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Christianity as a World Religion
Sebastian Kim, Fuller Theological Seminary, USA & Kirsteen Kim, Fuller Theological Seminary, USA
A fully updated introductory textbook that examines Christianity as a global faith, locally rooted in varied communities across 2,000 years of history
New to this edition: - further coverage of the role of migration and transnational movements; more attention to the intersections between peoples, churches, regions and communities; more explicit coverage of race and race theory, and gender and sexuality, theory and method; relevant updates throughout, including #blacklivesmatters, climate-change, rituals, US Roman Catholicism, and Hispanic migration, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic; chapter summaries and recommended readings
UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 432 pages • 40 bw illus
PB 9781350371514 • £24 99 / $34 95 • HB 9781350371521 • £75 00 / $100 00
ePub 9781350371545 • £22 49 / $31 04
ePdf 9781350371538 • £22 49 / $31 04
Bloomsbury Academic
Fulfill Thy Ministry
Loren B. Mead & J. Michael Martinez
Race and enslavement were the major issues confronting the Christian Church in the United States throughout the nineteenth century During the antebellum era, churches debated whether their scriptures condoned race-based slavery
This book examines the lives and careers of three white Episcopal clergy from South Carolina: Peter Fayssoux Stevens (1830-1910), A Toomer Porter (1828-1902), and William Porcher DuBose (18361918) These men present illuminating case studies because they were contemporaries yet their responses to how the Southern church welcomed or rejected freed Blacks significantly diverged following the Civil War. Studying these figures tells a larger story about how the Christian church, and the South, understood faith commitments in the context of social and religious racism—racism that, sadly, remains in evidence in the church today
UK December 2025 US December 2025 256 pages
PB 9798881803551 £28 99 / $40 00 HB 9798881803544 / $110 00
ePub 9798881803568 £29 53 / $36 00
ePdf 9798881868000 • £29 53 / $36 00
Bloomsbury Academic World English
Christians in the City: Studies in Contemporary Global Christianity
Dyron B. Daughrity, Pepperdine University, USA
Christians in the Cities of Johannesburg and Pretoria
Becoming in an African Megacity
Stéphan de Beer, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Glimpse into the impact of Christianity in one of Africa’s largest and fastest-growing megacities, located in the Gauteng City-Region Addressing a scarcity of religious scholarship in the field of urban studies, this book focuses on the Johannesburg–Pretoria corridor and Christian faith expressions in the African megacity Connecting socio-spatial change in post-apartheid South African cities with the changing Christian landscape, this book interrogates the connections and disconnections between Christianity and urban change It provides valuable insights to students of religion, sociology and urban studies seeking to understand contexts where global migration and Christian faith increasingly co-exist
UK July 2025 US July 2025 344 pages 10 bw illus
PB 9781350329904 £24 99 / $34 95 HB 9781350329898 £75 00 / $100 00
ePub 9781350329928 • £22 49 / $31 04
ePdf 9781350329911 • £22 49 / $31 04
Series: Christians in the City: Studies in Contemporary Global Christianity • Bloomsbury Academic
Ritual Healing in the Zion Christian Church in South Africa
Mookgo Solomon Kgatle, University of South Africa, South Africa
The Zion Christian Church is one of the largest churches in the African continent with footprints in other parts of the world This book uses the ritual healing process to study the healing practices including music, prophecy, and social restrictions of the Zion Christian Church This church is essential in understanding the healing practices within the broader context of the African Independent Churches The book also uses decolonial theory to argue that the intersections of Indigenous African medicine and faith healing are relevant for the decolonisation of the knowledge system on faith healing
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 180 pages
HB 9781350552876 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350552890 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350552883 • £76 50 / $103 94
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Black Religion and Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic
Christians in the City of Lagos
Caleb O. Oladipo, Campbell University Divinity School, USA
As well as tracing the historical development of Christianity in Lagos, this book gives readers a sense of daily life in Lagos for Christians through original ethnographic research Incorporating interviews of Christians from six of the most influential churches in Lagos, it explores first-hand accounts of faith and practice in the city, offering a unique perspective to scholars of global Christianity
UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 224 pages
PB 9781350401273 • £21 99 / $29 95 • HB 9781350401266 • £65 00 / $90 00
ePub 9781350401242 • £19 79 / $26 99
ePdf 9781350401280 • £19 79 / $26 99
Series: Christians in the City: Studies in Contemporary Global Christianity • Bloomsbury Academic
Maximus the Confessor and the Trinity
The Early
Works
Eric L. Lopez
This book explores Maximus’ Trinitarian theology, starting with his early works and then moving through the various stages of his writing to analyze how his theology had developed While Maximus’ Trinitarian theology must be correlated with his Christology, this book offers a more nuanced and chronological account that demonstrates how a broader set of traditions, concerns, and controversies gave shape to his thought
UK November 2025 • US December 2025 • 256 pages
HB 9781978700093 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9798216353911 • £83 02 / $103 50
ePdf 9798216258155 • £83 02 / $103 50
Fortress Academic
Sensing Islam
Engaging and Contesting the Senses in Muslim Religiosity
Simon Stjernholm
Presents, discusses and analyses historical as well as contemporary examples of how the senses have been engaged and contested in Muslim religiosity
Combining the research fields of Islamic Studies, anthropology of Islam, material religion and sensory studies, this book covers a range of materials, including writings by Muslim religious authorities, ethnographic material, sound recordings and interviews
UK March 2025 • US March 2025 • 192 pages • 4 bw illis
HB 9781350324138 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350324152 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350324145 • £76 50 / $103 94
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion • Bloomsbury Academic
Islamic Algorithms
Online Influence in the Muslim Metaverse
Gary R. Bunt, University of Wales Trinity Saint David
This is the first detailed thematic discussion of historical and contemporary Muslim ‘influencers’, and their representation in cyberspace The book provides an understanding of how Islam ‘functions’ in digital frameworks, through analysis of the impact of social media, apps and increasing connectivity across diverse Muslim contexts The case studies enable readers to contextualise key cyber developments, including the ways that authorities used online media throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, and how political-religious forces in Indonesia underpin activities through social media
UK November 2025 US November 2025 328 pages
PB 9781350418301 £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350418264
ePub 9781350418288 • £81 00 / $110 69
ePdf 9781350418271 • £81 00 / $110 69 Bloomsbury Academic
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Muslims and Popular Culture
Edited by Hussein Rashid, Harvard Divinity School, USA & Kristian Petersen, Old Dominion University, USA
An international team of contributors provide in-depth analysis that chronicles Islamic cultural products in regional and transnational contexts, explores dominant and emerging theories about popularization, and offers provocations in the field of religion and popular culture. The handbook is structured in six parts: spaces; appetites; performances; readings; visions; and communities
UK October 2025
• US October 2025 • 416 pages • 35 bw illus
PB 9781350419377 • £39 99 / $54 95
Previously published in HB 9781350145399
ePub 9781350145412 • £117 00 / $159 29
ePdf 9781350145405 • £117 00 / $159 29
Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic
Islam of the Global West
Frank Peter, Erlangen Center for Islam and Law in Europe, Germany & Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, Carlton College, USA
Integration in Multicultural England
Community Relations between Muslims and Non-Muslims
Jörg Friedrichs, University of Oxford, UK
Taking an innovative approach that moves away from mapping “British Muslims” or “British Islam”, this book instead discusses community relations between Muslims and nonMuslims in British society Discussed are the actual ways Muslims and non-Muslims relate, or fail to relate, where it matters most, namely in diverse inner cities Inner-city residents prove experts when it comes to community relations A tour of diverse English inner cities, from Halifax to Birmingham, and further to the East End of London, their insights are relevant for community cohesion, both in England’s diverse inner cities but also in other British and non-British contexts
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 272 pages • 10 bw illus
HB 9781350555242 • £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9781350555266 £81 00 / $110 69
ePdf 9781350555273 £81 00 / $110 69
Series: Islam of the Global West • Bloomsbury Academic
The Contemporary British Mosque
The Establishment of Muslim Congregations and Institutions
Abdul-Azim Ahmed, Cardiff University, UK
