Religious Studies Catalogue 2015-16

Religious Studies

2015-16

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Contents Letter from the Editor ���������������������������������������������������� 2 Religion and Popular Culture ������������������������������������������ 3 Anthropology of Religion ������������������������������������������������ 3 Sociology of Religion ������������������������������������������������������ 4 Islam �������������������������������������������������������������������������� 5 Asian Religions �������������������������������������������������������������� 6 Comparative Religions ���������������������������������������������������� 6 Interfaith Relations �������������������������������������������������������� 7 History of Religion �������������������������������������������������������� 7 Theory and Method �������������������������������������������������������� 8 Bestsellers ������������������������������������������������������������������ 9 Index ������������������������������������������������������������������������ 10

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Bloomsbury Religious Studies Welcome to the new Bloomsbury Religious Studies catalogue.

Book Highlights Among this year’s highlights is The Bloomsbury Reader on Islam in the West (p. 5) edited by Edward E. Curtis IV, which brings together some of the most important writings in the field. Key Terms in Material Religion (p. 3) provides a versatile text for teaching. The Bloomsbury Studies in Religion and Popular Music series continues with the publication of Mortality and Music (p. 3) by Christopher Partridge. We are excited to launch our new series Bloomsbury Shinto Studies, edited by Fabio Rambelli, with the publication of Mountain Mandalas (p. 6). Remembering Child Migration (p. 4) by Gordon Lynch explores the moral and religious framing of child migration initiatives.

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Mortality and Music

Essays on Race, Religion and Popular Culture

Popular Music and the Awareness of Death

Anthony B. Pinn, Rice University, USA "These essays are an essential contribution to the academic debate." Andrew Copson, Chief Executive, British Humanist Association, UK What does humanism say about race, religion and popular culture?

How do they inform and affect humanism? Whereas most existing analysis attempts to explain humanism through the natural and social sciences (the "what" of life), Pinn explores humanism in relation to "how" life is arranged, socialized, ritualized, and framed. This brings together old and new essays on a range of topics, from the AfricanAmerican experience, to the development of humanist churches, and the lyrics of Jay Z. UK August 2015 • US August 2015 • 184 pages PB 9781472581426 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472581419 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781472581440 • £19.99 / $27.99 • Library eBook 9781472581433

Christopher Partridge, University of Lancaster, UK "Once again, Partridge takes us on an adventure into rarely considered regions of the pop culture world. Highly recommended." Douglas E. Cowan, Professor of Religious Studies and Social Development Studies, Renison University College, Canada The evidence of death and dying has been removed from the everyday lives of most Westerners. Yet we constantly live with the awareness of our vulnerability as mortals. Drawing on a range of genres, bands and artists, Mortality and Music examines the ways in which popular music has responded to our awareness of the inevitability of death and the anxiety it can evoke.

UK August 2015 • US August 2015 • 240 pages HB 9781472534514 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781472527202 • £64.99 / $99.99 • Library eBook 9781472526809 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion and Popular Music

Practical Spiritualities in a Media Age

Key Terms in Material Religion

Edited by Curtis Coats, Millsaps College, USA. & Monica M. Emerich, University of Colorado, USA

Each "key term" uses case studies and is accompanied by a color image – an object, practice, space, or site. The entries cut across geographies, histories, and traditions, offering a versatile and engaging text for the classroom.

Including international case studies and essays from leading scholars such as Stewart Hoover and Graham Harvey, this collection examines the ways and the places in which people have employed media and information technologies to weave spiritual meaning throughout the demands and pastimes of their lives. Topics range from food and sex to spiritual tourism.

Providing critical, scholarly explorations of the complexities and contradictions of late-modern spiritual practices, this is a mustread for anyone working in the intersection of media, religion or spirituality, and culture.

UK October 2015 • US October 2015 • 272 pages HB 9781474223164 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781474223171 • £64.99 / $100.99 • Library eBook 9781474223188

Edited by S. Brent Plate, Hamilton College, USA

Each entry demonstrates in clear and jargon-free prose how the key term figures prominently in understanding the materiality of religion. Written by leading international scholars, topics covered include ritual, body, touch, gender, space, and sound.

