Laack’s study presents an innovative interpretation of Aztec religion and art of writing. She explores the Nahua sense of reality from the perspective of the aesthetics of religion and analyzes Indige
The essays in the volume Consecration Rituals in South Asia address the ritual procedures that accompany the installation of temple images in Shaiva, Vaishnava, Buddhist and Jain contexts, in various
The Problem of Disenchantment offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to the intellectual history of science, religion, and “the occult” in the early 20th century.
The book provides a systematic treatise about the history and present of the Academic study of Religions in the Central and Eastern Europe. The origins of the discipline can be found as late as the ea
Religious Transformation in Modern Asia offers phenomenological glimpses of the religious transition in 18th to 20th centuries. The colonial experience of indigenous Asian people, as case studies, wil
Asian religious traditions have always been deeply concerned with "sins" and what to do about them. As the essays in this volume illustrate, what Buddhists in Tibet, India, China or Japan, what Jains,
In Mu?ammad ?Abduh and his Interlocutors: Conceptualizing Religion in a Globalizing World, Ammeke Kateman offers an account of Mu?ammad ?Abduh’s Islamic Reformism in a globalizing and diverse world.
Religions and Education in Antiquity gathers ten essays on the nature of education in the contexts of ancient Western religions, including Judaism, early Christianity and Gnostic Christian traditions
In Gyonen’s Transmission of the Buddha Dharma in Three Countries Ronald S. Green and Chanju Mun offer a translation and assessment of Gyonen’s perspective. They describe the innovated doctrinal classi
In The Secular Religion of Franklin Merrell-Wolff, Dave Vliegenthart investigates the life and teachings of a twentieth-century American mystic, with implications for the socio-historical background
This edited volume on religious dynamics features source texts from all over Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, which show original authors’ thoughts on religion as they the shared challenges of an ag
In this book, Helena Kupari examines the lived religion of elderly Finnish Orthodox Christian women, displaced from Karelia in the aftermath of the Second World War, through an innovative reading and
In An Arena for Higher Powers Olof Sundqvist offers an account of the role played by religion in political undertakings among the pre-Christian ruling elites at ceremonial buildings in in Late Iron Ag
The Myotei Dialogues is the first complete English translation of Fukansai Habian’s Myotei mondo (1605), one of the most important works of early Japanese Christianity.
Faith in the familiar is an ethnography of religious change in the Netherlands, discussing Catholicism and popular forms of New Age. It focuses on the location of religion in local life and how people
Re-imagining South Asian Religions is a collection of essays offering new ways of understanding aspects of Hindu, Tibetan Buddhist, Sikh, Jain, Theosophical, and Indian Christian experiences. Moving a
Drower (1879-1972) was a self-taught British scholar and novelist who became recognized as an authority on the Middle East generally, but particularly of the Mandaeans, the last living Gnostic Baptist
The Gagauz are a minority people living in the southern reaches of the Republic of Moldova, explains Kapalo (religions, U. College Cork, Ireland), and though they adhere to the majority religion, Orth
Dubuisson (National Center of Scientific Research, Paris) explores the wisdom of eastern and western thought. His perspectives include a fragile and uncertain I, a labile consciousness, the pure consc
Historians and other scholars of religion from across Europe open doors that have been closed for two generations and look at how members of their profession conducted their work during the 1930s and
Sometimes its only a matter of the authorities showing up, but unfathomable forces could be unleashed into an unsuspecting world. The implications and effects of breaking ritual rules, of failed perfo
European and American scholars investigate the degree to which ancient practices and traditions of human sacrifice are reflected in medieval and modern traditions. In antiquity, they focus especially
"The Scientification of the "Jewish Question" under National Socialism describes the attempt of a considerable number of German scholars to counter the vanishing influence of religious prejudices agai
Cosmopolitan Dharma, through an analysis of the diverse voices of racial, sexual and gender minority Buddhists, explores how cultural politics from the ground up can offer a more inclusive philosophy
The Problem of Disenchantment offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to the intellectual history of science, religion, and “the occult” in the early 20th century.
Sociology of Religion in America tells the story of the controversies involved in the development of a scientific specialty that often makes news in America. The evidence it presents runs contrary to
Sikh Diaspora: Theory, Agency, and Experience is a collection of essays offering new insights into the diverse experiences of Sikhs beyond the Punjab. The essays in this volume engage with diaspora t
Drawing on ethnographic and archival research conducted on the Indonesian island of Bali, this book demonstrates that more nuanced attention to problems of media will have serious implications for how
In nineteenth-century Britain, the majority of the Jewish people were involved in a process of assimilation or acculturation and most of those who embraced Christianity were content to worship in a Ge
This volume in honour of Jan N. Bremmer consists of a variety of contributions offering a broad spectrum of original ideas and innovative approaches in the history of religions both past and present,
Konik (cultural studies, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan U.) hones the argument and elaborates the intuitions more fully of his 2007 Ph.D. dissertation in religious studies for the University of South Afr
Concepts of death and the afterlife are often studied through the lenses of different disciplines. The subject of ghosts, however, is not usually considered by serious scholars. Poo (history and philo
Porcu (Ryukoku U., Kyoto) analyzes the role that the Pure Land Buddhist tradition, especially Shin Buddhism, has played in different aspects of Japanese modern and contemporary culture. She selected i
Srinivas (anthropology, U. of California-Davis) traces the transformation of Indian religious figure Shirdi Sai Baba (d. 1918) from a mendicant to a guru during his lifetime, and his continuing posthu
Borup (Aarhus U., Denmark) is a specialist in Buddhism, and here draws on material he used for his Ph.D. in theology at Aarhus to investigate a contemporary Japanese Zen Buddhist sect. He focuses on l