Details the establishment of early mosques in Britain during the era of Empire, and the more rapid growth in the years following the Second World War AbdulAzim Ahmed answers the question of what a mosque does, and what role it has for Muslims and the wider society The case of the Muslim congregation, a poorly understood and often overlooked dimension of religion in Britain, is detailed, and through the congregation, issues of diversity, denomination, sacredness, and society are explored Repositioning mosques as social, cultural and political spaces, this volume provides new insights on key contemporary debates
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 240 pages • 10 bw illus
PB 9781350259010 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350258976
ePub 9781350258990 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350258983 • £76 50 / $103 94
Series: Islam of the Global West • Bloomsbury Academic
The Ministry of Louis Farrakhan in the Nation of Islam
Dawn-Marie Gibson, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Placing Farrakhan’s life and leadership in historical context, this book traces his evolution from a fiery Black Nationalist in 1960s Harlem to a respected leader in sections of the USA and abroad, providing insights into the history of African American Islam, Black Nationalism and Islam in the West. Archives drawn on include the FBI’s files on the NOI and its leaders, Farrakhan’s writings in the Muhammad Speaks newspaper in the 1960s and early 1970s, and lectures and interviews from the late 1970s to the present day
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 200 pages
PB 9781350426337 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350068506
ePub 9781350068520 • £26 09 / $36 44
ePdf 9781350068513 • £26 09 / $36 44
Series: Islam of the Global West • Bloomsbury Academic
Figures of Buddhist Diplomacy in Modern Asia
Edited by Jack Meng-Tat Chia, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Exploring prominent Buddhist leaders, politicians, and diplomats who have engaged in Buddhist diplomacy in modern Asia since the twentieth century, this open access book argues for the need to bring Buddhism into the study of international relations in modern Asia Through its multidisciplinary approach, this book advances a new direction of scholarship that bridges diplomatic history, international relations, and religious studies Scholars range from religious studies specialists, anthropologists, historians, and political scientists
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Council (Singapore).
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 320 pages • 10 bw illus
HB 9781350530126 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350530119 • £00 00 / $00 00
ePdf 9781350530102 £00 00 / $00 00
Bloomsbury Academic
Appropriating the Dao
The Euro-American Esoteric Reception of China
Edited by Lukas K. Pokorny, University of Vienna, Austria & Franz Winter, University of Graz, Austria
This book explores the reception and appropriation of East Asian religious and philosophical notions, ideas, and patterns of thought within the Euro-American esoteric current from the 18th - 21st century Chapters encompass research on the early phase of reception, pertaining to Daoism and the Yijing in the 19th century’s Euro-American occult milieu, with additional attempts to locate tropes and patterns even earlier – that is, within the 18th century’s mesmerism and figurism.
UK November 2025 US November 2025 240 pages
PB 9781350289604 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350289567
ePub 9781350289581 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350289574 • £76 50 / $103 94
Bloomsbury Academic
The Notion of Solitude in Pali Buddhist Literature
Finding a Space in the Crowd
Indaka Weerasekera, Independent scholar, UK
Exploring how notions of solitude in Pali literature are encompassed in various literary forms, this book includes close analysis of some of the most famous Buddhist verses about solitary practice It considers how solitude is valued as one significant aspect of the Buddhist path, including how the imagery of landscape serves to both inspire solitary practice as well as functions as a metaphor for meditation
UK December 2025 US December 2025 272 pages 10 bw illus
PB 9781350426108 £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350426061
ePub 9781350426085 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350426078 • £76 50 / $103 94
Bloomsbury Academic
Nature, Disaster, and Animism in Japan
Anima Philosophica
Edited by Ishii Miho, Kyoto University, Japan & Fujihara Tatsushi, Kyoto University, Japan
This open access book investigates problems in modern Japan, such as pollution, nuclear accidents, and environmental destruction Through this, the book reconsiders the works of thinkers such as Minakata Kumagusu and Nishida Kitaro The contributors consider animistic thoughts and practices that can link humans and nature in Japan, creating a philosophy of life— anima philosophica Contibuting to recent academic debates, the book analyzes the Minamata disease and the 2011 Earthquake and tsunami
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.