Brent Plate brings his expertise and extensive teaching experience to the comprehensive introduction which introduces students to the themes and methods of the material cultural study of religion.

UK December 2015 • US December 2015 • 352 pages • 37 colour illus PB 9781472595454 • £21.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781472595461 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781472595485 • £21.99 / $32.99 • Library eBook 9781472595478

Religious Statues and Personhood

West Indian Pentecostals

Testing the Role of Materiality

Living Their Faith in New York and London

Amy Whitehead, University of Winchester, UK

Janice A. McLean-Farrell, City Seminary of New York, USA

"Across sacred spaces, times, and traditions Whitehead shows how devotional activities dovetail and diverge, with material structures standing at the heart of it all. Out of this, Whitehead creates an animated and adaptable theoretical framework for scholars across many fields of material religion." S. Brent Plate, Managing Editor and Co-Founder, Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art, and Belief Both theoretical and descriptive, this illustrates how religions and cultural practices can be re-examined as performances that necessarily involve not only human persons, but also objects.

UK March 2015 • US March 2015 • 216 pages • 4 bw illus PB 9781474228565 • £21.99 / $37.95 Previously published in HB 9781441110282 Individual eBook 9781441126177 • £21.99 / $32.99 • Library eBook 9781441164230

R E L I G I O N A N D P O P U L A R C U LT U R E / A N T H R O P O L O G Y O F R E L I G I O N

Humanism

This is the first study to explore the cultural context of the religious experience of West Indian immigrant communities. Studies to date have focused on how immigrants settle in their new home contexts, but McLean-Farrell argues for a more comprehensive perspective that takes into account the importance of religion and the role of both ‘home’ and the ‘host’ contexts in shaping immigrant lives in the Diaspora. The focus on Pentecostalism in two regions of the world offers a unique opportunity to test existing theories on the interface of religion and immigration, and offers ground-breaking contributions to the study of Pentecostalism.

UK February 2016 • US February 2016 • 256 pages HB 9781474255790 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781474255806 • £64.99 / $100.99 • Library eBook 9781474255813

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SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION

The Bloomsbury Companion to New Religious Movements

Digital Methodologies in the Sociology of Religion

Edited by George D. Chryssides, formerly University of Birmingham, UK & Benjamin E. Zeller, Lake Forest College, USA

Edited by Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor, Coventry University, UK & Suha Shakkour, University of Derby, UK

"This new Bloomsbury Companion closes an era of bitterness about NRMs and introduces a new and more congenial climate of research. Featured are 29 chapters by well-published international scholars who become messengers of balanced interpretations and sources. A table of acronyms and 43 pages of bibliography further enhance this excellent guide. Scholars and students interested in NRMs will find this volume to be a first-class research tool. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty." CHOICE

Established and emerging scholars consider the implementation difficulties and ethical dilemmas faced by sociologists of religion when using digital research methods. Chapters draw on global case studies, such as the use of social media as a method for researching religious oppression, religion and identity in virtual worlds, digital communication within religious organisations, and young people’s diverse expressions of faith online. Additionally, boxed tips are provided throughout the text to serve as reminders of tools that readers may use in their own research projects.

"Of clear teaching value for anyone organizing courses in what is a hugely expanding area" Reference Reviews, Vol. 29.1

Ideal for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers employing digital methodologies within their own research.

UK February 2016 • US February 2016 • 456 pages PB 9781474256445 • £24.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781441190055 Individual eBook 9781441174499 • £99.99 / $154.99 • Library eBook 9781441198297 Series: Bloomsbury Companions

UK December 2015 • US December 2015 • 256 pages PB 9781472571151 • £21.99 / $37.95 • HB 9781472571168 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781472571182 • £21.99 / $32.99 • Library eBook 9781472571175

Remembering Child Migration

Alternative Salvations

Faith, Nation-Building and the Wounds of Charity

Engaging the Sacred and the Secular

Gordon Lynch, University of Kent, UK Gordon Lynch explores in more detail than any previous study the moral and religious framing of child migration initiatives, informed by growing research in the anthropology of ethics – how values and ethics come to be enacted in specific social contexts. The book also speaks to issues beyond child migration: understanding the role that moral assumptions and claims play in our lives remains an issue of on-going interest, in particular the ways in which our ethical claims are complex, even contradictory, and can leave us blind to the harmful effects of our social actions.

UK January 2016 • US February 2016 • 224 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781472591128 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472591159 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781472591173 • £19.99 / $27.99 • Library eBook 9781472591166

Edited by Hannah Bacon, University of Chester, UK, Wendy Dossett, University of Chester, UK & Steve Knowles, University of Chester, UK Alternative Salvations probes concepts including 'religious', 'secular', 'spiritual', 'post-Christian', and 'post-secular', providing a series of studies which question the functionality of these broad categories.

This volume explores intersections between the social, cultural, political and theological dimensions of salvation narratives. While these narratives can drive social and religious change, they may also be questioned as tools which legitimize the marginalization of certain groups. By contributing new perspectives and unique case studies, Alternative Salvations provides a deliberate challenge to easy binaries which often underpin contemporary and traditional discourses of salvation.

UK December 2015 • US December 2015 • 256 pages HB 9781472579942 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781472579966 • £64.99 / $100.99 • Library eBook 9781472579959

Confronting Secularism in Europe and India Legitimacy and Disenchantment in Contemporary Times Edited by Brian Black, Lancaster University, UK, Gavin Hyman, Lancaster University, UK & Graham M. Smith, Lancaster University, UK "Debates concerning secularism are often controversial, yet this volume does an excellent job of bringing clarity to arguments that are too often left implicit or obscure. Anyone interested in the future of secularism will find this a highly stimulating and rewarding book to engage with." Stuart McAnulla, Lecturer in Political Science, University of Leeds, UK Staging a creative encounter between European and Indian conceptions of secularism, this collection looks at political secularism, the relationship between secularism and religion, and religious and secular violence. It considers whether there are viable alternatives to secularism in Europe and in India.

UK December 2015 • US December 2015 • 224 pages PB 9781474269223 • £21.99 / $37.95 Previously published in HB 9781780935065 Individual eBook 9781780937311 • £64.99 / $100.99 • Library eBook 9781780936079

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Religion and Space Competition, Conflict and Violence in the Contemporary World Lily Kong, National University of Singapore, Singapore & Orlando Woods, Independent Researcher Helping readers to understand how religious contestations result in religious violence, the authors use extensive case studies to examine different instances of competition over religious space, including The Temple Mount/ Haram el-Sharif in Jerusalem, loudspeakers in mosques, and the armed occupation of religious spaces in India, Pakistan and Thailand.

Globalization is also shown to have given rise to new spaces of religious competition and conflict, and the authors explore how globalization has caused understandings of space to evolve in line with the growing focus on transnational networks and flows, and the globalisation of religious movements.

UK March 2016 • US March 2016 • 224 pages HB 9781474257404 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781474257428 • £64.99 / $100.99 • Library eBook 9781474257411

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The Composition of the Qur'an

Edited by Edward E. Curtis IV, Indiana University School of Liberal Arts, USA

Michel Cuypers, IDEO, Egypt

"This superb reader documents how Muslims were an integral part of the history of the West, and how they continue to shape its present forms."

Amir Hussain, Professor of Theological Studies, Loyola Marymount University, USA, and Editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion Bringing together some of the most important, up-to-date scholarly writings, this is ideal for use in the university classroom. It includes an extensive introduction and a timeline of key events in the history of Islam in the West. A brief introduction to the author and the topic is provided at the start of each excerpt.

UK November 2015 • US December 2015 • 296 pages PB 9781474245371 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781474245364 • £75.00 / $128.00 Individual eBook 9781474245388 • £24.99 / $36.99 • Library eBook 9781474245395 World English

Rhetorical Analysis "An innovative and important work which should become standard reading for all students of the Qur'an. Cuypers presents an innovative method based on the principle that the Islamic scripture shares with other Semitic texts certain rhetorical structures which have long been missed by Muslim and non-Muslim scholars alike." Gabriel Said Reynolds, Professor of Islamic Studies and Theology, University of Notre Dame, USA Using copious examples from the Qur'an, this is a landmark publication in the field of Qur’anic Studies and will be of interest to scholars and researchers in Islamic Studies, Religious Studies and Arabic Studies.

