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July-December 2020

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Contents Religion and Politics �� 2 Asian Religions �� 2 Religion and Film �� 3 US �� 4 Material Religion �� 4 Islam �� 5 Religion and Science �� 6 Sociology of Religion �� 6 Theory �� 7 Representatives, Agents & Distributors �� 8

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R E L I G I O U S S T U D I E S – Religion and Politics / Asian Religions

Rethinking Religion and Politics in a Plural World

The Baha’i International Community and the United Nations Julia Berger, Baha’i International Community’s United Nations Office, USA Emerging in nineteenth-century Iran, the Baha’i community's theological engagement with questions of politics and global order, as well as its long-standing engagement in the global political arena constitutes one of the most distinct and compelling, yet least-researched examples of religious activism. Analyzing events spanning a 70-year period from 1945-2015, this book provides a unique historical perspective on the evolution of civil society engagement in the political sphere. UK September 2020 • US September 2020 • 224 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350130326 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350130340 • £91.80 / $99.96 ePdf 9781350130333 • £91.80 / $99.96 Bloomsbury Academic

The Sikh Next Door An Identity in Transition

Manpreet J Singh, Independent writer/ scholar The Sikh Next Door is an analysis of Sikh identity as formulated through the many turns that lie between the past and the present. It dwells on transitions incurred and their reflection in the changing profile of the community. In a departure from the traditional frame of reference, the work situates the community in an urban landscape, veering the focus away from the once highlighted martial, agricultural and even militant tropes. In doing so, it redraws the narrative by bringing in identities once edged out and by re-profiling those which no longer fit the old frame. UK June 2020 • US June 2020 • 224 pages HB 9789389165579 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9789389165586 • £91.80 / $99.96 ePdf 9789389812718 • £91.80 / $99.96 Bloomsbury Academic India World All Languages (excluding India/Indian subcontinent)

Reassembling Democracy Ritual as Cultural Resource

Edited by Jone Salomonsen, University of Oslo, Norway, Michael Houseman, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France, Sarah M. Pike & Graham Harvey, The Open University, UK Diverse processes of democratic participation and exclusion - are closely bound by ritual acts and complexes. This collection is the result of collaborations and conversations between international researchers who have focused on the use of those cultural resources identifiable as “ritual” as they reassemble democracy. The main question integrating the collection concerns the ways in which the performative qualities of ritual resources achieve their potential as forms of personal and political empowerment in our changing and challenging world. This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. UK September 2020 • US September 2020 • 224 pages HB 9781350123014 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350123038 • £91.80 / $99.96 ePdf 9781350123021 • £91.80 / $99.96 Bloomsbury Academic

Dynamism and the Ageing of a Japanese 'New' Religion Transformations and the Founder

Erica Baffelli, The University of Manchester, UK & Ian Reader, The University of Manchester, UK Examines the trajectory and development of the Japanese religious movement Agonshu, commonly portrayed in Japan as a 'new religion', and its charismatic founder Kiriyama Seiyu. Based on field research spanning 30 years, it examines Agonshu from when it first captured attention in the 1980s with its spectacular rituals and use of media technologies, through a period of stagnation, until its response to the 2016 death of its founder. By examining Agonshu in the wider context, the book draws attention to the importance of understanding the trajectories of 'new' religions and how they can become ‘old’ even within their first generation. UK June 2020 • US June 2020 • 216 pages PB 9781350170148 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350086517 ePub 9781350086531 • £91.80 / $99.96 ePdf 9781350086524 • £91.80 / $99.96 Bloomsbury Academic

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Religions of the World in China's Capital City Edited by Timothy Knepper, Professor of Philosophy, Drake University, USA & Bin You, Minzu University of China, China Religions of Beijing offers an intimate portrayal of lived religion in 18 different religious communities in greater Beijing. Graduate students at Minzu University of China spent one year immersed in the daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly routines of these communities, “writing with” the experiences and perspectives of their practitioners. Each chapter was then translated into English, with students at Drake University (Des Moines, Iowa) facilitating this process. The result is a bi-lingual book (Mandarin, English) that reveals to Chinese- and English-speaking readers the vibrant diversity of lived religion in contemporary Beijing. Buddhism, Daoism, Christianity, Islam and folk religion are covered.

