Religious Studies New Books, Jan-June 2020

Religious Studies New Books Catalogue

January-June 2020

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Religions of Beijing

Afe Adogame, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA

Edited by Timothy Knepper, Professor of Philosophy, Drake University, USA & Bin You, Minzu University of China, China

Oza Worldviews, Cosmologies and Religious Cultures

Based on religious ethnography, in-depth interviews and use of archival sources, Indigeneity in African Religions is the first book to explore the historical origins, worldviews, cosmologies, ritual practice and symbolism of the indigenous Oza people in south-western Nigeria. In the context of enormous social, cultural, political, economic and religious change, the book provides crucial empirical insight. Engaging with methodological and theoretical questions that are relevant to the study of religion in Africa more broadly, Afe Adogame reveals the complexity of ‘indigeneity’ in the context of modern religious change in contemporary African milieus.

UK May 2020 • US May 2020 • 224 pages HB 9781350008267 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9781350008274 Library eBook 9781350008281 Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Japanese Religions

Edited by Fabio Rambelli, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA , Erica Baffelli, The University of Manchester, UK & Andrea Castiglioni, University of California, USA Edited by Fabio Rambelli, Erica Baffelli and Andrea Castiglioni this volume has a prestigious editorial board including Ian Reader, Mark Mullins, Ellen Van Goethem, and Cynthea Bogel. The essays are drawn from leading international scholars from the USA, UK and Europe, Japan and New Zealand.

Topics and themes include gender, politics, the arts, economy, media, globalization and colonialism. The volume covers both the modern and the pre-modern periods. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Japanese Religions is an essential reference point for upper-level students and scholars in Japanese religions as well as Japanese studies more broadly.

UK June 2020 • US June 2020 • 456 pages HB 9781350043732 • £130.00 / $176.00 Individual eBook 9781350043749 Library eBook 9781350043756 Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic

Religions of the World in China's Capital City

Religions of Beijing offers an intimate portrayal of lived religion in 18 different religious communities in greater Beijing. Graduate students at Minzu University of China spent one year immersed in the daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly routines of these communities, “writing with” the experiences and perspectives of their practitioners. Each chapter was then translated into English, with students at Drake University (Des Moines, Iowa) facilitating this process. The result is a bi-lingual book (Mandarin, English) that reveals to Chinese- and English-speaking readers the vibrant diversity of lived religion in contemporary Beijing. Buddhism, Daoism, Christianity, Islam and folk religion are covered.

UK March 2020 • US March 2020 • 224 pages • 108 colour illus PB 9781350127104 • £21.99 / $29.95 Individual eBook 9781350127128 Library eBook 9781350127111 Bloomsbury Academic World English

The Sea and the Sacred in Japan Aspects of Maritime Religion

Edited by Fabio Rambelli, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA "Fabio Rambelli must be credited for bringing together eminent scholars from across the globe to produce a unique and important project in Japanese religious studies. Examples are used expertly to reflect the significance of the sea in Japanese religion.

This will be essential reading for all those studying Japanese religion, culture, and history." Bernard Faure, Columbia University, USA "This inspiring, path-breaking book opens new directions in the study of Japanese religions and belongs in any academic library and on any Japanese religions’ scholar’s shelf." Irit Averbuch, Associate Professor of Japanese Studies, Tel-Aviv University, Israel UK January 2020 • US January 2020 • 296 pages • 15 bw illus PB 9781350147645 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350062856 Individual eBook 9781350062870 Library eBook 9781350062863 Series: Bloomsbury Shinto Studies • Bloomsbury Academic

The Culture of Giving in Myanmar

Singapore, Spirituality, and the Space of the State

Hiroko Kawanami, Lancaster University, UK

Joanne Punzo Waghorne, Syracuse University, USA

Buddhist Offerings, Reciprocity and Interdependence

R E L I G I O U S S T U D I E S – African / Asian Religions

Indigeneity in African Religions

Soul of the Little Red Dot

This book examines the culture of giving in Myanmar, and explores the pivotal role that Buddhist monastic members occupy in creating a platform for civil society. This book extends the discussions of Buddhist offerings that normally focus on the one-way flow of goods and services from the laity to the monastic community, into an understanding of wider Buddhist cultures, and examines how deeply the reciprocal transactions of giving and receiving in society – or interdependent living – are implicated in the Buddhist faith.

