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Innovative global research, reference & textbooks in religious studies. Open access options are also available. See T&T Clark for theology & biblical studies.

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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How do we reconnect with the earth during a climate crisis? 🌿🌎 Discover a powerful guide to ecological survival, featuring practical rituals, bioregional exercises, and small acts of resistance to spark big transformation. Learn more: bit.ly/3TeFa4J
Spiritual Practices for Ecological Survival
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
How did an ambitious group of faith leaders frame the 2020 election defeat as a "death" and prophesy a "resurrection"? Explore the logic, scriptural reasoning, and cosmological claims of Donald Trump's Faith Advisory Team in this unprecedented new book: bit.ly/4xG1su6
Trump and the Politics of Prayer
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Is dialogue a luxury for calmer times, or a moral imperative precisely during war, hatred, and fear? Discover a hopeful guide to interreligious engagement that tackle questions surrounding antisemitism and the Israeli-Palestinian divide. Learn more: bit.ly/4xEGHiE
Encounters
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Facing an existential threat of internal fragmentation, where does the American Jewish community go from here? Professor Roberta Rosenthal Kwall diagnoses toxic communal divides and outlines a path forward for consensus and dialogue. Learn more: bit.ly/4yRufwX
Polarized
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What an inspiring evening in Portland, ME at St. Luke's Cathedral with author David Beckmann! He shared insights on building a movement of modern poverty abolitionists and how we can all advocate for change. Get his book, "Poverty Abolitionists": bit.ly/3ST1DUV
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Overwhelmed by fear or anxiety? Bloomsbury author James William Coleman explores how connecting with Tara—the female Buddha—can unlock profound strength and inner healing. Read the guest piece on Spiritual Media Blog: bit.ly/4gMk7PX
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Five Lasting Benefits of Calling on Tara, the Female Buddha
Five Lasting Benefits of Calling on Tara, the Female Buddha By James William Coleman You can reap amazing benefits when you call on Tara and her enlighten
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Why are American Jewish communities facing unprecedented fracture? Join Prof. Roberta Kwall for a live conversation on bridging ideological and generational divides. 🗓️ Sept 23 | 7:00 PM EDT 🔗 bit.ly/3VqBUDR
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Roberta Kwall - Wisdom Without Walls
Roberta Kwall Polarized: The Growing Fracture of American Jewish Life Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026 – 7:00-8:30pm EST Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026, 7:00-8:30pm EST Polarized: The Growing Fracture...
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Looking for an inspiring read on healing and resilience? Forgiveness at Ground Zero was just recommended by Maria Shriver in The Sunday Paper PLUS. 📰 Read: bit.ly/4gMqjGa 📖 Book: bit.ly/4qTwXiN
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Sunday Paper PLUS Recommends—Week of August 30, 2026
Listen to this article.0:00/255.9832431× At The Sunday Paper, we often discover books, music, shows, and other works that move the needle and spark inspiring change. This week, we are thrilled to han...
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Discover "Engaged Spirituality", published in partnership with the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at USC (@USCCRCC). Explore inspiring stories of faith, resilience, and civic change—available freely via #OpenAccess: bit.ly/3Ss5s3b
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
How do we sustain spiritual connection on a damaged planet? 🌿 "Nature Spirituality and Environmental Crisis" reframes our relationship with the earth, showing how ecological grief, gratitude, and moral responsibility can coexist. Available now: bit.ly/3SUoUFM
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Who is Tara, and how did a revered female deity achieve full enlightenment? 🪷 "Searching for Tara: The Goddess Who Became a Buddha" explores her profound journey across Buddhist history, mythology, and practice. Discover the story: bit.ly/4wUVANl
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Spotted in the wild! 👀📍 David Beckmann’s Poverty Abolitionists is looking right at home on the shelves at Church House Bookshop in Westminster, London. If you’re nearby, pop in and grab a copy! 📖✨: bit.ly/4gJYYVn #BookSky #PovertyAbolitionists #LondonBookshops
Poverty Abolitionists
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
How do we sustain climate action without burnout? 🌍 "Climate Anxiety and Spiritual Resilience" explores how ritual, mindfulness, and community accountability turn eco-anxiety into courage and collective resilience. Get your copy: bit.ly/4goCAlw
Climate Anxiety and Spiritual Resilience
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Is peacebuilding reproducing systems of exclusion? "Interrogating Religion and Peacebuilding" challenges dominant narratives of peace as a civilizational ideal, reframing it as justice from below. Explore this decolonial critique: bit.ly/4qG5ZuN
Interrogating Religion and Peacebuilding
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
What forces drive the Christian far-right? Join Katherine Stewart @katherinestewart.bsky.social (Money, Lies, and God), Keri Ladner (American Dominion) & Anthea Butler at London's Frontline Club for a live panel on the threat to democracy. 🗓️ Sep 15 • 7 PM 🎟️ bit.ly/46t9taG
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Panel discussion: America’s Christian Far-Right
Inside the movement to destroy American democracy.