UK December 2025 US December 2025 288 pages 15 bw illus
HB 9781350506848 £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350506862 • £00 00 / $00 00
ePdf 9781350506855 • £00 00 / $00 00
Bloomsbury Academic
The Vestiges of Japanese Spirituality
Challenging the Standard Model of Religious History
Brian J. McVeigh, University at Albany, SUNY, USA
A bold analysis of Japanese religious history that challenges conventions, this book explores the psychology of spirit possession, shamanism, divination, and Shugendo (mountain asceticism) Brian J McVeigh demonstrates how the practices of Japan’s new religions are relics of an earlier mentality that have been creatively re-adapted and repurposed for the present-day
UK December 2025 • US October 2025 • 176 pages • 3 bw illus; 7 tables
HB 9781666977936 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781978769588 • £83 02 / $103 50
ePdf 9798216257073 • £83 02 / $103 50 Bloomsbury Academic
Historical Dictionary of Jainism
Kristi L. Wiley, Ana Bajzelj, Steven M. Vose & Christoph Emmrich
Historical Dictionary of Jainism, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography, and cross-referenced dictionary entries
UK April 2026 • US February 2026 • 352 pages
HB 9781538145302 • £160 00 / $160 00
ePub 9781538145319 • £115 75 / $144 00
ePdf 9798765160909 • £115 75 / $144 00
Series: Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements Series Bloomsbury Academic
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion, Gender, and Sexuality in
the Ancient Near East
Edited by Shawna Dolansky, Carleton University, Canada & Sarah Shectman, independent scholar, USA
Cutting across disciplinary boundaries and challenging traditional understandings of historical cultures, this handbook examines and interrogates the ways in which gender, sexuality, and religion were mutually constructed and negotiated in ancient Near Eastern societies Chapters look at ritual and ceremonial practices, iconographic representations, mythological and divinatory texts, personal beliefs, and piety, focusing on the intersections of gender, sexuality and religion as a central category of inquiry
UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 496 pages
HB 9781350382015 £140 00 / $190 00
ePub 9781350382039 £126 00 / $171 44
ePdf 9781350382022 • £126 00 / $171 44
Bloomsbury Academic
Weird Confucius
Unorthodox Representations of Confucius in History
Zhao Lu, New York University Shanghai, China
Zhao Lu analyses the eclectic, fictitious representations of Confucius that have been widely celebrated by communities of people throughout history He considers depictions of Confucius as prophet, a fortune-teller, a powerful demon hunter, a shrewd villain of 19th-Century American newspapers, and as an embodiment of feudal evils in the Cultural Revolution In doing so, Lu shows that these representations reflect the specific anxieties of these communities.
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 256 pages • 3 bw illus
PB 9781350327603 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350327528
ePub 9781350327580 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350327573 £76 50 / $103 94
Bloomsbury Academic
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Heritage in Contemporary Europe
Edited by Todd H. Weir, University of Groningen, The Netherlands & Lieke Wijnia, Museum Catharijneconvent, The Netherlands
This open access handbook provides a comparative framework, addressing religious heritage issues across Europe, and across religions (including secularism). It reflects the sense of societal urgency faced by religious heritage in the 21st century, and provides an understanding of the impact of recent historical developments and contemporary heritage practices
Themes discussed include tourism, the (post)secular, economics, multiple usages, Jewish heritage, Muslim heritage, museums, contemporary art, and architecture
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4 0 licence on bloomsburycollections com
UK November 2025
• US November 2025 • 472 pages
PB 9781350251427 • £39 99 / $54 95
Previously published in HB 9781350251380
ePub 9781350251403 £00 00 / $00 00
ePdf 9781350251397 • £00 00 / $00 00
Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic
The Netherworld in Ancient Egypt and China
An Imagined Paradise
Mu-chou Poo, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Considering the striking similarities between the treatment of the dead and conceptions of the netherworld in ancient Egypt and China, how can these traditions be compared?
