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This book brings together current debates in critical theory and the normative implications of contemporary technologies such as artificial intelligence. It explores how political theories of recognition can illuminate debates about the ethics of AI, social media, and other modern technologies. It also examines how theories of recognition may need to be adapted to encompass technologically mediated social relations and to guide our understanding of technology’s role in contemporary society. Contributors from a range of fields trace the possible role and implications of recognition theory for contemporary technology and consider whether new or different forms of recognition are needed in the age of AI and related technologies. The book is of interest to researchers and students in political philosophy, critical theory, applied ethics, technology ethics, and media studies.

Navigates religious hybridity with a systematic typology and critical framework

As exposure to multiple religious traditions increases, scholars and practitioners face complex questions about religious belonging and identity. In Between Religions: On Religious Hybridity and Belonging surveys arguments for and against multiple religious belonging while offering a systematic typology of religious hybridity. Catherine Cornille, Professor of Comparative Theology at Boston College, examines this phenomenon from both individual and institutional perspectives.

This volume analyzes the constituent components of religious belonging and develops degrees and kinds of religious hybridity into a coherent framework. It maintains a critical realist view of discrete religions while acknowledging fluid boundaries. The final chapter explores how religious traditions themselves can engage constructively with hybridity, offering resources for theological and phenomenological reflection on interreligious engagement.

Readers will find:

• A comprehensive survey of scholarly arguments developed around multiple religious belonging and religious hybridity across diverse traditions and contexts
• Systematic analysis of what religious belonging entails, examining its dimensions and constituent components from phenomenological and theological perspectives
• A strong typology distinguishing various kinds and degrees of religious hybridity for clearer scholarly and practical discussion
• Critical examination of religious hybridity from the self-understanding of religious traditions themselves rather than solely from individual perspectives
• Constructive approaches for how religious traditions can engage with and learn from the phenomenon of religious hybridity

Designed for upper undergraduate and graduate courses in lived religion, interreligious dialogue, multiple religious belonging, religious pluralism, and comparative religion, In Between Religions provides scholars and students with analytical tools for understanding one of contemporary religion's most significant phenomena.

This book provides a timely and in-depth examination of end-of-life care in Malaysia, focusing on the ethical and legal dimensions that underpin one of the most sensitive areas of modern medical practice. As medical technology advances and the use of life-sustaining treatments become more widespread, the boundaries between life and death grow increasingly complex ? raising profound questions about how such decisions should be made and regulated. In Malaysia, end-of-life care remains a sensitive area of public discourse, as the nation faces the realities of an aging population in transition. This book explores the ethical tensions that arise when determining the appropriate course of care at the final stages of life, especially when balancing professional judgment, religious values, and the wishes of patients and families. It also critically examines the current legal landscape, highlighting the absence of a dedicated statutory framework to govern end-of-life decisions and the resulting implications for medical practitioners and patients alike. The discussion on patients’ rights brings to light the need for clear legal recognition of the right to refuse treatment, the validity of advance medical directives, and the importance of shared decision-making in end-of-life scenarios. Structured around five key chapters, and drawing on Malaysian law and comparative common law perspectives, the book presents a comprehensive and contextualised analysis of the challenges at hand. It concludes with recommendations aimed at guiding the development of a coherent, culturally sensitive, and ethically sound regulatory framework for end-of-life care in Malaysia. This book is essential reading for legal professionals, healthcare providers, policymakers, bioethicists, and scholars interested in medical law and ethics in the Malaysian context.

Accompanying the translations is an extensive introductory essay that analyses the juridical significance of Soto’s reflections on rights, poverty, and property. Among other matters, the introductory essay elucidates Soto’s notion of the right to beg, as well as the different ways to conceptualize the relationship between extreme necessity and private property. Throughout, Soto’s views are presented in the light of other scholastic thinkers from whom he drew, or with whom he disagreed, or who explicated his ideas. The essay also notes connections to the thought of the great Dutch jurist of the next century, Hugo Grotius.

Legal theorist and classicist Ernest Weinrib brings together the disciplines to illuminate Soto’s role in the intellectual history of poverty and of its relation to private property.

