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The two great epics of (old) India, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, are written in a language, which differs from so-called classical Sanskrit in many details. Because of... Læs mere
People observe and transgress religious borders when they relate with faith and other faiths, when they shape communities, when they make decisions.
In sharp contrast to Western developments post-communist Europe experienced a spectacular religious revival after 1989.... Læs mere
Both religious practices and economic behaviour create and sustain intra-group cooperation by providing people with common goals and values. The rules of the market are... Læs mere
Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg hat Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich (1921–2007) herausragende israelische Gelehrte in englisch- und... Læs mere
Based on Chinese historical data collected over the past three thousand years, the articles in the volume investigate the development of new grammatical categories and the process of lexicalization and grammaticalization of unique grammatical words.
The chapters cover a wide thematic area, which includes modern Bengali tantric practitioners, tantric ritual in medieval China, the South Asian cults of the mother goddesses, the way of Buddhism into Mongolia, and countercultural echoes of contemporary tantric studies.