This is the first study of spirituality in Singapore, showing how important the city state is for understanding contemporary global configurations of urban space, religion, and spirituality. The author highlights how the formal religions—temples, churches, and mosques—have been confined to allotted sites on the map of Singapore, whereas various “spiritual” organizations, particularly of Hindu origins and headed by a guru, still continue to operate as “societies” classified by the government with other “clubs.”

UK April 2020 • US April 2020 • 224 pages • 8 bw illus HB 9781350124172 • £85.00 / $115.00 Individual eBook 9781350124196 Library eBook 9781350124189 Bloomsbury Academic

UK March 2020 • US March 2020 • 272 pages • 15 bw illus HB 9781350086555 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9781350086579 Library eBook 9781350086562 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place • Bloomsbury Academic

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R E L I G I O U S S T U D I E S – Asian Religions

Modern Hinduism in Text and Context Edited by Lavanya Vemsani, Shawnee State University, USA

"Offers an interdisciplinary, wide angle view into 20th century forms of Hinduism." Christopher Key Chapple, Loyola Marymount University, USA "An important contribution to Hindu Studies."

Sushil Mittal, James Madison University, USA Brings together textual and contextual approaches to provide a holistic understanding of modern Hinduism. It examines new sources - including regional Saiva texts, Odissi dance and biographies of Nationalists - and discusses topics such as yoga, dance, visual art and festivals in tandem with questions of spirituality and ritual.

UK January 2020 • US January 2020 • 272 pages • 15 BW illus PB 9781350147911 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350045088 Individual eBook 9781350045101 Library eBook 9781350045095 Bloomsbury Academic

Jack Kerouac, Buddhism, and the American Search for Enlightenment

Sarah Haynes, Western Illinois University, USA Sarah Haynes provides a detailed analysis of Jack Kerouac’s unpublished diaries and Buddhist writing alongside the Buddhism presented in his published works. Kerouac’s involvement with Buddhism is traditionally accepted to have occurred between 19531958. However, his unpublished diaries reveal that he continued to write about Buddhism until at least 1967. The book is structured chronologically, exploring Kerouac's pre-enlightenment years (pre1953); his Buddhist period (1953-1958); and his post-Buddhist period (1958-1969). It provides a rich discussion of the significance, impact and legacy of Kerouac’s religious vision on the development of Buddhism in America.

UK April 2020 • US April 2020 • 224 pages • 10 bw photos HB 9781350134751 • £85.00 / $115.00 Individual eBook 9781350134775 Library eBook 9781350134768 Bloomsbury Academic

Creating the Culture of Peace A Clarion Call for Individual and Collective Transformation

Anwarul K. Chowdhury & Daisaku Ikeda Based on the extensive personal and professional experiences of two high-profile thinkers and activists, these rich and varied dialogues discuss how peace can be achieved in the world. The dialogues provide ideas on the key challenges that face the modern age: terrorism, nuclear weapons, global warming, financial crises, youth alienation and the materialist drive. The discussants come from very different positions – one a Buddhist philosopher, educator and leader; the other a U.N. diplomat renowned for his work in development and human rights. Yet they are united in their conviction that young people are the means to achieving positive change.

UK December 2019 • US January 2020 • 272 pages PB 9781788313278 • £12.99 / $17.50 • HB 9781788313261 • £24.50 / $35.00 Individual eBook 9781786725707 Library eBook 9781786735706 I.B. Tauris World English

Buddhism in the Global Eye Beyond East and West

Edited by John S. Harding, University of Lethbridge, Canada, Victor Sogen Hori, McGill University, Canada & Alexander Soucy, Saint Mary's University, Canada Buddhism in the Global Eye focuses on the importance of a global context and transnational connections to understand the Buddhist modernizing movements, as well as the diverse manifestations of any particular Buddhist group in the contemporary context. This requires moving beyond both overt and implicit East-West binaries.The case studies, insights, and theoretical reflections advance these objectives in dialogue with each other and introduce new research that shows the porousness of categories, such as "modern", "global", and "contemporary" Buddhism. The contributors show how Asian agency has been central to the development of modern Buddhism.