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Religious trauma is real, but healing is possible. In "Healing Sacred Wounds", therapist SC Nealy offers a compassionate, practical guide to overcoming spiritual abuse & reclaiming your agency. 📖✨ Get your copy: bit.ly/4pskzp3 #ReligiousTrauma
Healing Sacred Wounds
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"We won't end poverty if we can't talk to each other." David Beckmann joins Fr. John Dear to discuss faith, activism, and his latest book, Poverty Abolitionists. Listen to the new episode of The Nonviolent Jesus podcast for a dose of hope: bit.ly/4qkfFei
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#85. John Dear with economist, author, pastor and former president of Bread for the World David Beckmann: "We won't end poverty if we can't talk to each other." | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
This week I speak with David Beckmann, former president of Bread for the World, one of the best groups fighting poverty in the world (www.bread.org). His many books include: Eden Revival; The Oversea...
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Out now! 🏛️ 'The Stoic Art of Recovery' by Michael Mascio. Explore the powerful intersection of ancient Roman Stoicism and the 12-step recovery program. Discover how Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius can help guide inner freedom and resilience. 🔗 bit.ly/4fRJ63E
The Stoic Art of Recovery
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
What does it take to truly heal complex religious trauma? 🩹✨Listen to psychotherapist SC Nealy (@scnealy) join @guy_phd on The Trauma Therapist to discuss reclaiming identity before #HealingSacredWounds launches Aug 20! 👇 bit.ly/44NM1UR
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Healing Sacred Wounds with SC Nealy
The Trauma Therapist · Episode
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Out now! 🕊️ 'Forgiveness at Ground Zero' by Lyndon Fitzgerald Harris. A deeply moving memoir of the relief effort at St. Paul's Chapel, the emotional cost of trauma, and a hard-won journey from grief toward healing. 🔗 bit.ly/4vQvMBx
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
How do we begin to heal from spiritual and religious trauma? 🕯️🤍Listen to therapist and author SC Nealy (@scnealy) discuss reclaiming agency on this new episode before her book #HealingSacredWounds launches August 20! 👇 bit.ly/4fA8rho
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Forgiveness isn’t just "forgive and forget"—it's a rigorous, transformative practice. In "Forgiveness at Ground Zero", Rev. Lyndon Harris explores the emotional cost of service after 9/11 and the resilience required to truly move forward. Learn more: bit.ly/4bazqP9
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Forgiveness at Ground Zero
On the morning after September 11, 2001, Rev. Lyndon Harris pushed through smoke and ash toward St. Paul's Chapel, just blocks from the World Trade Center. He e…
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Was Ernest Hemingway’s lifelong subject a study of "saintliness"? For his birthday, read America Magazine's review of Mary Claire Kendall's "Hemingway's Faith", exploring his simple, devotional and private Catholicism: bit.ly/3RHKQDs 📖 Book: bit.ly/4wX9QWo
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Review: Ernest Hemingway’s simple, devotional and private Catholicism
Was Ernest Hemingway’s lifelong subject a study of saintliness? A new book on his religious faith provides ample evidence of that.
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
What shapes Hindu ethics today? Join Pratap Kumar Penumala on the Indian Religions Podcast as he dives into "The Bloomsbury Handbook of Hindu Ethics". Discover the human, sociological, and situational frameworks underpinning these moral texts. Listen here: bit.ly/4wHmZ5L
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Indian Religions Podcast - The Bloomsbury Handbook of Hindu Ethics
With the plurality of Hinduism in mind, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Hindu Ethics focuses on the human, sociological and situational ethical framework underpinning Hindu ethics. Chapters go beyond the t...
