Books in the Critical Concepts in Religious Studies series

The early twenty-first century has witnessed a global resurgence of religious activity and identification. In particular, numerous examples of the growing political influence of religion can be cited, not least in Europe, once thought to be an inexorably secularizing continent.

Anthropology of Religion is a new title in Routledge's Critical Concepts in Religious Studies series. In four volumes, it brings together canonical and the very best cutting-edge scholarship.

No collection of this sort has yet been conceived of, let alone accomplished, in this field. In part that may well be due to the extraordinarily nascent character of the field of comparative religious ethics.