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Religion Online

Finding Faith on the Internet

Edited by Lorne L. Dawson, Douglas E. Cowan

Religion Online provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to this burgeoning new religious reality, from cyberpilgrimages to neo-pagan chatroom communities. A substantial introduction by the…

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2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-97022-8 (Routledge)

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Sufism in Europe and North America

Edited by David Westerlund, David Westerlund

Today there is a substantial and rapidly growing Muslim population in Europe and North America. Here, as elsewhere, many of the Muslims are Sufis. This…

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2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32591-2 (Routledge)

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Shamanism

Critical Concepts in Sociology

Edited by Andrei A. Znamenski

Mircea Eliade descibed shamanism as the primal religion of humanity, the 'archaic technique of ecstasy'. The books of best-selling author Carlos Castaneda made it part…

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2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-31192-2 (Routledge)

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Buddhism Observed

Travellers, Exiles and Tibetan Dharma in Kathmandu

By Peter Moran

How do contemporary Westerners and Tibetans understand not only what it means to be 'Buddhist', but what it means to be hailed as one from…

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2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32596-7 (Routledge)

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Rave Culture and Religion

Edited by Graham St John

The collection provides insights on developments in post-traditional religiosity (especially 'New Age' and 'Neo-Paganism') through studies of rave's Gnostic narratives of ascensionism and re-enchantment, explorations…

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2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-31449-7 (Routledge)

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Beyond Primitivism

Indigenous Religious Traditions and Modernity

Edited by Jacob K. Olupona

What role do indigenous religions play in today's world? Beyond Primitivism is a complete appraisal of indigenous religions - faiths integrally connected to the cultures…

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2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-27320-6 (Routledge)

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Feminist Philosophy of Religion

Critical Readings

Edited by Pamela Sue Anderson, Beverley Clack

Feminist philosophy of religion has developed in recent years because of the exposure of explicit sexism in much traditional philosophical thinking about religion. The struggle…

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2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-25750-3 (Routledge)

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The Queer God

By Marcella Althaus-Reid

There are those who go to gay bars and salsa clubs with rosaries in their pockets, and who make camp chapels of their living rooms.…

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2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32324-6 (Routledge)

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Imagining Hinduism

A Postcolonial Perspective

By Sharada Sugirtharajah

Imagining Hinduism examines how Hinduism has been defined, interpreted and manufactured through Western categorizations, from the foreign interventions of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Orientalists and missionaries,…

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2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-25744-2 (Routledge)

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Science and Spirituality

The Volatile Connection

By David Knight

Until the end of the eighteenth century, almost everyone believed that the empirical world of science could produce evidence for a wise and loving God.…

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2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-25769-5 (Routledge)

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