The intelligentsia between secular and religious culture

Chapters in this book

1. I-VI I
2. Preface VII
3. Introduction 1
4. Historical models
5. Gods' statues as a tool of Assyrian political policy: Esarhaddon's return of Marduk to Babylon 9
6. Religious projection: A Hellenistic instance 25
7. Mani versus Mazdak: The prophet and his king in pre-Islamic Iran 41
8. Religious transformations and socio-political change: A western eurocentric paradigm? 61
9. Eastern Europe
10. The intelligentsia between secular and religious culture 75
11. Personal spiritual orientations and religiousness in (former) Soviet society 83
12. John Paul II and Mikhail Gorbachev: The process of globalization in multidimensional comparison 97
13. The analogy of the proportionalitas: The coherence between socio-political development and the development of religion in the new socio-cultural reality of Czechoslovakia 109
14. National history, culture and the process of religious change 117
15. Religion and revolution: A Hungarian pilgrimage in Rumania 127
16. Muslim fundamentalism in Soviet Central Asia: A social perspective 141
17. The Muslims of Poland: A religious minority in transition 149
18. Delusion and illusion, false hopes and failed dreams: Religion, the churches and East Germany's 1989 "November revolution" 161
19. Theology of liberation and the Protestant monastery of Loccum in Germany 177
20. Opposition within affinity between religion and politics with reference to Golden Age Denmark and Brazil 189
21. Latin America
22. Religious transformations and social change in Latin America 207
23. In the beginning there were the Canaries ...: The forgotten purgatory en route to the new world 221
24. Missionary activity in Latin America: Confession manuals and indigenous eroticism 237
25. Iconography, intersubjectivity, and anthropological experience: A Toba shamanic tree 255
26. Political culture, religious culture and sacrifice 293
27. Theoretical and methodological implications
28. Theories on tradition and change in sociology, anthropology, history, and the history of religions 323
29. Method, theory, and the subject matter 349
30. What sort of "reality" is religion? 357
31. The symbolics of power discourse among contemporary religious groups in West Africa 381
32. Religious studies as a saving grace? From Goodenough to South Africa 411
33. Conclusion
34. Methodological conceits and theoretical opportunities: Reflections on the level of analysis appropriate for explaining socio-cultural phenomena 441
35. List of Contributors 453
36. Index 455