UK March 2020 • US March 2020 • 256 pages HB 9781350140639 • £85.00 / $115.00 Individual eBook 9781350140653 Library eBook 9781350140646 Bloomsbury Academic

The Sikh View on Happiness Guru Arjan’s "Sukhmani"

Kamala Elizabeth Nayar, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada & Jaswinder Singh Sandhu, Sources Substance Use Services, Canada Sukhmani is a popular Sikh text by Guru Arjan, which inculcates the Sikh religious ethos and philosophical perspective on wellbeing and happiness. This book features a new translation of this celebrated Sikh text and provides the first in-depth analysis of it. Nayar and Sandhu draw upon the Sikh understanding of the mind, illness, and wellbeing to both introduce key Sikh psychological concepts and illustrate the practical application of consciousness-based practices in the contemporary context. They highlight the overlap of the teachings in the Sukhmani with concepts and themes found in Western psychotherapy, such as mindfulness, meaningful living, and flow.

UK April 2020 • US April 2020 • 240 pages HB 9781350139879 • £85.00 / $115.00 Individual eBook 9781350139893 Library eBook 9781350139886 Bloomsbury Academic

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Christianity and Belonging in Shimla, North India

Sacred Entanglements of a Himalayan Landscape Jonathan Miles-Watson, Durham University, UK This book presents a unique ethnographic account of material religion in the Himalayan city of Shimla. The author shows that key to understanding the city is the contemporary material religion of the Christian communities, who are marginal (by profession) yet metaphorically and literally central to the contemporary life of the city. The book builds upon over a decade of research to present an ethnographic account of devotional practices that speaks to contemporary developments in the fields of both the anthropology of Christianity and material religion.

UK May 2020 • US May 2020 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350050174 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9781350050198 Library eBook 9781350050181 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion • Bloomsbury Academic

Food, Festival and Religion Materiality and Place in Italy

Francesca Ciancimino Howell, Naropa University, Colorado, USA Food, Festival and Religion explores how communities in northern Italy find a restorative sense of place through foodways, costuming, and other forms of materiality. Festivals explored by the author vary geographically from the northern rural corners of Italy to the fashionable heart of urban Milan. The origins of these lived religious events range from Christian to vernacular Italian witchcraft and contemporary Paganism, which is rapidly growing in Italy.

Through extensive ethnographic research and fieldwork data, this book demonstrates that popular Italian festivals are ritualized, liminal spaces, and contributes greatly to the fields of religious, performance and ritual studies UK February 2020 • US February 2020 • 224 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781350150867 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350020863 Individual eBook 9781350020870 Library eBook 9781350020887 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion • Bloomsbury Academic

Secular Assemblages

Affect, Orientalism and Power in the French Enlightenment Marek Sullivan, Oxford University, UK

Material Devotion in a South Indian Poetic World Leah Elizabeth Comeau, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, USA

The poets of Hindu devotion are known for the passion and intimacy with which they seek and celebrate their deities. While verses over a thousand years old are still treasured, translated, and performed by contemporary devotees and scholars alike, little attention has been paid to the evocative sensorial worlds contained within and referenced by these literary compositions. Material Devotion in a South Indian Poetic World contributes new methods for the study and interpretation of material religion as it occurs within and through literary landscapes.

UK March 2020 • US March 2020 • 240 pages • 12 bw illus HB 9781350122895 • £85.00 / $115.00 Individual eBook 9781350122918 Library eBook 9781350122901 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion • Bloomsbury Academic

Qur'anic Matters

Material Mediations and Religious Practice in Egypt Natalia Suit, East Tennessee State University, USA Qur’anic Matters spans the time between two important technological shifts – the introduction of printed Qur’anic books in Egypt in the early nineteenth century and the digitization of the Qur’an almost two centuries later. Throughout, Natalia Suit weaves together the theological, legal, economic, and social “presences” of the Qur’anic books into a single account in which the message and the materiality of the object that mediates it are not separate from each other, nor are they separate from the human bodies with which they come in contact.

