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In The Netherlands, the arts have gained a sacralized status, while religion is increasingly viewed through the lens of heritage. The dynamic resonance of sacred forms this results in, is exemplary f …

The second volume of the series ‘Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses’ points out the roots of the concept of ”human rights” in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It shows how far the universal …

Chaos is a perennial source of fear and fascination. The original ‘formless void’ (tohu-wa-bohu) mentioned in the book of Genesis, chaos precedes the created world: a state of anarchy before the esta …

A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion presents a collection of original, ethnographically-informed essays that explore the variety of beliefs, practices, and religious experiences in the …

IDH Religion provides a series of short introductions to specific areas of study at the intersections of digital humanities and religion, offering an overview of current methodologies, techniques, to …

In God’s Mechanics, Brother Guy tells the stories of thosewho identify with the scientific mindset–so-called’techies’–while practicing religion. A full fledged techiehimself, he relates some …

Heresy studies is a new interdisciplinary, supra-religious, and humanist field of study that focuses on borderlands of dogma, probes the intersections between orthodoxy and heterodoxy, and explores t …

Still in its infancy because of the overly conservative views and methods assumed by the majority of scholars working in it since the mid-19th century, the field of early Islamic and quranic studies …

Studies of the Curse of Ham, the belief that the Bible consigned blacks to everlasting servitude, confuse and conflate two separate origins stories (etiologies), one of black skin and the other of …

How to study the contemporary dynamics between the religious, the nonreligious and the secular in a globalizing world? Obviously, their relationship is not an empirical datum, liable to the procedure …