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26 History of Religions / Comparative Religion
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Reference Works
Religion Past and Present

Encyclopedia of Theology and Religion
Edited by Hans Dieter Betz, Don S. Browning, Bernd Janowski and Eberhard Jüngel
Religion Past and Present (RPP) is a complete, updated English translation of the 4th edition of
the definitive encyclopedia of religion worldwide: the peerless Religion in Geschichte und
Gegenwart (RGG). Including the latest developments in
research, Religion Past and Present encompasses a vast range of subjects connected with religion.
This great resource, now at last available in English, continues the tradition of deep knowledge
and authority relied upon by generations of scholars in religious, theological, and biblical
studies. Religion Past and Present indisputably belongs to the small class of essential reference
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series EUR 229.- / US$ 277.- countries
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• Covers an unparalleled breadth of subject matter in theological and biblical studies

• Up-to-date research and bibliographies make it an indispensable resource for all levels of users
• Interdisciplinary articles cover a wide range of topics from history, archaeology, liturgy, law,
bible, music, visual arts, politics, social sciences, natural sciences, ethics, and philosophy
• 4th edition includes hundreds of new entries on Eastern and other religious subjects
• Short definitions and cross-references enable quick and easy searching
• Over 15,000 entries and 8 million words
• 11 volumes and an index
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Forthcoming in 2009: Religion Past and Present Online

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indispensable online reference works in the field of biblical and religious studies, which is constantly updated and expanded with
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World Religion Database

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International Religious Demographic Statistics and Sources
Editors: Todd M. Johnson and Brian J. Grim
The World Religion Database will be launched in 2009.
The World Religion Database (WRD) contains detailed statistics on religious affiliation for every
country in the world. For each of the world’s religions, best estimates at multiple dates for 3
the period 1900 to 2050 are given. The WRD provides access to the sources which underlie the
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figures in the database, including censuses and surveys. It is constantly updated with new sets
of data as they become available. The WRD is developed at the Institute on Culture, Religion and
World Affairs (CURA) at Boston University.
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World Christian Database

General Editor: Todd M. Johnson, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
The World Christian Database (WCD) includes detailed information on all major world religions.
Extensive religious and secular statistics are available on 9,000 Christian denominations, 238
countries and 13,000 ethnolinguistic peoples, as well as on 5,000 cities and 3,000 provinces.
The WCD incorporates the core data from the World Christian Encyclopedia (WCE) and World
Christian Trends (WCT). However, statistics in the WCD constitute a significant update of the
data published in WCE/WCT in 2001. WCD is an initiative of the Center for the Study of Global
Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
Designed for both professionals, scholars, and students, information is readily available
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Index to the Study of Religions Online
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Edited by Katja Triplett, University of Marburg
The Index to the Study of Religions (ISR) is a cross-searchable database of abstracts of articles which
ISR
contribute to the academic study of religions. The main objective of the ISR is facilitating the
work and international collaboration of all scholars working in this field. The over 20,000 entries
in the ISR (at time of launch) cover a wide range of abstracts in English from articles in various
languages from a variety of journals. Per year, about 600 new entries are added. The list of
periodicals consulted is reviewed regularly and suggestions for complementing the database are
Online welcomed.
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The Encyclopedia of Christianity

Edited by Erwin Fahlbusch, Jan Milič Lochman, John Mbiti, Jaroslav Pelikan, and Lukas Vischer
Translator and English-Language Editor: Geoff rey W. Bromiley
Statistical Editor: David B. Barrett
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this volume is sure to become a standard reference work for the study of Christianity past and present. Comprehensive, up-to-date,
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Christianity, considering other world religions and philosophies as it paints the overall religious and sociocultural picture in which
the church finds itself.
Describing Christianity in its global context, the Encyclopedia is a fully international work, with articles written by scholars from
many countries and cultural backgrounds. Separate articles for every continent and for over 170 countries present both the history
and the current situation of the Christian faith in all its rich spiritual and theological diversity around the world.
‘Broad, comprehensive, scholarly, and generally ‘Sets the standard for reference works of ‘The quality of scholarship combined with
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Choice Library Journal. Booklist

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Volume 5 (Si-Z) Volume 4 (P-Sh) Volume 3 (J-O)

• February 2008 • December 2005 • October 2003
• ISBN 978 90 04 14596 2 • ISBN 978 90 04 14595 5 • ISBN 978 90 04 12654 1
• Cloth with dustjacket (896 pp.) • Cloth with dustjacket • Cloth with dustjacket (xxix, 830 pp.)
• List price EUR 128.- / US$ 128.- • List price EUR 128.- / US$ 128.- • List price EUR 128.- / US$ 128.-
• The Encyclopedia of Christianity, 5 • The Encyclopedia of Christianity, 4 • The Encyclopedia of Christianity, 3
Volume 4 of the EC contains more than 300 The third volume of the EC contains more
articles covering the alphabetical entries than 350 articles for alphabetical entries
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P–Sh — articles on significant topics J - O. Written by leading scholars from
ranging from Paul, political theology, and around the world, the articles in volume
the Qur’an to religious liberty, salvation 3 range from discussions of Jesus, the
history, and scholasticism. kingdom of God, and Martin Luther to
marriage and divorce, North American
theology, and the Orthodox Church.
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Volume 2 (E-I) Volume 1 (A-D) Set volumes 1-5
• January 2001 • January 1999 • May 2008
• ISBN 978 90 04 11695 5 • ISBN 978 90 04 11316 9 • ISBN 978 90 04 16967 8
• Cloth with dustjacket (xxxii, 788 pp.) • Cloth with dustjacket (xxxx, 894 pp.) • Cloth with dustjacket
• List price EUR 128.- / US$ 191.- • List price EUR 128.- / US$ 128.- • List price EUR 345.- / US$ 511.-
• The Encyclopedia of Christianity, 2 • The Encyclopedia of Christianity, 1 • The Encyclopedia of Christianity
The second volume of the EC contains Volume 1 (A-D) contains 465 articles • Comprehensive, authoritative, up to date
more than 300 articles for alphabetical featuring - articles on all but the smallest • Both historical and contemporary in
entries E–I. Written by leading scholars countries of the world, including the scope
from around the world, the articles in former communist nations that have • Scholarly yet accessible to general
Volume 2 range from discussions of early gained independence since 1989; readers
church history, ethics, and evil to entries - the latest statistical information • More than 1,700 articles in all five
on Holy Week, icons, and Christianity in from David B. Barrett on the religious volumes
Ireland. affiliation and ecclesiastical breakdown • Global context, separate articles for
of each country and continent; every continent and for over 170
- articles on doctrines, denominations, countries
and social and ethical issues in relation
to the churches;
- biographical articles on prominent
figures through church history.

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A Companion to Second-Century Christian ‘Heretics’

Edited by Antti Marjanen, Academy of Finland
and Petri Luomanen, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
The book illuminates “the other side” of early Christianity by examining thinkers and
movements that were embraced by many second-century religious seekers as legitimate forms
of Christianity, but which are now largely forgotten, or are known only from the characteristics
attributed to them in the writings of their main adversaries. The collection deals with the
following teachers and movements: Basilides, Sethianism, Valentinus’ school, Marcion, Tatian,
Bardaisan, Montanists, Cerinthus, Ebionites, Nazarenes, Jewish-Christianity of the Pseudo-
• July 2008 Clementines, and Elchasites. Where appropriate, the authors have included an overview of the
• ISBN 978 90 04 17038 4 life and significant publications of the “heretics,” along with a description of their theologies
• Paperback (xiv, 386 pp) and movements. Therefore, this volume can serve as a handbook of the second-century
• List price EUR 49.- / US$ 73.- “heretics” and their “heresies.” Since all the chapters have been written by specialists who
wrestle daily with their research themes, the contributions also offer new perspectives and
insights stimulating further discussion on this fascinating—but often neglected—side of early
Christianity.
The Spiritual Seed — The Church of the ‘Valentinians’

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Einar Thomassen, University of Bergen
This book is a comprehensive study of “Valentinianism,” the most important Gnostic Christian
movement in Antiquity. It is the first attempt to make full use of the Valentinian documents
from Nag Hammadi as well as the reports of the Church Fathers. The book discusses the
difference between the Eastern and the Western branches of Valentinianism, and argues that
individual sources must always be understood in the context of the historical development of
8 Valentinian doctrines. It also analyses the ideas about the incarnation, protological theories,
and initiation practice, as well as the dynamic relationship between these building-blocks
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• February 2008 of Valentinian doctrine. A final chapter studies anew the doctrine of Valentinus himself
• ISBN 978 90 04 16733 9 and outlines the history of the movement. The book’s usefulness lies in its attempt to bring
• Paperback (xvi, 552 pp) together for the first time all the sources so as to construct a coherent picture of Valentinian
• List price EUR 59.- / US$ 87.- Christianity.

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Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion

Series Editor: James R. Lewis, University of Wisconsin
Over the past four decades, scholarship on contemporary religion has been expanding at an explosive rate. The aim of the Brill
Handbooks on Contemporary Religion is to capture this development by publishing cutting-edge scholarship that simultaneously charts
new directions for future research.
For more information about this book series visit brill.nl/bhcr
Handbook of Contemporary Paganism

Edited by Murphy Pizza and James R. Lewis, University of Wisconsin
Contemporary Paganism is a movement that is still young and establishing its identity and place
on the global religious landscape. The members of the movement are simultaneously growing,
unifying, and maintaining its characteristic diversity of traditions, identities, and rituals. The
modern Pagan movement has had a restless formation period but has also been the catalyst
for some of the most innovative religious expressions, praxis, theologies, and communities. As
Contemporary Paganism continues to grow and mature, new angles of inquiry about it have
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emerged and are explored in this collection. This examination and study of contemporary
• September 2008 Paganism contributes new ways to observe and examine other religions, where innovations,
• ISBN 978 90 04 16373 7 paradoxes, and inconsistencies can be more accurately documented and explained.
• Hardback (x, 649 pp.)
• Brill Handbooks on
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The Brill Online Platform
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Encyclopaedia of Islam THREE

Edited by Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas and Everett Rowson
The Third Edition of Brill’s Encyclopaedia of Islam is an entirely new work, with new articles reflecting the great diversity of current
scholarship. It will appear in four substantial segments each year, both online and in print. The new scope includes comprehensive
coverage of Islam in the twentieth century and of Muslim minorities all over the world.
For more information on this series please visit: brill.nl/ei3 ISSN: 1873-9830 / E-ISSN: 1873-9849
2009-2 2009-1
• July 2009 • May 2009

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• Softcover (200) • Paperback (200)
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• Encyclopaedia of Islam THREE, 2009-2 • Encyclopaedia of Islam THREE, 2009-1
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Encyclopaedia of Islam Online

Gudrun Krämer, Freie Universität Berlin, Denis Matringe, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales Paris,
John Nawas, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and Everett Rowson, New York University
10 • Online The result of decades of research and work, the Encyclopaedia of Islam (the New or 2nd edition)
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EUR 2270.- / US$ 3360.- and scope is enormous. Its thousands of pages contain a true mine of information of immense
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• Encyclopaedia of Islam available online and greatly helps you with your research. It facilitates easy searching in this
huge body of information. New entries from the 3rd edition (EI3) are added every quarter.
EI Online consists of both EI2 AND EI3. The latter is a work in progress which started last year. So
far c. 800 pages of new articles have appeared. Most of these articles are in the A, but a few Bs
and a single I have also appeared so far. We expect to publish another 200-400 pages this year,
again mostly from A and B. Next year we will move on in the alphabet. For those entries not yet
available in EI3 we refer our clients to EI2. The search engine for EI Online automatically searches
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Index Volume
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series EUR 259.- / US$ 376.- and W.P. Heinrichs
• Encyclopaedia of Islam /
Encyclopédie de l’Islam It is obvious that the contents of a publication such as the Encyclopaedia of Islam are by far richer
than might appear from the title of the articles alone. This Index Volume contains the “Index of
Subjects”, the “Glossary and Index of Technical Terms” and the “Index of Proper Names” to the
complete Encyclopaedia of Islam.

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Encyclopaedia of Islam (Complete Set now available)

New Edition / EI-2
Edited by P.J. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel and W.P. Heinrichs
The Encyclopaedia of Islam (New Edition, now also called EI-2) sets out the present state of our
knowledge of the Islamic World. It is a unique and invaluable reference tool, an essential key to
understanding the world of Islam, and the authoritative source not only for the religion, but also
for the believers and the countries in which they live.
It embraces articles on distinguished Muslims of every age and land, on tribes and dynasties, on
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Indonesia, the Ottoman Empire and all other Islamic countries.
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Judicial Practice Historic Cities of the Islamic World BRILL CATALOG 2009
Institutions and Agents Edited by C. Edmund Bosworth

Boğaç A. Ergene
• August 2007
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Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World NEW
Executive Editor: Norman A. Stillman
For more information, please visit brill.nl/ejiw
18 preview
Music the system of supply and demand of musical

performance emerging from such attitudes
and needs.
Music is a field in which Jews and the peo- Present perceptions about the music of the
ples of Islam achieved one of their closest and Jews of the Islamic world are based on studies
most fertile cultural exchanges. This entry of the music of immigrant Jewish societies in
traces the major points of musical contact other regions that came into being in the late
between Judaism and Islam, stressing the role nineteenth century and as a result of the mas-
of Jewish musicians in Muslim societies and sive exodus of Jews from North Africa and
the impact of Islamic music on Jewish musi- the Middle East that followed the establish-
cal culture through the ages. Discrete geo- ment of the State of Israel. The final stages of
graphical variants of this musical interaction this emigration included the dissolution of
are reviewed from a historical and social Algerian Jewry following the independence
perspective. of Algeria (1962), the departure of much of
Music is the field of cultural productivity in the remaining Jewish community of Iran in
which Jews and the peoples of Islam (Arabs, the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution
Persians, Turks, Berbers, Kurds, Tajiks, Afghans, (1979), and the exodus of Jews from the Cau-
etc.) converged in the closest and most prolific casus and Central Asia after the collapse of
manner. Jews have played a major role as com- the Soviet Union (early 1990s). Thus, recent
posers and performers of music, mostly in studies of the music of Syrian Jews have been
urban genres, since the inception of Islam and carried out in Brooklyn (New York) and Mexico
throughout its vast territorial domains, under City, of Bukharan Jews in Queens (New York)
the Arab, Persian, and Ottoman empires as and Tel Aviv, of Iranian Jews in Los Angeles,
well as in the modern nation-states that emerged of Moroccan Jews in Jerusalem or Montreal,
from them. At the same time, the musical cul- of Iraqi Jews in London or Ramat Gan, and of
tures that developed within the Islamicate Algerian Jews in Paris or Marseille. In short,
Jewish communities show the clear imprint of scholarly access to tangible sources for the
• October 2009 their co-territorial non-Jewish soundscape.

