Routledge Studies in Religion
Faith Makes You Happy?: Insights from Happiness Research and Theology
1st Edition
By Johan Graafland
September 11, 2026
This book examines how faith and happiness intersect. It reflects on why religion and happiness are positively related, and why believers are often shown to be happier than non-believers. The author provides an overview of existing literature on religion and happiness and draws on in-depth ...
Correlative Worldviews: A Cognitive Perspective on Premodern Cosmologies in South Asia and Europe
1st Edition
By Per-Johan Norelius
September 07, 2026
This book explores the topic of correlative worldviews from a comparative and cognitive perspective. Correlative worldviews are premodern cosmologies that posit linkages between different planes of existence, e.g. between the elements of the body and of the cosmos. Unlike the correlations of modern...
AI Theism: Technology, Divinity, and the Emergence of a New Religious Myth
1st Edition
By Remington Tonar
September 01, 2026
AI Theism examines stories in which artificially intelligent characters are depicted as divine through the lens of religious studies and mythology. Narratives in which conscious technologies such as artificial intelligences are portrayed as divine have proliferated in parallel with advances in AI ...
Conceptualizing Islam: Current Approaches
1st Edition
Edited
By Frank Peter, Paula Schrode, Ricarda Stegmann
July 20, 2026
In recent decades, academic debates on how to conceptualize ‘Islam’ as an object of study and how to approach it theoretically have been revitalized. Not only has research on Islam grown enormously and become much more differentiated, but Islam is also being discussed more intensively in society ...
Judaizing Christianity and Christian Zionism in Northern Ireland: For God, Israel, and Ulster
1st Edition
By Véronique Altglas
July 20, 2026
This book explores the contemporary Judaization of evangelical Christianity through the ethnography of a Messianic congregation in Northern Ireland. A constellation of Messianic "congregations" have expanded worldwide over recent years, combining Jewish liturgy, symbols, and artifacts with ...
New Zealand Churches Respond to the Covid-19 Protection Framework: Loving our neighbours?
1st Edition
By Miryam Clough
July 20, 2026
This book examines the ways in which New Zealand’s churches interpreted Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s “Covid-19 Protection Framework,” which saw unvaccinated New Zealanders excluded from access to many aspects of civil life, including church attendance. The book considers the socio-political ...
Religion Extended: How Perception, Embodiment, and Practice Underlie Religion
1st Edition
By Elena Kalmykova
July 20, 2026
Religion Extended contributes to discussions of aspects of religion that go beyond the epistemology of belief, incorporating other states such as understanding, emotion, knowledge of persons, knowledge-how, as well as practice. The author looks to bridge the gap in the study of religion between ...
Scientific Atheism in East Germany (1963-1990): How to Turn a Hare into a Lion
1st Edition
By Eva Guigo-Patzelt
July 20, 2026
This book offers an in-depth, archive-based analysis of “scientific atheism”, focused on the development of the field in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Scientific atheism was established as a Soviet import in 1963 at Jena University, with a presence in East German universities, propaganda ...
Understanding Petitionary Prayer: Ask, and Ye Might Receive
1st Edition
By Shane Sharp
July 20, 2026
This book explores the “whats,” “whys,” and “hows” of petitionary prayer. Millions of people every single day ask God or some other supernatural being to make some outcome or event happen, whether it be to keep their children safe during a road trip, to give them the willpower to avoid succumbing ...
Toleration, Freedom of Religion, and Church–State Relations in the Thought of the First Baptists: The Garden Walled Off from the Wilderness
1st Edition
By Rafał Prostak
June 19, 2026
This book focuses on the development of Baptist views on religious liberty. It explores the arguments for freedom of conscience and full religious toleration that were formulated in the 17th century by the first Baptists, a particularly persecuted religious current of the English Reformation. The ...
Children, Religion and Development: Perspectives on Spirituality and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Kathryn Kraft
June 10, 2026
Drawing from teachings and practices of diverse and distinct religious traditions, this volume takes a unique approach to exploring spiritual aspects of child development which may apply universally to children of all backgrounds. Research with children demonstrates how spirituality is a universal ...
Contemporary Yoga and Sacred Texts
1st Edition
Edited
By Susanne Scholz, Caroline Vander Stichele
May 22, 2026
This book explores the textual traditions that authorize the history, legitimacy, and authenticity of today’s physical posture practice. The volume focuses on why and how yoga communities have adopted various texts that they consider sacred or spiritually meaningful. Among the texts discussed are ...