In this book, Mu-chou Poo considers this question, and provides a new perspective on archaeological materials, including tomb structures and funerary texts, by addressing them in the context of universal human problems such as death, the future of the dead, and the search for happiness in life
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 176 pages • 12 bw illus
PB 9780567702043 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9780567702005
ePub 9780567702036 • £26 09 / $36 44
ePdf 9780567702012 • £26 09 / $36 44
Bloomsbury Academic
World All Languages (except Chinese)
Temporal Explorations in the Anthropology of Religion
History, Cosmology and Spirits
Edited by Diana Espírito Santo, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile & Ruy Blanes, Independent Scholar
How do people make sense of their past, and look forward into their future, through practices – religious, spiritual or otherwise – in places of both modernity and political trauma? This volume investigates how political, social, and individual temporal and historical horizons generated and/or reformulated in relation to embodied, material, and ideological/teleological contexts
It also considers how this history-making projects itself onto imagined futures or alternative historical lines and how temporal continuities and discontinuities are created
UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 264 pages • 3 bw illus
HB 9781350467637 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350467651 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350467644 • £76 50 / $103 94 Bloomsbury Academic
Asylum and Conversion from Islam to Christianity in Europe Interdisciplinary Approaches
Edited by Lena Rose, University of Konstanz, Germany & Ebru Öztürk, Mid Sweden University, Sweden
This book draws together previously disjointed scholarship on the topic of asylum and conversion to Christianity In particular, it shows how boundaries of belonging are negotiated between Middle Eastern ex-Muslim asylum seekers, church representatives, legal decision-makers and policymakers
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 216 pages
PB 9781350407916 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350407879
ePub 9781350407893 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350407886 • £76 50 / $103 94
Bloomsbury Academic
Pain, Play and Music
Death and Healing Rites Among the Wana
Giorgio Scalici, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy,
This book shows how the Wana people of Morowali accept the experiences of pain, illness and loss, and transform them into something positive: rituals that celebrate life, friendship and the community By examining these rituals, this book describes and analyses how music is used by the Wana to heal the members, control emotions, reinforce the sense of community and mark the cultural death of the community member
UK November 2025 US November 2025 256 pages 15 bw illus
PB 9781350236295 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350236257
ePub 9781350236271 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350236264 • £76 50 / $103 94
Bloomsbury Academic
Esotericism in Western Culture Counter-Normativity and Rejected Knowledge
Wouter J. Hanegraaff, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
This accessible introduction by the world’s leading expert explains why the study of esotericism is not a marginal pursuit but belongs at the center of modern research in the humanities. Reflecting updates in the field since the foundational publication Western Esotericism: A Guide for the Perplexed (2013), Wouter J Hanegraaff demonstrates that the exclusion of “rejected knowledge” from normative accounts of Western civilization is the reflection of a narrow Eurocentric ideology that became the template for discrediting and ultimately destroying so-called “primitive” cultures associated with “superstition” and “pagan idolatry” during the global colonial age
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 344 pages
PB 9781350459694 • £21 99 / $29 95 • HB 9781350459687 • £65 00 / $90 00
ePub 9781350459717 • £19 79 / $26 99
ePdf 9781350459700 • £19 79 / $26 99
Bloomsbury Academic
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Apocalypticism and Millennialism
Edited by Tristan Sturm, Queen’s University Belfast, UK & Andrew Crome, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
In an age shadowed by pandemics, climate catastrophe, authoritarian resurgence, and existential technological threats, this Handbook offers a timely and indispensable exploration of how societies make sense of their Ends—and their hoped-for new beginnings This groundbreaking volume gathers leading scholars to trace the evolution, meanings, and enduring potency of apocalyptic and millennial ideas across religious, secular, and cultural landscapes
Dismantling simplistic portrayals of End Times thinking, this volume reveals instead its nuanced, world-shaping logic Whether manifest in religious movements or global politics, apocalypse is no longer a marginal concern—it is the defining hermeneutic of our times.
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 528 pages
HB 9781350421615 • £140 00 / $175 00
ePub 9781350421639 • £126 00 / $171 44
ePdf 9781350421622 • £126 00 / $171 44
Bloomsbury Academic
The Study of Religion in Sweden Past, Present and Future
Edited by Henrik Bogdan, University of Gothenburg, Sweden & Göran Larsson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Provides a comprehensive examination of the study of religions in Sweden, from the early twentieth century to the present and shows how the intersection of national and social forces shape the study of religion in specific countries and contexts. Chapters emphasize the interdisciplinary nature of the study of religions, and bring together the voices of 30 scholars, and analyse the international impact of Swedish scholarship
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 296 pages
PB 9781350413320 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350413283
ePub 9781350413306 • £81 00 / $110 69
ePdf 9781350413290 £81 00 / $110 69
Bloomsbury Academic
Women Leaders, Queer Faithfuls
Reinventing Religion in Contemporary Spain
Josep Almudéver Chanzà, Newcastle University, UK
Through the ethnographic focus on one village, Josep Almudéver Chanzà captures the re-centering of religion in European societies alongside a global rise in neo-conservative politics Through participant observation, in-depth interviews, and archival research, Chanzà shows the return and re-invention of public expressions of faith as framed by the oral histories and everyday experiences of Spanish villagers
UK December 2025 US December 2025 208 pages 10 bw illus
HB 9781350500167 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350500181 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350500174 • £76 50 / $103 94
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place • Bloomsbury Academic
Evangelicals, Catholics, and Vodouyizan in Haiti
The Challenges of Living Together
Edited by Celucien L. Joseph, San Jacinto College, USA & Lewis A. Clorméus, Yale University, USA.
