Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Historical models
  • Godsâ€? statues as a tool of Assyrian political policy: Esarhaddonâ€?s return of Marduk to Babylon
  • Religious projection: A Hellenistic instance
  • Mani versus Mazdak: The prophet and his king in pre-Islamic Iran
  • Religious transformations and socio-political change: A western eurocentric paradigm?
  • Eastern Europe
  • The intelligentsia between secular and religious culture
  • Personal spiritual orientations and religiousness in (former) Soviet society
  • John Paul II and Mikhail Gorbachev: The process of globalization in multidimensional comparisonThe analogy of the proportionalitas: The coherence between sociopolitical development and the development of religion in the new socio-cultural reality of Czechoslovakia
  • National history, culture and the process of religious change
  • Religion and revolution: A Hungarian pilgrimage in Rumania
  • Muslim fundamentalism in Soviet Central Asia: A social perspective
  • The Muslims of Poland: A religious minority in transition
  • Delusion and illusion, false hopes and failed dreams: Religion, the churches and East Germanyâ€?s 1989 “November revolutionâ€?Theology of liberation and the Protestant monastery of Loccum in Germany
  • Opposition within affinity between religion and politics with reference to Golden Age Denmark and Brazil
  • Latin America
  • Religious transformations and social change in Latin America
  • In the beginning there were the Canaries ... : The forgotten purgatory en route to the new world
  • Missionary activity in Latin America: Confession manuals and indigenous eroticism
  • Iconography, inter subjectivity, and anthropological experience: A Toba shamanic treePolitical culture, religious culture and sacrifice
  • Theoretical and methodological implications
  • Theories on tradition and change in sociology, anthropology, history, and the history of religions
  • Method, theory, and the subject matter
  • What sort of “realityâ€? is religion?
  • The symbolics of power discourse among contemporary religious groups in West Africa
  • Religious studies as a saving grace? From Goodenough to South Africa
  • Conclusion
  • Methodological conceits and theoretical opportunities: Reflections on the level of analysis appropriate for explaining socio- cultural phenomenaList of contributors
  • Index