Taixu’s ‘On the Establishment of the Pure Land in the Human Realm’ A Translation and Study

Charles B. Jones, The Catholic University of America, USA In this book, Charles B. Jones provides the first English translation of one of the most important texts of modern Chinese Buddhism: monk-reformer Taixu’s ‘On the Establishment of the Pure Land in the Human Realm’. In an accompanying crticism of the text, Jones argues that this seminal essay has, until now, been widely misunderstood and mischaracterized. UK November 2020 • US November 2020 • 176 pages • 2 bw illus HB 9781350140561 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350144279 • £81.00 / $89.10 ePdf 9781350140578 • £81.00 / $89.10 Bloomsbury Academic

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Language in the Buddhist Tantra of Japan

A Critique of Western Buddhism

Richard K. Payne, Institute of Buddhist Studies at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, USA

What are we to make of Western Buddhism? Glenn Wallis argues that in aligning their tradition with the contemporary wellness industry, Western Buddhists evade the consequences of Buddhist thought. This book shows that with concepts such as vanishing, nihility, extinction, contingency, and no-self, Buddhism, like all potent systems of thought, articulates a notion of the “real.” Raw, unflinching acceptance of this real is held by Buddhism to be at the very core of human “awakening.” Yet these preeminent human truths are universally against contemporary Buddhist practice, contravening the very heart of Buddhism.

Indic Roots of Mantra

Dismantles the preconception that Buddhism is a religion of mystical silence, arguing that language is in fact central to the Buddhist tradition. By examining the use of ‘extraordinary language’—evocations calling on the power of the Buddha—in Japanese Buddhist Tantra, Payne shows that such language was not simply cultural baggage carried by Buddhist practitioners from South to East Asia. Rather, such language was a key element in the propagation of new forms of belief and practice. He argues that Indian and East Asian philosophies of language shed light on the use of language in meditative and ritual practices in Japan. UK February 2020 • US February 2020 • 256 pages PB 9781350152090 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350037267 ePub 9781350037281 • £31.30 / $34.76 ePdf 9781350037274 • £31.30 / $34.76 Bloomsbury Academic

Ruins of the Buddhist Real

Glenn Wallis, Incite Seminars in Philadelphia, USA

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. UK March 2020 • US March 2020 • 232 pages PB 9781350155213 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781474283557 ePub 9781474283564 • £91.80 / $99.96 ePdf 9781474283571 • £91.80 / $99.96 Bloomsbury Academic

Bollywood Horrors

Spiritual Sensations

Edited by Ellen Goldberg, Queen's University, Canada, Aditi Sen, Queen's University, Canada & Brian Collins, Ohio University, USA

Sarah K. Balstrup, Australian Catholic University, Australia

Religion, Violence and Cinematic Fears in India

Bollywood Horrors covers topics including poster and song booklet design, Gothic novels, campy “B-grade” monster movies, tantric magicians, communal violence, and human trafficking. It presents a multi-faceted study of cinematic representations of real-life horror, the religious aspects of horror imagery and themes, and the ways in which Hindi films have projected “cinematic fears” onto the screen. These fears are drawn from religious traditions; from among folkloric demons like bhoots and chudails; from real-life atrocities like the anti-Muslim riots of Gujarat in 2002; and the prevalence of violence against women. UK November 2020 • US November 2020 • 256 pages • 40 bw illus HB 9781350143159 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350143173 • £91.80 / $99.96 ePdf 9781350143166 • £91.80 / $99.96 Bloomsbury Academic