The multiple reasons for these phenomena of
music of the Jews of Islam became possible
only after the uprooting of these communi-
wide scope and geographical spread (from ties from the lands of their upbringing.
• ISBN 978 90 04 17678 2 the Maghreb to Central Asia) and the histori-
cal, social, and aesthetic backgrounds against
Research, therefore, relies on musical memo-
ries constructed in a state of upheaval, with
• Hardback
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which they took place are still to be fully representations of musical identity negoti-
assessed. ated in multicultural settings and under the
The complex musical interaction between constraints of modern nation-states (Ameri-
• List price EUR 899.- / US$ 1099.- Judaism and Islam is best described and inter-
preted in terms of “convergence” because this
can, British, French, Israeli, etc.).
Assessments of the impact of these recent
term has the advantage of avoiding the con- social contexts on the study of the music of
• Introductory price ceptual pitfalls associated with such ideas
as influence, synthesis, hybridization, and
the Jews of Islam have to be added to serious
consideration of the complexities character-
EUR 799.- */ US$ 999.- * majority-minority that were used in the past
to define this twelve-hundred-year-old musi-
izing their musical experiences immediately
prior to emigration. The Jews of Islam, facing
cal rapport. Convergence refers to the sharing modernity since the mid-nineteenth century,
• Encyclopedia of Jews of a cultural capital, in this case music, that
results from extended and close physical con-
underwent a triple crisis that had far-reaching
musical implications: the traditional Jewish
in the Islamic World tact. At the same time, it implies the develop-
ment of a network of mutual interests deriving
community governed by religious law
was weakened, Western European colonial-
both from the diversity of social and aesthetic ism posed powerful real and imagined chal-
attitudes to and needs for music and from lenges, and emerging secular Arabic, Turkish,
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The goal of the Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World is to cover an area of Jewish history,
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religion, and culture which until now has lacked its own cohesive/discrete reference work.
The Encyclopedia aims to fill the gap in academic reference literature on the Jews of Muslim
lands particularly in the late medieval, early modern and modern periods.
The Encyclopedia is planned as a four-volume bound edition containing approximately
2,250 entries and 1.5 million words with an additional index volume. Entries will be organized
alphabetically by lemma title (headword) for general ease of access and cross-referenced where
appropriate. Additionally the Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World will contain a special edition
of the Index Islamicus with a sole focus on the Jews of Muslim lands. An online edition will follow
after the publication of the print edition.
If you require further information, please send an e-mail to ejiw@brill.nl.

To access the contributor website (user-id and password required),
please visit http://maxo2x.com/ejiw.
To download a preview, please visit http://www.brill.nl/downloads/EJIW_preview2009.pdf
Related Title: Bibliography of Jews in the Islamic World

See page 16 for more details.

Reference Works
Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān

Edited by Jane Dammen McAuliffe
For more information, please visit brill.nl/enqu
The Qurʾān is the primary religious text for one-sixth of the world’s population. Understood by Muslims to contain God’s own words,
it has been an object of reverence and of intense study for centuries. The thousands of volumes that Muslim scholars have devoted
to Qurʾānic interpretation and to the linguistic, rhetorical and narrative analysis of the text are sufficient to create entire libraries
of Qurʾānic studies.
Drawing upon a rich scholarly heritage, Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān (EQ) combines alphabetically-arranged articles about the
contents of the Qurʾān. It is an encyclopaedic dictionary of Qurʾānic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history
and exegesis extended with essays on the most important themes and subjects within Qurʾānic studies. With nearly 1000 entries
in 5 volumes, the EQ is the first comprehensive, multi-volume reference work on the Qurʾān to appear in a Western language.
Cross-referencing and indices

Frequent cross-references will draw readers to related entries and each article will conclude with a citation of relevant bibliography.
The final volume of the EQ will contain indices of transliterated terms, of Qurʾānic references and of the authors and exegetes cited
in the entries and essays.
Fully international work
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The EQ is a fully international work supported by an international board of advisors.
Scholars from many nations have written articles for the encyclopaedia.
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Set (Volumes 1-5 Volume One (A-D) Volume Three (J-O) Volume Five (Si-Z)
• September 2002 • October 2003 • December 2005
plus Index Volume) • ISBN 978 90 04 11465 4 • ISBN 978 90 04 12354 0 • ISBN 978 90 04 12356 4
• Hardback (xxxiv, 558 pp.) • Hardback (xxiv, 608 pp.) • Hardback (xxiv, 596 pp.)
• ISBN 978 90 04 14743 0 (Set)
• Hardback Volume Two (E-I) Volume Four (P-Sh) Index Volume
• List price • September 2002 • December 2004 • September 2006
EUR 1339.- / US$ 1982.- • ISBN 978 90 04 12035 8 • ISBN 978 90 04 12355 7 • ISBN 978 90 04 14764 5
• Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān • Hardback (xxiv, 572 pp., 20 illus.) • Hardback (xxiv, 638 pp.) • Hardback (x, 862 pp.)
Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān Online


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Encyclopaedia Islamica
Edited by Farhad Daftary and Wilferd Madelung
For more information please visit brill.nl/isla ISSN: 1875-9823
The Encyclopaedia Islamica is a projected 16-volume publication, consisting of an abridged and edited translation of the Persian Dāʾirat
al-Maʿārif-i Buzurg-i Islāmī, one of the most comprehensive sources on Islam and the Muslim world. One unique feature of this work
of reference lies in the attention it gives to Shiʿi Islam and its rich and diverse heritage, which makes it complementary to other
encyclopaedias. In addition to providing entries on important themes, subjects and personages in Islam generally, it offers the
western reader an opportunity to appreciate the various dimensions of Shiʿi Islam, the Persian contribution to Islamic civilization,
and the spiritual dimensions of the Islamic tradition.
Indispensible Source
The Persian edition of the Encyclopaedia Islamica is one of the most authoritative reference works on Islam and Muslim societies from
the Muslim world. Brill is proud to make this prominent encyclopedia available in English for the first time.
An indispensible source for all those interested in the field of Islamic studies, particularly Shiʿi Islam, and all those interested in the
history of Iran/Persia.
Encyclopaedia Islamica Encyclopaedia Islamica

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Volume 2 (Abū al-Ḥārith - Abyāneh) Volume 1 (A - Abū Ḥanīfa)
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• October 2009 • June 2008

• ISBN 978 90 04 17859 5 • ISBN 978 90 04 16860 2
• Hardback (800 pp.) • Hardback (xxii, 848 pp.)
• List Price EUR 499.-/ US$ 699.- • List price EUR 499.- / US$ 699.-
• Price for subscribers to the • Price for subscribers to the
series EUR 449.- / US$ 629.- series EUR 449.- / US$ 629.-
• Encyclopaedia Islamica, 2 • Encyclopaedia Islamica, 1
Encyclopaedia Islamica Online

• List price EUR 200.- / US$ 300.- This unlimited site license is an annual subscription. For a 30-day free trial (institutions only),
• Encyclopaedia Islamica consortia deals and other pricing options, please send an e-mail to brillonline@brill.nl or
brillonline@brillusa.com for customers in the Americas.

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Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures

Edited by Suad Joseph
For more information please visit: brill.nl/ewic
A unique collaboration of over 1000 scholars from around the world, the Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures crosses history,
geographic borders and disciplines to create a ground-breaking reference work reflecting the very latest research on gender studies
and the Islamic world. No other reference work offers this scale of contributions or depth and breadth of coverage. Encyclopedia of
Women & Islamic Cultures is set to become an essential reference work for students and researchers in the fields of gender studies,
Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, as well as scholars of religion, history, politics, anthropology, geography and related disciplines.
This encyclopedia consists of six volumes (including an Index volume), published from 2003 to 2007.
Set (Volumes 1-6)
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• ISBN 978 90 04 13247 4 (Set Volumes 1-6)
• Hardback
• List price EUR 1242.- / US$ 1776.-
• Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures
• List price EUR 228.- / US$ 326.- Methodologies, Paradigms Economics, Education, Mobility
(per volume) and Sources and Space
• Price for subscribers 15
to the series EUR 207.- / US$ 296.- • November 2003 • November 2006
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(per volume) • ISBN 978 90 04 11380 0 • ISBN 978 90 04 12820 0
• Hardback (l, 682 pp.) • Hardback (xxvi, 560 pp., 8 illus.)
• Encyclopedia of Women • Encyclopedia of Women
& Islamic Cultures, 1 & Islamic Cultures, 4
Family, Law and Politics Practices, Interpretations

and Representations
• December 2004
• ISBN 978 90 04 12818 7 • May 2007
• Hardback (xxviii, 844 pp.) • ISBN 978 90 04 12821 7
• Encyclopedia of Women • Hardback (xx, 598 pp.)
& Islamic Cultures, 2 • Encyclopedia of Women
& Islamic Cultures, 5
Family, Body, Sexuality and Health
Supplement & Index
• December 2005
• ISBN 978 90 04 12819 4 • December 2007
• Hardback (xxiv, 568 pp., 12 illus.) • ISBN 978 90 04 13246 7
• Encyclopedia of Women • Hardback (clxxiv, 414 pp.)
& Islamic Cultures, 3 • Encyclopedia of Women
& Islamic Cultures, 6
Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures Online

• List price EUR 440.- / US$ 620.- This unlimited site license is an annual subscription. For a 30-day free trial (institutions only),
• Encyclopedia of Women consortia deals and other pricing options, please send an e-mail to brillonline@brill.nl.
& Islamic Cultures The online edition currently covers Volumes 1-6.

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Index Islamicus
New books, articles and reviews on Islam and the Muslim world
Edited by C.H. Bleaney and others
Index Islamicus is THE international classified bibliography of publications in European languages on all aspects of Islam and the
Muslim world. Rightly described as ‘an indispensable tool for libraries, graduates and undergraduates alike, it provides the reader
with an effective overview of what has been published on a given subject in the field of Islamic Studies in its broadest sense. Index
Islamicus includes extensive indices of names and subjects.
Set of yearbooks Index Islamicus Online Bibliography of Jews

of the Index Islamicus, Edited by C.H. Bleaney in the Islamic World
and others
1906-2007 Edited by
• ISBN 978 90 04 17817 5 • online María Ángeles Gallego,
• Hardback (25 volumes) • ISBN 978 90 04 14525 2 Heather Bleaney,
• List price EUR 10665.- / US$ 15785.- • List price EUR 3740.- / US$ 5536.- and Pablo García Suárez
(unlimited site license)
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Yearbook This unlimited site license is an annual

subscription. For a 30-day free trial
Index Islamicus (institutions only), consortia deals
Volume 25 (2008) and other pricing options, please send
an e-mail to brillonline@brill.nl or
• January 2009 brillonline@brillusa.com for customers in
• ISBN 978 90 04 17409 2 the Americas.
16 • Hardback (xxxvi, 912 pp.)
• List price EUR 885.- / US$ 1328.- Index Islamicus covers 1905 to the present.
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• Index Islamicus, 25 There are 4 updates per year and the total
number of records is now over 350,000.
For more volumes of the Yearbook of the With DOI’s and OpenURL it is possible to • September 2009
Index Islamicus, please visit brill.nl/iiy link directly to the references found. • ISBN 978 90 04 17057 5
• Hardback (400 pp.)
“...this is as important an addition to Middle • List price EUR 143.- / US$ 212.-
Eastern bibliography as was the first printed • Supplements to the Index Islamicus, 1
Related Journal volume when it appeared 40 years ago...”
“...a boon of inestimable value to all scholars Following the tradition and style of the
and students of the Middle East...” acclaimed Index Islamicus, the Editors
British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, have created this new bibliography of
1999. studies on Jews in the Muslim World.
This compilation brings to light a long
For information about Index Islamicus, tradition of research on the cultural
please visit brill.nl/indexislamicus interaction and shared history of Jews and
Muslims, carried out by scholars of Islam
and Judaism alike.
The Editors have harvested a wide range
of articles from journals and collective
volumes as well as books, combining old
with new material. Ranging thematically
See page 83. from religion to science and from law
to geography, this comprehensive
bibliography is an indispensable tool for
readers finding their way in the large
amount of secondary literature today.

