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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Rethinking Authority in an Era of Media and Religious Change -- Chapter 1. Religious Authority in the Media Age -- Chapter 2. The Media and Religious Authority from Ancient to Modern -- Chapter 3. Media and (Vicarious) Religion Two Levels of Religious Authority -- Chapter 4. Religious Authority and Social Media Branding in a Culture of Religious Celebrification -- Part II. Case Studies -- Chapter 5. Satellite Publics Moral Identity and New Media in Moroccan Islam -- Chapter 6. Examining All the Realms of Nature Evidence, Insight, and the Quest for Knowledge in Modern Thailand -- Chapter 7. Cyber Memorial Zones and Shamanic Inheritance in Korea -- Chapter 8. Baadaass Mamas Race, Sex, and Afro-Religiosity in Sankofa -- Chapter 9. Techno-Vodou Transnational Flows in the Spiritual Marketplace -- Chapter 10. Evangelical Media for Youth and Religious Authority in Brazil -- Chapter 11. The Authority of the Image Sex, Religion, and the Text/Image Conflict in Craig Thompson's Blankets -- Afterword. The Media and Religious Authority -- Contributors -- Index

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.

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 article analyzes the social aspects of Hinduism as a combination of not only religious, but also mythological, legal and ethical concepts. They form, on the basis on which the social life of Indian society is largely organized. The author's analysis of the historical development of Hinduism shows that, despite the absence of a rigid organizational structure, it has an internal unity at the social, ideological and religious levels. Hinduism is united in a whole by sacred texts and the Pantheon of Gods, recognized by almost all its trends and schools, as well as the faith in karma — the causal relationship between the actions of an individual in past incarnations and his fate, character, position in society in the current incarnation, and reincarnation. The cornerstone of both the faith and the social component of the Hindu doctrine is the concept of classes and castes, which denote separate groups whose members have a common professional occupation, do not marry other groups, and do not even share meals with them. The article considers the hierarchy of classes that originated in India in the Vedic period, as well as the principles, primarily professional and regional, of the formation of modern castes.The author analyzes a set of religious prescriptions and cult practices that regulate the daily life of Hindus, the ritual side of Hinduism associated with the most significant events in human life. Special attention is paid to new practices of "redemptive rites", including asceticism, fasting, various methods of mortification of the flesh, and redemptive gifts. It is noted that the essence of Hinduism is not limited to its religious and ideological content. An organic integral part of it is a number of social institutions, legal and moral norms, social institutions and cultural phenomena. In this regard, Hinduism is not only and not so much a religion, but a way of life and holistic behavior, which can also have its own spiritual practice.

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