Vol 7 No 1: Religious diversity in Asia
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Becoming Christians. Prayers and subject formation in an urban church in China
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2017)Prayers in Christianity are often considered to be a theological or pastoral topic; while social scientific studies generally tend to reduce them, like prayers in other religious contexts, to the status of psychological ... -
Traditional and modern crossing process exchange in a Buddhist–Muslim society Case studied: Zangskar valley in the great Indian Himalayas
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2017)Economic exchange in the Zangskar valley (in the high Indian Himalayas) was a tightly integrated element of the social and political network of this Buddhist–Muslim society . Accordingly people of the lower stratum could ... -
Religious diversity and patrimonialization. A case study of the Nianli Festival in Leizhou Peninsula, China
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2017)With the emergence of the neologism ‘intangible cultural heritage’ in 2003 and the adoption of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Law of the People’sRepublic of China in 2011 various popular religious practices in China which ... -
Diversity and elite religiosity in modern China
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2017)This article looks at religious diversity among late imperial and modern Chinese elites; by contrast with most of the existing literature, which looks at correlations between social class and religiosity, this article adds ... -
Comparing 'religious diversities' Issues, perspectives and problems
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2017)This paper aims at reopening the debate regarding ‘religious diversity’ in religious studies. A review of (recent or ancient) literature demonstrates that we have not finished with the complexity of the issue of ‘diversity’, ... -
Editorial. Religious diversity. Looking Eastward: (Asia) beyond the West
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2017)The subject matter of this special issue is anything but new: religious diversity has already been widely discussed in theology, philosophy, history and sociology. (Too) many times, however, diversity has been measured ...