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
This book argues that the early classical Upanisads constitute a “field of wildflowers” of insight that later Vedanta has tried to fashion into a proper garden. Out now: bit.ly/4v7V52G
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Argues that the early classical Upanisads constitute a “field of wildflowers” of insight that later Vedanta has tried to fashion into a proper garden. Publishing now: bit.ly/4covlHZ
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Adis Duderija considers the conditions necessary for inter-religious dialogue, comparative theological learning, and theological growth within an Islamic context. Available now: bit.ly/3NLKxFU
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Across six chapters, Mutie critiques historical claims of Tatian's heresy, arguing that Tatian's work not only echoes biblical writings, but creates rich fodder for discussions of the immortality of the human soul. Out now: bit.ly/4c6lHII
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Out now! David Beckmann calls us to push back, restore progress against injustice, and turn values into action. With a foreword by celebrated writer Rick Steves. Order now: bit.ly/3OxwJPz Read a preview: bit.ly/481Lzo6
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Erica Smith-founder of the Purity Culture Dropout® program-offers the comprehensive, inclusive, and trauma-informed sex education many never received. Out now: bit.ly/4m91V3X
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
This groundbreaking volume examines the relationship between new religions, alternative spiritualities, and popular music. Publishing now: bit.ly/4c0qN9n
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Available now! Anthropologist Joshua Brahinsky embarks on an eighteen-year journey into the mind-body practices of charismatic evangelicals-Christians known for their exuberant worship and the enigmatic practice of speaking in tongues. Learn more: bit.ly/4r4MvOZ
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Celebrating the contributions of Panayotis Pachis to the field, this book discusses the past, present, and future of the study of religion in antiquity and modernity. Learn more: bit.ly/4tjd708
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
This book asks us to consider what is absent, rather than what is present, when studying religions. Available now: bit.ly/4bZKQ9r
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
This edited collection brings together the work of thirteen theologians, philosophers, and scientists to continue the efforts of Thomas Berry in arguing that hope can be found even in the midst of global crises. Available now: bit.ly/4siSCA3
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Explores the memoirs of three contemporary sojourners (Rachel Held Evans, David Gushee, and Macy Halford) asking: What postures were common in his or her journey that helped them navigate their spiritual wilderness? Publishing now: bit.ly/4c3CX1r{SOCIAL_NETWOR
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The focus of this book is to take a broader look at religious conversion to determine the precursors and pathways from atheistic disbelief to belief in God and Christianity within an educated population. Publishing now: bit.ly/4v7JcK6
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Studying these three figures tells a larger story about how the Christian church, and the South, understood faith commitments in the context of social and religious racism-racism that, sadly, remains in evidence in the church today. Out now: bit.ly/3Oko9DF
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Publishing now! 📖 This book addresses a significant gap in the field and brings together key themes-Africa, the Diaspora, colonialism, race, Black identity, and religion-into one cohesive and accessible volume. Order an exam copy: bit.ly/4bsvhqy
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
In case you missed it... The book documents the roots of Christianity in Montréal while focusing on the present experience of Christians across the Census Metropolitan Area of 4.3 million residents. Order now: bit.ly/4sSFzpY
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Bloomsbury Academic @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Today is National Farm Animals Day! Celebrate with "Rowdy Girl," a raw look at the realities of animal agriculture. 🐮 bit.ly/4c0QTZT 📚💙 #Nonfiction #Memoir @rowdygirlsanctuary.bsky.social @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social
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Bloomsbury Academic @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
#Spirituality collides with anthropology and neuroscience in Brahinsky's illuminating tome on an ancient but still relevant practice. bit.ly/4bWyjUc #ReligiousStudies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Available in paperback 🔖 Considering the striking similarities between the treatment of the dead and conceptions of the netherworld in ancient Egypt and China, how can we compare the two traditions? Order now: bit.ly/4srHMb1
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Worth revisiting Explores how non-denominational evangelical organizations orchestrate commercial-grade entertainment media to amplify religious rhetoric. Learn more: bit.ly/48CJ2Rl
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
In case you missed it.. Taking a glimpse into the impact of Christianity in one of Africa's largest and fastest-evolving megacities, located in the Gauteng City-Region, this book explores how faith shapes the city and its society. Learn more: bit.ly/3PX7DtM
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Available in paperback 📙 Provides an updated, state-of-the-art analysis of the most important themes and concepts in the field, combining research in religious studies, theology, critical musicology, cultural analysis, and sociology. Order now: bit.ly/4e9hs1B
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Available in paperback! Offers important insights into the religions and ritual practices in ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern communities through the lenses of their material remains. Learn more: bit.ly/41hWLJs
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
In case you missed it... Cutting across disciplinary boundaries and challenging traditional understandings of historical cultures, this book examines the ways in which gender, sexuality, and religion were mutually constructed and negotiated. Learn more: bit.ly/4t0k2M0
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Publishing now! This book provides texts and tools to help clergy, staff, and lay leaders of congregations of any faith approach financial and other resources as core means to build and maintain whole and holy lives in a communal setting. Learn more: bit.ly/3LnvSiT
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Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
This anthology explores the intersection of humor and laughter with various faith, religious, and mythic traditions. Out now: bit.ly/3PZcA5d
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