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  • Women in British Buddhism

    Commitment, Connection, Community

    by Caroline Starkey ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
    Based on detailed ethnographic research, this book explores the varied experiences of women who have converted to Buddhism in contemporary Britain and analyses the implications of their experiences for understanding the translation and transference of Buddhist practices temporally and geographically.This book examines how women initially engage with Buddhist groups, their perspectives on religious ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Gender and Society

    Edited by Caroline Starkey, Emma Tomalin ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Religion
    In an era which many now recognise as ‘post-secular’, the role that religions play in shaping gender identities and relationships has been awarded a renewed status in the study of societies and social change. In both the Global South and the Global North, in the 21st century, religiosity is of continuing significance, not only in people’s private lives and in the family, but also in the public ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

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  • Policing Sexuality

    Sex, Society, and the State

    by Julian C. H. Lee ...
    Policing Sexuality explores the regulation of sexual behaviour and identity by nation states, and questions how and why states have sought to influence and control the sexuality of its citizens.Julian C. H. Lee presents both theoretical and ethnographic literature, distilling common themes and causes and presenting factors that contribute towards a state's desire to control both the sexual ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Sociology of Religion

    A Critical Agenda

    by Grace Davie ...
    Why is religion still important? Can we be fully modern and fully religious?In this new edition, Davie follows up her discussion of the meaning of religion in modern society and considers how best to research and understand this relationship. Exploring the rapid movements within the sociology of religion today, this revised and updated book:• Describes the origins of the sociology of religion• ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • Religion, Culture & Society

    A Global Approach

    by Andrew Singleton ...
    "The reader is taken on a global exploration of the forms and diversities of religions and their social and cultural contexts... It is up to the minute in research and theory, and comfortably grounded in the traditions of the social explanation of things religious and spiritual."- Gary Bouma AM, Monash University"Tells how sociology of religion originated in the work of key nineteenth and ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • If God Were a Human Rights Activist

    by Boaventura de Sousa Santos ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Human Rights
    We live in a time when the most appalling social injustices and unjust human sufferings no longer seem to generate the moral indignation and the political will needed both to combat them effectively and to create a more just and fair society. If God Were a Human Rights Activist aims to strengthen the organization and the determination of all those who have not given up the struggle for a better ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Religion and Modern Society

    Citizenship, Secularisation and the State

    by Bryan S. Turner ...
    Religion is now high on the public agenda, with recent events focusing the world's attention on Islam in particular. This book provides a unique historical and comparative analysis of the place of religion in the emergence of modern secular society. Bryan S. Turner considers the problems of multicultural, multi-faith societies and legal pluralism in terms of citizenship and the state, with special ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Secularization

    In Defence of an Unfashionable Theory

    by Prof Steve Bruce ...
    The decline in power, popularity and prestige of religion across the modern world is not a short-term or localized trend nor is it an accident. It is a consequence of subtle but powerful features of modernization. Renowned sociologist, Steve Bruce, elaborates the secularization paradigm and defends it against a wide variety of recent attempts at rebuttal and refutation. Using the best available ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Religion and Human Rights

    An Introduction

    Edited by John Witte, Jr., M. Christian Green ...
    The relationship between religion and human rights is both complex and inextricable. While most of the world's religions have supported violence, repression, and prejudice, each has also played a crucial role in the modern struggle for universal human rights. Most importantly, religions provide the essential sources and scales of dignity and responsibility, shame and respect, restraint and regret, ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Religion, Media and Culture: A Reader

    Edited by Gordon Lynch, Jolyon Mitchell, Anna Strhan ...
    This Reader brings together a selection of key writings to explore the relationship between religion, media and cultures of everyday life. It provides an overview of the main debates and developments in this growing field, focusing on four major themes:Religion, spirituality and consumer cultureMedia and the transformation of religionThe sacred senses: visual, material and audio cultureReligion, ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • At the Limits of Justice

    Women of Colour on Terror

    Edited by Sherene Razack, Suvendrini Perera ...
    The fear and violence that followed the events of September 11, 2001 touched lives all around the world, even in places that few would immediately associate with the global war on terror. In At the Limits of Justice, twenty-nine contributors from six countries explore the proximity of terror in their own lives and in places ranging from Canada and the United States to Jamaica, Palestine/Israel, ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • Gender, Alterity and Human Rights

    Freedom in a Fishbowl

    by Ratna Kapur ...
    Series series Elgar Studies in Legal Theory
    'Long admired for her pioneering work on gender, neo-liberalism and human rights, in this volume Ratna Kapur builds on that scholarship to offer a bold and wide ranging set of arguments that will add immensely to the many current debates about human rights and their efficacy in this age of inequality. Kapur' s trenchant critique of rights and her vision of an alternative to the liberal concept of ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD