The Changing Soul of Europe Religions and Migrations in Northern and Southern Europe Edited by Helena Vilaça, University of Porto, Portugal, Enzo Pace, University of Padova, Italy, Inger Furseth, University of Oslo, Norway and Per Pettersson, Karlstad University and Uppsala University, Sweden http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781472434692 Ashgate, August 2014 Edited by Helena Vilaça, University of Porto, Portugal, Enzo … New Book: The Changing Soul of Europe
Secularism, Religion, and Politics India and Europe Edited by Peter Losonczi, Walter Van Herck Routledge India – 2014 http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138796003/ This book highlights the relationship between the state and religion in India and Europe. It problematizes the idea of secularism and questions received ideas about secularism. It also looks at how Europe and India can learn … New Book: Secularism, Religion, and Politics. India and Europe
Islam, Democracy, and Cosmopolitanism: At Home and in the World Ali Mirsepassi Tadd Graham Fernée Cambridge University Press May 2014 http://www.cambridge.org/tr/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/middle-east-government-politics-and-policy/islam-democracy-and-cosmopolitanism-home-and-world?format=HB This book presents a critical study of citizenship, state and globalization in societies that have been historically influenced by Islamic traditions and institutions. Interrogating the work of contemporary theorists of Islamic modernity such as … New Book: Islam, Democracy, and Cosmopolitanism
Giorgio Shani (2014) Religion, Identity and Human Security (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge) ISBN: 978-0-415-50906-0. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415509060/ Description Religion, Identity and Human Security attempts to articulate a ‘post-secular’ approach to Human Security suited to a globalizing and increasingly post-Western world. It is divided into two sections. The first section provides the theoretical framework for re-conceptualizing Critical Human Security … New Book: Religion, Identity and Human Security
Religiously Oriented Parties and Democratization Edited by Luca Ozzano, Francesco Cavatorta Routledge – 2014 – 174 pages Series: Democratization Special Issues http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138775381/ To the surprise of both academics and policy-makers, religion has not been relegated entirely to the private sphere; quite the contrary. Over the last few decades, religion has begun to play a significant … New Book: Religiously Oriented Parties and Democratization
Immigrant Faith: Patterns of Immigrant Religion in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe Phillip Connor, Ph.D. New York University Press – August 2014 More details and pre-order: http://bit.ly/TxL4us Overview Immigrant Faith examines trends and patterns relating to religion in the lives of immigrants. The volume moves beyond specific studies of particular faiths in particular … New Book: Immigrant Faith: Patterns of Immigrant Religion in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe
Special Issue: Multiple Secularities: Religion and Modernity in the Global Age INTERNATIONAL SOCIOLOGY November 2013; 28 (6) http://iss.sagepub.com/content/28/6.toc Articles Marian Burchardt, Monika Wohlrab-Sahr, and Ute Wegert ‘Multiple secularities’: Postcolonial variations and guiding ideas in India and South Africa Gudrun Krämer Modern but not secular: Religion, identity and the ordre public in the Arab Middle East … International Sociology Special Issue on ‘Multiple Secularities’
One Family Under God: Immigration Politics and Progressive Religion in America Grace Yukich Oxford University Press 2013 http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199988679.do – Focuses on progressive religious activists, a group that has often been ignored in favor of focusing on conservative religious activists or secular leftists – Focuses on stories of mixed-status immigrant families in danger of being separated … New Book: One Family Under God
Religion in the Context of Globalization Essays on Concept, Form, and Political Implication By Peter Beyer Routledge – 2013 – 232 pages Series: Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics http://www.psypress.com/books/details/9780415783583/ Peter Beyer has been a central figure in the debate about religion and globalization for many years, this volume is a collection of essays on … New Book: Religion in the Context of Globalization
From Religious Empires to Secular States State Secularization in Turkey, Iran, and Russia By Birol Baskan Routledge 2014 http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415743518/ In the 1920s and the 1930s, Turkey, Iran and Russia vehemently pursued state-secularizing reforms, but adopted different strategies in doing so. But why do states follow different secularizing strategies? The literature has already shattered the illusion … New Book: From Religious Empires to Secular States