Exploring the subject through many different theoretical frameworks and epistemological traditions, this book confronts the history of Haiti’s three major practicing religious faiths: Vodou, Roman Catholicism, and Protestant Evangelicalism This book will be beneficial to scholars, practitioners, historians, and sociologists of religion, as well as the religious communities themselves in Haiti and the Haitian Diaspora
UK November 2025 US November 2025 288 pages
PB 9781350351745 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350351707
ePub 9781350351721 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350351714 • £76 50 / $103 94
Bloomsbury Academic
Religious and Cultural Difference in Modern British Political Cartoons
Tahnia Ahmed, Department for Transport, UK
Focusing on British broadsheets such as The Times and The Guardian, and tabloid publications such as The Sun and The Daily Mail, this book looks at the visualization of post-colonial Britain through cartoons Tahnia Amend examines how Irish, Jewish, Sikh and Muslim communities are Othered, interrogating the patterns and trends in the way they are depicted – both consciously and unconsciously – by cartoonists in Britain from the 20th century onwards
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 256 pages • 20 bw illus
PB 9781350294141 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350294103
ePub 9781350294127 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350294110 • £76 50 / $103 94
Bloomsbury Academic
Conversations on Humanity and Creativity
Edited by Anthony B. Pinn, Rice University, USA
Bracketing the theological-philosophical debate over who is right, this open access book looks at the work and aims of people supporting either position, and how we make meaning in a time of increasing division Concluding that dialogue produces a much richer understanding of human activity than monologues, this book brings together humanist, secular, and religious scholars, artists, film-makers and activists, to show the common ground in experiences through culture, art and beauty
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by William Marsh Rice University
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 208 pages • 10 bw illus
PB 9781350527164 • £19 99 / $26 95
Bloomsbury Academic
Bluegrass and Religion
Pete Ward, Durham University, UK
Divided into two parts, this book explores the ways in which they have taken on new meanings in a post-religious environment First giving a historical account of the relationship between Bluegrass Music and Religion, Pete Ward explores how the genre has been shaped and influenced by Christian experience and practice The second part of the book is based on ethnographic field work, including textual analysis of songs and participant observation of concerts and interviews with performers The differences of context between the US and the UK are considered as they relate to issues of post Christian sensibilities and non-religion
UK October 2025 US October 2025 224 pages
HB 9781350175686 £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350175709 • £76 50 / $103 94
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Minority Religions and Religious Tolerance
The Jehovah’s Witness Test
Edited by Zoe Knox, University of Leicester, UK & Emily B. Baran, Middle Tennessee State University, USA
This book is founded on a simple premise: that Jehovah’s Witnesses are a crucial litmus test for tolerance. When Witnesses do not enjoy basic freedoms to practice their faith, scholars should consider what their treatment reveals about the broader state of tolerance and respect for religious pluralism and religious minority groups This is what the authors call the ‘Jehovah’s Witness test’ Taken together, this volume is a call for scholars to look to the treatment of Jehovah’s Witnesses as a barometer for the overall health of religious tolerance and basic civil liberties in our contemporary world
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Life Reimagined
Retirement as a Spiritual Journey
Marilyn Sewell
As the first female senior minister of First Unitarian Church in Portland, Oregon, a venerable institution founded in 1866, Marilyn Sewell sees her work as a spiritual calling The church grows under her leadership All is well That is, until it's time to retire She finds herself awash in profound questions of being: Who am I, without my identity as the minister of First Unitarian?
