Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""Historical models""; ""Godsâ€? statues as a tool of Assyrian political policy: Esarhaddonâ€?s return of Marduk to Babylon""; ""Religious projection: A Hellenistic instance""; ""Mani versus Mazdak: The prophet and his king in pre-Islamic Iran""; ""Religious transformations and socio-political change: A western eurocentric paradigm?""; ""Eastern Europe""; ""The intelligentsia between secular and religious culture""; ""Personal spiritual orientations and religiousness in (former) Soviet society""
  • ""John Paul II and Mikhail Gorbachev: The process of globalization in multidimensional comparison""""The analogy of the proportionalitas: The coherence between sociopolitical development and the development of religion in the new socio-cultural reality of Czechoslovakia""; ""National history, culture and the process of religious change""; ""Religion and revolution: A Hungarian pilgrimage in Rumania""; ""Muslim fundamentalism in Soviet Central Asia: A social perspective""; ""The Muslims of Poland: A religious minority in transition""
  • ""Delusion and illusion, false hopes and failed dreams: Religion, the churches and East Germanyâ€?s 1989 “November revolutionâ€?""""Theology of liberation and the Protestant monastery of Loccum in Germany""; ""Opposition within affinity between religion and politics with reference to Golden Age Denmark and Brazil""; ""Latin America""; ""Religious transformations and social change in Latin America""; ""In the beginning there were the Canaries ...: The forgotten purgatory en route to the new world""; ""Missionary activity in Latin America: Confession manuals and indigenous eroticism""
  • ""Iconography, inter subjectivity, and anthropological experience: A Toba shamanic tree""""Political culture, religious culture and sacrifice""; ""Theoretical and methodological implications""; ""Theories on tradition and change in sociology, anthropology, history, and the history of religions""; ""Method, theory, and the subject matter""; ""What sort of “realityâ€? is religion?""; ""The symbolics of power discourse among contemporary religious groups in West Africa""; ""Religious studies as a saving grace? From Goodenough to South Africa""; ""Conclusion""
  • ""Methodological conceits and theoretical opportunities: Reflections on the level of analysis appropriate for explaining socio- cultural phenomena""""List of contributors""; ""Index""