R E L I G I O U S S T U D I E S – Asian Religions / Religion and Film

Religions of Beijing

Cinematic Religious Experience and Evolving Conceptions of the Sacred

The secular, pluralist culture of the West encourages a subjective approach to spiritual truth where stimulating emotional experiences, such as those provided by film, can contribute to personal conceptions of the sacred. Examining Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) as the principal case-study and Gaspar Noé’s Enter the Void (2009) and Lars von Trier’s Melancholia (2011) as comparative examples, Sarah Balstrup argues that these directors harness the affective properties of film to generate altered states of perception in a manner analogous to religious practice. UK September 2020 • US September 2020 • 256 pages • 18 bw illus HB 9781350130173 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350130197 • £91.80 / $99.96 ePdf 9781350130180 • £91.80 / $99.96 Bloomsbury Academic

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R E L I G I O U S S T U D I E S – US / Material Religion

Hinduism in America A Convergence of Worlds

Jeffery D. Long, Elizabeth Town College, USA The is the first survey of both Hindu immigrants and converts in North America, exploring the history and practice of Hindus, as well as the wider influence of Hindu thought and practice on American culture, and Hindu American social and political activism. Topics include Hindu temple building in the United States and Canada, the influence of Hinduism on vegetarianism, and yoga. Includes 30 images, chapter summaries, a glossary, study questions and suggestions for further reading. UK August 2020 • US August 2020 • 288 pages • 30 bw illus PB 9781474248457 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781474248464 • £65.00 / $88.00 ePub 9781474248488 • £23.75 / $26.07 ePdf 9781474248471 • £23.75 / $26.07 Bloomsbury Academic

Mark Driscoll and Mars Hill Church

Jennifer McKinney, Seattle Pacific University, USA This book analyses how Seattle’s Mars Hill Church, led by Pastor Mark Driscoll, permanently affected American evangelicalism by normalizing a hypermasculine gender theology. It argues that the establishment of this type of hypermasculine theology is foundational to the rise of Christian nationalism in America, and was crucial to Donald Trump's progression to President of the United States of America. UK November 2020 • US November 2020 • 256 pages PB 9781350102682 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350100206 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781350100213 • £23.75 / $26.07 ePdf 9781350100220 • £23.75 / $26.07 Bloomsbury Academic

Landscapes of Christianity

The Religious Heritage Complex

Edited by James S. Bielo, Miami University, USA & Amos S. Ron, Ashkelon Academic College, Israel

Edited by Cyril Isnart, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France & Nathalie Cerezales, Paris-Sorbonne University, France

Destination, Temporality, Transformation

Explores how Christianity intersects with nature to create unique religious landscapes. Case studies range from the Mormon Trail across the USA completed by thousands every year, to the Catholic devotional cult of and shrine to St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina. Contributors examine the entangled forms of agency between nature and culture that are at work as Christians produce, consume, experience, imagine, inhabit, manage, and struggle over formations of land. Focusing on Christian engagements with land forms in the early 21st century, this book advances the spatial turn in the study of religion and contributes to the anthropology of religion and the study of global Christianities. UK November 2020 • US November 2020 • 256 pages • 15 bw illus HB 9781350062894 • £85.00 / $114.00 ePub 9781350062917 • £91.80 / $99.96 ePdf 9781350062900 • £91.80 / $99.96 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place • Bloomsbury Academic

Space, Place and Religious Landscapes Living Mountains

Edited by Darrelyn Gunzburg, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK & Bernadette Brady, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK Examines whether bonding and reverence to a mountain is intrinsic to the mountain, constructed by people, or a mutual encounter. Chapters explore mountains in the UK, Ireland, Iberia, the Himalayas, Japan, Greece, USA, South Asia, and the Andes, and embrace the union of sky, landscape, and people to examine the religious dynamics between human and non-human entities. This book takes as its starting point that fact that mountains physically mediate between land and sky and act as metaphors for bridges from one realm to another, and recognizes that mountains are relational and that landscapes form personal and group cosmologies. UK November 2020 • US November 2020 • 256 pages • 15 bw illus HB 9781350079885 • £85.00 / $114.00 ePub 9781350079908 • £84.99 / $92.36 ePdf 9781350079892 • £84.99 / $92.36 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion • Bloomsbury Academic

