Comparative Religion

The Palgrave Handbook of Religion and State Volume I: Theoretical Perspective deals with the relationship between Religion and its long history tha...

Religious freedom has become increasingly important across the global spectrum over the past decades but has remained a contested concept. This boo...

The rabbinic sages of late antiquity are known for their sophisticated and creative reading of Scripture, but rabbinic literature also includes ela...

Intercarnations is an outstanding collection of provocative, elegantly written essaysmany available in print for the first timeby renowned theologi...

This Handbook explores the ways in which religion among the African people has been applied in situations of conflict and violence to contribute to...

This proceedings volume presents selected chapters from the 13th Global Islamic Marketing Conference, featuring contributions from renowned experts...

Diese Studie dringt in den Kern des organisierten Säkularismus der Schweiz vor. Dazu rückt sie die Freidenkerbewegung in den Fokus einer soziologis...

The vast and ancient topic of kingship in India has mostly been studied from the perspectives of rulers and other elites. But what constitutes sove...

The vast and ancient topic of kingship in India has mostly been studied from the perspectives of rulers and other elites. But what constitutes sove...

In 1587, Ab al-Fazl ibn Mubrak a favourite at the Mughal court and author of the Akbarnmah completed his Preface to the Persian translation of th...

How does the powerful effect that religion has on public and personal life relate to the various spheres of our culture? Is the relationship betwee...

This volume offers unique insights into the mutually constitutive nature of social media practices and religious change. Part 1 examines how social...

This volume approaches the topic of mobility in Southeast Europe by offering the first detailed historical study of the land route connecting Istan...

This volume will concentrate its search for religious individuality on texts and practices related to texts from Classical Greece to Late Antiquity...

The word 'yoga' conjures up in the minds of many Westerners images of people performing exercises and adopting unusual, sometimes contortive postur...

This book analyzes the contemporary politics of the Hajj in countries of Africa, the Near East, and Southeast Asia. States must organize the mobili...

Religion in Europe is currently undergoing changes that are reconfiguring physical and virtual spaces of practice and belief, and these changes nee...