UK March 2015 • US May 2015 • 224 pages HB 9781474227483 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781474227469 • £64.99 / $100.99 • Library eBook 9781474227476 World English

Secularism, Theology and Islam

The Politics of Writing Islam

The Danish Social Imaginary and the Cartoon Crisis of 2005–2006

Voicing Difference

Jennifer Elisa Veninga, St Edward's University, USA This is a uniquely theological analysis of the historic Danish cartoon crisis of 2005–2006, in which the publication of images of the Prophet Muhammad in a Danish newspaper ignited violent global protests. The crisis represents a politically, culturally, and religiously important event, and Jennifer Veninga explores the important question of why the cartoons were published in Denmark when they were and why this matters to the larger global community. Describing the Danish social imaginary as a paradox of Christianity and secularism, Veninga explains why the new presence of Islam has been perceived as such a threat to Danish identity.

UK September 2015 • US September 2015 • 224 pages PB 9781474257619 • £21.99 / $37.95 Previously published in HB 9781472533111 Individual eBook 9781472523891 • £21.99 / $32.99 • Library eBook 9781472528643

Sufism in Britain Edited by Ron Geaves, Cardiff University, UK & Theodore Gabriel, University of Gloucestershire, UK "In this excellent volume experienced contributors present a nuanced picture of Sufism in England. They describe its engagement with classical culture and with modern Salafi and Wahhabi teachings, emerging as its own unique, contemporary and thoroughly Islamic phenomenon. A special treat for those interested in the adaptation of Islam to modern Western society, the volume offers an opportunity to better understand both the spiritual dimension and the lived circumstances of Sufism in Britain today." Jane I. Smith, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, USA UK May 2015 • US May 2015 • 280 pages PB 9781474237604 • £21.99 / $37.95 Previously published in HB 9781441112613 Individual eBook 9781441163325 • £21.99 / $32.99 • Library eBook 9781441114877

ISLAM

The Bloomsbury Reader on Islam in the West

Mahmut Mutman, Sehir University, Turkey "The Politics of Writing Islam provides a muchneeded critique of existing forms of studying, writing and representing Islam in the West . . .

While offering a critical insight into concepts such as writing, power, post-colonialism, difference and otherness on a theoretical level, Mutman reveals a different perspective on Islam by emphasizing its living, everyday and embodied aspects in dynamic relation with the outside world."

Critical Theory blog (voted #1 Critical Theory Book of 2014) Mutman develops an approach to culture as an embodied, everyday, living and ever changing practice and argues that Islam should be perceived in this way.

UK May 2015 • US May 2015 • 272 pages PB 9781474237611 • £21.99 / $37.95 Previously published in HB 9781441165244 Individual eBook 9781441164704 • £21.99 / $32.99 • Library eBook 9781441162496 Series: Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought

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Series Editor: Fabio Rambelli, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA This series makes available a number of important texts that help to dispel the widespread misconception that Shinto is intrinsically related to Japanese nationalism, and at the same time promote further research and understanding of what is still an underdeveloped field.

Mountain Mandalas Shugendo in Kyushu Allan G. Grapard, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA One of the most influential scholars of Japanese religion, Allan Grapard, studies Mount Hiko and the Kunisaki Peninsula. We are introduced to important information on archaic social structures and their religious traditions; the development of the cult to the deity Hachiman; a history of the interactions between Buddhism and local cults in Japan; a history of the Shugendo tradition of mountain religious ascetics, and much more.

This is a landmark book for all scholars of Shinto and Japanese religion. Extensive translations of source material can be found on the book’s webpage, along with illustrations and maps.

