2016_Dynamics of Religion Past and Present Ed. by Bochinger, Christoph / Rüpke, Jörg Together with Begemann, Elisabeth Series:Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten 67

Table of Contents Tim Jensen, President of the IAHR Preface IX Christoph Bochinger, Jörg Rüpke Introduction 1 Hubert Seiwert The Dynamics of Religions and Cultural Evolution: Worshipping Fuxi in Contemporary China 9 Susumu Shimazono Religion and Public Space in Contemporary Japan: Re-activation of the Civilization of the Axial Age and the Manifestation of State Shinto and 31 Buddhism Kim Knott The Tactics of (In)Visibility among Religious Communities in Contemporary Europe 47 Gerald O. West Religion Intersecting De-nationalization and Re-nationalization in Post-Apartheid South Africa 69 Peter Beyer Forms of Religious Communities in Global Society: Tradition, Invention, and Transformation 85 Sylvia Marcos Subversive Spirituality: Political Contributions of Ancestral Cosmologies Decolonizing Religious Beliefs 109 Wouter J. Hanegraaff Religion and the Historical Imagination: Esoteric Tradition as Poetic 131 Invention

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Abdulkader Tayob Religion and Life Trajectories: Islamists Against Self and Other Ingvild Sælid Gilhus Angels, Animals and Religious Change in Antiquity and Today

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Kalpana Ram Gaining Access to the Radically Unfamiliar: Religion in Modern Times Jeppe Sinding Jensen ‘Cloning Minds’: Religion between Individuals and Collectives

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Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz Of Yellow Teaching and Black Faith: Entangled Knowledge Cultures and the Creation of Religious Traditions 231 Martin Mulsow Global Intellectual History and the Dynamics of Religion

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Cristiana Facchini Narrating, Performing and Feeling a ‘Religion’: On Representations of Judaism 273 The President’s Welcome Note to the 2015 Erfurt IAHR World Congress 297 The General Secretary’s Welcome Note to the 2015 Erfurt IAHR World Congress 299 The Academic Program Abstracts

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Congress Committees

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Minutes of the International Committee Meeting Minutes of the General Assembly

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Minutes of the Women Scholars Network Meeting

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The Congress Directors’ General Report on the XXI IAHR World 957 Congress The Congress Administrator’s Statistical Report

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