R E L I G I O U S S T U D I E S – Asian Religions / Material Religion

Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion

UK April 2020 • US April 2020 • 240 pages • 12 bw illus HB 9781350121386 • £85.00 / $115.00 Individual eBook 9781350121409 Library eBook 9781350121393 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion • Bloomsbury Academic

Becoming Queer and Religious in Malaysia and Singapore Sharon A. Bong, Monash University Malaysia, Malaysia

Marek Sullivan challenges the link between secularization and rationalization, arguing for a more sensual genealogy of secularity. Sullivan examines how theorists of the secular rely on excessively rationalistic conceptions of Enlightenment thought, and addresses critiques that focus on the importance of religious constructions of Oriental religions for the genealogy of secularity. Sullivan also identifies a distinctively secular—yet impassioned—form of Orientalism that emerged in the 18th century that resorted to racist, Orientalist and emotional tropes. By exposing the Enlightenment as a nationalistic and affective movement, Sullivan undermines modern nationalist appeals to the Enlightenment as a mark of European distinction.

Sharon Bong explores the personal journeys of several GLBTIQ (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer) persons negotiating the tensions between living out their sexuality and religiosity in the context of Malaysia and Singapore.

Bong presents a broad spectrum of queer strategies emerging from participants’ narratives of ‘becoming’ which encompass becoming Asian, becoming postcolonial, becoming sexually religious and religiously sexual and becoming ‘persons’. These strategies are used in the book as counterpoints to nationhood narratives of becoming Asian or postcolonial, which are still mired in religious-sponsored and colonial-inherited sexual regulations.

UK January 2020 • US January 2020 • 256 pages HB 9781350123670 • £85.00 / $115.00 Individual eBook 9781350123694 Library eBook 9781350123687 Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies • Bloomsbury Academic

UK April 2020 • US April 2020 • 240 pages HB 9781350132733 • £85.00 / $115.00 Individual eBook 9781350132757 Library eBook 9781350132740 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality • Bloomsbury Academic

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R E L I G I O U S S T U D I E S – Islam / Christianity

Sacred Spaces and Transnational Networks in American Sufism Bawa Muhaiyaddeen and Contemporary Shrine Cultures Merin Shobhana Xavier, Ithaca College, USA This book sheds light on one of the major Sufi movements in North America, Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, and the first to establish a Sufi shrine in America. Through extensive ethnographic data, the author shows that the followers of Bawa in the United States and Sri Lanka shared far more similarities in the relationships they formed with spaces, Bawa, and Sufism than differences, which challenges the accepted conceptualization of Sufism in North America as having a distinct “Americanness.” These findings challenge scholars to re-consider how Sufism is developing in the modern American landscape as well as globally.

UK September 2019 • US September 2019 • 280 pages • 6 bw illus PB 9781350132436 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350024458 Individual eBook 9781350026704 Library eBook 9781350026698 Series: Islam of the Global West • Bloomsbury Academic

The Qur'an and Modern Arabic Literary Criticism From Taha to Nasr

Mohammad Salama, San Francisco State University, USA "A brilliant analysis of the literary battles over the nature of the Qur’an and its place in relationship to a literary canon. This is a must read and will change how we understand the very nature of modern Qur’an commentary." Walid A. Saleh, University of Toronto, Canada "A study that is indispensable not only for Islamic studies but for the intellectual history of modern Egypt." Ferial Ghazoul, The American University in Cairo, Egypt "Fills a lacuna in 20th-century Arabic and Islamic thought." Bilal Orfali, American University of Beirut, Lebanon UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 176 pages PB 9781350141599 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781474254267 Individual eBook 9781474253277 Library eBook 9781474253253 Series: Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought • Bloomsbury Academic

Christian Punk

Identity and Performance Edited by Ibrahim Abraham, Australian National University, Australia With perspectives from musicology, sociology, history, and theology and situating Christian punk within the modern history of Christianity, and the rapidly changing culture of spirituality and secularity, this book illustrates how Christian punk continues punk’s autonomous and oppositional creative practices, but from within a typically traditional evangelical morality. Analyzing straight edge Christian abstinence and punk-friendly churches, it also focuses on gender performance within a subculture dominated by young men in a time of changing and contested gender roles and ideologies.

