This book provocatively demonstrates that it is vital that religious education is presented as it ’really’ is: a valuable and rich resource that, when taught and engaged with appropriately, stimulates essential qualities for global and responsible citizenship.
In spite of the debate about secularization or de-secularization, the existential-bodily need for religion is basically the same as always. What have ..
This book explores the profound transformations that prisons and offender rehabilitation programmes in Eastern Germany have undergone with respect to ..
Death affects all aspects of life, it touches our emotions and influences our identity. Presenting a kaleidoscope of informative views of death, dying..
Why do gods persist in contemporary society? This book provides an insight on a new approach to religious studies, drawn from systems theory to consi..
This book examines the role popular religion has played in modern Chinese politics. The popular religion of Nuo will be used as an example of how the ..
Drawing on case studies of urban settings across the world, this book provides a more nuanced understanding of the religious identities of migrants wi..
Old pilgrimage routes are attracting huge numbers of people. Religious or spiritual meanings are interwoven with socio-cultural and politico-strategic..
This book, together with the complementary volume Religion in Consumer Society, focuses on religion, neoliberalism and consumer society; offering an o..
Presenting an overview of an emerging field in the study of contemporary religion, this book explores religion as both shaped by consumer culture and ..
In the hyper-globalized world of the politics of religious freedom today, a focus on establishments brings into view the cultural assumptions, cosmolo..
Whilst a number of important theoretical works concerning legal pluralism in the context of cultural rights have been published, little has been publi..
Drawing together contributions from leading scholars from across the world Contesting Secularism analyses how secularism functions as a political doct..