This book provides new approaches to major problems in the philosophy of logic, language, and mind. It covers issues such as self-reference, logical abductivism and pluralism, logical truth, modal logic and its applications, Kripke-completeness, theories of meaning, theories of mind, the rationality of beliefs, mental integrity, or the nature of understanding. These problems are discussed by top researchers in their fields allowing the reader to become acquainted with both cutting-edge analyses of major philosophical problems and the illuminating interpretations and solutions of them. The chapters in the volume are dedicated to Professor Mircea Dumitru, who worked on these and related philosophical problems and further promoted scientific research in these fields. At the same time, he put a lot of effort into making the topics in these fields accessible for a broader audience. The book contains essential reading for scholars and advanced students in philosophy of logic, language, mind, and for all those interested in analytic philosophy.

A survey of the contemporary intersection between religion and violence

In this second edition, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence assembles an international, interdisciplinary group of scholars to map the complex relationships between religion and violence. This book explains how religious traditions intersect with political conflict, collective violence, and social upheaval in a wide range of contexts that reflect academic, social, and political developments since the publication of the first edition.

New and updated chapters address political theology, White Christian Nationalism in the United States, Hindu nationalism in India, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, religion and mass atrocities, sexual orientation and gender identity, nationalism and political Islam in Turkey, Shia Islam and Hezbollah, and religion, violence, and Latin American drug trafficking. A new introduction frames these developments within broader analytical contexts.

Readers will also find:

• Updated case studies covering Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2023 and the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine
• Interdisciplinary perspectives from historians, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists, theologians, and scholars of gender studies and communication
• Focused analysis of Christian nationalism, Hindu nationalism, and political Islam as distinct contemporary phenomena
• Coverage of religion's role in mass atrocities, drug trafficking violence, and politically-motivated conflicts across multiple global regions

Designed for scholars, advanced students, and research libraries in religious studies, political science, and related disciplines, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence delivers a rigorous, up-to-date reference that connects theoretical analysis with pressing contemporary developments at the intersection of religion and violence.

This book offers a major rethinking of secularisation and a defining sociological account of religion in the digital age. Based on the author's ESRC-funded PhD and developed over two decades of research and theoretical refinement, the book argues that modernity does not eliminate religion but reorganises it. Rather than treating spirituality as a residue of tradition or a symptom of fragmentation, it demonstrates how religious meaning is reflexively reconstructed under conditions of globalisation, market rationality, institutional uncertainty, and digital mediation.

Advancing a new framework of reflexive realism, the book provides a flagship theoretical intervention in the sociology of religion. It introduces an original "origins-orientations" typology for analysing the diversity of New Religious and Spiritual Movements and integrates classical theory with contemporary social analysis. Drawing on extensive qualitative fieldwork, interviews, participant observation, and digital ethnography conducted across Britain, the United States, and online communities, it offers a sustained empirical foundation for its theoretical claims.

Through detailed case studies of ISKCON, Falun Gong, Scientology, UFO religions, therapeutic spiritualities, and platform-native digital movements, the book addresses key themes including digital religion, algorithmic authority, commodified spirituality, post-secular mythologies, and AI-mediated faith. It shows how platforms, metrics, and data infrastructures are reshaping charisma, authority, and spiritual experience, positioning NRSMs as reflexive mediators through which individuals reconstruct meaning, embodiment, and transcendence in late modern society.

By reinterpreting secularisation as transformation rather than decline, this book provides a comprehensive and conceptually ambitious account of religious change in the twenty-first century. It will be essential reading for scholars and advanced students in sociology of religion, religious studies, cultural sociology, anthropology, and media and communication studies.

A rigorous philosophical examination of the ethical dimensions of art

The relationship between art and ethics remains one of the most contested areas in philosophical aesthetics. Art and Morality offers a sustained investigation of how artworks engage moral life?through the emotions they arouse, the beliefs they shape, and the evaluative frameworks we apply to them. Written by a leading philosopher of art, history, and ethics, the book presents arguments for and against the ethical significance of artistic experience with analytical precision.