UK January 2020 • US January 2020 • 256 pages HB 9781350094796 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9781350094819 Library eBook 9781350094802 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion and Popular Music • Bloomsbury Academic

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Salvation and Hell in Classical Islamic Thought Can Allah Save Us All?

Marco Demichelis, University of Navarra, Spain "An important contribution to the field of Islamic theology and Islamic intellectual history more broadly. Voices from different fields of religious knowledge and historical time periods are deftly marshaled and placed into conversation with one another to reveal a rich and dynamic theological tradition of salvation." Martin Nguyen, Fairfield University, USA "A gift for students of Islamic intellectual history, theology and comparative religion." Syed Rizwan Zamir, Davidson College, USA UK January 2020 • US January 2020 • 240 pages PB 9781350147799 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350070240 Individual eBook 9781350070318 Library eBook 9781350070301 Bloomsbury Academic

Islamism as Philosophy Decolonial Horizons

S. Sayyid, University of Leeds, UK This book explores the Muslim question from a philosophical perspective, ranging in historical focus from early effects of colonialism to present day Arab Spring events. In doing so, it explores some of the philosophical assumptions that frame the way in which the rise of Muslim political identity throughout the planet presents challenges which are not only cultural and geopolitical but also conceptual. In a series of reflections, Islamism as Philosophy teases out some of the complexities of the emergence of Muslim political identities, complexities which are often covered up by the latest screaming headline. This book argues that a world in which a quarter of the population seems increasingly conscious of its "Musliminess" cannot be peaceful, harmonious or just without careful attention being paid to the Muslim question.

UK June 2020 • US June 2020 • 192 pages HB 9781472509833 • £65.00 / $88.00 Individual eBook 9781472514226 Library eBook 9781472513434 Series: Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought • Bloomsbury Academic

Spousal Violence Among World Christians Silent Scandal

Elizabeth Koepping, University of Edinburgh, UK This book takes a global approach to violence between husbands and wives in faith contexts.

It focuses primarily on Christians, and uses anthropological, theological and historical methods which intersect with and are challenged by lay and ordained women and men from eighteen countries. Drawing on ethnographic research over several decades from around the world, Elizabeth Koepping presents testimonies from abused women, as well as theological justification for spousal abuse from the perpetrators. She argues that violence against the (female) spouse can be understood as proper behaviour by manly men towards unruly wives, rather than an insult to the Image of God in all persons.

UK May 2020 • US May 2020 • 256 pages HB 9781350080553 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9781350080577 Library eBook 9781350080560 Bloomsbury Academic

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A Jewish Theology of Art

Melissa Raphael, University of Gloucestershire, UK Judaism and the Visual Image argues for a Jewish theology of image that, among other things, helps us re-read the creation story in Genesis 1 and to question why images of Jewish women as religious subjects appear to be doubly suppressed by the Second Commandment, when images of observant male Jews have become legitimate, even iconic, representations of Jewish holiness. Raphael further suggests that 'devout beholding' of images of the Holocaust is a corrective to post-Holocaust theologies of divine absence from suffering that are infused by a sub-theological aesthetic of the sublime. Raphael concludes by proposing that the relationship between God and Israel composes itself into a unitary dance or moving image by which each generation participates in a processive revelation that is itself the ultimate work of Jewish art.

UK September 2019 • US September 2019 • 256 pages PB 9781350132443 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780826494986 Library eBook 9781441190567 Bloomsbury Academic

Science Fiction and the Imitation of the Sacred Richard Grigg, Sacred Heart University, USA

"A fascinating book about human nostalgia for a sacred reality that can no longer be readily experienced in a secular age." Michael Raposa, Lehigh University, USA Examines science fiction’s relationship to religion and the sacred through the lens of significant books, films and television shows. It provides a clear account of the larger cultural and philosophical significance of science fiction, and explores its potential sacrality in today’s secular world by analyzing material such as Ray Bradbury’s classic novel The Martian Chronicles, films The Abyss and 2001: A Space Odyssey, and also the Star Trek universe.