UK February 2016 • US February 2016 • 336 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781474249003 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781474249027 • £64.99 / $100.99 • Library eBook 9781474249010

Sacred Objects in Secular Spaces Exhibiting Asian Religions in Museums Edited by Bruce M. Sullivan, Northern Arizona University, USA " A valuable set of essays exploring the relationship between religious material culture and the politics of display in museums." Frank J. Korom, Boston University, USA How are religious objects to be understood, described, exhibited, and handled by museums? Bringing together religious studies scholars and museum curators, this is the first volume to focus on the issues related to the exhibition of Asian religious objects. The objects are drawn from Hindu, Buddhist, and Sikh traditions, and the “lives” of objects are considered, along with the categories of “sacred” and “profane”, “religious” and “secular.”

UK October 2015 • US October 2015 • 216 pages • 8 bw illus and 32 colour illus PB 9781472590800 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472590817 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781472590831 • £19.99 / $27.99 • Library eBook 9781472590824

Buddhist and Christian Responses to the Kowtow Problem in China

Adaptation and Developments in Western Buddhism

Eric Reinders, Emory University, USA

Socially Engaged Buddhism in the UK

"Makes a tremendous contribution to material studies, Buddhist history, and debates around biopolitics." Michael J. Walsh, Vassar College, USA

Phil Henry, University of Derby, UK

The most common Buddhist practice in Asia is bowing, yet this is the first study of Buddhist obeisance in China. In Confucian ritual, everyone is supposed to kowtow, or bow, to the Chinese emperor. But Buddhists claimed exemption from bowing to any layperson, even to their own parents or the emperor. This tension erupted in an imperial debate in 662.

This volume will be of interest to scholars and students of religious studies, Buddhism, Chinese history and material culture.

UK March 2015 • US May 2015 • 208 pages • 5 bw illus HB 9781474227285 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781474227308 • £64.99 / $100.99 • Library eBook 9781474227292

Yoga, Meditation, and Mysticism Contemplative Universals and Meditative Landmarks Kenneth Rose, Christopher Newport University, USA Rose shifts the dominant focus of contemporary religious studies away from tradition-specific studies of individual religious traditions, communities, and practices to examine the ‘contemplative universals' that arise globally in meditative experience. He takes us through a comparative exploration of the contemplative manuals of Theravada Buddhism, Patañjalian Yoga, and Catholic mystical theology.

Pioneering the exploration of contemplative practice and experience with a comparative perspective that ranges over multiple religious traditions, religious studies, philosophy, neuroscience, and the cognitive science of religion, this is a landmark contribution to the fields of contemplative practice and religious studies.

UK April 2016 • US April 2016 • 224 pages HB 9781472571687 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781472571700 • £64.99 / $100.99 • Library eBook 9781472571694

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New Series

Bloomsbury Shinto Studies

"This ground-breaking informative study ... is based on a significant amount of fieldwork and survey research, and provides a comparative analysis that brings to light common themes and differences among the five main ‘socially engaged Buddhist’ groups. It offers critical reflections on some of their claims, and places them in the context of scholarly debates about ‘socially engaged Buddhism’ in Asia and the West." Peter Harvey, University of Sunderland, UK UK February 2015 • US February 2015 • 288 pages • 20 illus PB 9781474223782 • £21.99 / $37.95 Previously published in HB 9781472512550 Individual eBook 9781472511140 • £21.99 / $32.99 • Library eBook 9781472513847

Meditation in Judaism, Christianity and Islam Cultural Histories Edited by Halvor Eifring, University of Oslo, Norway "This remarkable collection of essays explores the practice of meditation in the Abrahamic religions, proposing to see meditation as a selfadministered technique for inner transformation" Andrew Louth, Durham University, UK For the first time in one volume, the meditative practices of Judaism, Christianity and Islam are examined. They are viewed in a global perspective, considering both generic and historical connections to practices in other traditions, particularly in India and East Asia. Their cultural and historical peculiarities are examined, comparing them both to each other and to Asian forms of meditation.

UK April 2015 • US April 2015 • 304 pages PB 9781474234634 • £21.99 / $37.95 Previously published in HB 9781441122148 Individual eBook 9781441162588 • £21.99 / $32.99 • Library eBook 9781441126085

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A Relational Approach to Religious Activism and the Study of Religion Oddbjørn Leirvik, University of Oslo, Norway "It is likely to be a landmark text ... providing much for scholars and advanced students to reflect upon, while also being accessible to both serious undergraduate and lay readers ... [It] is likely to be core reading for any involved in the broad field of interreligious studies for a good time to come." Norwegian Journal of Theology A cutting-edge study from one of the most important voices in Europe in the field, this includes case study material on interreligious responses to the bomb attack in Norway on 22nd July 2011, as well as examples from national and global contexts.

