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Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe
Encounters, Notions, and Comparative Perspectives
Series: - Dynamics in the History of Religions, Volume: 1
This first volume of the series “Dynamics in the History of Religions” reviews the opening conference of the "Käte Hamburger Kolleg” at the Ruhr-University Bochum. The first section concentrates on the formation of what later come to be termed "world religions" through inter-religious contact, the second part focuses on the significance of interreligious contacts also during their expansive phase. Methodological problems of multi-perspective research and especially the lack of a general religious terminology are discussed in the third chapter, while the final papers outline various aspects of secularization and (re-)sacralisation in the age of globalisation as an effect of multicultural contacts in a world wide web of religious interferences.
Contributors include: Marion Steinicke, Volkhard Krech, Peter Wick, Victor H. Mair, Heiner Roetz, Patrick Olivelle, Jens Schlieter, Guy Stroumsa, Sarah Stroumsa, Nikolas Jaspert, Michael Lecker, John Tolan, Eun-jeung Lee, Michael Lackner, Stephen C. Berkwitz, Sven Bretfeld, Lucian Hölscher, Jan Assmann, Robert Ford Campany, Russell McCutcheon, Tim H. Barrett, Francesca Tarocco, Ronald M. Davidson, Markus Zehnder, Aslam Syed, Marion Eggert, Peter Schalk, Peter Beyer, Ian Reader, José Casanova, Heinz Georg Held.
Contributors include: Marion Steinicke, Volkhard Krech, Peter Wick, Victor H. Mair, Heiner Roetz, Patrick Olivelle, Jens Schlieter, Guy Stroumsa, Sarah Stroumsa, Nikolas Jaspert, Michael Lecker, John Tolan, Eun-jeung Lee, Michael Lackner, Stephen C. Berkwitz, Sven Bretfeld, Lucian Hölscher, Jan Assmann, Robert Ford Campany, Russell McCutcheon, Tim H. Barrett, Francesca Tarocco, Ronald M. Davidson, Markus Zehnder, Aslam Syed, Marion Eggert, Peter Schalk, Peter Beyer, Ian Reader, José Casanova, Heinz Georg Held.
Volkhard Krech, Professor of Religious Studies, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, is Director of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg "Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe". Krech’s main research interests are related to the theory of religion and history of religions, religious pluralization and globalization, religion and violence, and history of the science of religion.
Marion Steinicke, Ph. D. in Religious Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, is Science Manager of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg at Ruhr-University Bochum. She has published on Medieval European travels to the Far East and ritual inventions of the Italian Trecento. Her current research regards the Jesuit Mission in China.
Marion Steinicke, Ph. D. in Religious Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, is Science Manager of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg at Ruhr-University Bochum. She has published on Medieval European travels to the Far East and ritual inventions of the Italian Trecento. Her current research regards the Jesuit Mission in China.
"[..] the theoretical part of this book [..] can be thought provoking [for] both scholars of religion and those with a more general interest in contextual comparative studies [..] [T]he empirical chapters of this book should not be neglected. The wide range of approaches, themes and geographical areas covered make an engaging read for area scholars as well as anthropologists, ensuring a diverse and inspiring read." - Carolina Ivanescu,
independent scholar, in:
Comparative Sociology 14 (2015), 715–719
All those interested in History of Religion and Religious Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies and Theology, Asian, Middle East and Islamic Studies.