{"product_id":"contemporary-practices-of-world-religion-9781988557069","title":"Contemporary Practices of World Religion","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Rodgir Cohen\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Humanities Academic Publishers\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Humanities Academic Publishers\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Comparative Religion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReligion is not a relic.\u003c\/strong\u003e Despite predictions that modernity would render it obsolete, the twenty-first century has witnessed an extraordinary resurgence of religious vitality across every inhabited continent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis textbook offers the most comprehensive and theoretically rigorous survey of contemporary world religion currently available for advanced instruction. Spanning seventeen chapters - from foundational methods and globalization theory through every major tradition to cross-cutting themes of gender, violence, and the digital future - it brings the same analytical depth to traditions of the Global South as to the Abrahamic traditions that have dominated Western religious studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree commitments set this book apart: it takes \u003cem\u003econtemporary\u003c\/em\u003e seriously - focusing on religion as it is lived and contested \u003cem\u003etoday\u003c\/em\u003e; it takes \u003cem\u003epractices\u003c\/em\u003e seriously - attending to the embodied, material, and communal dimensions of religious life; and it takes the \u003cem\u003eworld\u003c\/em\u003e seriously - giving traditions from Africa, Asia, and the Pacific the same rigorous treatment as Western traditions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Humanities Academic Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47889821597847,"sku":"9781988557069","price":12391.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781988557069.webp?v=1781177877","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/contemporary-practices-of-world-religion-9781988557069","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}