Oosterbaan, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, Linda van de Kamp, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands & Joana Bahia, State University of Rio de Janiero This book shows that Religious movements as diverse as Santo Daime, Candomblé, Capoeira, John of God, and Brazilian style Pentecostalism and Catholicism, have become immensely popular in many places outside Brazil. It argues that Brazilian religious practices, objects and media play a central role in the making of the presentday transnational Lusosphere, the historical Portuguese colonial reach that is often identified by way of its linguistic footprint.

UK October 2019 • US October 2019 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350072060 • £85.00 / $115.00 Individual eBook 9781350072084 Library eBook 9781350072077 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place • Bloomsbury Academic

Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion Figurations and Sensations of the Unseen in Judaism, Christianity and Islam Contested Desires

Edited by Birgit Meyer, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands & Terje Stordalen, University of Oslo, Norway This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the University of Oslo and Utrecht University.

While Judaism, Christianity and Islam all feature theological programs which prefer the spoken, sung, or written word over pictures and figurations as representations of the deity, this book shows that actual practices in these religious traditions are more complex. Examples are drawn from around the world, including images of God in TurcoPersian Painting, modern Church art, and visual images in medieval Jewish culture.

UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 368 pages • 60 colour HB 9781350078635 • £110.00 / $150.00 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion • Bloomsbury Academic

The Religious Heritage Complex Conservation, Objects and Habitus

Edited by Cyril Isnart, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France & Nathalie Cerezales, Paris-Sorbonne University, France Case studies explore Christian, Afro-Brazilian, Muslim and Buddhist traditions located in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. The book considers the ways patrimony, religion and identity interact in different contexts worldwide and how religious objects and sites function as identity. It focuses on heritage-making as a religious and material activity for the groups in charge of a religious inheritance, and considers heritage activities as a form of spiritual renewal and transmission.

UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 256 pages HB 9781350072510 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9781350072534 Library eBook 9781350072527 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion • Bloomsbury Academic

Museums of World Religions At the Interstices of Religious Identity in India and Pakistan

Charles Orzech, University of Glasgow, UK

Drawing on insights from theoretical engagements with materiality and subalternity, this book opens new frames for understanding religion in South Asia. It presents the realm of material expression in popular religions as a very real and important indication of wider developments in political, social and religious identity and practice, and as a result challenges the definition of religion more broadly. Ultimately, popular religion challenges the borders and boundaries of religious and communal categories, nationalism, and theological frameworks.

Charles Orzech examines and compares five purpose-built museums of world religions, as well as a small number of online sites structured according to the category. These museums are located in Europe (Marburg, Glasgow and St Petersburg), North America (Quebec) and Asia (Taipei) and, inspired by the nineteenth- and twentieth-century discipline of comparative religions, museums now seek to promote religious tolerance by representing religious diversity and by arguing for underlying kinship among religions. The book questions the ideology that informs these museums. Building on recent anthropological work on the agency of religious objects, the author both critiques and suggests new approaches to displaying the matter of religion.

UK October 2019 • US October 2019 • 256 pages • 5 bw illus HB 9781350041752 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9781350041776 Library eBook 9781350041769 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality • Bloomsbury Academic

UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 224 pages • 20 bw illus HB 9781350016248 • £85.00 / $115.00 Individual eBook 9781350016255 Library eBook 9781350016262 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion • Bloomsbury Academic

Gender and Caste Beyond Borders and Boundaries Navtej K. Purewal, SOAS, University of London, UK & Virinder S. Kalra, University of Manchester, UK

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Displaying the Divine, Shaping Cultures

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Solving the Evolutionary Puzzle of Human Cooperation Glenn Barenthin

In this book, Glenn Barenthin provides a new solution to a key question in the cognitive and evolutionary study of religion: why do humans cooperate? Using evidence from anthropology, history, cognitive science, psychology and game theory, Barenthin presents a new theory which argues that evolutionary pressures faced by our forebears paved the way for emerging humans to engage in what he terms ‘thin cooperation’. This type of cooperation requires individuals to comprehend the reasons for their actions, and it is often done with others in mind.

