New Books April, May, June, 2013 (US) - Routledge

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Media, religion and Gender
Key Issues and New Challenges
Edited by Mia lövheim, Uppsala University, Sweden
Series: Media, Religion and Culture
This book explores the role that gender plays when religion,
media use and values in contemporary society interact. It
draws together some of the best and most up-to-date
scholarship on media and religion from a gender
perspective, providing a useful platform for teaching and
research. The volume discusses key concepts in gender
theory and shows how these can be applied to research in
religion and media, as well as outlining new areas and
challenges for the future. Case studies drawn from a variety
of countries and contexts illustrate the range of issues,
theoretical perspectives and empirical material involved in current work.
Routledge
Market: Religion/Media
June 2013: 6-1/4x9-1/4: 240pp
Hb: 978-0-415-50472-0: $130.00/V
Pb: 978-0-415-50473-7: $39.95/V
eBook: 978-0-203-52174-8: $130.00/V
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Creating Church online*
Ritual, Community, and New Media
Tim hutchings, Umeå University, Sweden
Series: Routledge Research in Religion, Media
and Culture
Hundreds of thousands of people are now involved with
online churches and congregations, generating new
kinds of ritual, leadership, and community – as well as
new networks of global influence. This book is the first
large-scale sociological investigation of this area, offering
a significant and timely advance in the study of religion,
media, and culture. This book explores the significance
and impact of online churchgoing in the religious and
social lives of participants, as well as the relationship
between online and everyday life, in search of a new
theoretical framework to map religious users’
engagement with new media.
Routledge
Market: Religion
May 2013: 6x9: 232pp
Hb: 978-0-415-53693-6: $125.00/V
eBook: 978-0-203-11109-3
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www.routledge.com/9780415536936
Death and reincarnation in
Tibetan buddhism
In-Between Bodies
Tanya Zivkovic, University of Adelaide, Australia
Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
Death and Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism
contextualises the seemingly esoteric and exotic
aspects of Tibetan Buddhist culture within the
everyday, embodied and sensual sphere of religious
praxis. It centres on the social and religious lives of
deceased Tibetan Buddhist lamas, and explores how
posterior forms – corpses, relics, reincarnations and
hagiographical representations – extend a lama’s
trajectory of lives and manipulate biological
imperatives of birth, aging and death.
Routledge
Market: Asian Religion, Buddhism
August 2013: 6-1/4x9-1/4: 208pp: 4 halftones
Hb: 978-0-415-83067-6: $135.00/V
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www.routledge.com/9780415830676
Eastern Catholic Christianity
in Contemporary Europe
Edited by lucian leustean, Aston University, UK
and Anthony o’Mahony, Heythrop College,
University of London, UK
Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and
Eastern Europe Series
This book is a comprehensive survey of the
development of all Eastern Catholic Churches in
Europe from the inter-war period to the present day. It
focuses on the survival of churches during the Cold
War period, ecclesiastical contacts between East and
West, the evolution of church-state relations, their
socio-political influence, and the ways in which these
churches act as bridges towards a unified Christianity.
Routledge
Market: Religion, Euopean Studies
July 2013: 6-1/4x9-1/4: 256pp
Hb: 978-0-415-69912-9: $145.00/V
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www.routledge.com/9780415699129
Eastern Christianity and
politics in the Twenty-First
Century
Edited by lucian leustean, Aston University, UK
Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and
Eastern Europe Series
This book provides an up-to-date, comprehensive
overview of Eastern Christian churches in Europe, the
Middle East, Africa, Asia, Australia and the US.
Written by leading international scholars in the field, it
examines both Eastern Orthodox and Oriental
churches from the end of the Cold War until the
present day.
Routledge
Market: Religion, Politics
July 2013: 6-1/4x9-1/4: 384pp
Hb: 978-0-415-68490-3: $155.00/V
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www.routledge.com/9780415684903
Gender and power in
Contemporary spirituality
Ethnographic Approaches
Edited by Anna Fedele, École des Hautes Études
en Sciences Sociales, France and Kim Knibbe,
University of Groningen, Netherlands
Series: Routledge Studies in Religion
This book points out the complex ways gender and
power are performed in a context that explicitly
wants to free itself from the constraining workings
of power and traditional gender roles associated
with institutionalized religion, developing concepts
and theoretical insights that can give new direction
and focus to the social scientific study of
contemporary spiritualities.
Routledge
Market: Religion
December 2012: 6x9: 232pp: 2 halftones
Hb: 978-0-415-65947-5: $125.00/V
eBook: 978-0-203-07465-7
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www.routledge.com/9780415659475
Jewish Writers and
intellectuals
Religion and Identity in Contemporary
Austrian Literature and Film
Andrea reiter, University of Southampton, UK
Series: Routledge Studies in Religion
This book examines Jewish writers and intellectuals in
Austria, electronic media alongside more traditional
publication formats over the last 25 years. Author
Andrea Reiter sets a complicated standard for ‘who is
Jewish’ and what constitutes a ‘Jewish response.’ The
work proceeds to questions of enacting or performing
identity, especially Jewish identity in the Austrian
setting, looking at how these Jewish writers and
filmmakers in Austria ‘perform’ their Jewishness not
only in their public appearances and engagements but
also in their works.
Routledge
Market: Religion
June 2013: 6x9: 208pp
Hb: 978-0-415-65945-1: $125.00/V
eBook: 978-0-203-07467-1
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www.routledge.com/9780415659451
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