Reference Works
Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism NEW
Knut A. Jacobsen (Editor-in-Chief), University of Bergen

and Helene Basu, Angelika Malinar, Vasudha Narayanan (Associate Editors)
For more information, please visit brill.nl/ho2
• July 2009 - Volume 1 The four-volume Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism is a thematic encyclopedia, presenting the latest
• ISBN 978 90 04 17641 6 research on all the main aspects of the Hindu traditions in original essays written by the
RELIGIOUS STUDIES
• Hardback world’s foremost scholars on Hinduism. The Encyclopedia explicitly adopts an interdisciplinary
• List price EUR 239.- / US$ 354.- approach. The term Hinduism is used critically in the knowledge that most of the traditions
(per volume) that today make up Hinduism are much older than the term itself. The Encyclopedia aims at a
• Handbook of Oriental Studies. balanced and even-handed view of Hinduism, emphasizing that Hinduism is conglomerate of
Section 2 South Asia, Brill’s regional religious traditions and a global world religion at the same time. Hinduism also is both
Encyclopedia of Hinduism, 22/1 an ancient historical tradition and a living tradition flourishing in the contemporary world; it
is an oral tradition while at the same time a tradition with a huge number of sacred texts at its
basis. Hinduism is both a religious identity and an object of academic scholarship.
Brill’s Encyclopedia presents the learned philosophical and theological traditions of Hinduism 17
as well as its many folk traditions. Covering the spread of Hinduism over the last two hundred
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years to all the continents as well as the interaction of Hinduism with other religions, it also
portrays the various responses of Hindu traditions to a number of contemporary issues of great
relevance today, such as feminism, human rights, egalitarianism, bioethics, and so on.
Volume I Regions, Pilgrimage, Deities

Regional traditions, gods, goddesses has two main focal points. First it presents the regional
traditions of Hinduism with articles on the Indian states and main regions of India and on
historical regions outside of India. In addition, it has entries on sacred space and pilgrimage
traditions, and sacred time and festival traditions. Second, it has entries on the various gods,
goddesses and divine powers of Hinduism past and present.
Volume II Texts, rituals, knowledge traditions

Texts, rituals, knowledge traditions has essays on the sacred languages of Hinduism, and on the
immense number of Hindu religious texts and variety of ritual traditions. It also covers art,
architecture and main religious concepts, and in addition, astrological and other knowledge
traditions as they are relevant to religious practices.
Volume III Society, theology, philosophy

Society, theology, philosophy covers social structures and organizations, the main theological
subtraditions and the philosophical traditions. The Yoga traditions also can be found in this
volume, as well as biographies of a number of saints, gurus and yogis.
Volume IV History, diaspora, modern issues

History, diaspora, modern issues deals with the historical periods of Hinduism, the missions to the
West and global Hinduism, which include gurus with international success and other significant
persons of modern Hinduism, religious movements as well as the many diaspora communities
outside of South Asia. Volume IV also includes Hinduism and Law, Hinduism and Indian politics
and Hinduism and some modern issues such as feminism, human rights, ecology and bioethics.
Finally, the last part of this volume gives a number of analyses of Hinduism’s view of other
religions and other religions’ view of Hinduism and their interaction.

Reference Works
Early Chinese Religion
Part Two Part One

The Period of Division (221-589 AD) Shang through Han (1250 BC-220 AD)
Edited by John Lagerwey, École Pratique des Hautes Edited by John Lagerwey, École Pratique des Hautes
Études (Paris) and Chinese University of Hong Kong Études (Paris) and Chinese University of Hong Kong and
RELIGIOUS STUDIES
and Lü Pengzhi, Chinese University of Hong Kong Marc Kalinowski, École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris-
Sorbonne)
• November 2009
• ISBN 978 90 04 17585 3 • December 2008
• Hardback (1200 pp.) • ISBN 978 90 04 16835 0
• List price EUR 249.- / US$ 369.- • Hardback (Vol I: xvi, 692 pp.
• Handbook of Oriental Studies. Vol II: viii, 693-1256 pp., 2 vols.)
Section 4 China, Early Chinese Religion, 21/2 • List price EUR 249.- / US$ 398.-
18 • Handbook of Oriental Studies.
After the Warring States, treated in Part One of this set, there Section 4 China, Early Chinese Religion, 21/2
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is no more fecund era in Chinese religious and cultural history

than the period of division (221-589 AD). During it, Buddhism Together, and for the first time in any language, the 24 essays
conquered China, Daoism grew into a mature religion with gathered in these volumes provide a composite picture of the
independent institutions, and, together with Confucianism, these history of religion in ancient China from the emergence of writing
three teachings, having each won its share of state recognition ca. 1250 BC to the collapse of the first major imperial dynasty in
and support, formed a united front against shamanism. While all 220 AD. It is a multi-faceted tale of changing gods and rituals that
four religions are covered, Buddhism and Daoism receive special includes the emergence of a form of “secular humanism” that
attention in a series of parallel chapters on their pantheons, doubts the existence of the gods and the efficacy of ritual and of
rituals, sacred geography, community organization, canon an imperial orthodoxy that founds its legitimacy on a distinction
formation, impact on literature, and recent archaeological between licit and illicit sacrifices. Written by specialists in a
discoveries. This multi-disciplinary approach, without ignoring variety of disciplines, the essays cover such subjects as divination
philosophical and theological issues, brings into sharp focus the and cosmology, exorcism and medicine, ethics and self-cultivation,
social and historical matrices of Chinese religion. mythology, taboos, sacrifice, shamanism, burial practices,
iconography, and political philosophy. Produced under the aegis
of the Centre de recherche sur les civilisations chinoise, japonaise
et tibétaine (UMR 8155) and the École Pratique des Hautes Études
(Paris).
Full table of contents available on brill.nl/ho4

Reference Works
Local Religion in North China in the Twentieth Century

The Structure and Organization of Community Rituals and Beliefs
Daniel L. Overmyer, University of British Columbia,

with a Contribution by Fan Lizhu, Fudan University
This book is a comprehensive survey of the structure, organization and institutionalization of

local community religious traditions in north China villages in the twentieth century. These
traditions have their own forms of leaders, deities and beliefs. Despite much local variation one
everywhere finds similar temples, images, offerings and temple festivals, all supported by practical
concerns for divine aid to deal with the problems of everday life. These local traditions are a
• September 2009 structure in the history of Chinese religions; they have a clear sense of their own integrity and
• ISBN 978 90 04 17592 1 rules, handed down by their ancestors. There are Daoist, Buddhist and government influences on
• Hardback (275 pp.) these traditions, but they must be adapted to the needs of local communities. It is the villagers
• List price EUR 99.- / US$ 147.- who build temples and organize festivals, in which all members of the community are expected
• Handbook of Oriental Studies. to participate and contribute. With chapters on such topics as historical origins and development,
Section 4 China leadership and organization, temple festivals , temples and deities, and beliefs and values.
Handbook of Christianity in China
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Volume Two 1800 - present Volume One 635 - 1800
Edited by R.G. Tiedemann Edited by Nicolas Standaert
• December 2009 • November 2000

• ISBN 978 90 04 11430 2 • ISBN 978 90 04 11431 9
• Hardback (1200 pp., approx. 3 illus.) • Hardback (xxviii, 964 pp., 10 maps)
• Handbook of Oriental Studies. • Handbook of Oriental Studies.
Section 4 China, Handbook of Christianity in China, 15/2 Section 4 China, Handbook of Christianity in China, 15/2
This second volume on Christianity in China covers the period Who were the main actors in propagating Christianity in China?
from 1800 onwards up to the present, divided into four main Where did Christian communities settle? What discussions were
periods, and dealing with the complexities of both Catholic and held in China, concerning Christianity? These, and many other,
Protestant aspects. Also in this volume the reader will be guided questions are answered in this reference work, which is divided
to and through the Western and Chinese primary and secondary in a systematic part and analytical articles.
sources by a careful selection of major scholars in the field. With This handbook represents a true reference guide to the reception
financial support from the Ricci Institute at the University of of Christianity in pre-1800 China. It presents to the reader, in
San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim. comprehensive fashion, all current knowledge of Christianity in
China, and guides him through the main Chinese and Western
sources, bibliographies and archives.
The scope of the volume is broad and covers a wide range of
topics, such as theology, philosophy, astronomy, mathematics,
medicine, cannon, botany, art, music, and more.

Reference Works
Ritual Alliances of Putian

Kenneth Dean, McGill University and ZHENG Zhenman, Xiamen University
Making ingenious use of a wide variety of sources, and old as well as modern technical resources, Kenneth Dean and Zheng Zhenman
here set a new standard for an histoire totale for a coherently well-defined cultural region in China. At the same time it deals in-
depth with the ongoing negotiation of modernity in Chinese village rituals.
Over the past thirty years, local popular religion has been revived and re-invented in the villages of the irrigated alluvial plain of
Putian, Fujian, China.
Volume One Volume Two

Historical Introduction to the Return of the Gods A Survey of Village Temples and Ritual Activities
• June 2009 • October 2009

• ISBN 978 90 04 17602 7 • ISBN 978 90 04 17601 0
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• Hardback (320 pp.) • Hardback (840 pp.)

• Handbook of Oriental Studies. • Handbook of Oriental Studies.
Section 4 China, Ritual Alliances Section 4 China, Ritual Alliances
of Putian of Putian
Volume 1 provides a historical introduction to the formation Volume 2 surveys the current population, lineages, temples,
of 153 regional ritual alliances made up of 724 villages. Early gods, and annual rituals of these villages. Maps of each ritual
20 popular cults, Ming lineages, Qing multi-village alliances, late alliance, the distribution of major cults and lineages, are
Qing spirit-medium associations, 20th century state attacks included.
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on local religion, and the role of Overseas Chinese and local

communities in rebuilding the temple networks are discussed.
Sinica Leidensia
Drawing on recent discoveries, this study reconstructs the material culture of the Christian Öngüt in Inner Mongolia. As much of
this material no longer survives in the field, it provides an insight into the rise and disappearance of a Christian culture in Asia.
For more information about the series visit brill.nl/sinl
Early Christian Remains of Inner Mongolia

Discovery, Reconstruction and Appropriation
Tjalling H.F. Halbertsma
The early Christian presence in Inner Mongolia forms the subject of this book. These Nestorian
remains must primarily be attributed to the Öngüt, a Turkic people closely allied to the Mongols.
Writing in Syriac, Uighur and Chinese scripts and languages, the Nestorian Öngüt drew upon
a variety of religions and cultures to decorate their gravestones with crosses rising from lotus
flowers, dragons and Taoist imagery. This heritage also portrays designs found in the Islamic
• August 2008 world. Taking a closer look at the discovery of this material and its significance for the study of
• ISBN 978 90 04 16708 7 the early Church of the East under the Mongols, the author reconstructs the Nestorian culture
• Hardback (xxxii, 356 pp., 64 pp.) of the Öngüt.
• Sinica Leidensia, 88

Primary Sources
The Archives of the Church Nazi Propaganda Periodicals

of the Province of Uganda in the Library of the YIVO Institute
Held at Uganda Christian University, Mukono for Jewish Research
Source Materials on Modern German Anti-Semitism,
National Socialism and the Holocaust
The collection is divided into six sections:

• Office of the Bishops of Uganda (73 reels)
• Education Secretary General (47 reels)
• General Secretary (13 reels)
• Financial Secretary (2 reels)
• Archbishop’s Office (72 reels)
• Provincial Secretary (102 reels)
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• Including EAD Finding Aid at idc.nl In its mere twelve years of existence, the Nazi regime produced
(available Fall 2008). an astonishing amount of printed material. In the course of
• For price information, please visit idc.nl losing World War II, much of this vast output was lost, destroyed
or contact sales@idc.nl. and scattered in various places.
The records in this collection document the history of the In 2002 IDC published the collection of Nazi Propaganda
Church of the Province of Uganda. Christianity came to Literature for the holdings of Yivo. This new publication
Uganda late compared with many other parts of Africa. The concentrates on Nazi Propaganda Periodicals.
first Church Missionary Society missionaries arrived at King 21
Mutesa’s court on June 30, 1877. This was seventy-eight years This collection offers the researcher a valuable entry point into
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after the founding of the Church Missionary Society in Great both famous and familiar publications as well as to more obscure
Britain. However, within eight decades, after having passed periodicals dealing with local matters of German occupation
through much persecution, Uganda had become one of the policies. The publication of this impressive list of periodicals will
most successful mission fields in the world. By 1914, through hopefully contribute to further research in this area.
its indigenous teachers and a few European missionaries,
nearly the whole of the area today called Uganda had already This collection, containing c. 300 titles, will be published in
been evangelized. In 1961 the growth of the Church of 2008/2009 in 3 installments.
Uganda was recognized in the Anglican Communion with
the establishment of the Church of the Province of Uganda,
Rwanda-Burundi and Boga-Zaire. Installment 1
This collection is an important source not only for the • Publication date: 2008
history of Christianity in Uganda, but also for the political • Medium: on microfilm
and social development of the country, both before and after its • Scope: 109 titles
independence. • Number of reels: 71
• Price: see idc.nl
• Languages: Predominantly German
• Including MARC21 records
See idc.nl for the title list
Previously published (2002)

Nazi Propaganda Literature
in the Library of the YIVO Institute for Jewish
Research
For more information see idc.nl

Primary Sources
Reformation Sources Online The Hungarian Reformation

Books from the National Széchényi Library,
Hungary
Advisor: Graeme Murdock
The European Reformation affected societies from the Highlands

in Scotland to the Carpathians in Transylvania. In recent years
historians have begun to uncover the true breadth of religious
reform across Europe during the early modern period. This has
fundamentally changed our perception of the Reformation and
of the development of Europe’s major confessional communities.
No part of Central Europe was more profoundly impacted by
religious reform than the lands of the medieval Hungarian
kingdom. On the front-line between Christian and Muslim
Europe, Hungarian society was divided between a range of
religions in the middle decades of the sixteenth century. In
Reformation Sources Online documents the history of the the Transylvanian principality these divisions were peacefully
protestant Reformation in Europe. The first stage of this unique accommodated in a remarkable system of religious pluralism.
database provides access to over 1,300 digital facsimiles. The vast The texts of Hungarian reformers, whether Lutheran, Calvinist,
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majority of these are rare and sometimes unique sources from the Catholic, or Anti-Trinitarian have hitherto been virtually
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They have carefully been unknown to the scholarly community. For the first time, this
selected by a top team of international scholars, all specialists in collection offers a comprehensive survey of the original writings
their fields. Reformation Sources Online is the most comprehensive of the Hungarian reformers. It includes texts from the period
database on the protestant Reformation. All sources required for of the first stirrings of reform in the 1540s through to works
a complete and thorough understanding of the Reformation have written for the established churches of the region during the
been included and all major reformers are represented, as well 1650s. It is an invaluable resource for historians interested in
as several of the lesser known figures. Reformation Sources Online the Lutheran Reformation, the development of international
22 is an indispensable tool for historians, church historians, book Calvinism, the Catholic Reformation, and the emergence of Anti-
historians, and theologians alike. Trinitarianism.
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• Publication date: 2009 This collection features