UK September 2019 • US September 2019 • 256 pages • 2 bw illus HB 9781350106758 • £85.00 / $115.00 Individual eBook 9781350106772 Library eBook 9781350106765 Series: Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation • Bloomsbury Academic

Language, Cognition, and Biblical Exegesis Interpreting Minds

Edited by Ronit Nikolsky, University of Groningen, the Netherlands, István Czachesz, University of Tromsø, Norway, Tamás Biró, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary & Frederick S. Tappenden, Concordia University of Edmonton, Canada This book fills the gap in research on religious texts and narratives in the cognitive science of religion. It presents a systematic attempt to redefine the interpretation of religious texts in a cognitive framework, providing concrete textual analysis on a broad selection of biblical passages. The editors explore the ways that cognitive approaches to language and textual interpretation expand the disciplines of the cognitive science of religion and biblical studies.

UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 256 pages • 9 bw illus HB 9781350078109 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9781350078123 Library eBook 9781350078116 Series: Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation • Bloomsbury Academic

Naturalism and Protectionism in the Study of Religions

Juraj Franek, Masaryk University, Czech Republic In this book, Juraj Franek argues that the study of religion has long been split into two competing paradigms: reductive (naturalist) and non-reductive (protectionist). This book analyses the conflict between reductive and non-reductive approach in the modern study of religions, and positions the Cognitive Science of Religion against a background of previous theories - ancient and modern - to demonstrate its importance for the revindication of the naturalist paradigm.

UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 272 pages HB 9781350082373 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9781350082397 Library eBook 9781350082380 Series: Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation • Bloomsbury Academic World English

Black Transhuman Liberation Theology Technology and Spirituality

Philip Butler, Claremont School of Theology, USA Mediating Black religious studies and liberation theology, Philip Butler explores how Black Americans can utilize technology in conjunction with their spirituality in the fight towards materializing freedom. Addressing some of the issues that have prevented Black Americans from participating in science, technology and even science fiction, the book engages how religion, medical abuse and the perception of the Black intellect in America have served as barriers. It takes a critical scientific approach to understanding the biological embodiment of black spiritual practices, and projects how current and emerging technologies can be aligned with spiritually generative biological states to physically deconstruct oppressive societal structures.

UK October 2019 • US October 2019 • 224 pages HB 9781350081932 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9781350081956 Library eBook 9781350081949 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Black Religion and Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Cultural and Cognitive Aesthetics of Religion

Edited by Anne Koch, University of Salzburg, Austria & Katharina Wilkens, University of Munich, Germany Bridging cognition and culture, this book explores both social scientific and humanities approaches to understanding the physical processes of religious life, tradition, practice, and belief. It reflects the cultural turn within the study of religion and puts theory to the fore, moving beyond traditional theological, philosophical and ethnographic understandings of the aesthetics of religion. Case studies are drawn from around the world, and the book includes contributions from scholars based in Europe, USA and Australia, and a foreword by Sally Promey (Yale Divinity School). This is an important contribution to theory and method in the study of religion.

UK September 2019 • US September 2019 • 400 pages • 35 colour illus HB 9781350066717 • £130.00 / $176.00 Individual eBook 9781350066731 Library eBook 9781350066724 Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic

R E L I G I O U S S T U D I E S – Rel i gi on and Sc i e n ce / Re ligion an d C u ltu re

Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Christians

Queer Christians, Authentic Selves Bronwyn Fielder, University of Tasmania, Australia & Douglas Ezzy, University of Tasmania, Australia This book moves between richly described first person accounts and clear theoretical analysis. It details the processes through which LGBT Christians resolve the fraught tensions between their religious, sexual and gendered identities. Through extensive qualitative research with LGBT Christians in the Australian Metropolitan Community Church (MCC), the authors show that many people ultimately find a resolution and a sense of peace with their sexual identity as LGBT Christians.

UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 200 pages • 6 bw illus PB 9781350117075 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350030022 Individual eBook 9781350030046 Library eBook 9781350030039 Bloomsbury Academic

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R E L I G I O U S S T U D I E S – Rel i gi on a nd Cul ture

Bloomsbury Studies in Religion and Popular Music Mysticism, Ritual and Religion in Drone Metal

U2 and the Religious Impulse Take Me Higher

Owen Coggins, The Open University, UK

This is the first extensive scholarly study of drone metal and its religious dimensions, drawing on three years of ethnographic participant observation at more than 300 performances, 74 interviews with listeners and other participants, survey data, and analysis of sound recordings. Contributing to the field of religion and popular music as well as popular culture more generally, the author argues that the marginality of the genre culture, together with the extremely abstract sound produces a focus on the listeners’ engagement with sound, and that this in turn creates a space for the open-ended exploration of religiosity in extreme states of bodily consciousness.

