Comparative religion
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Books as Bodies and as Sacred Beings
James W. Watts, Yohan Yoo, Katharina Wilkens, Bradford A. Anderson, Dorina Miller Parmenter, Rachel Fell McDermott, Virginia Burrus, Jason Neelis, Jihyun Kim
In this volume an international team of scholars address the theme of books as sacred beings from an impressively diverse range of primary material and perspectives. Yet, as a group, they meld to engage and advance previous research to solidify the conclusion that human cultures, especially religiou...
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Translocal Lives and Religion
Philippe Bornet, Sujit Sivasundaram, Gautam Chakrabarti, Gwilym Beckerlegge, Dwayne Ryan Menezes, Steven J. Sutcliffe, Minyu Zhang, Brian Bocking, Parinitha Shetty, Fabienne Jagou, Maya Burger
Inspired by the historiographical model of "connected histories" (S. Subrahmanyam and S. Gruzinski), the volume examines the intellectual trajectories of remarkable individuals who interacted with religious discourses, doctrines or practices in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The proposed approac...
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Miniature Books
Kristina Myrvold, Dorina Miller Parmenter, James W. Watts, Marianne Schleicher, Lucy Razzall, Heather Coffey, Andreas Johansson, Jonas Svensson, Jon Skarpeid, Yohan Yoo, Woncheol Yun
Kristina Myrvold, Dorina Miller Parmenter
Miniature books, handwritten or printed books in the smallest format, have fascinated religious people, printers, publishers, collectors, and others through the centuries because of their unique physical features, and continue to captivate people today. The small lettering and the delicate pages, bi...
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Sensing Sacred Texts
All the human senses become engaged in ritualizing sacred texts. These essays focus especially on ritualizing the iconic dimension of texts through the senses of sight, touch, kiss, and taste, both directly and in the imagination. Ritualized display of books engages the sense of sight very different...
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Religious Super-diversity and Peacebuilding across Asia and its Diasporas
Alessandro Saggioro, Carmelo Russo
The book explores two central themes: superdiversity, particularly within religious contexts, and the practice of peacebuilding. Contributors examine how these themes intersect, combining theoretical discussions with real-world case studies. The introduction lays out the book’s c...
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Subjugated Voices and Religion
Souad T. Ali, Emily Leah Silverman
This critical and timely volume emerged from a conference on Subjugated Voices and Religion. It brings marginalized voices to the center of religious studies, theological and spirituality discourses. The volume is co-edited by two scholarly friends who are a Jew and a Muslim Feminists. The main t...
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Enchantment
This book provides an overview of the various ways the concepts enchantment, disenchantment, and re-enchantment have been used both within religious studies scholarship and in related fields. Despite the prevalence of these concepts in recent scholarship, no introductory text on the subject of en...
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Researching Global Religious Landscapes
Peter Nynäs, Ruth Illman, Nurit Novis-Deutsch, Rafael Fernández-Hart, Alana M. Vincent, Mans Broo, Marcus Moberg, Mallarika Sarka Das, Sohini Ray, Slawomir Sztajer, Ben-Willie Kwaku Golo, Sidney Castillo, Ariela Keysar, Clara Marlijn Meyer, Sofia Sjo, Ruby Sain, Polina Vrublevskaya, Karoliina Dahl, Janne Kontala, Sawsan Kheir, David Wulff, Mika Lassander, Maria Klingenberg, Marat Shterin
Peter Nynäs, Ruth Illman, Nurit Novis-Deutsch, Rafael Fernández-Hart
How should researchers navigate in a global landscape of religious and secular worldviews? This volume contributes with an interdisciplinary perspective to the study of contemporary religion in a cross-cultural or global perspective. The chapters in the volume highlight quite different themes – f...
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Comparison
Comparison is held to be one of the central methods of the academic study of religion. While many ostensibly engage in the comparative act, often overlooked is what it actually means to do this. What is comparison? Why engage in it and for what purposes? Can there be such a thing as a valid or inval...
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Earth, Empire and Sacred Text
"The breadth of Johnston's reading and research on display here is simply staggering. In addition to his deep familiarity with over a millennium of Islamic commentary on the Qur'an, he also brings to this project a range of insights drawn from the disciplines of sociology, economics, politics, and p...