Three chapters examine the ways art engenders emotions for both good and ill, analyzing competing positions on whether emotional responses carry genuine moral weight. A fourth chapter turns to cognition, investigating art's capacity to influence moral beliefs. The final two chapters engage directly with autonomism?the position that art should be appreciated solely for its own sake, independent of social practices including morality?presenting arguments both supporting and challenging this view.

Art and Morality serves undergraduate and graduate courses on the relation of art to morality and society. Written in an accessible style, it also addresses general readers drawn to philosophical questions raised by the arts, providing a structured framework for debates that have shaped aesthetics over two centuries.

This book offers new ways of conceiving religious and cultural practices, as well as Jewish identities in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It brings together scholars from a number of fields, transcending the frontiers of Jewish studies. The volume tackles questions about how Jewish life, identities, and religious practices have been transformed amid various changes and challenges in Finnish society, and further considers the experiences of local Jewry through an interdisciplinary prism. Covering a wide range of subjects, the book examines how the customs, practices, and identities of Jews living in Finland have evolved amid cultural, religious, and economic transformations shaped by intercultural and interreligious encounters, recent historical events, gender, migration, and other contemporary influences. It also addresses the challenges of antisemitism in its traditional and contemporary forms and examines its effect on Jewish religious lives in contemporary Finland. This book is a must for scholars looking to deepen their understanding of Nordic Jewry.

This book offers a collection of contributions that identify and exemplify a wide range of overlooked, subversive changes in the history of natural philosophy, spanning from antiquity to modernity. The guiding principle of the volume is to address questions that arise from Kuhn's approach to the problem of paradigmatic change. While it is tempting to follow in Kuhn's footsteps and see the history of natural philosophy as a series of revolutions led by giant figures - theoretical watersheds diverging from the 'normal' course of events - an accurate picture seems to be more complex and nuanced. By blending philosophy, science, mathematics, this book offers a rich perspective on intellectual progress and is of interest to a broad array of scientists.

This open access book examines the role of religion in the emerging academic and policy discourses on the polycrisis?also termed the metacrisis or permacrisis. Drawing on philosophy, economics, and the comparative study of religion, the book develops a conceptual map and shared vocabulary for engaging the interlocking challenges of our age, which threaten multiple simultaneous regional instabilities across the world system. As current political, economic, social, and ecological frameworks are stretched to their limits, Akhtar explores how the world's religious traditions can be accessed as sources of spiritual inspiration and moral imagination to chart new pathways beyond our collective paralysis. Advancing a covenantal pluralistic response, the volume offers scholars, students, and policymakers a generative framework for navigating overlapping crises through interreligious wisdom. Essential reading for those working at the intersection of religion, ethics, public policy, and the global polycrisis.

The first translated collection of the thousand-year-old aphorisms of Kharaqani, one of the most original and important mystics in the Sufi tradition of Islam

In this beautiful book, Omid Safi provides the first-ever English collection of the verses of Kharaqani (d. 1033 CE), a shepherd whose vivid and powerful conversations with God led to his being remembered as a Sufi master and the highest-ranking saint of his age in this Persian Islamic tradition.

Kharaqani was not concerned with mere salvation or getting to heaven. Instead, he sought to link the love of God with the love of humanity through his bold, fresh, and original teachings. He said:

A single breath taken with God
is better
than all there is
in heaven
or on Earth

Safi’s deeply researched translations and commentary bring Kharaqani’s original voice alive for modern audiences and show how Kharaqani has shaped the Sufi tradition?and how this simple man has captivated religious seekers for centuries in Iran, South Asia, and Turkey.

The definitive reference for Muslim liberation theologies across global contexts

Scholarship on Islamic thought has long centered abstract systems over lived Muslim agency. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Muslim Liberation Theologies shifts this paradigm by introducing Muslim Liberation Theology as a distinct analytic and a theological field of exploration. With over thirty original chapters from scholars representing Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe, this volume maps liberative praxis across Sunni and Shi'i perspectives, minority and majority contexts.