• Key literature about the Reformation in Hungary
Stage 1 (1,309 titles) encompasses the following • Bibles, works of doctrine, confessions, and catechisms
IDC research collections: • Texts on religion, politics, and society of early modern Hungary
• Philipp Melanchthon, Theologian and Humanist • Texts on tolerance and intolerance, education, and religious
(Advisor: Timothy Wengert) piety
• Heinrich Bullinger’s Original Publications • Resources on the Lutheran Reformation, Calvinism, the Catholic
(Advisor: Fritz Büsser) Reformation, and the emergence of Anti-Trinitarianism
• The Reformation in Heidelberg • Books which are only held in Hungarian libraries
(Advisors: Richard Muller and Charles Gunnoe)
• Reformed Protestantism: East Friesland and North-Western • Scope: c. 98 titles (c. 17.200 images)
Germany (Advisor: Wim Janse) • Including MARC 21 records
• The Huguenots (Advisor: Andrew Pettegree) • Medium: online and on microfiche
• Anti-Calvin: The Catholic Response to Calvin’s Writings in • The digital images in the online edition are in full colour
Sixteenth-Century France (Advisor: Malcolm Walsby) • Number of fiche: c. 407 (positive silver halide)
• The Italian Reformation, Part 1 (Advisor: Emidio Campi) • Languages: Hungarian and Latin
• Sourcing library: National Széchényi Library, Hungary
• Part of the new IDC series Reformation Sources Online

Primary Sources
Anti-Calvin Rheinau Abbey’s Medieval

The Catholic Response to Calvin’s Writings and Early Modern Manuscripts
in Sixteenth-Century France Treasures and Artefacts
of a Swiss Monastic Library
Advisor: Malcolm Walsby Advisor: Christoph Eggenberger
This extraordinary collection comprises some four hundred

medieval and early modern manuscripts from the former
Benedictine Abbey of Rheinau in the Swiss canton of Zurich. It
contains many unpublished texts and pictures on the subjects of
During the sixteenth century Protestant authors had grasped liturgy, Gregorian chant, theology, patristics, history, the history
the importance of winning over the souls and minds of the of piety, church history, music history, art history, and canon
French people from the outset and the production of Genevan law. The oldest manuscripts date from the late eighth century,
presses was therefore predominantly in French. If the Catholic the most recent ones from the early nineteenth. The collection
Church wished to preserve its position in France, it was vital to includes, among others, official documents, monastic rules,
respond to the gauntlet thrown down by the Calvinist leaders. psalters, bibles, sermons, commentaries, prayer books, missals,
It is this response, the writings of the French Catholic authors breviaries, books of martyrs, and historiographies.
against Calvin and his teachings, that are presented here. It
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includes both works attacking the precepts of Calvinism and • Publication date: Winter 2009
those defending the Catholic doctrine against the criticism and • Medium: on microfilm
condemnation of Calvinist authors. • Number of titles: ca. 400 (full title list available at idc.nl)
• Number of reels: ca. 125
• Publication date: 2008
• Medium: online and on microfiche
• Number of titles: 94 (full title list available at idc.nl) Sixteenth-Century Pamphlets /
• Number of fiche: 309
• Available at primarysourcesonline.nl Flugschriften des 16. Jahrhunderts 23
• Including Marc21 Records
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Edited by Hans-Joachim Köhler
The Huguenots Part I (1501-1530) contains 5,000 German and Latin pamphlets
printed in the Holy Roman Empire. They are primarily
Advisor: Andrew Pettegree concerned with the early Reformation movement and its
propaganda, with the Peasants’ War, the threat presented by the
expansion of the Turks and with the various conflicts among the
Western European countries.
Part II (1531-1600) now contains more than 4000 pamphlets

and is supplemented on an annual basis. This part deals with a
broad spectrum of themes: the political and military conflicts in
Europe such as the Turkish wars, the revolt of the Netherlands,
the persecution of French protestants, the status of Calvinists
and Zwinglians in the Holy Roman Empire, the Council of
This collection offers a comprehensive survey of the original Trent, the Anabaptist Kingdom of Münster, the Schmalkaldic
writings of the French Huguenot authors, from the first stirrings War and the Interim, propaganda against the papacy and the
of radical dissent in the 1530s through to the end of the century. Jesuits, intra-Protestant theological quarrels, the building of
The selection privileges first and foremost original writings of confessional networks, witch-hunting, anti-Jewish polemics and
authors writing within France and for an exclusively French more.
audience. Of special interest are the anonymous works that set
the tone as the Huguenot movement emerged as an autonomous
force during the early part of the 1560’s.
Installment 18
• Publication date: 2009
• Medium: online and on microfiche • Medium: online and on microfiche
• Number of titles: 121 (full title list available at idc.nl)
• Number of fiche: 307
• Available at primarysourcesonline.nl
• Including Marc21 Records

Primary Sources
Islamic Manuscripts
Arabic Manuscripts Arabic Manuscripts in the OLRC,

in the British Library Birmingham
Mingana Collection
• Number of microfiches: 9,571
The manuscripts in the collection are divided in two main

sections: the Christian section includes some 620 well-known
Syriac manuscripts and about 270 Arabic. The Islamic section
has just under 1,700 volumes containing some 2,000 works. There
are also four volumes of catalogues on microfiche. Volume 1
features Syriac and Garsuni manuscripts; volume 2: Christian
Arabic manuscripts and additional Syriac manuscripts; volume 3:
• Number of titles: 14,869 Additional Christian Arabic and Syriac manuscripts; and volume
• Number of microfiches: 45,383 4: Islamic Arabic manuscripts.
The British Library’s collection of Arabic manuscripts is justly

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world-famous. It is renowned for some of the finest calligraphic Arabic Manuscripts in the SOAS
and illuminated manuscripts of the holy Qur’an, and other high-
quality copies of major legal, historical, literary and scientific • Number of manuscripts: 387
works. The collection is equally impressive in terms of it’s wide • Number of microfiches: 1,562
scope; The Holy Qur’an, Quar’anic sciences and commentaries,
Hadith, Kalam, Islamic jurisprudence, mysticism and philosophy, The Arabic Manuscripts in the collection of the School for
Arabic grammar and philology, dictonaries, poetry and other Oriental and African Studies, University of London, consists of
literary genres, history, topography and biography, music and manuscripts, including traditional Islamic disciplines as Tafsir,
24 other arts, sciences and medecine, texts relating to Druze, Hadith, and Fiqh as well as works on mathematics, astronomy,
Bahais and miscellania including magic, archery, falconry and medicine, falconry, archery, and military equitation. A sizeable
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the interpretation of dreams. portion of the collection relates to Shīʿah literature, including 17
Ismāʿīlī manuscripts of Indian provenance. The Shaikhī sect is
represented by 37 tracts and responsa by Kāzim al Rashtī. Some
Arabic Manuscripts on Islamic Law of the manuscripts are accompanied by a parallel or interlinear
translation in one of a number of languages such as Coptic,
• Number of manuscripts: 624 French, Italian, Malay, Persian and Swahili.
• Number of microfiches: 2,795
• EAD Finding Aid
Arabic manuscripts in the JNUL,
Manuscripts continue to be one of the most important sources
for the study of Islamic Law. Collections of handwritten volumes Jerusalem
can be found both inside and outside the world of Islam. This Jewish National and University Library, Jerusalem
collection features almost 650 Arabic manuscripts on Islamic
Law from three collections : the Arabic Manuscripts in the SOAS • Number of manuscripts: 1,664
London, the Yahuda Collection of the JNUL in Jerusalem, and the • Number of microfiches: 4,255
Mingana Collection in Birmingham.
These manuscripts are in Arabic characters, most of them
Arabic, and about 10 percent of them Persian and Ottoman,
Arabic Manuscripts on Islamic Science collected by Professor A.S. Yahuda. Approximately one-third
of the manuscripts are medieval, dating from the ninth to the
• Number of manuscripts: 259 sixteenth century. The contents of the manuscripts include all
• Number of microfiches: 761 areas of Islamic and Arabic sciences and Arabic, Persian and
• EAD Finding Aid Ottoman literature.
This unique collection brings together 260 Arabic manuscripts

dealing with various fields of science: medicine, astronomy and
astrology, mathematics, chemistry, geography, cosmography
and the occult sciences. They were selected from three major
manuscript collections, that of SOAS in London, the Mingana
Collection in Birmingham, and the Yahuda Collection in Jerusalem.

Primary Sources
Western Travellers in the Islamic World Early Western Korans

Koran Printing in the West, 1537-1857
• Number of titles: 62
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• Number of microfiches: 420
• Medium: Online and microfiche
This remarkable collection of Early Western Korans

demonstrates the impact of the holy book of Islam in Europe.
Long before printing with movable type became common
practice in the Islamic world in the early nineteenth century,
Korans had been printed in Arabic type in several European
cities. Korans and Koran translations were produced in the West 25
Accounts of travel are a popular and accessible source for for theological, commercial, political, and philological purposes.
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research on historical relations between “East” and “West” and This collection includes Korans and Koran translations in eight
are attractive for specialists and non-specialists alike. In the pre- languages, printed between 1537 and 1857. They have been
modern period a large number of such accounts were published brought together from seven European libraries. The collection
all over Europe, and almost without exception these volumes are is of interest to book historians, theologians, philologists, and
now scarce and priceless. Some were republished later in modern scholars of Islamic Studies alike.
editions, but these are often out of print at present.
This unique collection offers a representative sample of Western
travelogues in English, French, and German published until 1800. Early Armenian Printing
Predominantly covering the Ottoman Empire, the collection also
stretches into Ethiopia, Central Asia, Afghanistan, North Africa, • Number of titles: 76
and of course Iran. • Number of microfiches: 446
• This collection is part of the new IDC series The Eastern Question This collection includes books from Venice which give a good
overview of the early Mekhitarists printings, among them
Part 1 many key works of the founder of the order himself, Mkhitar
• Medium: online and on microfiche of Sebaste. The books from the Amsterdam Armenian printing
• Number of titles: 143 house give a fair view on the total production. Among them
are the editiones principes of the Armenian Bible (1666) and of the
Forthcoming: Part 2 History of Movses of Chorene. The books from Constantinople offer
• Publication date: 2009 a glimpse of the rich production from that site. Lastly, the books
• Medium: online and on microfiche from Paris and Rome are good samples of the Western learned
• Number of titles: 90 tradition concerning Armenia that originated in this time.
• Including Marc21 records

History of Religions / Comparative Religion
Numen Book Series

Editorial Board: Steven Engler, Mount Royal College, Calgary, Richard King, Vanderbilt University,
Kocku von Stuckrad, University of Groningen, and Gerard Wiegers, University of Amsterdam
The Numen Book Series publishes scholarly monographs and edited volumes on the historical, comparative, and cross-cultural study of
religions throughout the world, from antiquity to the present. The series publishes both methodologically contextualized historical
research and theoretical and methodological contributions to the study of religion.
For more information about the series visit brill.nl/nus
• October 2009 Religion and Retributive Logic

• ISBN 978 90 04 17880 9
Essays in Honour of Professor Garry W. Trompf
• Numen Book Series, 126 Edited by Carole M. Cusack and Christopher Hartney, University of Sydney
Garry Winston Trompf (b.1940) in his outstanding academic career has inspired scholars in the
fields of Stduies in Religion and the History of Ideals. In this volume his collegues and students
critique and expand upon the world of this outstanding academic. The book is divided into four
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parts, Melanesia, Ancient World Studies, Philosophical and Methodological Considerations and
Historiography. Authors address Trompf’s research in works such as “The Idea of Historical
Recurrence in Western Thought”, “Early Christian Historiography” and themes of Melanesian
religion that Trompf address in “Payback”. No study in the religions of oceania or ideals of
millenialism should ignore this critical assessment of Garry Trompf’s work.
Buddhism and Transgression

26
The Appropriation of Buddhism in the Contemporary West
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Adrian Konik, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
If Buddhism is to remain relevant to the contemporary era, through providing effective

solutions to the proliferating and protean discursive problems encountered by its present-day
practitioners, it cannot continue to ignore the role of discourse in the formation of subjectivity.
In the interest of problematizing such ‘ignorance,’ this book explores the potential interface
between Foucaultian discourse analysis and the development of an indigenous rationale for
• September 2009 the practice of contemporary Western Buddhism, along with the growing significance of such
• ISBN 978 90 04 17875 5 a rationale for ‘traditional’ Buddhism in an era dominated by disciplinary/bio-power. Through
• Hardback (205) doing so, this book radically re-conceptualizes the role of Buddhism in the world today by
• List price EUR 89.- / US$ 132.- linking Buddhist practice with acts of discursive transgression.
• Numen Book Series, 125

