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  • Women and Religion in the West

    Challenging Secularization

    by Sonya Sharma ...
    Series series Theology and Religion in Interdisciplinary Perspective Series in Association with the BSA Sociology of Religion Study Group
    What is the relationship between women and secularization? In the West, women are abandoning traditional religion. Yet they continue to make up the majority of religious adherents. Accounting for this seeming paradox is the focus of this volume. If women undergird the foundations of religion but are leaving in large numbers, why are they leaving? Where are they going? What are they doing? And what ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Religion, Equalities, and Inequalities

    Edited by Dawn Llewellyn, Sonya Sharma ...
    Series series Theology and Religion in Interdisciplinary Perspective Series in Association with the BSA Sociology of Religion Study Group
    Presenting cutting edge research on how religion can confront and obscure social inequalities in everyday life, Religion, Equalities and Inequalities argues that when religion is left out of social scientific analyses, it can result in incomplete analyses that conceal pathways to social inclusion and exclusion. Bringing together an international and interdisciplinary group of contributors who ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion, Gender and Sexuality

    Edited by Dr Sonya Sharma, Dawn Llewellyn, Sîan Hawthorne ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Handbooks
    Bringing together disciplines across the arts, humanities and social sciences, this Handbook presents novel and lively examinations of the dynamic ways religion, gender and sexuality operate.Applying feminist, intersectional, and reflexive approaches, the volume aims to loosen imperialist and exclusionary figurations that have underwritten and tethered religion, gender, and sexuality together. ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Prayer as Transgression?

    The Social Relations of Prayer in Healthcare Settings

    by Sheryl Reimer-Kirkham, Sonya Sharma, Rachel Brown, Melania Calestani ...
    Series Book 9 - Advancing Studies in Religion
    Healthcare settings are notoriously complex places where life and death co-exist, and where suffering is an everyday occurrence, giving rise to existential questions. The full range of society's diversity is reflected in patients and staff. Increasing religious and ethnic plurality, alongside decades of secularizing trends, is bringing new attention to how religion and nonreligion are expressed in ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • 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

    $47.49 CAD

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  • Religion: The Basics

    by Malory Nye ...
    Series series The Basics
    From the local to the global level, religion is – more than ever – an important and hotly debated part of modern life in the twenty-first century.From silver rings to ringtones and from clubs to headscarves, we often find the cultural role and discussion of religion in unexpected ways.Now in its second edition, Religion: The Basics remains the best introduction to religion and contemporary culture ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD

  • Religion, Culture & Society

    A Global Approach

    by Andrew Singleton ...
    "The reader is taken on a global exploration of the forms and diversities of religions and their social and cultural contexts... It is up to the minute in research and theory, and comfortably grounded in the traditions of the social explanation of things religious and spiritual."- Gary Bouma AM, Monash University"Tells how sociology of religion originated in the work of key nineteenth and ... Read more

    $86.39 CAD

  • Religion, Media and Culture: A Reader

    Edited by Gordon Lynch, Jolyon Mitchell, Anna Strhan ...
    This Reader brings together a selection of key writings to explore the relationship between religion, media and cultures of everyday life. It provides an overview of the main debates and developments in this growing field, focusing on four major themes:Religion, spirituality and consumer cultureMedia and the transformation of religionThe sacred senses: visual, material and audio cultureReligion, ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • Religion and Modern Society

    Citizenship, Secularisation and the State

    by Bryan S. Turner ...
    Religion is now high on the public agenda, with recent events focusing the world's attention on Islam in particular. This book provides a unique historical and comparative analysis of the place of religion in the emergence of modern secular society. Bryan S. Turner considers the problems of multicultural, multi-faith societies and legal pluralism in terms of citizenship and the state, with special ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Understanding Religion

    Theories and Methods for Studying Religiously Diverse Societies

    by Paul Michael Hedges ...
    A cutting-edge introduction to contemporary religious studies theory, connecting theory to data.This innovative coursebook introduces students to interdisciplinary theoretical tools for understanding contemporary religiously diverse societies—both Western and non-Western. Using a case-study model, the text considers:A wide and diverse array of contemporary issues, questions, and critical ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • Alternative Sociologies of Religion

    Through Non-Western Eyes

    by James V Spickard ...
    Uncovers what the sociology of religion would look like had it emerged in a Confucian, Muslim, or Native American culture rather than in a Christian oneSociology has long used Western Christianity as a model for all religious life. As a result, the field has tended to highlight aspects of religion that Christians find important, such as religious beliefs and formal organizations, while paying less ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Post-Secular in Question

    Religion in Contemporary Society

    Edited by David Kyuman Kim, Philip Gorski, Jonathan VanAntwerpen, John Torpey ...
    Series Book 7 - Social Science Research Council
    The Post-Secular in Question considers whether there has in fact been a religious resurgence of global dimensions in recent decades. This collection of original essays by leading academics represents an interdisciplinary intervention in the continuing and ever-transforming discussion of the role of religion and secularism in today’s world. Foregrounding the most urgent and compelling questions ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD