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  • Islam on Campus

    Contested Identities and the Cultures of Higher Education in Britain

    by Alison Scott-Baumann, Mathew Guest, Shuruq Naguib, Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor, Aisha Phoenix ...
    Islam on Campus explores how Islam is represented, perceived and lived within higher education in Britain. It is a book about the changing nature of university life, and the place of religion within it. Even while many universities maintain ambiguous or affirming orientations to religious institutions for reasons to do with history and ethos, much western scholarship has presumed higher education ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Bishops, Wives and Children

    Spiritual Capital Across the Generations

    by Douglas J. Davies, Mathew Guest ...
    Christianity as a cultural force, whether rising or falling, has seldom been analysed through the actual processes by which tradition is transmitted, modified, embraced or rejected. This book achieves that end through a study of bishops of the Church of England, their wives and their children, to show how values fostered in the vicarage and palace shape family, work and civic life in a supposedly ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Death, Life and Laughter

    Essays on religion in honour of Douglas Davies

    Edited by Mathew Guest, Martha Middlemiss Lé Mon ...
    Birth, death and the rituals that take us from one to the other tell us a lot about humanity and our quest to understand ourselves. It is cross-disciplinary analyses of the life course that have generated the most profound insights into religion and spirituality, challenging the concepts and methods we commonly use to understand these universal aspects of human experience. Douglas Davies' work is ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • A Sociology of Mystic Practices

    Use and Adaptation in the Emergent Church

    by Dann Wigner ...
    This book investigates the process of spiritual borrowing between the emergent church (EC) and the Christian mystical tradition. From its inception, the EC has displayed interest in mystic practices, but the exact nature of this interest or how these practices are appropriated and reinterpreted in the EC context has not been researched. My research shows that the emergent church is appropriating ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Christianity and the University Experience

    Understanding Student Faith

    by Dr Mathew Guest, Dr Kristin Aune, Dr Sonya Sharma, Dr Rob Warner ...
    What impact does the experience of university have on Christian students? Are universities a force for secularisation? Is student faith enduring, or a passing phase? Universities are often associated with a sceptical attitude towards religion. Many assume that academic study leads students away from any existing religious convictions, heightening the appeal of a rationalist secularism increasingly ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Neoliberal Religion

    Faith and Power in the Twenty-first Century

    by Dr Mathew Guest ...
    This book explores neoliberalism as an account of contemporary society and considers what this means for our understanding of religion.Neoliberalism is a perspective grounded in free market economics and distinguished by a celebration of competition and consumer choice. It has had a profound influence in societies across the world, and has extended its reach into all areas of human experience. And ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Religion and Knowledge

    Sociological Perspectives

    by Elisabeth Arweck ...
    Series series Theology and Religion in Interdisciplinary Perspective Series in Association with the BSA Sociology of Religion Study Group
    Religions have always been associated with particular forms of knowledge, often knowledge accorded special significance and sometimes knowledge at odds with prevailing understandings of truth and authority in wider society. New religious movements emerge on the basis of reformulated, often controversial, understandings of how the world works and where ultimate meaning can be found. Governments ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • Religion in the Contemporary World

    A Sociological Introduction

    by Alan Aldridge ...
    In the new edition of this widely praised text, Alan Aldridge examines the complex realities of religious belief, practice and institutions. Religion is a powerful and controversial force in the contemporary world, even in supposedly secular societies. Almost all societies seek to cultivate religions and faith communities as sources of social stability and engines of social progress. They also try ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Religious Literacy in Policy and Practice

    Edited by Adam Dinham, Matthew Francis ...
    This valuable book is the first to bring together theory and policy with analysis and expertise on practices in key areas of the public realm to explore what religious literacy is, why it is needed and what might be done about it. It makes the case for a public realm which is well equipped to engage with the plurality and pervasiveness of religion and belief, whatever the individual’s own stance. ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion

    Edited by John Hinnells ...
    Series series Routledge Religion Companions
    The Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion is a major resource for courses in Religious Studies. It begins by explaining the most important methodological approaches to religion, including psychology, philosophy, anthropology and comparative study, before moving on to explore a wide variety of critical issues, such as gender, science, fundamentalism, ritual, and new religious movements. ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Why are Women more Religious than Men?

    by Marta Trzebiatowska, Steve Bruce ...
    Women are more religious than men. Despite being excluded from leadership positions, in almost every culture and religious tradition, women are more likely than men to pray, to worship, and to claim that their faith is important to them. Women also dominate the world of 'New Age' spirituality and are far more superstitious than men.This book reviews the now-sizeable body of social research to ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Mediating Faiths

    Religion and Socio-Cultural Change in the Twenty-First Century

    by Guy Redden ...
    Religion is living culture. It continues to play a role in shaping political ideologies, institutional practices, communities of interest, ways of life and social identities. Mediating Faiths brings together scholars working across a range of fields, including cultural studies, media, sociology, anthropology, cultural theory and religious studies, in order to facilitate greater understanding of ... Read more

    $64.99 USD