Rethinking Ghosts in World Religions

Mu-Choo Poo, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
The central theme of this volume is to re-examine the received concepts and images of ghosts in
various religious cultures ranging from the Ancient Near East and Egypt to the Old Testament,
the Classical Era, Early medieval and Early Modern Europe, Early India, and Medieval China. As
a religious phenomenon, the realm of ghosts has been less studied than the realm of the divine.
Through a collaborative effort by scholars from different disciplines, this volume proposes a
multi-cultural approach to construct a wider and complicated picture of the phenomenon of
ghosts and spirits in human societies and to have a grasp of the various problems involved in
• March 2009 understanding the phenomenon of ghost.
• ISBN 978 90 04 17152 7
Pure Land Buddhism in Modern Japanese Culture

Elisabetta Porcu, Ryukoku University
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Despite being one of the most influential forms of Japanese Buddhism, the Pure Land
tradition, and notably its impact on the development of Japanese cultural history, has often
been overlooked outside Japan. Taking into account recent scholarship on orientalism and
occidentalism, this book, written from the perspective of the Study of Religions, provides an
analysis of the impact that the Pure Land tradition, in particular Shin Buddhism, has exerted
on mainstream forms of artistic expression (especially creative arts, literature and the tea
ceremony) in modern and contemporary Japan.
• August 2008 27
• ISBN 978 90 04 16471 0
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• Hardback (xii, 264 pp.)
Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhism

Myōshinji, a living religion
Jørn Borup, University of Aarhus
Zen Buddhist ideas and practices in many ways are unique within the study of religion,
and artists, poets and Buddhists practitioners worldwide have found inspiration from this
tradition. Until recent years, representations of Zen Buddhism have focussed almost entirely on
philosophical, historical or “spiritual” aspects. This book investigates the contemporary living
reality of the largest Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhist group, Myōshinji. Drawing on textual studies
• February 2008 and ethnographic fieldwork, Jørn Borup analyses how its practitioners use and understand their
• ISBN 978 90 04 16557 1 religion, how they practice their religiosity and how different kinds of Zen Buddhists (monks,
• Hardback (-ii, xii, 314 pp., 16 pp.) nuns, priest, lay people) interact and define themselves within the religious organization.
• List price EUR 119.- / US$ 177.- Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhism portrays a living Zen Buddhism being both uniquely interesting
• Numen Book Series, 119 and interestingly typical for common Buddhist and Japanese religiosity.

In the Presence of Sai Baba

Body, City, and Memory in a Global Religious Movement
Smriti Srinivas, University of California, Davis
The Sai Baba movement, centered on the Indian guru Sathya Sai Baba (b. 1926), today attracts a
global following from Japan to South Africa. Regarded as a divine incarnation, Sathya Sai Baba
traces his genealogy to Shirdi Sai Baba (d. 1918), a mendicant in colonial India identified with
various Sufi and devotional genealogies. The movement, thus, has “roots” in Shirdi Sai Baba but
as it globalizes, it has developed conjunctions with other religious traditions, New Religious
movements, and New Age ideas. This book offers an account of the Sai Baba movement as a
• February 2008 pathway for charting the varied cartographies, sensory formations, and cultural memories
• ISBN 978 90 04 16543 4 implicated in urbanization and globalization. It traverses the terrain between social theories
• Hardback (xx, 404 pp.) for the study of religion and cities, themselves a product of modernity, and the radical, creative,
• List price EUR 129.- / US$ 191.- and unexpected modernity of contemporary religious movements. It is based on ethnographic
• Numen Book Series, 118 research carried out in India, Kenya, and the US.
Theorizing Rituals
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Volume 1: Issues, Topics, Approaches, Concepts
Edited by Jens Kreinath and Jan Snoek, University of Heidelberg

and Michael Stausberg, University of Bergen
Volume one of Theorizing Rituals assembles 34 leading scholars from various countries and
disciplines working within this field. The authors review main methodological and meta-
theoretical problems (part I) followed by some of the classical issues (part II). Further chapters
28 discuss main approaches to theorizing rituals (part III) and explore some key analytical
• July 2008 concepts for theorizing rituals (part IV). The volume is provided with extensive indices.
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• ISBN 978 90 04 17077 3

• Paperback (xxviii, 780 pp.)
• Numen Book Series,
Theorizing Rituals, 114

Numen Book Series; Texts and Sources in the History of Religions

Editorial board: Steven Engler, Mount Royal College, Calgary, Canada,
Richard King, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, U.S.A.,
Kocku von Stuckrad, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands,
and Gerard Wiegers, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Texts and Sources in the History of Religions is a peer-reviewed book series that publishes rare or previously unpublished material of
great relevance to current academic research in the field of the academic study of religions. Publications include new editions and/
or translations of complete works into English as well as correspondence, notes, journals and other source materials. All volumes
will have scholarly introductions and notes. Publications in Texts and Sources in the History of Religions will be peer-reviewed by experts
in the respective fields.
Texts and Sources in the History of Religions is published as a sub-series of the Numen Book Series.
The Zoroastrian Myth of Migration from Iran

and Settlement in the Indian Diaspora
Text, Translation and Analysis of the 16th Century Qesse-ye Sanjān
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‘The Story of Sanjan’
Alan Williams, University of Manchester
The Qesse-ye Sanjān is the sole surviving account of the emigration of Zoroastrians from Iran to
India to form the Parsi (‘Persian’) community. Written in Persian couplets in India in 1599 by a
• August 2009 Zoroastrian priest, it is a work many know of, but few have actually read, let alone studied in
• ISBN 978 90 04 17698 0 depth. This book provides a romanised transcription from the oldest manuscripts, an elegant
• Hardback metrical translation, detailed commentary and, most importantly, a radical new theory of how 29
• List price EUR 83.- / US$ 123.- such a text should be “read”, i.e. not as a historical chronical but as a charter of Zoroastrian
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• Numen Book Series, Texts identity, foundation myth and justification of the Parsi presence in India. The book fills a lacuna
and Sources in the History that has been acutely felt for a long time.
of Religions, 124
The Genesis of the Bábi-Bahá’í Faiths in Shíráz and Fárs

Mírzá Habíbu’lláh Afnán.
Translated and Annotated by Ahang Rabbani, Invista
The Bábí and Baháʾí Faiths represent two of the most important religious movements of modern
times. This book relates the story of the evolution of the Bábí-Baháʾí community, beginning with
the birth of its founder, Siyyid
ʾAlí-Muhammad, known as the Báb, in 1819 and then traced over the next century and a half
in the city of his birth, Shíráz. Its author, Mírzá Habíbuʾlláh Afnán, was himself born in the
house of the Báb, reared by the widow of the Báb, who shared with him many stories of the
• September 2008 Báb’s life, then spent nearly a year with Baháʾuʾlláh in the ʾAkka-Haifa area, and some ten years
• ISBN 978 90 04 17054 4 in close proximity to Baháʾuʾlláh’s son ʾAbduʾl-Bahá. He served for the next half century as the
• Hardback (xxii, 406 pp.) hereditary custodian of the house of the Báb, and as such was uniquely qualified to tell the story
• List price EUR 129.- / US$ 199.- of the Bábí-Baháʾí Faiths in the city of Shíráz in remarkable and moving detail.
• Numen Book Series, Texts
and Sources in the History
of Religions, 122

Aries Book Series

Texts and Studies in Western Esotericism
Edited by Roland Edighoffer, University of Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle,

Antoine Faivre, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Sorbonne,
Wouter J. Hanegraaff, University of Amsterdam
and Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, Exeter Centre for the Study of Esotericism
Aries is the first professional academic journal specifically devoted to a long-neglected but now rapidly developing new domain of
research in the humanities, usually referred to as “Western Esotericism”. It is a peer-reviewed journal publishing articles and book
reviews in English, French, German and Italian.
For more information about the series visit brill.nl/arbs
Women’s Agency and Rituals

in Mixed and Female Masonic Orders
Edited by Alexandra Heidle and Jan A.M. Snoek, University of Heidelberg
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Women have been structurally part of the masonic enterprise from at least the middle of
the 18th century. Yet, little is known about the ways in which they themselves obtained and
exercised power to influence the systems they were involved in, in order to adapt them to be
more appropriate to their needs. This volume intends to concentrate on two aspects: Women’s
agency (i.e. the power women gained and exercised in this context) and rituals (i.e. the role of
• September 2008 men and women in changing and shaping the rituals women work with). These two aspects are
• ISBN 978 90 04 17239 5 closely related, since it requires some agency to realise changes in existing rituals.
30 • Hardback (xvi, 450 pp.)
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• Aries Book Series, 8
Hidden Intercourse
Eros and Sexuality in the History of Western Esotericism
Edited by Wouter J. Hanegraaff , University of Amsterdam,
and Jeffrey J. Kripal, Rice University
From rumours about gnostic orgies in antiquity to the explicit erotic symbolism of alchemical
texts, from the subtly coded eroticism of medieval kabbalah to the sexual magic practiced by
contemporary occultists and countercultural translations of Asian Tantra, the history of Western
esotericism is rich in references to the domains of eros and sexuality. This volume, which brings
together an impressive array of top-level specialists, is the first to analyze the eroticism of the
• September 2008 esoteric without sensationalism or cheap generalizations, but on the basis of expert scholarship
• ISBN 978 90 04 16873 2 and attention to textual and historical detail. While there are few other domains where the
• Hardback (xxii, 544 pp.) imagination may so easily run wild, the various contributions seek to distinguish fact from fiction-
• List price EUR 149.- / US$ 229.- -only to find that historical realities are sometimes even stranger than the fantasies. In doing so,
• Aries Book Series, 7 they reveal the outlines of a largely unknown history spanning more than twenty centuries.
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see pages 79 onwards.

Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies

Editors: Johannes van Oort and Einar Thomassen
Scholarly discussions of Gnostic, Manichaean and early Christian religious topics based upon the papyrus Gospels found at Nag
Hammadi; and Coptic and Manichaean texts from Dakhlah Oasis, Egypt.
For more information about the series visit brill.nl/nhms
Pentadic Redaction in the Manichaean Kephalaia

Timothy Pettipiece, University of Ottawa
Discovered in 1929, the Manichaean Kephalaia have opened up an important window on the early
development of Manichaean doctrine. This study identifies a significant redactional tendency
whereby the compilers of the text sought to clarify ambiguities in “canonical” Manichaean
tradition by means of five-part numerical series. This discovery challenges the conventional
wisdom of Manichaean scholarship, which has long maintained that, since Mani recorded his
own teachings in a series of what later became canonical writings, Manichaean doctrines were
transmitted relatively unchanged from the master to successive generations of disciples. Since
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this assumption is now called into question, it now becomes necessary to re-evaluate received
• May 2009 notions about the shape of both the Manichaean “canon” and “tradition.”
• ISBN 978 90 04 17436 8
• Hardback (xii, 242 pp.)
• Nag Hammadi and Manichaean
Studies, 66
31
New Light on Manichaeism
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Papers from the Sixth International Congress on Manichaeism
Edited by Jason David BeDuhn, Northern Arizona University
New Light on Manichaeism provides the latest discoveries and insights into the Manichaean
religion throughout its more than one thousand year history, ranging from glimpses into the
life and thought of Mani himself, to developments in doctrine and practice in the religion’s
North African, Iranian, Central Asian, and Chinese settings. The volume includes contributions
from the leading scholars in the field, offering new reconstructions of Manichaean literary and
artistic productions, and innovative analyses of the religious, social, and political dynamics that
• March 2009 shaped the rise and fall of this world religion.
• ISBN 978 90 04 17285 2
• Hardback (xviii, 304 pp.)
• Nag Hammadi and Manichaean
Studies, 64

Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series

Edited by M. Poorthuis, J. Schwartz, and F. van der Steen
Jewish and Christian Perspectives publishes studies that are relevant to both Christianity and Judaism. The series includes works
relating to the Hebrew Bible and New Testament, the Second Temple period, the Judaeo-Christian polemic (from ancient to modern
times), Rabbinical literature relevant to Christianity, Patristics, Medieval Studies and the modern period. Special interest is paid to
the interaction between the religions throughout the ages. Historical, exegetical, philosophical and theological studies are welcomed
as well as studies focusing on sociological and anthropological issues common to both religions including archaeology.
For more information about the series visit brill.nl/jcp
Interaction between Judaism and Christianity in History,

Religion, Art and Literature
Marcel Poorthuis, Joshua Schwartz, Bar-Ilan University,
and Joseph Turner, Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies Jerusalem
This volume contains a variety of essays that deal with the complex relationships between
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Judaism and Christianity. From the Jewish side, particularly in Orthodox circles, there is
a position maintaining the independence of Judaism from outside influences including
Christianity. Traditional Christian theology, on the other hand, held a supercessionist view
in which Judaism was seen merely as a historical preparation for the later revelation of
• November 2008 Christianity. Was there no real interaction? When and how did Judaism and Christianity become
• ISBN 978 90 04 17150 3 two distinct religions? When did the ‘parting of ways” take place, if indeed there really was such
• Hardback (xiv, 626 pp.) a parting of ways? The present volume takes a bold step forward by assuming that no historical
• List price EUR 165.- / US$ 264.- period can be excluded from the interactive process between Judaism and Christianity,
32 • Jewish and Christian conscious or unconscious, as a polemical rejection or as tacit appropriation.
Perspectives Series, 17
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Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity

Founding Editor Martin Hengel, Tübingen
Executive Editors: Cilliers Breytenbach, Berlin; Martin Goodman, Oxford
Editorial Board: Friedrich Avemarie, Marburg, John Barclay, Durham, Pieter W. van der Horst, Utrecht,
Tal Ilan, Berlin, Tessa Rajak, Reading, Daniel R. Schwartz, Jerusalem, Seth Schwartz, New York
Ancient Judaism & Early Christianity was originally published as Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums, with
the publication of M. Hengel’s Die Zeloten. The series, which includes monographs and collections of essays, covers a range of topics,
typically focusing on areas of mutual influence or points of controversy between Judaism and Christianity in the first centuries CE.
Recent titles published in the series have included important studies of Josephus, of the Jewish background of Paul’s writings, and of
the historical Jesus within his Jewish context.
For more information about the series visit brill.nl/ajec
Empsychoi Logoi — Religious Innovations in Antiquity

