Indigenous Religious Traditions in 5 Minutes

Molly H. Bassett, Natalie Avalos

Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes aims to answer many of the questions that come to mind when we think about the religious lives of Native and Indigenous peoples of the world. Scholars from many fields answer dozens of questions about a wide variety of specific Indigenous religious tra...

The Complexity of Conversion

Valerie Nicolet, Marianne Kartzow

Today, conversion is a contested religious, political, and personal phenomenon, and that was also the case in the ancient world. Using several primary sources (Jewish and Christian) and case studies, this volume discusses what this change could have meant for various individuals or groups of people...

New Antiquities

Dylan M. Burns, Almut-Barbara Renger

Just as we speak of "dead" languages, we say that religions "die out." Yet sometimes, people try to revive them, today more than ever. New Antiquities addresses this phenomenon through critical examination of how individuals and groups appeal to, reconceptualize, and reinvent the religious world of...

The Mariavites

Damian Cyrocki

The Mariavites are an independent Catholic movement who were excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church in late 1906. This book gives a history of the beginnings of the movement focusing on how the early Mariavites understood the establishment the Kingdom of God on earth (and, more precisely,...

Deuteronomy

Diana V. Edelman, Philippe Guillaume, Megan B. Turton, Kåre Berge, Benedetta Rossi, Madhavi Nevader, Richard D. Nelson, Sidnie White Crawford, Georg Braulik, Bernard Gosse, Ehud Ben Zvi

Diana V. Edelman, Philippe Guillaume

This inaugural volume in the series, Themes and Issues in Biblical Studies, includes 19 articles that, collectively, provide readers with informed presentations of a range of current debates concerning Deuteronomy as well as key themes and their implications. A number of long-standing hypotheses...

Religion in 5 Minutes

Aaron W. Hughes, Russell T. McCutcheon

Religion in Five Minutes provides an accessible and lively introduction to the questions about religion and religious behaviour that interest most of us, whether or not we personally identify with - or practice - a religion. Suitable for beginning students and the general reader, the book offers mor...

The Relational Dynamics of Enchantment and Sacralization

Peik Ingman, Terhi Utriainen, Tuija Hovi, Mans Broo

This volume revisits the concepts of enchantment and sacralization in light of perspectives which challenge the modern notion that man (alone) is the measure of all things. As Bruno Latour has argued, the battle against superstition entailed shifting power away from God/the gods to humans, thereby d...

The Imagined Sky

Darrelyn Gunzburg

The sky forms fifty percent of our visual world and as such has a voice across cultures. This sky-voice is informed by human images, dreams, and aspirations and thus is complex and contains great diversity. The inherent nature of this sky-voice is transmitted from one generation to another through t...

Philosophy and the End of Sacrifice

Peter Jackson, Anna-Pya Sjodin, Stephanie Jamison, Clemens Cavallin, Gerald James Larson, Guy G. Stroumsa, Jorgen Podemann Sorensen, Christian H. Bull, Jorgen Magnusson, Hans Ruin, Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback

Peter Jackson, Anna-Pya Sjodin

This volume addresses the means and ends of sacrificial speculation by inviting a selected group of specialists in the fields of philosophy, history of religions, and indology to examine philosophical modes of sacrificial speculation-especially in Ancient India and Greece-and consider the commonalit...

Claiming Identity in the Study of Religion

Monica R. Miller

Focusing on the academic study of religion, Claiming Identity in the Study of Religion is the first in a series that grapples with the historicity of identity and the social and rhetorical techniques that make claims to identity possible. In this volume, six previously published essays by scholar of...