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This volume places objects and bodies at the center of scholarly studies of religious life and practice. The Handbook reveals the deep philosophical roots of its key categories and then advances new critical analytics, such as queer materialities, inescapable material entanglements, and hyperobjects.

Comprised of thirty chapters by a team of international contributors, this handbook is the first comprehensive volume to feature multireligious cross-cultural perspectives on the body and embodiment, and is a must-read for students and scholars in religious studies, philosophy, anthropology, cultural and gender studies.

This cutting-edge volume addresses central questions and issues animating Judaism, Jewish identity, and Jewish society in the 21st Century in a global, integrated, and forward-looking way, through the prism of three contemporary sets of issues: identities and geographies; structures and power; and knowledge and performances.

The tension between Hinduism as an ancient Indian religion and Christianity as a religion associated with foreign power and colonialism, continues to animate Hindu-Christian relations today. The handbook describes both the rich history of productive Hindu-Christian encounters, and moments of conflict between Hindus and Christians.

This book is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, challenges, past and present global issues, and debates in this exciting subject. The first collection of its kind, this volume comprises over 25 chapters by a team of international contributors.

Given the intense political scrutiny of Islam and Muslims, which often centre on gendered concerns, this book is an outstanding reference source to key topics, problems and debates in this exciting subject. It is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies, Islamic studies and gender studies.

Buddhist-Christian dialogue has a long and complex history stretching back to the first centuries of the common era. This explores how the study of Buddhist-Christian relations has been and ought to be done and is essential reading for researchers and students interested in Asian religions and interreligious relationships.

In an era, which many now recognise as 'post-secular', the role that religions play in shaping gender identities and relationships has been awarded a renewed status in the study of societies and social change. This book is an outstanding reference source to key topics, problems and debates in this exciting subject area.

An outstanding reference source for the key topics, problems and debates in this crucial field and the first collection of its kind. Essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies, comparative religion, new religious movements and religion and politics and related disciplines.

This substantially revised second edition of The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Religion remains the only comprehensive survey in English of methods and methodology in the discipline.

This substantially revised second edition of The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Religion remains the only comprehensive survey in English of methods and methodology in the discipline.

This volume is intended as an entry point to questions about mass atrocity and genocide that are asked by and of people of faith and is is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, historical events and heated debates in this subject area.

This handbook looks specifically at the role religion plays in the ethical treatment of non-human animals. It demonstrates that religious traditions, despite often being anthropocentric, do have much to offer to those seeking a framework for a more enlightened relationship between humans and non-human animals.

Like an ecosystem, cities develop, change, thrive and adapt through the interaction of myriad components. Religion is one of those living parts, shaping and being shaped by urban contexts. This volume is an outstanding interdisciplinary reference source to the key topics, problems and methodologies in this cutting-edge subject.

This book is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, challenges, past and present global issues, and debates in this exciting subject. The first collection of its kind, this volume comprises over 25 chapters by a team of international contributors.

Given the intense political scrutiny of Islam and Muslims, which often centre on gendered concerns, this book is an outstanding reference source to key topics, problems and debates in this exciting subject. It is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies, Islamic studies and gender studies.

The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender is an outstanding reference source to this engaging and controversial subject area. Since its founding in 1830, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has engaged gender in surprising ways.

This handbook looks specifically at the role religion plays in the ethical treatment of non-human animals. It demonstrates that religious traditions, despite often being anthropocentric, do have much to offer to those seeking a framework for a more enlightened relationship between humans and non-human animals.

The relationships between religion, spirituality, health, biomedical institutions, complementary and alternative healing systems are widely discussed today. This book is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems and debates in this exciting subject and is the first collection of its kind.