The Companion examines theological ethics, resistance, liberatory practices, and sustainable change through conceptual essays and detailed case studies. Coverage spans prisons, grassroots movements, intellectual debates, historical and present case studies, and institutional contexts while engaging pressing issues including the War on Terror's aftermath, authoritarian rollback following the Arab Spring, Islamophobia, Gaza and Palestine, neo-colonial resurgence, racial capitalism, gendered oppression, and more.

Readers will also find:

• Systematic treatment of trusteeship (am?na) as the theological foundation for Muslim human agency and social justice activism across diverse communities
• Interdisciplinary frameworks connecting systematic theology, religious ethics, sociology of religion, political theory, and decolonial studies for cross-listed coursework
• Case studies examining Muslim civil rights movements, prison chaplaincy, faith-based NGO work, and grassroots organizing in multiple geographic regions
• Critical analysis of contemporary challenges including Islamophobia, securitization, brutalization, and authoritarian repression affecting Muslim communities worldwide
• Clear organizational structure with thematic sections designed for reference use in advanced undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral-level Islamic studies courses

Designed for scholars and graduate students in Islamic studies, modern Muslim thought, religious studies, political theology, ethics, practical philosophy, and decolonial studies, this Companion also serves practitioners including faith-based NGO staff, chaplains, and policy advisers. It provides the systematic reference these audiences need to engage Muslim liberation theologies rigorously.

Systematically integrate moral values into technology design and engineering

Translating abstract moral values into concrete design requirements remains a persistent challenge across engineering disciplines. Design For Values: Aims, Methods and Applications provides the first book-length introduction to this proactive approach, presenting a systematic methodology for embedding public and moral values into new technology. Grounded in thirty years of research at leading technical universities, it moves ethics from theory into actionable engineering practice.

The book introduces value hierarchies that convert broad principles like sustainability and justice into context-specific design requirements. It provides frameworks for navigating moral overload, value conflict, and stakeholder disagreement through structured design approaches. Four extensive case studies illustrate how these methods work in practice, demonstrating translation from ethical analysis to technical specification across varied domains.

Readers will also find:

• A design perspective on practical ethics that reframes moral reasoning as an integral component of the engineering and innovation process
• Methods for identifying, prioritizing, and reconciling competing values when multiple stakeholders hold fundamentally different moral positions on technology
• Concrete examples and illustrations throughout each chapter showing how abstract ethical principles become measurable, verifiable design requirements
• Coverage spanning digital and physical technologies, offering broader applicability than approaches limited exclusively to ICT systems or software design
• A concise treatment specifically structured for use in master-level courses, PhD seminars, and professional development programs for practicing engineers

Designed for graduate students in engineering, design, and ethics of technology, as well as practicing engineers, designers, managers, and policy makers working in science and technology, this book provides the systematic methodology needed to embed values from sustainability to justice into the technologies shaping society.

This book is the third of a series of five volumes that analyze and denounce the gender-based inequalities and violence faced by Latin American female social scientists in academic settings. This volume is dedicated to Mexico and offers an in-depth feminist ethnographic case study of gender-based inequalities and violence in Mexican universities, situating this national case within the broader comparative research project across Latin America.

Drawing on qualitative interviews with female social scientists, systematic reviews of historical, statistical, and policy data, and reflexive methodological approaches, the volume traces how structural inequalities are produced and reproduced across life trajectories?from family socialization and higher education to professional advancement. The authors analyse key dimensions shaping women’s academic careers, including the sex-gender division of labor, androcentrism in scientific institutions, and the intersection of gender with class, race, and caregiving responsibilities. It documents persistent disparities in access to stable academic positions, recognition, and leadership, alongside experiences of symbolic and physical violence, harassment, and exclusion within university environments.

Methodologically, the volume advances the use of feminist ethnography and the extended case method to connect individual narratives with macro-level transformations in higher education and science policy. By combining empirical accounts with critical engagement in feminist epistemology, the book highlights the ethical imperative of turning analytical attention toward inequalities within the social sciences themselves.

How to Suppress the Careers of Female Social Scientists ? Volume 3: An Anti-manual from Mexico will be of interest to scholars in gender studies, sociology of education, anthropology, and science and technology studies, as well as readers concerned with academic labor, inequality, and institutional transformation in higher education.

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