American Evangelicalism and Hypermasculinity

Legacy, Conservation, and Christianity

Case studies explore Christian, Afro-Brazilian, Muslim and Buddhist traditions located in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. The book considers the ways patrimony, religion and identity interact in different contexts worldwide and how religious objects and sites function as identity. It focuses on heritage-making as a religious and material activity for the groups in charge of a religious inheritance, and considers heritage activities as a form of spiritual renewal and transmission. UK May 2020 • US May 2020 • 288 pages HB 9781350072510 • £85.00 / $114.00 ePub 9781350072534 • £91.80 / $99.96 ePdf 9781350072527 • £91.80 / $99.96 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion • Bloomsbury Academic

Museums of World Religions

Displaying the Divine, Shaping Cultures Charles Orzech, Colby College, USA Charles Orzech examines and compares five purpose-built museums of world religions, as well as a small number of online sites structured according to the category. These museums are located in Europe (Marburg, Glasgow and St Petersburg), North America (Quebec) and Asia (Taipei) and, inspired by the nineteenth- and twentieth-century discipline of comparative religions, museums now seek to promote religious tolerance by representing religious diversity and by arguing for underlying kinship among religions. The book questions the ideology that informs these museums. Building on recent anthropological work on the agency of religious objects, the author both critiques and suggests new approaches to displaying the matter of religion. UK May 2020 • US May 2020 • 224 pages • 20 bw illus HB 9781350016248 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350016255 • £91.80 / $99.96 ePdf 9781350016262 • £91.80 / $99.96 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion • Bloomsbury Academic

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A Western Awakening to Islam

Jamie Gilham, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Drawing on unpublished archival sources as well as comparative studies of contemporaneous Western Muslim converts, this is the first biography of Lord Headley. The book focusses on his religious beliefs, conversion to Islam, work as a transnational Muslim leader, the socio-religious milieu in which he lived and his significance, especially in the global West. This book evaluates the strengths and weaknesses, successes and failures of the man and his work, and considers his legacy and significance for contemporary understanding of Islam of the global West. UK December 2020 • US December 2020 • 256 pages • 15 bw illus HB 9781350084421 • £85.00 / $114.00 ePub 9781350084445 • £84.99 / $92.36 ePdf 9781350084438 • £84.99 / $92.36 Series: Islam of the Global West • Bloomsbury Academic

American and Muslim Worlds before 1900

Edited by John Ghazvinian, Associate Director, Middle East Center, University of Pennsylvania, USA & Arthur Mitchell Fraas, University of Pennsylvania Libraries, USA At a time when American politicians freely float the idea that Muslims can somehow be "banned" from the United States or hermetically sealed out of existence, this book is a timely reminder that the "long view" matters. It challenges the assumption that when we talk about "American and Muslim worlds", we are always talking about two entities that have come into conflict and confrontation with each other in the late twentieth century in the form of wars, radicalism, terrorism, and so on. Instead, this book provides an important historical context for contemporary - and past - events. UK February 2020 • US February 2020 • 240 pages HB 9781350109513 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350109537 • £91.80 / $99.96 ePdf 9781350109520 • £91.80 / $99.96 Series: Islam of the Global West • Bloomsbury Academic

Islam and the Governing of Muslims in France

Precarious Faith

Frank Peter, Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies, Hamad bin Khalifa University, Qatar

Daan Beekers, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, UK

Secularism without Religion

This book examines the emergence of forms of French Islam by looking at the neglected intellectual production of a major Islamic group in France. Analyzing the concerns and problems these Muslims raise in lectures, sermons, and essays, the book signals the issues – social policies, historical memory, aesthetic practices, and prognoses for the future – that matter to secular politics beyond the management of religious diversity. By reconstructing their arguments, this book sheds light on the modes of reasoning that make up secular politics, revealing new connections between Islamic traditions and secular rationalities. UK October 2020 • US October 2020 • 288 pages • 5 bw illus HB 9781350067905 • £85.00 / $114.00 ePub 9781350067929 • £91.80 / $99.96 ePdf 9781350067912 • £91.80 / $99.96 Series: Islam of the Global West • Bloomsbury Academic