Unmoored, she spends seven years examining the family history that brought her to this place, looking at what has driven her lifelong frantic work ethic The writing itself begins to reveal the answers she is seeking
Ultimately, Marilyn realizes that she still has gifts to give, revealed only when she learns to get quiet, to breathe, to listen —to embrace and live out a second calling
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Judaism, History, and the Environment
Climate Change and Natural Disasters
Dean Phillip Bell, Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership, USA
Engaging creatively with Jewish sources and history, this book offers new ways of addressing the issues of the Anthropocene and natural disasters Rather than seeing religion as a stumbling block or cause of environmental degradation, historical examples are instead bought into conversation with classical Jewish texts and contemporary Jewish thought Case studies include earthquakes of Georgian England, floods of 18th century Germany, and natural disasters experienced by Jews in the Ottoman Empire
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 264 pages
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Sacred Laughter
Laughter and Humor in Religious, Cultural, and Mythic Traditions
Edited by Michael K. Cundall Jr.
This anthology focuses on the way humor and laughter have influenced religions, cultures, and mythical traditions throughout human history
Primarily focusing on historical cases, this anthology covers a wide variety of religious and cultural traditions
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Interpreting the Bible and the Qur’an through Love
Scripture, Love, and Hermeneutics
Tareq Hesham Moqbel, University of Oxford, UK
This book explores how the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim exegeses use the idea of love as an interpretive tool to explicate and interpret Holy Scriptures. The analysis in each chapter identifies numerous cases of love-informed exegesis covering various themes and sheds light on the similarities and differences in the employment of love in the three Scriptural traditions
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Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality
Dawn Llewellyn, University of Chester, UK & Sîan Hawthorne, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK & Sonya Sharma, University College London, UK
Women and the Catholic Church
Negotiating Identity and Agency
Tracy McEwan, University of Newcastle, Australia
This open access book develops a new methodological framework for analysing the power, participation, and identity of women in patriarchal religious institutions It theorises the harm women experience in Catholicism as a form of gendered violence, and conceptualises and defines “everyday spiritual abuse”. The book also critically examines how women negotiate and subvert hegemonic systems of power and knowledge in Catholicism through the lived identities and experiences of Gen X women in Australia
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.
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Uyghur Women Activists in the Diaspora
Restorying a Genocide
Susan J. Palmer, McGill University, Canada, Dilmurat Mahmut, Independent scholar, Canada & Abdulmuqtedir Udun, Journalist, Canada
Explores the journey of ten Uyghur women who overcame ethnic discrimination and religious persecution in China to resettle in the West where they have developed leadership qualities and established meaningful careers as the voices of over one million Uyghurs trapped in the “re-education” camps and prisons of Xinjiang These narratives are based on interviews conducted over Skype or Zoom between 2020 and 2021, collected as a form of oral history
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Resurrecting Virtues against Evil
A Study of the Cultivation and Exercise of Virtues of the Oppressed
Wonchul Shin
This book focuses on discovering particular moral and theological virtues of the oppressed embodied in their daily practices of survival, resistance, and flourishing. In contemporary virtue discourses in the fields of moral philosophy and Christian ethics, the lived experiences of the oppressed have been rarely utilized as a source, which in turn leads to the lack of sufficient attention to structural and cultural violence against this particular community This project aims to address this methodological problem by employing a specific socialscientific methodology, the extended case method.
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 256 pages
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Fortress Academic
Thinking about Justice Through the Ministry of John M. Perkins
A Trinitarian Ethic RaShan Frost
This book argues that within Perkin’s ministry methodology, one can see an underlying ethical conception of justice that is grounded within the Trinity and that grounding informs Christian theological, sociological, and political practices Perkins’ 3R ministry strategy of reconciliation, relocation, and redistribution provide categories in the theological, sociological, and political practice respectively The book explores what informs Perkins’ theology and ethic of justice and how his view of justice should shape and inform how we view justice as Christians
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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religious Ecstasy
Edited by Alison Marshall, Brandon University, Canada, Rubina Ramji, Cape Breton University, Canada & Michael Wilkinson, Trinity Western University, Canada
Providing case studies that highlight the diverse voices of people who have ecstatic religious experiences, this book brings together chapters on ecstasy, transformations of the mind and body, and interactions between the living and spirits This book focuses on ecstatic contexts across North and South America, Africa, Japan and beyond In each case, intersectional analysis is used to uncover the links among racial, social, and gendered political margins
Using a wealth of research from both past and present, the authors interrogate institutional contexts of possession, intoxication and exorcism, uncovering group interactions between people and gods, saints, angels, or demons
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