This book explores the phenomenon of Rainbow Gatherings in Europe.

While prophethood is the backbone of the Islamic tradition and an uncompromised tenet of faith, the impact of modernity with its ambivalent status afforded to the prophet and institution of prophethood shook many Muslim scholars.

Religion and its History offers a reflection of our operative concept of religion and religions, developing a set of approaches that bridge the widely assumed gulf between analyzing present religion and doing history of religion.

Drawing on fieldwork in the UK and the Netherlands, this study examines those experiences of people moving out of Islam.

This collaboration between two scholars from different fields of religious studies draws on three comparative data sets to develop a new theory of purity and pollution in religion, arguing that a culture’s beliefs about cosmological realms shapes its pollution ideas and its purification practices.
 

This book brings fresh attention to the forgotten and often overlooked lives of lay women in the English Roman Catholic Church.

This collection of global contributions represents reflections on the rich and multifaceted spectrum of human responses in a variety of different religions and cultures to the current SARS2-COVID-19 pandemic and similar crises in the past, exploring various dimensions of the interrelations between the individual, community, and religion.

This book explores past expressions of the Jewish interest in Hinduism in order to learn what Hinduism has meant to Jews living mainly in the 12th through the 19th centuries.

This book examines the connection between religion and violence in the Western traditions of the three Abrahamic faiths, from ancient to modern times.

This book presents an anthropological study of the Qur’an, offering an unprecedented challenge to some of the epistemological and metaphysical assumptions of the tawḥīdic discourses.