Piety, Politics, and Everyday Ethics in Southeast Asian Islam Beautiful Behavior

Edited by Robert Rozehnal, Lehigh University, USA As an exploration of 'beautiful behavior' in theory and practice, this book explores the diversity and dynamism of Islam in Southeast Asia, both past and present. The book shows that the concept of adab provides Muslims with a shared sense of sacred history, identity, and morality and offers new perspectives on adab's multiple meanings and myriad applications for Muslim communities in Malaysia and Indonesia. With its careful textual analysis, detailed case studies, and attention to historical continuities and disjunctures, this is essential reading for students and scholars interested in global Islam and the lived, local contexts of Muslim Southeast Asia. UK June 2020 • US June 2020 • 256 pages • 15 bw illus PB 9781350170124 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350041714 ePub 9781350041738 • £91.80 / $99.96 ePdf 9781350041721 • £91.80 / $99.96 Bloomsbury Academic

R E L I G I O U S S T U D I E S – Islam

The British Muslim Convert Lord Headley, 1855-1935

Young Muslims and Christians in a Secular Europe

Revivalist-oriented Christians and Muslims are among the most vibrant and fastest-growing religious groups in the Western world. Challenging secular norms and assumptions, they are at the midst of renewed public and academic concerns about religion. Scholars have so far barely given attention to the potential convergences between these groups because the study of Islam and Christianity has been largely divided by longstanding disciplinary boundaries. Precarious Faith, by contrast, offers a comparative ethnographic study of religious commitment among young, revivalist Protestant Christians and Sunni Muslims in the Netherlands, commonly recognized as one of the most secular countries in Europe. UK December 2020 • US December 2020 • 240 pages HB 9781350127319 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350127333 • £91.80 / $99.96 ePdf 9781350127326 • £91.80 / $99.96 Bloomsbury Academic

Qur'anic Hermeneutics

Between Science, History, and the Bible Abdulla Galadari, Masdar Institute, United Arab Emirates This book argues for the importance of understanding the polysemous nature of the words in the Qur’an and outlines a new method of Qur’anic exegesis called intertextual polysemy. By interweaving science, history and religious studies, Abdulla Galadari introduces a linguistic approach which draws on neuropsychology. This book features examples of intertextual polysemy within the Qur’an, as well as between the Qur’an and the Bible. It provides examples that intimately engage with Christological concepts of the Gospels, in addition to examples of allegorical interpretation through inner-Qur’anic allusions. UK February 2020 • US February 2020 • 280 pages PB 9781350152106 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350070028 ePub 9781350070042 • £31.30 / $34.76 ePdf 9781350070035 • £31.30 / $34.76 Bloomsbury Academic

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R E L I G I O U S S T U D I E S – Religion and Science / Sociology of Religion

Naturalism and Protectionism in the Study of Religions

Juraj Franek, Masaryk University, Czech Republic In this book, Juraj Franek argues that the study of religion has long been split into two competing paradigms: reductive (naturalist) and non-reductive (protectionist). This book analyses the conflict between reductive and non-reductive approach in the modern study of religions, and positions the Cognitive Science of Religion against a background of previous theories - ancient and modern - to demonstrate its importance for the revindication of the naturalist paradigm. UK February 2020 • US February 2020 • 256 pages HB 9781350082373 • £85.00 / $114.00 ePub 9781350082397 • £91.80 / $99.96 ePdf 9781350082380 • £91.80 / $99.96 Series: Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation • Bloomsbury Academic World English

An Unnatural History of Religions

Academia, Post-truth and the Quest for Scientific Knowledge Leonardo Ambasciano, Masaryk University, Czech Republic An Unnatural History of Religions provides an overview of the origins, development, and critical issues concerning the history of religion and its relationship with science. The book explores the ideological biases, logical fallacies, and unwarranted beliefs that surround the scientific foundations in the history of religion, situating it amongst today's 'post truth' culture. The most important topics and paradigm shifts in the field, such as theology, poststructuralism and cognitive science, are taken into consideration chronologically, each time with case studies, including shamanism, gender biases, ethnocentrism and biological evolution. UK June 2020 • US June 2020 • 280 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781350170247 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350062382 ePub 9781350062405 • £91.80 / $99.96 ePdf 9781350062399 • £91.80 / $99.96 Series: Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation • Bloomsbury Academic

Mother Teresa

The Saint and Her Nation Gëzim Alpion, University of Birmingham, UK To provide a well-rounded portrait of this influential figure, this book approaches Mother Teresa in the context of her familial background and ethnic, cultural and spiritual milieus. Her life and work are explored in the light of newly-discovered information about her family, the Albanian nation’s spiritual tradition before and after the advent of Christianity, and the impact of the Vatican and other influential powers on her people since the early Middle Ages. UK July 2020 • US July 2020 • 320 pages HB 9789389165050 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9789389165067 • £91.80 / $99.96 ePdf 9789389812466 • £91.80 / $99.96 Bloomsbury Academic India World All Languages (excluding India/Indian subcontinent)

Narratives of Disenchantment and Secularization Critiquing Max Weber’s Idea of Modernity

Edited by Robert A. Yelle, Ludwig Maximilian University, Germany & Lorenz Trein, Ludwig Maximilian University, Germany The contributors to this collection offer critical attempts both to reread Max Weber’s historical idea of disenchantment and to develop further his understanding of what the contested relationship between modernity and religion represents. The approach is distinctive because it focuses on disenchantment as key to understanding those aspects of modern society and culture that Weber diagnosed. This is in opposition to approaches that focus on secularization, narrowly construed as the rise of secularism or the divide between religion and politics, and that then conflate this with modernization as a whole. UK September 2020 • US September 2020 • 256 pages HB 9781350145641 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350145665 • £91.80 / $99.96 ePdf 9781350145658 • £91.80 / $99.96 Bloomsbury Academic

The Demise of Religion

How Religions End, Die or Dissipate Edited by Michael Stausberg, University of Bergen, Norway, Carole M. Cusack, University of Sydney, Australia & Stuart A. Wright, Lamar University, USA This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Why do religions fail or die? International contributors provide case studies from the U.S., England, Sweden, Japan, New Guinea, and France resulting in a work that explores processes of attenuation, disintegration, transmutation, and/or death and extinction across cultures. UK December 2020 • US December 2020 • 256 pages HB 9781350162914 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350162938 • £91.80 / $99.96 ePdf 9781350162921 • £91.80 / $99.96 Bloomsbury Academic

Peter L. Berger and the Sociology of Religion

50 Years after The Sacred Canopy Edited by Titus Hjelm, University College London, UK How and why did The Sacred Canopy by Peter L. Berger (1929–2017) become a classic? How have scholars used Berger’s ideas over the past 50 years since its publication? How are these ideas relevant to the future of the sociology of religion? This book explores these questions by providing a broad overview as well as more focused studies of Berger’s work. The chapters discuss both aspects of Berger’s classic text: the ‘systematic’ sociological theorizing on religion, and the ‘historical’ theorizing on secularization. The articles also critically examine Berger’s about-face regarding secularization and the suggested ‘secularization’ of the world. UK February 2020 • US February 2020 • 224 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781350152113 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350061880 ePub 9781350061903 • £31.30 / $34.76 ePdf 9781350061897 • £31.30 / $34.76 Bloomsbury Academic

