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  • Growing Up Godless

    Non-Religious Childhoods in Contemporary England

    How children’s non-belief and non-religion are formed in everyday lifeThe number of those identifying as “non-religious” has risen rapidly in Britain and many other parts of Europe and North America. Although non-religion and non-belief are especially prevalent among younger people, we know little about the experience of children who are growing up without religion. In Growing Up Godless, Anna ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Figure of the Child in Contemporary Evangelicalism

    by Anna Strhan ...
    What does it mean to grow up as an evangelical Christian today? What meanings does 'childhood' have for evangelical adults? How does this shape their engagements with children and with schools? And what does this mean for the everyday realities of children's lives? Based on in-depth ethnographic fieldwork carried out in three contrasting evangelical churches in the UK, Anna Strhan reveals how ... Read more

    $65.69 USD

  • Levinas, Subjectivity, Education

    Towards an Ethics of Radical Responsibility

    by Anna Strhan ...
    Series series Journal of Philosophy of Education
    Levinas, Subjectivity, Education explores how the philosophical writings of Emmanuel Levinas lead us to reassess education and reveals the possibilities of a radical new understanding of ethical and political responsibility.Presents an original theoretical interpretation of Emmanuel Levinas that outlines the political significance of his work for contemporary debates on educationOffers a clear ... Read more

    $36.25 USD

  • Religion and the Global City

    Edited by Anna Strhan, Dr David Garbin ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place
    This is the first book to explore how religious movements and actors shape and are shaped by aspects of global city dynamics. Theoretically grounded and empirically informed, Religion and the Global City advances discussions in the field of urban religion, and establishes future research directions.David Garbin and Anna Strhan bring together a wealth of ethnographically rich and vivid case studies ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion and Childhood

    From recent sex abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Church, to arguments about faith schools and religious indoctrination, this volume considers the interconnection between the actual lives of children and the position of children as placeholders for the future. Childhood has often been a particular site of struggle for negotiating the location of religion in public and everyday social life, and ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Where is the Good in the World?

    Ethical Life between Social Theory and Philosophy

    Series Book 12 - WYSE Series in Social Anthropology
    Bringing together contributions from anthropology, sociology, religious studies, and philosophy, along with ethnographic case studies from diverse settings, this volume explores how different disciplinary perspectives on the good might engage with and enrich each other. The chapters examine how people realize the good in social life, exploring how ethics and values relate to forms of suffering, ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Religion, Media and Culture: A Reader

    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

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    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

    $31.99 USD

  • A Sociology of Religious Emotion

    This timely book aims to change the way we think about religion by putting emotion back onto the agenda. It challenges a tendency to over-emphasise rational aspects of religion, and rehabilitates its embodied, visceral and affective dimensions. Against the view that religious emotion is a purely private matter, it offers a new framework which shows how religious emotions arise in the varied ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Does Religious Education Have a Future?

    Pedagogical and Policy Prospects

    The place of religion in the modern world has changed significantly over the past two decades. This has been partially reflected in the academic study of religion, but little, if at all, in religious education. In addition, the place of RE in schools has been the subject of intense debate due to changes to the curriculum and school structure, as well as being part of wider debates on religion in ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Queering Religion, Religious Queers

    Edited by Yvette Taylor, Ria Snowdon ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Religion
    This collection considers how religious identity interplays with other forms and contexts of identity, specifically those related to sexual identity. It asks how these intersections are formed, negotiated and resisted across time and places, including the UK, Europe, North America, Australia, and the Global South. Questions around ‘queer’ engagements in same-sex marriages, civil partnerships and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Teaching Critical Religious Studies

    Pedagogy and Critique in the Classroom

    Are you teaching religious studies in the best way possible? Do you inadvertently offer simplistic understandings of religion to undergraduate students, only to then unpick them at advanced levels?This book presents case studies of teaching methods that integrate student learning, classroom experiences, and disciplinary critiques. It shows how critiques of the scholarship of religious studies ... Read more

    $33.99 USD