UK December 2019 • US December 2019 • 160 pages PB 9781350143661 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350065635 Individual eBook 9781350065659 Library eBook 9781350065642 Bloomsbury Academic

Martin Scorsese's Divine Comedy Movies and Religion

Catherine O'Brien, Kingston University, UK

Intersections of the Popular and the Sacred in Music

Antti-Ville Kärjä, Music Archive Finland, Helsinki, Finland This book examines the interrelations of the ‘popular’ and the ‘sacred’ in the context of music.

As well as discussing conventional forms of ‘popular music’, Antti-Ville Kärjä questions how dimensions of the ‘popular’ are present in different musics, and how the ‘sacred’ helps in reconceptualising these dimensions, enabling an in-depth cultural analysis of music. It features topics such as music in relation to its mythological etymological roots and forms of religious music and their interrelations to definitions of the ‘popular’. This book will be essential reading to courses in religion, musicology, sociology and cultural studies.

UK June 2020 • US June 2020 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350052840 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9781350052864 Library eBook 9781350052857 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion and Popular Music • Bloomsbury Academic

The Learned Practice of Religion in the Modern University

R E L I G I O U S S T U D I E S – Religion and Culture

Judaism and the Visual Image

Donald Wiebe, University of Toronto, Canada

In blurring the boundary between the search for “knowledge about religion and religions” and “religious education for the betterment of individuals and society,” Religious Studies departments have fostered a “learned practice of religion” in the modern university. This book masterfully explores this idea through detailed analysis of the history and development of the study of religion in Canada.

UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 256 pages HB 9781350103436 • £85.00 / $115.00 Individual eBook 9781350103450 Library eBook 9781350103443 Series: Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation • Bloomsbury Academic

Religion in the Age of Obama

Edited by Juan M. Floyd-Thomas, Vanderbilt Divinity School, USA & Anthony B. Pinn, Rice University, USA

Catherine O’Brien draws on the structure of Dante’s Divine Comedy to explore Scorsese’s feature films from Who’s that knocking at my door (1967-69) to Silence (2016). This is the first full-length study to focus on the trajectory of faith and doubt during this period, taking very seriously the oft-quoted words of the director himself: ‘My whole life has been movies and religion. That’s it. Nothing else.’ Films discussed include GoodFellas, The Last Temptation of Christ, Taxi Driver and Mean Streets, as well as the more recent Wolf of Wall Street.

Religion in the Age of Obama argues that there has been a complex religious and moral underpinning to the Obama presidency and subsequent debates regarding his tenure in the White House that has not been fully explored. This is the first book to focus solely on the significance of religion during President Obama’s years in the White House, both in the United States and internationally. It provides an analysis of Obama’s religiosity and its relationship to his vision of public life, as well as the way in which the general ethos of religiosity and non-religiosity has shifted over the past decade.

UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 224 pages • 25 bw illus PB 9781350141605 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350003279 Individual eBook 9781350003286 Library eBook 9781350003293 Bloomsbury Academic

UK February 2020 • US February 2020 • 272 pages PB 9781350041042 • £24.99 / $33.95 Previously published in HB 9781350041035 Individual eBook 9781350041066 Library eBook 9781350041059 Bloomsbury Academic

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R E L I G I O U S S T U D I E S – Religion and Society

Gemini and the Sacred

Postsecular Feminisms

Edited by Kimberley C. Patton, Harvard Divinity School, USA

Edited by Nandini Deo, Lehigh University, USA

Twins and Twinship in Religion and Mythology

This multi-disciplinary work explores the imaginative sacred history of twinship, and examines the multiple ways in which the 'doubling' of a human being may be religiously and culturally expressed. Encompassing twins in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean worlds, native American spirituality, mythology and folklore and South Asian spirituality, the book offers a variety of perspectives on this fascinating topic.

UK June 2020 • US June 2020 • 320 pages HB 9781848859319 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781786725912 Library eBook 9781786735911 Bloomsbury Academic

The Impact of Ritual on Child Cognition

Veronika Rybanska, University of Agder, Norway In this book, Veronika Rybanska explores how ritual participation affects children’s cognitive abilities.