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New Atheism

Paul-François Tremlett, The Open University, UK

Alan G. Nixon, Western Sydney University, Australia

Sovereignties and Disruptions

This book argues that neither theories of secularisation nor theories of lived religion offer satisfactory accounts of religion and social change. Drawing from Deleuze and Gauttari's idea of the assemblage, this books outlines an alternative. Informed by classical and contemporary theories of religion and ethnography conducted in Manila and London, Tremlett re-frames religion as spatially organised flows and, foregrounding the agency of non-human actors, offers a compelling and original account of religion and social change. UK October 2020 • US October 2020 • 208 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781474272568 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781474272575 • £91.80 / $99.96 ePdf 9781474272582 • £91.80 / $99.96 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place • Bloomsbury Academic

Christian Tourist Attractions, Mythmaking, and Identity Formation

Edited by Erin Roberts, University of South Carolina, USA & Jennifer Eyl, Tufts University, USA Religious museums, theme parks, and guided tours are often viewed as providing historical and doctrinal education, wholesome entertainment, or sacred space for participants. This book instead shows the extent and the strategies through which these narratives are constructed. Case studies include Ark Encounter and the Creation Museum in Kentucky, the Bible Walk Museum in Ohio, Christian Zionist Tours in Israel and the Feast of Tabernacles in Jerusalem. The book contributes to growing research which explains religious practice in recognizable, human terms. UK May 2020 • US May 2020 • 232 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781350164697 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350006232 ePub 9781350006225 • £91.80 / $99.96 ePdf 9781350006218 • £91.80 / $99.96 Series: Critiquing Religion: Discourse, Culture, Power • Bloomsbury Academic

Competitive Secular Views in a Postsecular World

This is the first full-length exploration of New Atheism within its wider social, cultural, intellectual, political contexts. The book provides and draws on extensive global ethnographic data from digital fieldwork sites, as well as empirical work from Australia, which has been neglected in research to date, and provides linguistic and cultural data of relevance to scholars particularly in the US, UK and Canada where the movement largely began. Essential reading for anyone wanting to know where New Atheism came from, why, and its ongoing impacts on nonreligious thought and culture. UK November 2020 • US November 2020 • 256 pages HB 9781350080492 • £85.00 / $114.00 ePub 9781350080508 • £91.80 / $99.96 ePdf 9781350080515 • £91.80 / $99.96 Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies • Bloomsbury Academic

R E L I G I O U S S T U D I E S – Theory

Towards a New Theory of Religion and Social Change

Reframing the Masters of Suspicion Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud

Andrew Dole, Amherst College, USA This book revisits Paul Ricoeur’s well-known classification of Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Sigmund Freud as the “masters of suspicion.” In doing so, Andrew Dole provides a thought-provoking critique for critical religious studies scholars who draw on their work, as well as for anyone working in critical theory more broadly. Dole provides an alternative account of the method common to Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud. Whereas Ricoeur saw suspicion as a mode of interpretation, this book argues that suspicion is better understood as a mode of explanation. UK June 2020 • US June 2020 • 264 pages PB 9781350170063 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350065178 ePub 9781350065192 • £91.80 / $99.96 ePdf 9781350065185 • £91.80 / $99.96 Series: Critiquing Religion: Discourse, Culture, Power • Bloomsbury Academic

French Populism and Discourses on Secularism Per-Erik Nilsson, Uppsala University, Sweden

Takes a religious studies approach to French contemporary populism, and uses the discourse on secularism as a lens to do so. This book provides insight into the French and European far-right and radical-nationalist ideology and activism, and contributes to our understanding of the complex relationship between religion and the state in contemporary Europe and beyond. The author draws on the web-based journal Riposte Laïque, a central actor in French radical-nationalist and anti-Islamic web and street based activism, to show the French far-right’s recent appropriation of secularism, as well as debates on secularism, national identity and Islam in France more broadly. UK June 2020 • US June 2020 • 232 pages PB 9781350170216 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350055827 ePub 9781350055841 • £91.80 / $99.96 ePdf 9781350055834 • £91.80 / $99.96 Series: Critiquing Religion: Discourse, Culture, Power • Bloomsbury Academic

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