Studies in Honour of Pieter Willem van der Horst
Alberdina Houtman, Protestant Theological University, Kampen,
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Albert de Jong, University of Leiden and Magda Misset-van de Weg
The fact that religions show internal variation and develop over time is not only a problem
for believers, but has also long engaged scholars. This is especially true for the religions of
the ancient world, where the mere idea of innovation in religious matters evoked notions
of revolution and destruction. With the emergence of new religious identities from the first
century onwards, we begin to find traces of an entirely new vision of religion. The question
• June 2008 was not whether a particular belief was new, but whether it was true and the two were no
• ISBN 978 90 04 16597 7 longer felt to be mutually exclusive. The present volume brings together articles that study this 33
• Hardback (xxiv, 648 pp) transformation, ranging from broad overviews to detailed case-studies.
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• Ancient Judaism and
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Themes in Biblical Narrative

Editorial Board: George H. van Kooten, Robert A. Kugler, Loren T. Stuckenbruck
Assistant Editor: Freek van der Steen
Advisory Board: Reinhard Feldmeier, Judith Lieu, Florentino García Martínez, Hindy Najman,
Martti Nissinen, Ed Noort
Themes in Biblical Narrative publishes studies dealing with early interpretations of Biblical narrative materials. The contributions to
the series are written by specialists in the relevant literary corpora. The series is intended for scholars and advanced students of
theology, linguistics and literature.
For more information about the series visit brill.nl/tbn
The Significance of Sinai

Traditions about Sinai and Divine Revelation in Judaism and Christianity
Edited by: George J. Brooke, University of Manchester,

Hindy Najman, University of Toronto, Loren T. Stuckenbruck, University of Durham
Editorial Assistance: Eva Mroczek, Brauna Doidge and Nathalie Lacoste
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This volume of essays is concerned with ancient and modern Jewish and Christian views of
the revelation at Sinai. The theme is highlighted in studies on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Paul,
Josephus, rabbinic literature, art and philosophy. The contributions demonstrate that Sinai, as
• September 2008 the location of the revelation, soon became less significant than the narratives that developed
• ISBN 978 90 04 17018 6 about what happened there. Those narratives were themselves transformed, not least to explain
• Hardback (xiv, 386 pp.) problems regarding the text’s plain sense. Miraculous theophany, anthropomorphisms, the role
• List price EUR 119.- / US$ 189.- of Moses, and the response of Israel were all handled with exegetical skills mustered by each
34 • Themes in Biblical Narrative, 12 new generation of readers. Furthermore, the content of the revelation, especially the covenant,
was rethought in philosophical, political, and theological ways. This collection of studies is
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especially useful in showing something of the complexity of how scriptural traditions remain
authoritative and lively for those who appeal to them from very different contexts.
The Prestige of the Pagan Prophet Balaam in Judaism, Early

Christianity and Islam
Edited by George H. van Kooten, University of Groningen,
and Jacques van Ruiten, University of Groningen
This volume deals with the pagan prophet Balaam who figures in the book of Numbers. By
the very nature of his stature as a non-Israelite, pagan prophet, the figure of Balaam raises
important questions with regard to the nature of prophecy and the relation between the
Israelite God and the pagan nations. The conflicting stories and potent oracles of Balaam in
• March 2008 Numbers 22-24 and other parts of the Jewish Scriptures prompted extensive reflection on
• ISBN 978 90 04 16564 9 this ambiguous figure. Thus the leading perspective developed in this volume is the often
• Hardback (xx, 332 pp.) simultaneous praise and criticism of Balaam as a prestigious pagan prophet throughout ancient
• List price EUR 119.- / US$ 177.- Judaism, early Christianity and the early Koranic commentaries. The papers are clustered in
• Themes in Biblical Narrative, 11 four sections which deal with (1) Balaam in the Old Testament and the Ancient Near East, and
comparable figures in Ancient Greece; (2) Balaam in Ancient Judaism; (3) Balaam in the New
Testament & Early Christianity; and (4) Balaam in the Koran and early Koranic commentaries.
The reception of this enigmatic figure can be characterized as the simultaneous praise and
criticism of a pagan prophet. The book is particularly useful as it also contains Émile Puech’s
newly reconstructed text, translation and commentary of the first combination of the Deir
‘Alla inscriptions which contain an excerpt of the book of the historical Balaam. Combined with
the other papers, the volume pictures a fascinating continuum between paganism, Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam.

Israel in the Wilderness

Interpretations of the Biblical Narratives in Jewish and Christian Traditions
Edited by Kenneth Pomykala, Calvin College
This collection of essays examines how stories from the biblical narrative of Israel in the
Wilderness (Exodus 16-Deuteronomy 34) were interpreted by later Jewish and Christian writers
(ca. 400 BCE-500 CE). Stories such as those about manna and water from a rock, the Golden Calf
incident, Korah’s rebellion, and the death of Moses provided later Jewish and Christian writers
with a treasure trove of material for reflection and interpretation. Whereas individual essays
investigate how particular literary works, such as Ben Sira, Qumran documents, New Testament
• March 2008 writings, the Apostolic Fathers, and Targums, appropriated the biblical text, taken together
• ISBN 978 90 04 16424 6 the essays form an exercise in uncovering the hermeneutical imagination of interpreters
• Hardback (260 pp) during formative periods of Jewish and Christian thought. This volume will be valuable to those
• List price EUR 99.- / US$ 147.- interested in ancient Judaism and early Christianity, the history of interpretation of the Hebrew
• Themes in Biblical Narrative, 10 Bible, and the hermeneutical appropriation of sacred texts.
Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum
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New at Brill from 2009 onwards, this series was previously published by van Gorcum.
• Section 1 - The Jewish people in the first century Historical geography, political history, social, cultural and religious life and
institutions
• Section 2 - The Literature of the Jewish People in the Period of the Second Temple and the Talmud
• Section 3 - Jewish Traditions in Early Christian Literature
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The Mystery of God
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Early Jewish Mysticism and the New Testament
Christopher Rowland, University of Oxford and Christopher Morray-Jones
This book brings together the perspectives of apocalypticism and early Jewish mysticism to
illuminate aspects of New Testament theology. The first part begins with a consideration
of the mystical character of apocalypticism and then uses the Book of Revelation and the
development of views about the heavenly mediator figure of Enoch to explore the importance
of apocalypticism in the Gospels and Acts, the Pauline Letters and finally the key theological
• June 2009 themes in the later books of the New Testament. The second and third parts explore the
• ISBN 978 90 04 17532 7 character of early Jewish mysticism by taking important themes in the early Jewish mystical
• Hardback (694 pp.) texts such as the Temple and the Divine Body to demonstrate the relevance of this material to
• List price EUR 184.- / US$ 272.- New Testament interpretation.
• Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum
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Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements

Texts and Studies of Early Christian Life and Language
Scholarly translations, commentary and critical studies of texts and issues relating to early Christianity.
For more information about the series visit brill.nl/vcs
Esoteric Teaching in the Stromateis

of Clement of Alexandria
Andrew C. Itter, Girton Grammar School
The Stromateis of Clement of Alexandria (c.150-215 CE) has received much scholarly debate over
whether it can be accorded the role of the third and highest phase of his pedagogy. This was
a treatise that promised an account of the true philosophy of Christ set down for Christians
seeking higher knowledge of doctrine. This book takes a new approach to deciphering the
nature and purpose of these enigmatic books concentrating on the close relationship between
• May 2009 method and doctrine, and the number and sequence of the texts as they have come down to
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• ISBN 978 90 04 17482 5 us. The outcome is a concise summary of current scholarship on Clement’s method and a fresh
• Hardback (xx, 256 pp.) picture of how he applies it to the transmission of esoteric doctrines.
• Vigiliae Christianae,
Supplements, 97
• May 2009 God in Early Christian Thought

36 • ISBN 978 90 04 17412 2
Essays in Memory of Lloyd G. Patterson.
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• Vigiliae Christianae, Edited by Andrew B. McGowan, University of Melbourne, Brian E. Daley S.J.,
Supplements, 94 University of Notre Dame and Timothy J. Gaden, University of Melbourne
While the diversity of early Christian thought and practice is now generally assumed, and the
experiences and beliefs of Christians beyond the works of great theologians increasingly valued,
the question of God is perennial and fundamental. These essays, individually modest in scope,
seek to address that largest of questions using particular issues and problems, or single thinkers
and distinct texts. They include studies of doctrine and theology as traditionally conceived, but
also of understandings of God among the early Christians that emerge from study of liturgy, art,
and asceticism, and in relation to the social order and to nature itself.
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Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture

Edited by Guy Stroumsa and David Shulman
The Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture publishes books on the study of religion, on an international and high scholarly level.
Jerusalem is a major center for the study of monotheistic religions, or “religions of the book”. The recent creation of a Center for the
Study of Christianity in Jerusalem has added a significant emphasis on Christianity. Studies of other religions, like Zoroastrianism,
Hinduism, Buddhism, and Chinese religion, as well as anthropological studies of religious phenomena will be included in the book
series.
For more information about the series visit brill.nl/jsrc
• January 2009 Interprétations de Moïse

• ISBN 978 90 04 17953 0
• Hardback (310)
Égypte, Judée, Grèce et Rome
• Jerusalem Studies in Religion Edited by Philippe Borgeaud, Université de Genève,
and Culture, 10 Thomas Römer, Université de Lausanne,
and Youri Volokhine, Université de Genève
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The present volume is the result of a team research which gathered biblical scholars,
philologists, and historians of religions, on the issue of the multiple «Interpretations of
Moses» inherited from the ancient mediterranean cultures. The concrete outcome of this
comparative inquiry is the common translation and commentary of the fragments from the
works of the mysterious Artapanus. The comparative perspective suggested here is not so much
methodological, or thematic. It is first of all an invitation to cross disciplinary boundaries and
to take account of the contributions of diverse cultures to the formation of a single mythology,
in the case, a Moses mythology. With respect to Judea, Greece, Egypt or Rome, and further more
an emerging christianity and its «gnostic» counterpart, the figure of Moses is at the heart of 37
a cross-cultural dialogue the pieces of which, if they can be seperated for the confort of their
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specific study, mostly gain by being put together.
Morton Smith and Gershom Scholem, Correspondence

1945-1982
Edited, with an introduction, by Guy G. Stroumsa, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The American historian of ancient religions, Morton Smith (1915-1991), studied with the great
scholar of Jewish mysticism, Gershom Scholem (1897-1982), when he was in Jerusalem during
the Second World War. After the war, the two started a long, fascinating and at times intense
correspondence that ended only with Scholem’s death. These letters, found in the Scholem
archive in the National Library in Jerusalem, provide a rare perspective on the world and
• June 2008 the approach of two leading historians of religion in the twentieth century. They also shed
• ISBN 978 90 04 16839 8 important new light upon Smith’s discovery of a letter attributed to Clement of Alexandria
• Hardback (xxiv, 204 pp.) referring to a secret Gospel of Mark.
• Jerusalem Studies in Religion
and Culture, 9

Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible

and the Ancient Near East
Jan N. Bremmer, University of Groningen
In the last decades there has been an increasing interest in the relationship between Greek
religion & culture and the Ancient Near East. This challenging book contributes greatly to this
interest by studying the Near Eastern background of important Greek myths, such as those
of the creation of the world and the first woman, the Flood, the Golden Fleece, the Titans and
travelling seers, but also of the births of Attis and Asclepius as well as the origins of the terms
• April 2008 ‘paradise’ and ‘magic’. It also shows that, in turn, Greek literature influenced Jewish stories of
• ISBN 978 90 04 16473 4 divine epiphanies and that the Greek scapegoat myths and rituals contributed to the central
• Hardback (xviii, 430 pp.) Christian notion of atonement.
• Jerusalem Studies in Religion
and Culture, 8
Religions in the Graeco-Roman World

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Scholarly monographs on historical, bibliographical and archaeological aspects of Egyptian, Mithraic and Oriental religions in all
parts of the Roman Empire and the Graeco-Roman world.
For more information about the series visit brill.nl/rgrw
• October 2009 Divine Images and Human Imaginations

38 • ISBN 978 90 04 17930 1
• Hardback (463) in Ancient Greece and Rome
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• Religions in the Graeco-Roman Edited by Ioannis Mylonopoulos, Columbia University, NY, USA
World, 170
The polytheistic religious systems of ancient Greece and Rome reveal an imaginative attitude
towards the construction of the divine. One of the most important instruments in this process
was certainly the visualisation. Images of the gods transformed the divine world into a visually
experienceable entity, comprehensible even without a theoretical or theological superstructure.
For the illiterates, images were together with oral traditions and rituals the only possibility to
approach the idea of the divine; for the intellectuals, images of the gods could be allegorically
transcended symbols to reflect upon. Based on the art historical and textual evidence, this
volume offers a fresh view on the historical, literary, and artistic significance of divine images
as powerful visual media of religious and intellectual communication.
• September 2009 Greek Religious Terminology – Telete & Orgia

• ISBN 978 90 04 17813 7
• Hardback (228)
A Revised and Expanded English Edition of the Studies by Zijderveld and
• List price EUR 93.- / US$ 138.- Van der Burg
• Religions in the Graeco-Roman
World, 169 Feyo L. Schuddeboom
A proper understanding of the words τελετή and ὄργια and the context in which they occur is
fundamental to the study of Greek religion. This volume seeks to make a significant portion of
the source material available to present-day students of religions in the Graeco-Roman world.
The ancient texts are accompanied by English translations. Revised chapters from the seminal
works by Zijderveld (1934) and Van der Burg (1939) show a whole range of different contexts
in ancient literature, thus arguing against an automatic equation of τελετή and ὄργια with
mystery rites. New chapters give an overview of the loanword orgia in Latin poetry, and of
τελετή and ὄργια in the epigraphical evidence.