UK August 2015 • US August 2015 • 208 pages PB 9781474254755 • £21.99 / $37.95 Previously published in HB 9781472524492 Individual eBook 9781472533944 • £21.99 / $32.99 • Library eBook 9781472524331

Religion or Belief, Discrimination and Equality Britain in Global Contexts Paul Weller, University of Derby, UK, Kingsley Purdam, Nazila Ghanea, University of Oxford, UK & Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor, Coventry University, UK "An excellent resource for students and scholars." Paul Bramadat, University of Victoria, Canada This is a benchmark publication on religion, discrimination and equality. It includes data and insights derived from the fieldwork, focus groups and questionnaire survey of a recent national research project in Britain. Its analysis presents a unique insight into continuity and change in people’s reported experience over a decade of equalities legislation and political and social change of unfair treatment on the basis of religion or belief. Grounded in empirical and contextualized data, its findings are placed in the context of European and international human rights law.

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Religion and Innovation Antagonists or Partners?

Edited by Donald A. Yerxa, Eastern Nazarene College, USA The relationship between religion and innovation is much more complex and instructive than is generally assumed. Leading historians, archaeologists, and social scientists offer findings about the relationship between religion and innovation and the essays range from discussions of the transformative power of religion in early societies; to re-examinations of our notions of naturalism, secularization, and progress; to explorations of cutting-edge contemporary issues.

Combining scholarly rigor with clear, accessible writing, this is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of religion and the ongoing debates about its role in the modern world and into the future.

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Ritual Participation and Interreligious Dialogue Boundaries, Transgressions and Innovations Edited by Marianne Moyaert, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands & Joris Geldhof, KU Leuven, Belgium "A superb collection of critical reflections on the possibilities and limits of interreligious ritual participation. It provides an excellent complement to the work that is ongoing in the area of interreligious studies." Catherine Cornille, Boston College, USA What are the promises and perils of celebrating and praying together?

What are the limits of ritual participation? How can we make sense of feelings of discomfort when entering the sacred space of another faith community?

This is the first book to focus on the lived dimensions of interreligious dialogue through ritual participation rather than textual or doctrinal issues.

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Loss and Hope Global, Interreligious and Interdisciplinary Perspectives Edited by Peter Admirand, Dublin City University, Ireland "Moving and thought-provoking, the case studies and principle reflections in this volume envisage crucial human experiences within a global, multireligious and multi-perspectival framework. They shed fresh light on our understanding of the human condition." Perry SchmidtLeukel, University of Muenster, Germany

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Three interconnected lenses are used to explore new perspectives on loss and hope: survivors and victims' testimony; interfaith studies; and ethical approaches. The book highlights the need for responses to atrocity that transcend differences within gender, class, religion, race and ethnicity.

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Mormonism: A Guide for the Perplexed Robert L. Millet, Brigham Young University, USA & Shon D. Hopkin, Brigham Young University, USA "This is a book I have been seeking for a long time. The book answers questions I have asked and others I would have asked, had I thought of them. My students will have occasion to appreciate all or parts of this book in future classes." Whitney Bodman, Associate Professor of Comparative Religion, Austin Theological Seminary, USA This is the ideal companion to the study of this perplexing and often misunderstood religion. Covering historical aspects, this guide takes a careful look at the whole of Mormonism, its tenets and practices, as well as providing an insight into a Mormon life.

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Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation Series Editors: Donald Wiebe, University of Toronto, Canada, Luther H. Martin, University of Vermont, USA and William W. McCorkle, Masaryk University, Czech Republic.

This series publishes cutting-edge research in the new and growing field of scientific studies in religion, working with a broad notion of 'scientific' that includes innovative work on understanding religion(s), both past and present.

