The Shaping Shaikh

Dejan Azdajic

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and Society | nr. 85
• Islam is more than a system of rigid doctrines and normative principles. It is a diverse mosaic of subjective, often contradictory interpretations and... Lees meer

Islamic Dilemmas: Reformers, Nationalists and Industrialization

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and Society | nr. 25
• No detailed description available for "Islamic Dilemmas: Reformers, Nationalists and Industrialization". Lees meer

Cargo Cults and Millenarian Movements

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and Society | nr. 29
• No detailed description available for "Cargo Cults and Millenarian Movements". Lees meer

Rituals of Initiation and Consecration in Premodern Japan

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and Society | nr. 87
• In premodern Japan, legitimization of power and knowledge in various contexts was sanctioned by consecration rituals ( kanjō ) of Buddhist origin. Thi... Lees meer

Concepts of Conversion

Lars Kirkhusmo Pharo

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and Society | nr. 70
• There has not been conducted much research in religious studies and (linguistic) anthropology analysing Protestant missionary linguistic translations.... Lees meer

Sons of the Buddha

Jason a Carbine

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and Society | nr. 50
• Intended as a methodological and theoretical contribution to the study of religion and society, this book examines Buddhist monasticism in Myanmar. Th... Lees meer

Religion and Social Formation in Korea

Sang Taek Lee

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and Society | nr. 37
• No detailed description available for "Religion and Social Formation in Korea". Lees meer

Saints and Signs

Massimo Leone

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and Society | nr. 48
• Saints and Sign s analyzes a corpus of hagiographies, paintings, and other materials related to four of the most prominent saints of early modern Cath... Lees meer

Historicizing "Tradition" in the Study of Religion

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and Society | nr. 43
• This collection of essays analyzes ‛tradition' as a category in the historical and comparative study of religion. The book questions the common assump... Lees meer

The Anthropology of Religion, Charisma and Ghosts

Stephen Feuchtwang

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and Society | nr. 46
• It has been said that Chinese government was, until the republican period, government through li . Li is the untranslatable word covering appropriate ... Lees meer

Modernity in Islamic Tradition

Florian Zemmin

• Paperback | Engels | Religion and Society | nr. 76
• What does it mean to be modern? This study regards the concept of 'society' as foundational to modern self-understanding. Identifying Arabic conceptua... Lees meer

Expanding Religion

Miklós Tomka

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and Society | nr. 47
• Reiterated international comparative surveys offer evidences about developments of religion-related scene in Central and Eastern Europe. The present v... Lees meer

Social Media and Religious Change

• Paperback | Engels | Religion and Society | nr. 53
• This volume offers unique insights into the mutually constitutive nature of social media practices and religious change. Part 1 examines how social me... Lees meer

Mindscaping the Landscape of Tibet

Dan Smyer Yü

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and Society | nr. 60
• Based on the author's cross-regional fieldwork, archival findings, and critical reading of memoirs and creative works of Tibetans and Chinese, this bo... Lees meer

Sectarianism in Qumran

Eyal Regev

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and Society | nr. 45
• Sectarianism in Qumran: A Cross-Cultural Perspective explores the sectarian characteristics of the system of beliefs and laws of the two major Qumran ... Lees meer

The Digital Social

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and Society | nr. 69
• The edited volume aims to present a critical analysis of the current state of research on religion and belief systems in the realm of the 'Digital Soc... Lees meer

Hammīra

Aditya Malik

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and Society | nr. 83
• This book is about the legendary Rajput chieftain Hammira Chauhan, the king of the impregnable fortress of Ranthambore in southern Rajasthan who died ... Lees meer

Reform and Counterreform

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and Society | nr. 34
• No detailed description available for "Reform and Counterreform". Lees meer

Religious Freedom in Italy

Alessandro Ferrari

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and Society | nr. 88
• Italy, seat of the Pope and Vatican City, has a long and difficult relationship with religious freedom. Often identified as a Catholic nation par exce... Lees meer

Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy and Dissent in India

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and Society | nr. 23
• No detailed description available for "Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy and Dissent in India". Lees meer

Religion, Myth and Folklore in the World's Epics

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and Society | nr. 30
• No detailed description available for "Religion, Myth and Folklore in the World's Epics". Lees meer

Religion, Power and Protest in Local Communities

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and Society | nr. 24
• The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems- both in Western and non-Western societies; in part... Lees meer

Key Concepts in Practice

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and Society | nr. 79
• In recent years, the study of modern Chinese religions has developed into a highly innovative yet challenging field. One of the main reasons for this ... Lees meer

Wilderness in Mythology and Religion

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and Society | nr. 55
• Wilderness is one of the most abiding creations in the history of religions. It has a long and seminal history and is of contemporary relevance in wil... Lees meer