UK July 2019 • US July 2019 • 224 pages • 6 bw illus PB 9781350123168 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350025097 Individual eBook 9781350025110 Library eBook 9781350025103 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion and Popular Music • Bloomsbury Academic

Edited by Scott Calhoun, Cedarville University, USA U2 and the Religious Impulse examines indications in U2’s music and performances that the band works at the conscious and subconscious levels as artists who focus on matters of the spirit, religious traditions and a life guided by both belief and doubt.

U2 is known for a career of stirring songs, landmark performances and for its interest in connecting with fans to reach a higher power to accomplish greater purposes. U2 surprises many listeners who examine its lyrics and concert themes by having a depth of interest in matters of human existence more typically found in literature, philosophy and theology.

UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 256 pages • 21 bw illus PB 9780567690210 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501332395 Individual eBook 9781350032569 Library eBook 9781350032552 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion and Popular Music • Bloomsbury Academic

Religious Humor in Evangelical Christian and Mormon Culture

Evangelical Youth Culture

Alternative Music and Extreme Sports Subcultures

Elisha McIntyre, University of Sydney, Australia Incorporating original data from textual analysis and the voices of religious comedians, the book critically analyzes the experiences of believers who appreciate that their faith is not necessarily a barrier to their laughter. The author argues that there are specific characteristics that indicate a unique kind of humor that may be called ‘religious humor’. Through an examination of religious humor found in stand-up comedy, television sitcoms, comedy film and satirical cartoons, and drawing on interview and survey data, the book outlines the main considerations that some Christians take into account when choosing their comedy entertainment.

UK July 2019 • US July 2019 • 232 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781350123090 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350005488 Individual eBook 9781350005495 Library eBook 9781350005501 Bloomsbury Academic

Glastonbury and the Making of New Age Spirituality An Indian Guru and Esotericism in 1971 Ron Geaves, Cardiff University, UK Geaves demonstrates how the convergence of Guru Maharaj Ji and Glastonbury Fayre 1971 reveals an important piece in the jigsaw that forms the bricolage that came to be known as ‘New Age’, or, perhaps more neutrally contemporary spirituality. The book charts the "discovery" of Guru Maharaj Ji in India in 1969 by a small number of British, and then, North American ‘hippies’, and how his arrival in Britain in June 1971 and his speech from the pyramid stage at the Fayre at just 13 years of age, escalated his activities to become one of the key players influencing 1970s counter-culture spirituality.

UK October 2019 • US October 2019 • 256 pages • 15 bw illus HB 9781350090873 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9781350090897 Library eBook 9781350090880 Bloomsbury Academic

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Ibrahim Abraham, University of Helsinki, Finland Based on interviews with dozens of musicians and sports enthusiasts in the USA, UK, Australia and South Africa, combined with the analysis of Evangelical sub-cultural media including music, film, underground punk zines and extreme sports Bibles, this book offers a theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich study of the fascinating intersections of contemporary Christianity and cutting edge youth culture. Engaging with the experiences of Pentecostal punks, surfing missionaries, township rappers and skateboarding pastors, this book makes an original contribution to the sociology of religion, youth studies, and the study of religion and popular culture.

UK April 2019 • US April 2019 • 208 pages PB 9781350108080 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350020320 Individual eBook 9781350020337 Library eBook 9781350020344 Bloomsbury Academic

Being Jewish Today

Confronting the Real Issues Tony Bayfield With honesty and integrity, Tony Bayfield breaks new ground in exploring the meaning of Jewish identity and its relationship to the Jewish tradition and belief. He does so from the perspective of someone fully integrated into the modern world. The challenging questions he asks of his Jewishness, Judaism and Jewish God are therefore the same as those asked by all faiths and none. This book goes to the heart of the meaning of life today in a universe, the painful realities of which have to be confronted if religion is to retain respect and play a part in contemporary life.

UK September 2019 • US December 2019 • 256 pages HB 9781472962089 • £18.99 / $25.00 Individual eBook 9781472962096 Library eBook 9781472962065 Bloomsbury Continuum

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