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• Imprint
• Subvention
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• List of Boxes
• Acknowledgments and Dedications
• Introduction
• Part I. What is Religion and How to Approach it?
• 1. Religion: Language, Law, and Legacies
• Case Study 1A: Falun Gong: Religion or Self-Cultivation Practice?
• Case Study 1B: Christians and Ancestor Veneration: Religion or Culture?
• 2. Method: Insider-Outsider Debates, Phenomenology, and Reflexivity
• Case Study 2A: Living between Religious Worlds: Conversion and Reconversion
• Case Study 2B: Hindu and Christian? Multiple Religious Identities
• 3. Life: Lived Religion, Syncretism, and Hybridity
• Case Study 3A: Mexican American Catholicism and Our Lady of Guadalupe
• Case Study 3B: Thai Buddhism as Lived Religion and Syncretic Practice
• Part II. Theories, Methodologies, and Critical Debates
• 4. History: Historical Methodology and the Invention of Tradition
• Case Study 4A: The Historical Jesus and the Christ of Faith
• Case Study 4B: Laozi, the Daodejing, and the Origins of Daoism
• 5. Power: Social Constructionism, Habitus, and Authority
• Case Study 5A: Mosques, Minarets, and Power
• Case Study 5B: Individual (New Age/Alternative) Spirituality as Modernity’s Ideology
• 6. Identity: Social Identity Theory, In-Groups, Out-Groups, and Conflict
• Case Study 6A: Shiv Sena, Hindu Nationalism, and Identity Politics
• Case Study 6B: Race, Religion, and the American White Evangelical
• 7. Colonialism: Postcolonialism, Orientalism, and Decolonization
• Case Study 7A: Beyond “Inventing” Hinduism
• Case Study 7B: Magic, Superstition, and Religion in Southeast Asia and Africa
• 8. Brains: The Cognitive Science of Religion and Beyond
• Case Study 8A: Religion, Non-Religion, and Atheism
• Case Study 8B: Ancestors, Jesus, and Prosocial Behavior in Fiji
• 9. Bodies: Material Religion, Embodiment, and Materiality
• Case Study 9A: Weeping Gods and Drinking Statues
• Case Study 9B: Embodied Practice at a Christian Shrine
• 10. Gender: Feminism, Sexuality, and Religion
• Case Study 10A: Priests, Paul, and Rewriting Texts
• Case Study 10B: Buddhist Feminisms and Nuns
• 11. Comparison: Comparative and Contrastive Methodologies
• Case Study 11A: Comparing Hinduism and Judaism
• Case Study 11B: A Comparison of Zen Buddhist and Protestant Christian Sitting Practices
• 12. Ritual: Ritualization, Myth, and Performance
• Case Study 12A: The Zen Tea Ceremony and Protestant Eucharist as Performance and Ritual
• Case Study 12B: Buddhist Ordination Rites
• Part III. Religious Diversity and Society
• 13. Diversity
• Case Study 13A: The Memory of Al-Andalusia
• Case Study 13B: Dominus Iesus and Catholic Christianity in Asia
• 14. Dialogue: Interreligious Discourse and Critique
• Case Study 14A: Christian and Muslim Women Reading Scriptures
• Case Study 14B: Buddhist-Christian Dialogue: History and Discourse
• 15. Violence: Fundamentalism, Extremism, and Radicalization
• Case Study 15A: The Invention of Islamic Terrorism
• Case Study 15B: Buddhism and Violence
• 16. Secularism
• Case Study 16A: Laïcité and the Burkini Ban
• Case Study 16B: Singapore’s Common Space
• 17. Geography: Place, the Lived Environment, and Environmentalism
• Case Study 17A: Trees as Monks?
• Case Study 17B: Protestant Christian Understandings of the “Holy Land”
• 18. Politics: Governance, the Colonial Wound, and the Sacred
• Case Study 18A: Ethnicity and Religion: The Singaporean Malay-Muslim Identity
• Case Study 18B: Saluting the Flag: The Case of Jehovah’s Witnesses in the United States
• Glossary
• Who’s Who
• Notes
• Index