‘Cloning Minds’: Religion between Individuals and Collectives

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Preface IX
4. Introduction 1
5. The Dynamics of Religions and Cultural Evolution: Worshipping Fuxi in Contemporary China 9
6. Religion and Public Space in Contemporary Japan: Re-activation of the Civilization of the Axial Age and the Manifestation of State Shinto and Buddhism 31
7. The Tactics of (In)Visibility among Religious Communities in Contemporary Europe 47
8. Religion Intersecting De-nationalization and Re-nationalization in Post-Apartheid South Africa 69
9. Forms of Religious Communities in Global Society: Tradition, Invention, and Transformation 85
10. Subversive Spirituality: Political Contributions of Ancestral Cosmologies Decolonizing Religious Beliefs 109
11. Religion and the Historical Imagination: Esoteric Tradition as Poetic Invention 131
12. Religion and Life Trajectories: Islamists Against Self and Other 155
13. Angels, Animals and Religious Change in Antiquity and Today 171
14. Gaining Access to the Radically Unfamiliar: Religion in Modern Times 191
15. ‘Cloning Minds’: Religion between Individuals and Collectives 211
16. Of Yellow Teaching and Black Faith: Entangled Knowledge Cultures and the Creation of Religious Traditions 231
17. Global Intellectual History and the Dynamics of Religion 251
18. Narrating, Performing and Feeling a ‘Religion’: On Representations of Judaism 273
19. The President’s Welcome Note to the 2015 Erfurt IAHR World Congress 297
20. The General Secretary’s Welcome Note to the 2015 Erfurt IAHR World Congress 299
21. The Academic Program 303
22. Abstracts
23. A Balancing Act: Minority Religious Communities and Processes of Transformation–Exploring Aniconism 311
24. Exploring the Post-Secular–Pentecostalism and the Practice of Religions in Nigeria: Adaptation and Transformation 505
25. Performance of Language: Space and Time in Meister Eckhart and Modism–The Work of Data: Methods in the Study of Religions 696
26. Congress Committees 893
27. Minutes of the International Committee Meeting 895
28. Minutes of the General Assembly 929
29. Minutes of the Women Scholars Network Meeting 953
30. The Congress Directors’ General Report on the XXI IAHR World Congress 957
31. The Congress Administrator’s Statistical Report 981