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"Now in its third edition, Grounding Religion explores relationships between the environment and religious beliefs and practices. Established scholars introduce students to the ways religion shapes and is shaped by human-earth relations, surveying a series of key issues and questions with particular attention to issues of environmental degradation, social justice, ritual practices, and religious worldviews. Case studies, discussion questions, and further readings enrich students' experience. This third edition features updated content, including revisions of every chapter and new material on religion and the environmental humanities, sexuality and queer studies, class, ability, privilege and power, environmental justice, extinction, biodiversity, and politics. An excellent text for undergraduates and graduates alike, it offers an expansive overview of the academic field of religion and ecology as it has emerged in the past fifty years and continues to develop today"--

"The Routledge Handbook of Religions in Asia provides a contemporary and comprehensive overview of religion in contemporary Asia. Compiled and introduced by Bryan S. Turner and Oscar Salemink, the Handbook contains specially written chapters by experts in their respective fields. The wide-ranging introduction discusses issues surrounding Orientalism and the historical development of the discipline of Religious Studies. It conveys how there has been many centuries of interaction between different religious traditions in Asia and discusses the problem of world religions and the range of concepts, such as high and low traditions, folk and formal religions, popular and orthodox developments. Individual chapters are presented in the following five sections: Asian Origins: religious formations Missions, States and Religious Competition Reform Movements and Modernity Popular Religions Religion and Globalization: social dimensions Striking a balance between offering basic information about religious cultures in Asia and addressing the complexity of employing a western terminology in societies with radically different traditions, this advanced level reference work will be essential reading for students, researchers and scholars of Asian Religions, Sociology, Anthropology, Asian Studies and Religious Studies"--

"Fifty Key Thinkers on Religion is an accessible guide to the most important and widely studied theorists on religion of the last 300 years. Arranged chronologically, the book explores the lives, works and ideas of key writers across a truly interdisciplinary range, from sociologists to psychologists. Thinkers covered include: Friedrich Nietzsche,,James Frazer, Sigmund Freud, Emile Durkheim, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Mary Douglas,Talal Asad, Søren Kierkegaard. Providing an indispensable one volume map of our understanding of religion in the west, the book is fully cross-referenced throughout and provides authoritative guides to important primary and secondary texts for students wishing to take their studies further."--Publisher description.

Abstract
This contribution outlines the project of a global history of religion that examines the historical formations and epistemic structures in non-European regions prior to the encounter with Europeans just as much as the current entanglements of the global discourse on religion. Based on a case study of the encounter between Tibetans and Catholic missionaries in 18th century Lhasa, three important aspects in the project of a global history of religion will be discussed: comparison, both at the subject level and as a scholarly method; the practice of translation; and finally the genealogical tracing of taxonomic orders in non-European regions beyond colonial orders. In addition, a suggestion is offered to expand our analytical repertoire to include non-European worlds of experience in a conceptual-historical approach.

chapter Prelude -- part Home -- chapter 1 Beheimatung: Making Oneself at Home with the Spirit—A Collage -- chapter 2 The City as a Place of Remembrance: Against Urban Amnesia -- chapter 3 Religion in the Built Environment: Aesth/Ethics, Ritual, and Memory in Lived Urban Space -- part Earth -- chapter 4 Cities on the Stream of Gods: Wandering in Mayan Sacred Geography -- chapter 5 Ecological Geomancy: Earth Energy and the Wisdom of Spatial Design -- chapter 6 Space and Justice in Eco-Spirituality -- part Landscape -- chapter 7 "The Space Where I Am": Decolonizing, Resacralizing, and Transfiguring Landscapes through the Aesth/Ethical Lens -- chapter 8 Landscape, Power, Climate, and the Sacred: Preliminary Reflections about Religion in Sacred, Medieval Nordic Geographies -- chapter 9 "It Can't Be Locked In": Decolonizing Processes in the Arts and Religion of Sápmi and Aboriginal Australia -- part Climate -- chapter 10 "The Landscape Breathes Despair": Lived Religion in Dangerous Environmental Change -- chapter 11 Sacred Geography: Religion in the Lived Space of Climatic Change -- chapter 12 Invoking the Spirit amid Dangerous Environmental Change -- chapter 13 Energy as Gift or Commodity? The Ambivalence of Growth, Markets, and Technology in Climatic Change -- part Mobility -- chapter 14 Mobility and the Spirit of Our Time -- chapter 15 "Follow Me." The Reversal of Traffic in Johannes Schreiter's Stained Glass World -- chapter 16 Technology as Salvation?: Critical Perspectives from an Aesth/Ethics of the Spirit -- part Spirit -- chapter 17 Theology in Its Spatial Turn: Space, Place, and Built Environments Challenging and Changing the Images of God -- chapter 18 Trinitarian Cosmology in God's Liberating Movement: Exploring Some Signature Tunes in the Opera of Ecologic Salvation -- chapter 19 Fetishism Revisited: In the Animistic Lens of Eco-Pneumatology -- part Postlude -- chapter 20 In the Anteroom of Life: The Human as the Human's Fascination in Roy Andersson's Film You, the Living.

Focusing on places, objects, bodies, narratives, and ritual spaces where religion may be found or inscribed, the authors reveal the role of religion in contesting rights to places, to knowledge and to property, as well as access to resources. Through analyses of specific historical processes in terms of responses to socio-economic and political change, the chapters consider implicitly or explicitly the problematic relation between science (including social sciences and anthropology in particular) and religion, and how this connects to the new religious globalization of the twenty-first century

"War and Religion: The Iran−Iraq War" published on by Oxford University Press.