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Religion in the Media Age

By Stewart M. Hoover

Looking at the everyday interaction of religion and media in our cultural lives, Hoover’s new book is a fascinating assessment of the state of modern…

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2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-31423-7 (Routledge)

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Sex and the Sacred

Gay Identity and Spiritual Growth

By Daniel A. Helminiak

A down-to-earth look at the spiritual power of sex

Sex and the Sacred examines the spiritual dimension of human sexuality in a way that…

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2006 | Paperback: 978-1-56023-342-8 (Routledge)

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Buddhism in Canada

Edited by Bruce Matthews

Buddhism has become a major religion in Canada over the last half-century. The 'ethnic Buddhism' associated with immigrant Asian people is the most important aspect,…

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2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32279-9 (Routledge)

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Buddhism, Conflict and Violence in Modern Sri Lanka

Edited by Mahinda Deegalle

Interdisciplinary in its approach, this book explores the dilemmas that Buddhism faces in relation to the continuing ethnic conflict and violence in modern Sri Lanka.…

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2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-35920-7 (Routledge)

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The New Catholic Feminisim

Theology, Gender Theory and Dialogue

By Tina Beattie

It is hard to over-estimate the challenge that feminism poses to Roman Catholicism. Pope John Paul II's call for a 'new feminism' has led to…

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2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-30148-0 (Routledge)

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Education, Religion and Society

Essays in Honour of John M. Hull

Edited by Dennis Bates, Gloria Durka, Friedrich Schweitzer

Education, Religion and Society celebrates the career of Professor John Hull, a leading figure in the transformation of religious education in English and Welsh schools,…

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2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-36562-8 (Routledge)

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Researching New Religious Movements

Responses and Redefinitions

By Elisabeth Arweck

New religious movements such as the Moonies, Jehovah's Witnesses and Hare Krishnas are now well established in mainstream cultural consciousness. But responses to these 'cult'…

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2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-27755-6 (Routledge)

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Julian of Norwich

Visionary or Mystic?

By Kevin Magill

Julian of Norwich was a fourteenth-century woman who at the age of thirty had a series of vivid visions centred around the crucified Christ. Twenty…

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2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-36053-1 (Routledge)

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Religion and Politics in Turkey

Edited by Barry Rubin, Ali Çarkoglu

Over the last decade the once marginal extreme right of the Turkish ideological spectrum has grown in size as well as in influence and has…

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2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-34831-7 (Routledge)

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Christianity, Islam and Nationalism in Indonesia

By Charles E. Farhadian

Although over eighty percent of the country is Muslim, Indonesia is marked by an extraordinary diversity in language, ancestry, culture, religion and ways of life.…

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2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-35961-0 (Routledge)

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Muslims on the Edge of China: Religious Knowledge and Authority Amongst the Uyghurs of Xinjiang
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Christianity and the State in Asia: Complicity and Conflict
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Religion in Contemporary China: Revitalization and Innovation
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