A Sense of Belonging

Stephen Friend

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies
• Exploring the relationship between identity and religion in British Fishing Communities during the 19th and early 20th centuries, this volume focuses ... Lees meer

Free Zone Scientology

Aled Thomas

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies
• In this novel academic study, Aled Thomas analyses modern issues surrounding boundaries and fluidity in contemporary Scientology. By using the Sciento... Lees meer

Neo-Spiritual Aesthetics

Lina Aschenbrenner

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies
• Tracing embodied transformation in the context of Gaga, the Israeli dance improvisation practice, this book demystifies what Lina Aschenbrenner coins ... Lees meer

Religion and the Inculturation of Human Rights in Ghana

Abamfo Ofori Atiemo

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies
• It has been maintained that the secular nature of modern human rights makes them incompatible with the religious orientation of African and non-Wester... Lees meer

Redefining Shamanisms

David Gordon Wilson

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies
• Spiritualism and mediumship are often regarded as the product of lingering superstition in the Victorian era, and as having limited relevance in moder... Lees meer

Individualized Religion

Claire Wanless

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies
• Drawing on ethnographic research, this book explores individualized religion in and around Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire. Claire Wanless demonstrate... Lees meer

Acute Religious Experiences

Richard Saville-Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies
• This book engages the problem of how, in the 21st century, we are to speak about experiences of the extraordinary/anomalous/extreme which occur on a t... Lees meer

American Evangelicals

Ashlee Quosigk

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies
• Ashlee Quosigk explores the diversity of opinions within the largest religious group in the US - Evangelical Christians - on the topic of Islam. Evang... Lees meer

Ufos, Conspiracy Theories and the New Age

David G Robertson

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies
• How-and why- were UFOs so prevalent in both conspiracy theories and the New Age milieu in the post-Cold War period? In this ground-breaking book, Davi... Lees meer

Ufos, Conspiracy Theories and the New Age

David G Robertson

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies
• How-and why- were UFOs so prevalent in both conspiracy theories and the New Age milieu in the post-Cold War period? In this ground-breaking book, Davi... Lees meer

Post-Materialist Religion

Mika T Lassander

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies
• Post-Materialist Religion discusses the transformations of the individual's worldview in contemporary modern societies, and the role general societal ... Lees meer

Free Zone Scientology

Aled Thomas

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies
• In this novel academic study, Aled Thomas analyses modern issues surrounding boundaries and fluidity in contemporary Scientology. By using the Sciento... Lees meer

Religion, Material Culture and Archaeology

Julian Droogan

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies
• Religion, Material Culture and Archaeology offers a new understanding of the materiality of religion. By drawing on the field of archaeological theory... Lees meer

New Atheism

Alan G Nixon

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies
• This is the first full-length exploration of New Atheism within its wider social, cultural, intellectual, political contexts. Alan G. Nixon examines o... Lees meer

Community and Worldview Among Paraiyars of South India

Anderson H M Jeremiah

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies
• This volume presents a detailed ethnographic study of rural Paraiyar communities in South India, focusing on their religions and cultural identity. Fo... Lees meer

Rethinking 'Classical Yoga' and Buddhism

Karen O'Brien-Kop

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies
• This book revisits the early systemic formation of meditation practices called 'yoga' in South Asia by employing metaphor theory. Karen O'Brien-Kop al... Lees meer

Orthodox Christianity, New Age Spirituality and Vernacular Religion

Eugenia Roussou

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies
• This anthropological work thoroughly illustrates the novel synthesis of Christian religion and New Age spirituality in Greece. It challenges the singl... Lees meer

Redefining Shamanisms

David Gordon Wilson

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies
• Spiritualism and mediumship are often regarded as the product of lingering superstition in the Victorian era, and as having limited relevance in moder... Lees meer

The Critical Study of Non-Religion

Christopher R Cotter

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies
• This book acts as a bridge between the critical study of 'religion' and empirical studies of 'religion in the real world'. Chris Cotter presents a con... Lees meer

The Dynamic Cosmos

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies
• This edited volume applies the analytic notions of paradox and play to the ethnographic manifestation of spirits, angels, and demons in different loca... Lees meer

Charismatic Healers in Contemporary Africa

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies
• Based on ethnographic studies conducted in several African countries, this open access book analyses the phenomenon of deliverance - which is promoted... Lees meer

Post-Materialist Religion

Mika T Lassander

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies
• Post-Materialist Religion discusses the transformations of the individual's worldview in contemporary modern societies, and the role general societal ... Lees meer

Religion and the Inculturation of Human Rights in Ghana

Abamfo Ofori Atiemo

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies
• It has been maintained that the secular nature of modern human rights makes them incompatible with the religious orientation of African and non-Wester... Lees meer

The Problem with Interreligious Dialogue

Muthuraj Swamy

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies
• Muthuraj Swamy provides a fresh perspective on the world religions paradigm and 'interreligious dialogue'. By challenging the assumption that 'world r... Lees meer