Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Dynamics of Religions and Cultural Evolution: Worshipping Fuxi in Contemporary China -- Religion and Public Space in Contemporary Japan: Re-activation of the Civilization of the Axial Age and the Manifestation of State Shinto and Buddhism -- The Tactics of (In)Visibility among Religious Communities in Contemporary Europe -- Religion Intersecting De-nationalization and Re-nationalization in Post-Apartheid South Africa -- Forms of Religious Communities in Global Society: Tradition, Invention, and Transformation -- Subversive Spirituality: Political Contributions of Ancestral Cosmologies Decolonizing Religious Beliefs -- Religion and the Historical Imagination: Esoteric Tradition as Poetic Invention -- Religion and Life Trajectories: Islamists Against Self and Other -- Angels, Animals and Religious Change in Antiquity and Today -- Gaining Access to the Radically Unfamiliar: Religion in Modern Times -- 'Cloning Minds': Religion between Individuals and Collectives -- Of Yellow Teaching and Black Faith: Entangled Knowledge Cultures and the Creation of Religious Traditions -- Global Intellectual History and the Dynamics of Religion -- Narrating, Performing and Feeling a 'Religion': On Representations of Judaism -- The President's Welcome Note to the 2015 Erfurt IAHR World Congress -- The General Secretary's Welcome Note to the 2015 Erfurt IAHR World Congress -- The Academic Program -- Abstracts -- A Balancing Act: Minority Religious Communities and Processes of Transformation-Exploring Aniconism -- Exploring the Post-Secular-Pentecostalism and the Practice of Religions in Nigeria: Adaptation and Transformation -- Performance of Language: Space and Time in Meister Eckhart and Modism-The Work of Data: Methods in the Study of Religions -- Congress Committees.

Minutes of the International Committee Meeting -- Minutes of the General Assembly -- Minutes of the Women Scholars Network Meeting -- The Congress Directors' General Report on the XXI IAHR World Congress -- The Congress Administrator's Statistical Report.

RGVV (History of Religion: Essays and Preliminary Studies) brings together the mutually constitutive aspects of the study of religion(s)--contextualized data, theory, and disciplinary positioning--and engages them from a critical historical perspective. The series publishes monographs and thematically focused edited volumes on specific topics and cases as well as comparative work across historical periods from the ancient world to the modern era.

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