Rybanska argues that, far from being a simple matter of mindless copying, ritual participation in children requires rigorous computation by cognitive mechanisms. The implications of this research suggest that we should rethink multiple aspects of child-rearing and educational policy, and suggests that some form of rituals, though not necessarily religious, may be essential for the cultivation of future mindedness.

UK January 2020 • US January 2020 • 224 pages HB 9781350108912 • £85.00 / $115.00 Individual eBook 9781350108936 Library eBook 9781350108929 Series: Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation • Bloomsbury Academic

Religion and Gender in Transnational Context "This wonderful collection is an essential read for students and scholars who have been looking for a productive lens to help make better sense of the hybridity and intricacies of contemporary diversity." Amelie Barras, York University, Canada Explores the contested relationship between feminism and secularism through a series of case studies, featuring perspectives from the global North and South. It offers insights beyond those of the Abrahamic traditions, and includes multiple examples from South Asia. By decentering the European experience, this book shows how secularism and feminism have been constituted in North America, South Asia, and Anglophone West Africa.

UK January 2020 • US January 2020 • 240 pages PB 9781350147881 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350038066 Individual eBook 9781350038080 Library eBook 9781350038073 Bloomsbury Academic

A Constructive Critique of Religion

Encounters between Christianity, Islam and Non-religion in Secular Societies Edited by Mia Lövheim, Uppsala University, Sweden & Mikael Stenmark, Uppsala University, Sweden Increasing religious diversity and the associated confrontations between those with different worldviews means there is a pressing need to engage with how constructive interaction and critique can be developed across diverse interests. Contributors to this collection tackle this challenge through an analysis of the reasons underpinning a critique of religion in institutional contexts of secular democratic societies. They explore how social and cultural conditions shaping these institutions enable and structure a critical and constructive engagement across diverging worldviews.

UK February 2020 • US February 2020 • 256 pages HB 9781350113091 • £85.00 / $115.00 Individual eBook 9781350113114 Library eBook 9781350113107 Bloomsbury Academic

Religious Pluralism and the City Inquiries into Postsecular Urbanism

Edited by Helmuth Berking, TU Darmstadt, Germany, Silke Steets, Independent Researcher & Jochen Schwenk, TU Darmstadt, Germany "Anyone interested in a multitude of pressing contemporary sociological and political issues will find this book both intriguing and of great value." Mitchell Cohen, City University of New York, USA The book argues that we are seeing the pluralization of religion, the co-existence of different religious worldviews, and the simultaneity of secular and religious institutions that shape everyday life. These particular constellations of "religious pluralism" are, above all, played out in cities.

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Space and Identity in the Congolese Diaspora David Garbin, University of Kent, UK This book takes as a case study the Congolese Christian diaspora in the UK and US to explore the making of religious spaces and transnational networks in an era of globalisation. Drawing on extensive ethnographic data, David Garbin analyses the social meaning of the religious presence and territorialisation in a context of economic and socio-spatial marginalisation for Congolese migrants who had (and for some, still have) to address the predicaments of displacement, relocation and the status of being ‘a minority within a minority’ as Francophone black African migrants in English-speaking countries.

UK April 2020 • US April 2020 • 224 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781474283373 • £65.00 / $88.00 Individual eBook 9781474283366 Library eBook 9781474283359 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place • Bloomsbury Academic

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Discourse, Identification and Locality Christopher R. Cotter, University of Edinburgh, UK This book acts as a bridge between two increasingly entrenched positions in contemporary Religious Studies—one that is interested in understanding ‘religion in the real world’, and the other in understanding the discursive processes by which that statement makes sense, or ‘critical religion.’ This book details an approach which avoids constructing ‘religion’ as in some way unique, whilst also fully incorporating ‘non-religious’ subject positions into Religious Studies. It provides a rich engagement with a wide variety of theoretical material, rooted in empirical data, which will be of interest to those interested in critical, sociological and anthropological study of the contemporary non-/religious landscape.

UK May 2020 • US May 2020 • 256 pages HB 9781350095243 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9781350095267 Library eBook 9781350095250 Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies • Bloomsbury Academic

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