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Spiritual, Religious, and Faith-Based Practices in Chronicity
This book explores how people draw upon spiritual, religious, or faith-based practices to support their mental wellness amidst forms of chronicity. From diverse global contexts and …
Religious Entrepreneurism in China’s Urban House Churches
This book offers a unique historical documentation of the development of the ambitious religious entrepreneurism by leaders of the Early Rain church (and later Western China …
Celebrity Morals and the Loss of Religious Authority
This book examines American popular culture to demonstrate that celebrities have superseded religious figures as moral authorities. As trust in religious institutions has waned …
Italian American Pentecostalism and the Struggle for Religious Identity
While many established forms of Christianity have seen significant decline in recent decades, Pentecostals are currently one of the fastest growing religious groups across the …
Spirit Possession and Communication in Religious and Cultural Contexts
Spirit Possession and Communication in Religious and Cultural Contexts explores the phenomenon of spirit possession, focusing on the religious and cultural functions it serves as a …
Being Spiritual but Not Religious
In its most general sense, the term "Spiritual but Not Religious" denotes those who, on the one hand, are disillusioned with traditional institutional religion and, on the other …
Religious Studies Scholars as Public Intellectuals
The prominence of religion in recent debates around politics, identity formation, and international terrorism has led to an increased demand on those studying religion to help …
Government Surveillance of Religious Expression
Recent revelations about government surveillance of citizens have led to questions about whether there should be better defined boundaries around privacy. Should government …
Religious Boundaries for Sex, Gender, and Corporeality
The ambiguity concerning the interpretation of the ‘physical body’ in religious thought is not peculiar to any given religion, but is discernible in the scriptures, practices, and …
Holocaust Memory and Britain’s Religious-Secular Landscape
British state-supported Holocaust remembrance has dramatically grown in prominence since the 1990s. This monograph provides the first substantial discussion of the interface …
Secular Cosmopolitanism, Hospitality, and Religious Pluralism
This book explores the idea of religious pluralism while defending the norms of secular cosmopolitanism, which include liberty, tolerance, civility, and hospitality. The secular …
Queering Religion, Religious Queers
This collection considers how religious identity interplays with other forms and contexts of identity, specifically those related to sexual identity. It asks how these …