{"product_id":"contemporary-practices-of-world-religion-rodgir-cohen-9781988557052","title":"Contemporary Practices of World Religion","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rodgir Cohen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1988557054\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781988557052\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Humanities Academic Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/29\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 292\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.61d","brand":"Rodgir Cohen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997711184127,"sku":"9781988557052","price":139.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/contemporary-practices-of-world-religion-rodgir-cohen-9781988557052","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}