New Patterns for Comparative Religion Passages to an Evolutionary Perspective

Contemporary Evolutionary Theories of Culture and the Study of Religion

William E. Paden, University of Vermont, USA

Radek Kundt, Masaryk University, The Czech Republic

Bringing together into one volume for the first time the work of Professor Emeritus Paden, this volume tracks the history of this leading scholar’s attempts throughout his career to see what religion looks like when seen as a set of evolved behaviors, and as such, as part of a wider species-level, global tapestry. Arguing that there are recurrent patterns of human behavior common to our species that underlie all cultures, he proposes that the missing link in the religion and evolution debates is comparative religion – a global, cross-cultural perspective on religious behaviours throughout time.

Kundt explores the limitations of cultural evolution and examines how and why it is counterproductive to apply the neo-Darwinian theory of natural selection to culture. He argues that cultural change is substantially different to biological change and even though biological evolution influences cultural change, it does not guide it nor can it explain it. This volume shows that cultural evolution is not a legitimate extension of evolutionary theory since such approaches either distort the neo-Darwinian theory of evolution or forcibly adjust the phenomena they aim to explain.

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Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies Series Editors: Craig Martin, St. Thomas Aquinas College, USA, James Cox and Steven Sutcliffe, both University of Edinburgh, UK This groundbreaking series offers original reflections on theory and method in the study of religions, and demonstrates new approaches to the way religious traditions are studied and presented.

UFOs, Conspiracy Theories and the New Age Millennial Conspiracism David G. Robertson, The Religious Studies Project Placing UFO phenomena and related conspiracy theories in their socio-religious context, this is an innovative investigation as to why conspiracy theories became so prevalent in the New Age milieu. Robertson argues that UFOs formed a bridge between conspiracy theories and popular millennial ideas in the post Cold War period. Through case studies mixing discourse analysis with ethnographic fieldwork, Robertson examines the work of three writers: Whitley Strieber, David Icke, and David Wilcock.

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Christian Myth and Social Theory The State of the World Burton L. Mack, Claremont Graduate School, USA

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Spirits and Trance in Brazil An Anthropology of Religious Experience Bettina E. Schmidt, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK Schmidt explores experiences usually labelled as spirit possession, a highly contested and challenged term, using extensive ethnographic research conducted in São Paulo. Focusing on Afro-Brazilian religions and spirits, the book also discusses the notion of exorcism in Charismatic Christian communities. Bringing together sociological, anthropological, phenomenological and religious studies approaches, this book offers a new perspective on the study of spirit possession.

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The Problem with Interreligious Dialogue Plurality, Conflict and Elitism in HinduChristian-Muslim Relations Muthuraj Swamy, Union Biblical Seminary, India

Furthering his social theory of religion, Mack describes the many social projects that have evolved as understandable and attractive human interests in their own right, and that have developed their own mythic rationales. Since many of these projects now appear to be separate and independent interests, and since each is often at odds with the others in the political arena, the question is asked whether we do not need a new comprehensive picture of our social enterprise to rationalize the significance of our social formations. Arguably, such a picture might function in the place of religious myths.

By challenging the assumption that ‘world religions’ operate as essential entities separate from the lived experiences of practitioners, Swarmy shows that interreligious dialogue is problematic as it is built on this very paradigm, and on the myth of religious conflict. Offering a critique of the idea of ‘dialogue’ advanced among religious leaders, the author argues that this approach is ‘elitist’ and that in reality, people do not make sharp distinctions between religions, nor do they separate political, economic, social and cultural beliefs and practices from their religious traditions.

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INDEX

INDEX a Adaptation and Developments in Western Buddhism ���������������������� 6 Admirand, Peter �������������������������������������������������������������������� 7 Alternative Salvations �������������������������������������������������������������� 4

b Bacon, Hannah ���������������������������������������������������������������������� 4 Black, Brian �������������������������������������������������������������������������� 4 Bloomsbury Companion to New Religious Movements, The �������������� 4 Bloomsbury Reader on Islam in the West, The ������������������������������ 5 Buddhist and Christian Responses to the Kowtow Problem in China �� 6

c Cheruvallil-Contractor, Sariya �����������������������������������������������4, 7 Christian Myth and Social Theory ���������������������������������������������� 8 Chryssides, George D. ������������������������������������������������������������ 4 Coats, Curtis ������������������������������������������������������������������������ 3 Composition of the Qur'an, The ������������������������������������������������ 5 Confronting Secularism in Europe and India �������������������������������� 4 Contemporary Evolutionary Theories of Culture and the Study of Religion ���������������������������������������������������������������������������� 8 Curtis IV, Edward E. ���������������������������������������������������������������� 5 Cuypers, Michel �������������������������������������������������������������������� 5

n New Patterns for Comparative Religion �������������������������������������� 8

p Paden, William E. ������������������������������������������������������������������ 8 Partridge, Christopher ������������������������������������������������������������ 3 Pinn, Anthony B. �������������������������������������������������������������������� 3 Plate, S. Brent ���������������������������������������������������������������������� 3 Politics of Writing Islam, The ���������������������������������������������������� 5 Practical Spiritualities in a Media Age ���������������������������������������� 3 Problem with Interreligious Dialogue, The ���������������������������������� 8 Purdam, Kingsley �������������������������������������������������������������������� 7

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Reinders, Eric ������������������������������������������������������������������������ 6 Religion and Innovation ������������������������������������������������������������ 7 Religion and Space ������������������������������������������������������������������ 4 Religion or Belief, Discrimination and Equality ���������������������������� 7 Religious Statues and Personhood ���������������������������������������������� 3 Remembering Child Migration �������������������������������������������������� 4 Ritual Participation and Interreligious Dialogue ��������������������������� 7 Robertson, David G. ���������������������������������������������������������������� 8 Rose, Kenneth ������������������������������������������������������������������������ 6

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Gabriel, Theodore ������������������������������������������������������������������ 5 Geaves, Ron �������������������������������������������������������������������������� 5 Geldhof, Joris ������������������������������������������������������������������������ 7 Ghanea, Nazila ���������������������������������������������������������������������� 7 Grapard, Allan G. ������������������������������������������������������������������ 6

h Henry, Phil ���������������������������������������������������������������������������� 6 Hopkin, Shon D. �������������������������������������������������������������������� 7 Humanism ������������������������������������������������������������������������������ 3 Hyman, Gavin ������������������������������������������������������������������������ 4

Sacred Objects in Secular Spaces ����������������������������������������������� 6 Schmidt, Bettina E. ���������������������������������������������������������������� 8 Secularism, Theology and Islam ������������������������������������������������ 5 Shakkour, Suha ���������������������������������������������������������������������� 4 Smith, Graham M. ������������������������������������������������������������������ 4 Spirits and Trance in Brazil ������������������������������������������������������ 8 Sufism in Britain �������������������������������������������������������������������� 5 Sullivan, Bruce M. ������������������������������������������������������������������ 6 Swamy, Muthuraj �������������������������������������������������������������������� 8

u UFOs, Conspiracy Theories and the New Age �������������������������������� 8

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Key Terms in Material Religion �������������������������������������������������� 3 Knowles, Steve ���������������������������������������������������������������������� 4 Kong, Lily ������������������������������������������������������������������������������ 4 Kundt, Radek ������������������������������������������������������������������������ 8

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w Weller, Paul �������������������������������������������������������������������������� 7 West Indian Pentecostals ���������������������������������������������������������� 3 Whitehead, Amy �������������������������������������������������������������������� 3 Woods, Orlando ���������������������������������������������������������������������� 4

Leirvik, Oddbjørn ������������������������������������������������������������������ 7 Loss and Hope ������������������������������������������������������������������������ 7 Lynch, Gordon ���������������������������������������������������������������������� 4

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Meditation in Judaism, Christianity and Islam ������������������������������ 6 Millet, Robert L. �������������������������������������������������������������������� 7 Mormonism: A Guide for the Perplexed �������������������������������������� 7 Mortality and Music ���������������������������������������������������������������� 3 Mountain Mandalas ������������������������������������������������������������������ 6 Moyaert, Marianne ������������������������������������������������������������������ 7 Mutman, Mahmut ������������������������������������������������������������������ 5

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