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Preface --Introduction --Part I. Our human contexts within nature.1.Ecologies of diversity: beyond religious and human exceptionalism /Katherine Keller --2.Measured ecological humanism of the Qur'an and international development: a comparative look /M. Ashraf Adeel --3.Modernity, secularism, and the exclusion of nature: why religion matters /Hassam S. Timani --4.Animal talk: what ethical lessons do animals teach on Aggadic Midrash about the environment? /Daniel Maoz --5.A vast net of interconnected diamonds: Buddhist view of nature /Tatjana Myoko V. Prittwitz --6.Dietrich Bonhoeffer as an ecological theologian /jamison Stallman --7.Pope Francis' encyclical and Catholic magisterial statements on ecological ethics /Nancy M. Rourke --Part II. Imperatives from sacred texts and traditions.8.Who will inherit God's world? the righteous of Sura 21 and Psalm 37 /Barbara Pemberton --9.Interreligious encounter in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament: models for the anthropocene /Richard C. Salter --10.Green book: Qur'anic teachings on creation and nature /Fatih Harpci --11.The protection of nature and the environment: a case for restoring 'Dharma' in the Hindu world /Narwaraj Chaulagain --Part III. Practicing the imperatives.12.Pope Francis, care for creation, and popular movements /Marvin L. Mich --13.Three sages: conversations on ecology /Monica Weis --14.Prospects for dialogue between Russian Orthodox and Muslims on the environmental crisis /Andrii Krawchuk --15.The flowering of India: a Mughal manifesto for environmentalism /Michael D. Calabria --16.Deforestation in the Congo Basin and global climate change: an ethic of environmental responsibility based on African spirituality /Leocadie Lushombo --g17.'That we may sow beauty': reading Jewish, Christian, and Muslim classics for interreligious dialogue about the environmental crisis /Elizabeth Adams-Eilers.

1 Introduction: Social Media and Religious Change; 2 Media and the Sacred: An Evaluation of the 'Strong Program' within Cultural Sociology; 3 Christianity, Secularism and Religious Diversity in the British Media; 4 Religion for a Postsecular Society? Discourses of Gender, Religion and Secularity in the Reception of BBC2's The Monastery and The Convent; 5 Paradise Lost? Islamophobia, Post-liberalism and the Dismantling of State Multiculturalism in the Netherlands: The Role of Mass and Social Media; 6 Modern-day Martyrs: Fans' Online Reconstruction of Celebrities as Divine.

In Bearing Witness, Courtney S. Campbell draws on his experience as a teacher, scholar, and a bioethics consultant to propose an innovative interpretation of the significance of religious values and traditions for bioethics and health care. The book offers a distinctive exposition of a covenantal ethic of gift-response-responsibility-transformation that informs a quest for meaning in the profound choices that patients, families, and professionals face in creating, sustaining, and ending life. Campbell's account of "bearing witness" offers new understandings of formative ethical concepts, situates medicine as a calling and vocation rooted in concepts of healing, affirms professional commitments of presence for suffering and dying persons, and presents a prophetic critique of medical-assisted death. This book offers compelling critiques of secular models of medical professionalism and of individualistic assumptions that distort the physician-patient relationship. This innovative interpretation bears witness to the relevance of religious perspectives on an array of bioethical issues from new reproductive technologies to genetics to debates over end-of-life ethics and bears witness against the oddities of a market-oriented and consumerist vision of health care that is especially salient for an era of health-care reform. --

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 other practices (e.g. adoption) have created a number of provoking stances and policy provisions - but what remains unanswered is how people experience and situate themselves within sometimes competing

The Routledge Handbook of Religious and Spiritual Tourism provides a robust and comprehensive state-of-the-art review of the literature in this growing sub-field of tourism. This handbook is split into five distinct sections. The first section covers past and present debates regarding definitions, theories, and concepts related to religious and spiritual tourism. Subsequent sections focus on the supply and demand aspects of religious and spiritual tourism markets, and examine issues related to the management side of these markets around the world. Areas under examination include religious theme parks, the UNESCO branding of religious heritage, gender and performance, popular culture, pilgrimage, environmental impacts, and fear and terrorism, among many others. The final section explores emerging and future directions in religious and spiritual tourism, and proposes an agenda for further research. Interdisciplinary in coverage and international in scope through its authorship and content, this will be essential reading for all students, researchers, and academics interested in Tourism, Religion, Cultural Studies, and Heritage Studies

"The multidisciplinary anthology Religious Fundamentalism in the Age of Pandemic provides deep insights concerning the current impact of Covid-19 on various religious groups and believers around the world. Based on contributions of well-known scholars in the field of Religious Fundamentalism, the contributors offer about a window into the origins of religious fundamentalism and the development of these movements as well as the creation of the category itself. Further recommendations regarding specific (fundamentalist) religious groups and actors and their possible development within Buddhism, Christianity, Islam and Judaism round up the discussion about the rise of Religious Fundamentalism in the Age of Pandemic"--Back cover

In a search for a deeper understanding of the complex relationship between gender, language and religious identity, this book gathers a global range of studies from the field of linguistics. It connects language use to both a religious and gender identity and shows how language works to unite, oppress, liberate or fracture the various participants

Every religion has teachings on peace which many of their adherents have ignored. As a step towards a new society, their potential for peace and reconciliation has to be explored and reinvented because most people can relate to its emotional content in their search for a new society based on justice