• September 2009 Magical Practice in the Latin West

• ISBN 978 90 04 17904 2
• Hardback (706)
Papers from the International Conference held at the University of Zaragoza,
• List price EUR 188.- / US$ 278.- 30 Sept. – 1st Oct. 2005
World, 168 Edited by Richard L. Gordon, University of Erfurt, Germany
and Francisco Marco Simón, University of Zaragoza, Spain
How different was the practice of magic in the Latin West from that of the eastern
Mediterranean basin? Was it just derivative from Greek practice, or did it have its own
originality? The recent discovery of important new curse-tablets in Mainz and in the Fountain
of Anna Perenna at Rome has made the question newly topical. This volume contains the first
commented editions in English of most of these new texts as well as major surveys of new
prayers for justice. Other sections are devoted to the discourse of magic in the West, to the
linguistics and aims of cursing, and to the major field of protective and eudaemonic magic up to
and including the Visigothic slates and the Celtic loricae. The essays are by well-known scholars
in the field as well as by established and younger Spanish scholars.
Roman Gods
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A Conceptual Approach
Michael Lipka, University of Patras, Greece
The book is concerned with the question of how the concept of god in urban Rome can be
analyzed along the lines of six constituent concepts, i.e. space, time, personnel, function,
iconography and ritual. While older publications tended to focus on the conceptual nature of
Roman gods only in those (comparatively rare) instances in which different concepts patently
overlapped (as in the case of the deified emperor or hero-worship), this book develops general 39
• April 2009 criteria for an analysis of pagan, Jewish and Christian concepts of gods in ancient Rome (and by
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• ISBN 978 90 04 17503 7 extension elsewhere). While the argument of the book is exclusively based on the evidence from
• Hardback (x, 219 pp.) the capital up to the age of Constantine, in the concluding section the results are compared to
• List price EUR 89.- / US$ 132.- other religious belief systems, thus demonstrating the general applicability of this conceptual
• Religions in the Graeco-Roman approach.
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From Temple to Church

Destruction and Renewal of Local Cultic Topography in Late Antiquity
Johannes Hahn, Stephen Emmel, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

and Ulrich Gotter, Universität Konstanz
Destruction of temples and their transformation into churches are central symbols of late
antique change in religious environment, socio-political system, and public perception.
Contemporaries were aware of these events’ far-reaching symbolic significance and of their
immediate impact as demonstrations of political power and religious conviction. Joined in
any “temple-destruction” are the meaning of the monument, actions taken, and subsequent
• June 2008 literary discourse. Paradigms of perception, specific interests, and forms of expression of quite
• ISBN 978 90 04 13141 5 various protagonists clashed. Archaeologists, historians, and historians of religion illuminate
• Hardback (xii, 380 pp with “temple-destruction” from different perspectives, analysing local configurations within larger
German, French, Greek texts) contexts, both regional and imperial, in order to find an appropriate larger perspective on this
• List price EUR 121.- / US$ 180.- phenomenon within the late antique movement “from temple to church”.
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The History of Christian-Muslim Relations

A Bibliographical History
Edited by David Thomas & Barbara Roggema
Christian Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History is published as a sub-series of the History of Christian-Muslim Relations bookseries.
For more information about the series visit brill.nl/hcmr
• October 2009 Islamic Reformism and Christianity

• ISBN 978 90 04 17911 0
• Hardback
A Critical Reading of the Works of Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā
• List price EUR 125.- / US$ 185.- and His Associates (1898-1935)
• The History of Christian-
Muslim Relations, 12 Umar Ryad
No previous full-scale study has been undertaken so far to study the polemical writings of the
Muslim reformist Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā (1865-1935) and his associates in his well-known
journal al-Manār (The Lighthouse). The book focuses on the dynamics of Muslim understanding
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of Christianity during the late 19th and the early 20th century in the light of al-Manār’s sources
of knowledge, and its answers to the social, political and theological aspects of missionary
movements in the Muslim World of Riḍā’s age. The basis of the analysis encompasses the
voluminous publications by Riḍā and other Manārists in his journal. Besides, it makes use of
newly-discovered materials, including Riḍā’s private papers, and some other remaining personal
archives of some of his associates.
40 Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History.

Volume 1 (600-900)
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Edited by David Thomas and Barbara Roggema, with Juan Pedro Monferrer Sala,
Johannes Pahlitzsch, Mark Swanson, Herman Teule, John Tolan
Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History 1 (CMR1) is the first part of a general history
of relations between the faiths from the seventh century to the present. It covers the period
from 600 to 1500, when encounters took place through the extended Mediterranean basin and
are recorded in Syriac, Arabic, Greek, Latin and other languages. It comprises introductory
• August 2009 essays on the treatment of Christians in the Qur’an, Qur’an commentaries, biographies of the
• ISBN 978 90 04 16975 3 Prophet, Hadith and Sunni law, and of Muslims in canon law, and the main body of more than
• Hardback (944 pp.) two hundred detailed entries on all the works recorded, whether surviving or lost. These
• List price EUR 219.- / US$ 324.- entries provide biographical details of the authors where known, descriptions and assessments
• The History of Christian- of the works themselves, and complete accounts of manuscripts, editions, translations and
Muslim Relations, 11 studies. The result of collaboration between leading scholars, CMR1 is intended as a basic tool
for research in Christian-Muslim relations.
This title will also become available online.

Christian Doctrines in Islamic Theology

David Thomas, University of Birmingham
By the tenth century Islamic theology had become an integrated system by which theologians
constructed sophisticated accounts of the nature of the world and God’s relationship with it.
They also used it to establish proofs that Islam was the only rationally tenable form of belief,
building these in part on proofs of the illogicalities in other faiths, including Christianity.
Through excerpts from key works of the theologians al-Nashi’ al-Akbar, al-Maturidi, al-
Baqillani and ʿAbd al-Jabbar, this book shows how Muslim theologians in this period made use of
Christian doctrines as examples of misguided thinking to help confirm the correctness of their
• August 2008 own theology, and how among Muslim theologians Christianity had ceased to attract serious
• ISBN 978 90 04 16935 7 attention as a rival to Islam.
• Hardback (viii, 392 pp.)
• The History of Christian-
Muslim Relations, 10
Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science
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Edited by Hans Daiber and Anna Akasoy
Publishes translations of medieval Islamic philosophical, theological, scientific and medical texts, with commentary, as well as
scholarly studies of aspects of Islamic philosophy, literature and ethics.
For more information about the series visit brill.nl/ipts
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Das Transzendentale bei Ibn Sīnā
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Zur Metaphysik als Wissenschaft erster Begriffs- und Urteilsprinzipien
Tiana Koutzarova, University of Bonn
Following al-Fārābī’s approach, Ibn Sīnā (d. 428/1037) undertakes a new foundation of the First
Philosophy based on his own critical systematisation of the Aristotelian theory of science,
yielding the result that metaphysics is only possible as a transcendental science, i.e. that not
only the subject-matter of metaphysics and its properties but also the arguments by which the
first principles of knowledge are defended must be transcendental. This book provides the first
systematic reconstruction of Ibn Sīnā’s concept of metaphysics, and, given the considerable
• May 2009 influence his achievement had on the Islamic tradition as well as on scholastic philosophers,
• ISBN 978 90 04 17123 7 it is relevant to the study of the history of metaphysics, Islamic theology (kalām), and Arabic
• Hardback (xiv, 486 pp.) philosophy.
• Islamic Philosophy, Theology
and Science. Texts and Studies, 79

Atlantic World
For more information about the series visit brill.nl/aw
Swimming the Christian Atlantic: Judeoconversos,

Afroiberians and Amerindians in the Seventeenth Century
Jonathan Schorsch, Columbia University
Scholarship on the formation of the Atlantic world through contributions from Europe, Africa
and the Americas has grown in recent decades. The results offer new understandings of the
transformations in ethnic and religious identity faced by peoples from all the surrounding
continents. Long used by scholars of Jewish studies, records from the Spanish and Portuguese
Inquisitions have become an important source for historians of Africans and Amerindians in
• September 2009 the Iberian colonial orbit. Using these and other materials, this book explores race, religion and
• ISBN 978 90 04 17040 7 politics among three newly and incompletely Christianized groups in the seventeenth century:
• Hardback (Vol.1: 304 pp.; Judeoconversos, Afroiberians and Amerindians. This fresh cross-cultural analysis brings these
Vol.2: 288 pp, 2 vols.) differing trajectories into dialogue.
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Religion & Society
International Studies in Religion and Society

Edited by Lori G. Beaman and Peter Beyer, University of Ottawa
Brill’s series International Studies in Religion and Society (ISRS) publishes on societal themes and their relation to religion from a social
scientific point of view, also taking into account approaches from contemporary philosophical and legal research.
For more information about the series visit brill.nl/isrs
• October 2009 Medicine, Religion, and the Body

• ISBN 978 90 04 17970 7
• Hardback (292 pp.) Edited by Elizabeth Burns Coleman, Monash University,
• List price EUR 104.- / US$ 154.- and Kevin White, Australian National University
• International Studies in
Religion and Society, 11 This book explores the ways in which the body is sacred in Western medicine, as well as how this
idea is played out in questions of life and death, of the autopsy and of the meanings attributed to
illnesses and disease. Ritual and religious modifications to, and limitations on what may be done
to the body raise cross cultural issues of great complexity – philosophically and theologically, as
well as sociologically - within medicine and for health care practitioners, but also, as a matter
of primary concern for the patient. The book explores the ways in which medicine organises the
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moral and the immoral, the sacred and the profane; how it mediates cultural concepts of the
sacred – of the body, of blood and of life and death.
• September 2009 Holy Nations and Global Identities

• ISBN 978 90 04 17828 1
Civil Religion, Nationalism, and Globalisation
• International Studies in Edited by Annika Hvithamar, University of Southern Denmark, Margit Warburg, 43
Religion and Society, 10 University of Copenhagen, and Brian Arly Jacobsen, University of Copenhagen
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Along with the processes of globalization and the end of the cold war we have seen an upsurge
in religious nationalism and an increasing focus on the role of religion as a legitimizing force in
democratic secular states. Holy Nations & Global Identities draws on the combined theoretical
and historical insight of historians, political scientists and social scientists on the question
of nationalism and globalization with the methodological knowledge of religion presented
by sociologists of religion. The book brings genuine theoretical explorations and original
case studies on civil religion, nationalism and globalization. It also provides an introduction
to the research history of the fields and aims to develop and elaborate on the theories and
methodology of the investigated subjects.
Pieties and Gender

Lene Sjørup, University of Copenhagen, Denmark and Hilda Rømer Christensen,
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Taking up the challenge of Saba Mahmood to feminist studies in religion, that there is a
liberalist understanding of agency and a tendency to mix the feminist political project with
the analytical, the authors of this anthology discuss the relations between pieties and politics,
pieties and methodologies, virtuous masculinities, and symbolic gender representations.
Several articles discuss highly controversial questions: Muslim piety, religion in the European
Union between the Vatican and the Muslim populations, the religiously motivated abstinence
• September 2009 policies of the US. Furthermore, there is an interesting section about religious masculinities in a
• ISBN 978 90 04 17826 7 historical and contemporary perspective.
• Hardback
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Religion & Society
Christianity and Resistance in the 20th Century

From Kaj Munk and Dietrich Bonhoeffer to Desmond Tutu
Edited by Søren Dosenrode, Aalborg University
How is the Christian supposed to act when his or her government misbehaves? Should one suffer
and obey the authority, or should one render resistance; and if so, should it be passive or active;
and if active, should it be violent or not? This book will not provide the answer to this question,
but it will describe and analyse important persons of the 20th century who were placed in a
situation where they did not merely ‘turn the other cheek’, but felt that they had to resist a
• November 2008 regime; a decision which had consequences for them all. Thus the book provides insight to a
• ISBN 978 90 04 17126 8 central and current question of Christian and indeed religious thinking.
Religion and Class in America: Culture, History, and Politics

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Edited by Sean McCloud, University of North Carolina at Charlotte,

and William A. Mirola, Marian College
Class has always played a role in American religion. Class differences in religious life are
inevitably felt by both those in the pews and those on the outside looking in. This volume starts
a long overdue discussion about how class continues to matter - and perhaps even ways in
which it does not - in American religion. Class is indeed important, whether one examines it
through analysis of events and documents, surveys and interviews, or participant observation
44 of religious groups. The chapters herein examine class as a reality that is both material and
• November 2008 symbolic, individual and corporate. Religion and Class in America examines the myriad ways in
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• ISBN 978 90 04 17142 8 which class continues to interact with the theologies, practices, beliefs, and group affiliations of
• Hardback (x, 222 pp.) American religion.
Religion and the Social Order

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Conversion in the Age of Pluralism

Giuseppe Giordan
The theme of conversion constitutes a privileged point to study the framework linking an
individual to the sociocultural contexts in which he or she is included. Changes in personal
biographies and sociocultural change are interwoven when we speak of conversion: values,
speech, norms, behaviors, beliefs, lifestyles, interests--everything is open to potential debate
when an individual “converts.” Conversion is especially developed here through a connection
with the dynamics of pluralism, which appears to be the most peculiar cultural characteristic
of our era: what does it mean to speak of “conversion” in a time in which it seems that the
• August 2009 presumption of only one “true” truth no longer exists, while instead many different truths live
• ISBN 978 90 04 17803 8 together, each with its own judgment criteria.
• Hardback (xiv, 334)
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Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion

Edited by Ralph L. Piedmont and Andrew Village
Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion (RSSSR) publishes reports of innovative studies that pertain empirically or theoretically
to the scientific study of religion, including spirituality, regardless of their academic discipline or professional orientation. It is
academically eclectic, not restricted to any one particular theoretical orientation or research method. Most of the articles report
the findings of quantitative or qualitative investigations, but some deal with methodology, theory, or applications of social science
studies in the field of religion.
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Volume 20
Edited by Ralph L. Piedmont, Loyola College, Maryland,
and Andrew Village, York St.John University
Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion publishes empirical and theoretical studies of
religion from a wide range of disciplines and from all parts of the globe. This volume has a
special section on Islam and Mental Health, an important and neglected area of study. The
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section draws on work, from six countries, that have applied different theoretical frameworks
and empirical methods to examine the link between religion, psychology, and health in
very diverse Muslim communities. Other articles examine topics as diverse as spirituality,
• June 2009 psychological health, conversion, and the cultural psychology of religion. Disciplines
• ISBN 978 90 04 17562 4 represented include those that draw on qualitative, quantitative, and theoretical methods of
• Hardback (xiv, 332 pp.) study which together represent an important contribution to the contemporary study of
• List price EUR 104.- / US$ 154.- religion.
• Research in the Social Scientific
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Volume 19
Edited by Ralph L. Piedmont, Loyola College, Maryland
A wide range of research and review articles are presented. Topic areas include mental and
physical health, personality correlates of spirituality, validity evidence for the ASPIRES, and
the role of religious values on socio-political attitudes. Also included in this volume are studies
examining women’s issues surrounding body image and disordered eating. Another paper
addresses Christian Serpent handlers, a very understudied group, and the legal, religious, and
moral issues surrounding this practice. There is also a special section, edited by Dr. Christopher
Boyatzis, that addresses specific issues around adolescant spirituality. This volume provides
• June 2008 a diverse snapshot of cutting edge research in the field across multiple disciplines. Readers
• ISBN 978 90 04 16646 2 will come away with an appreciation for the broad interests that characterize this field and
• Hardback (xiv, 306 pp.) the fascinating empirical findings that continue to draw professional interest in numinous
• List price EUR 89.- / US$ 132.- constructs.
• Research in the Social Scientific
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Studies in Religion and the Arts NEW
Edited by James Najarian, Boston College, and Eric Ziolkowski, Lafayette College
The book series Studies in Religion and the Arts promotes the development of discourses for exploring the religious dimensions
of the verbal, visual and performing arts.
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The Challenge of the Silver Screen

An Analysis of the Cinematic Portraits of Jesus, Rama,
Buddha and Muhammad
Freek L. Bakker, University of Utrecht
In 1897 – only two years after the invention of film – the first feature film about Jesus appeared.
This and other films about Jesus became examples for and an inspiration for films on other
important religious figures like Rama, Buddha and Muhammad. Although religious leaders
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• September 2009 did not always approve of these films, they did find a ready audience among believers. This
• ISBN 978 90 04 16861 9 book explores these films and looks at how these films dealt with the fundamental question of
• Hardback (302) portraying an individual thought to have either divine status or a very special and unique status
• List price EUR 104.- / US$ 154.- among human beings. This book will thus benefit not only students of religious film but also
• Studies in Religion those studying the portrayal of central religious figures in the contemporary world.
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SBL – Symposium
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Edited by Christopher R. Matthews
Each volume in this series presents essay-length studies, contributed by various scholars, which address one particular topic
related to biblical literature and/or its cultural environment. The aim of the series is to provide for the publication of studies that
have emerged from collaborative work, especially within the SBL program units, and that are best published together rather than
separately.
For more information about the series visit brill.nl/sym
The Social Sciences and Biblical Translation

Edited by Dietmar Neufeld, University of British Columbia
The Bible is an ancient book, written in a language other than English, describing social
and cultural situations incongruent with modern sensibilities. To help readers bridge these
gaps, this work examines the translation and interpretation of a set of biblical texts from the
perspectives of cultural anthropology and the social sciences. The introduction deals with
methodological issues, enabling readers to recognize the differences in translation when words,
sentences, and ideas are part of ancient social and cultural systems that shape meaning. The
following essays demonstrate how Bible translations can be culturally sensitive, take into
• September 2008 account the challenge of social distance, and avoid the dangers of ethnocentric and theological
• ISBN 978 90 04 15746 0 myopia. As a whole, this work shows the importance of making use of the insights of cultural
• Cloth (x, 190 pp.) anthropology in an age of ever-increasing manipulation of the biblical text.
• SBL - Symposium, 41

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Studies of Religion in Africa

Edited by Benjamin Soares, African Studies Centre, Leiden and Frans Wijsen, Radboud University, Nijmegen
The book series Studies of Religion in Africa promotes the historical, empirical, and comparative study of religion. The Seriesprovides a
forum for critical, analytical and qualitative studies of religion in Africa in the past and present. Studies of Religion in Africa considers
only non-confessional work.
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Catholic Pentecostalism and the Paradoxes of

Africanization
Processes of Localization in a Catholic Charismatic Movement in Cameroon
Ludovic Lado, Catholic University of Central Africa in Yaoundé
The anthropological literature on religious innovation and resistance in African Christianity

tended to focus almost exclusively on what have come to be known as African Independent
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Churches. Very few anthropological studies have looked at similar processes within mission
• February 2009 churches. Through an ethnographic study of localizing processes in a Charismatic movement
• ISBN 978 90 04 16898 5 in Cameroon and Paris, the book critically explores the dialectics between ‘Pentecostalization’
• Hardback (xii, 245 pp.) and ‘Africanization’ within contemporary African Catholicism. It appears that both processes
• List price EUR 89.- / US$ 142.- pursue, although for different purposes, the missionary policy of dismantling local cultures and
• Studies of Religion in Africa, 37 religions: practices and discourses of Africanization dissect them in search of ‘authentic’ African
values; Charismatic ritual on the other hand features the dramatization of the defeat of local
deities and spirits by Christianity.
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Aids and Religious Practice in Africa
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Felicitas Becker, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver,
and Wenzel Geissler, London School of Hygiene and the Institute
of Social Anthropology in Oslo
This volume explores how AIDS is understood, confronted and lived with through religious
ideas and practices, and how these, in turn, are reinterpreted and changed by the experience of
AIDS. Examining the social production, and productivity, of AIDS - linking bodily and spiritual
experiences, and religious, medical, political and economic discourses - the papers counter
simplified notions of causal effects of AIDS on religion (or vice versa). Instead, they display
• February 2009 people’s resourcefulness in their struggle to move ahead in spite of adversity. This relativises
• ISBN 978 90 04 16400 0 the vision of doom widely associated with the African AIDS epidemic; and it allows to see
• Hardback (vi, 407 pp.) AIDS, instead of a singular event, as the culmination of a century-long process of changing
• List price EUR 115.- / US$ 184.- livelihoods, bodily well-being and spiritual imaginaries.
• Studies of Religion in Africa, 36

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Migration and Christian Identity in Congo (DRC)

Emma Wild-Wood, Cambridge Theological Federation
Christianity and migration have greatly influenced society and culture of sub-Saharan Africa,
yet their mutual impact is rarely studied. Through oral history research in north eastern Congo
(DRC), this book studies the migration of Anglicans and the subsequent reconfiguring of their
Christian identity. It engages with issues of religious contextualisation, revivalism and the rise
of Pentecostalism. It examines shifting ethnic, national, gender and generational expressions,
the influence of tradition, contemporanity, local needs and international networks to reveal
mobile group identities developing through migration. Borrowing the metaphor of ‘home’
• August 2008 from those interviewed, the book suggests in what ways religious affiliation aids a process of
• ISBN 978 90 04 16464 2 belonging. The result is an original exploration of important themes in an often neglected
• Hardback (xviii, 238 pp.) region of Africa.
Church and Settler in Colonial Zimbabwe

A Study in the History of the Anglican Diocese
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of Mashonaland/Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1925

Pamela Welch
This book examines the history of the Anglican Diocese of Mashonaland/Southern Rhodesia
(virtually co-extensive with modern Zimbabwe) in the period 1890-1925, when its institutions
took shape and its religious character was formed. While work among indigenous communities
is outlined, the primary subject is the church’s work with white settlers. A fresh general
48 • August 2008 narrative is provided and an examination of clergy recruitment and finance relates events
• ISBN 978 90 04 16746 9 in Mashonaland to developments in global Anglicanism. Among the questions addressed are
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• Hardback (xxiv, 288 pp.) those of religion and empire, church and state and the complexities of relationship between
• List price EUR 85.- / US$ 133.- the Church of England and her overseas extensions, particularly those covering areas of white
• Studies of Religion in Africa, 34 settlement. Local developments in religious practice are also explored: most striking of these
was the settler apprehension of the vast landscapes of South-Central Africa as a locus of the
sacred and their custom of veld burial.
Africas of the Americas

Beyond the Search for Origins in the Study of Afro-Atlantic Religions
Edited by Stephan Palmié
The anthropology and history of African American religious formations has long been
dominated by approaches aiming to recover and authenticate the historical transatlantic
continuities linking such traditions to identifiable African source cultures. While not denying
such continuities, the contributors to this volume seek to transcend this research agenda
by bracketing “Africa” and “African pasts” as objective givens, and asking instead what role
• March 2008 notions of “Africanity” and “pastfulness” play in the social and ritual lives of historical and
• ISBN 978 90 04 16472 7 contemporary practitioners of Afro-Atlantic religious formations. The volume’s goal is to open
• Hardback (vi, 394 pp.) up contextually salient claims to “African origins” to empirical scrutiny, and so contribute to a
• List price EUR 85.- / US$ 126.- broadening of the terms of debate in Afro-Atlantic studies.

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African and European Readers of the Bible in Dialogue

In Quest Of a Shared Meaning
Edited by Hans de Wit, Vrije University Amsterdam,

and Gerald O. West, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Far too long, the relationship between European and African biblical scholarship has been a
non-relationship. Divergent insights into how biblical texts should be interpreted and made
fruitful for the current context, cultural differences, colonial past and post-colonial future,
radically different social situations – this all made companionship and real interaction difficult.
• July 2008 This rich and multilayered volume (result of a Stellenbosch conference 2006) attempts to
• ISBN 978 90 04 16656 1 disclose new modes of dialogue between readers of the Bible from those two worlds. More than
• Hardback (xiv, 434 pp.) twenty theologians from Africa and Europe reflect together on how readers from radically
• List price EUR 89.- / US$ 132.- different contexts – professional and ordinary alike –, may become allies in an ethically
• Studies of Religion in Africa, 32 accountable way of relating the biblical text to their current (global) situations and how a
process of mutual learning may be established. This book provides important insights in
intercultural hermeneutics, the relationship between classical historico-literary approaches
and new forms of interpretation. It also gives examples of new forms of how to read the Bible
in the secularized European context and the HIV/Aids stricken Africa. Particularly enriching
is that every contribution is followed by a personal letter of response of another contributor
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to the book, giving impulses for further dialogue and debate. The book is useful for all biblical
scholars and students, in particular for those interested in how to do contextual exegesis in a
manner that also takes into account the context of the other.
Religion in the Americas Series

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This is a series of publications devoted to the study of religious influences within and between South, Central, Latin and North
America, bringing to the forefront new and promising works that study these influences from the perspectives from cultural
anthropology, sociology, history, psychology, Latin American Studies, history, religious studies, or theology.
For more information about the series visit brill.nl/ream
Latin American Evangelical Theology in the 1970’s

The Golden Decade
Daniel Salinas
The story of Latin American evangelicals doing theology is mostly unknown. In the 1970s
there was an important development with the formation of the Latin American Theological
Fraternity (FTL). This group spearheaded the theological production in Latin America, marking
the beginning of a critical stage in the history of evangelicals in the region. This book deals with
the reception history in North America of the FTL and its program. Interamerican theological
• August 2009 dialogue is documented and analyzed.
• ISBN 978 90 04 17699 7
• Religion in the Americas
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Spiritual Mapping in the United States and Argentina,

1989-2005: A Geography of Fear
René Holvast, Faculté de Théologie Évangélique de Boma
Spiritual Mapping is a U.S. Evangelical and Neo-Pentecostal movement (1989-2005), which

developed its own religious technique to wage a ‘spiritual’ war against unseen non-human
beings. These ‘spirits’ were identified along the lines of geographical territories and put on
a map, whence ‘Spiritual Mapping’. Its intended function was to boost the numerical growth
of Christianity. This book offers a comprehensive historical-descriptive approach of both
• November 2008 the movement and the concept, with special attention for theological and anthropological
• ISBN 978 90 04 17046 9 concepts. Its historical roots, relation with Argentina, self-understanding and critics are being
• Hardback (xiv, 370 pp.) described. The reader is presented with a unique insight into Spiritual Mapping as an expression
• List price EUR 85.- / US$ 133.- of Americanism, as well as the socio-political concept of Manifest Destiny and U.S. religious
• Religion in the Americas marketing.
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Old Colony Mennonites in Argentina and Bolivia

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Nation Making, Religious Conflict and Imagination of the Future
Lorenzo Cañás Bottos, Tallinn University
This volume challenges received images of Old Colony Mennonites as ‘living in the past’ or
perfect examples of community. Through the concept of the ‘imagination of the future’ this
book presents an analysis of their historical transformations as the result of attempting to
apply in practice their Christian ideals of building a community of believers in the world, while
50 remaining separate from it. It argues that while they contributed to the territorialisation
• February 2008 of the states that hosted them through their migrations from sixteenth-century Europe to
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• ISBN 978 90 04 16095 8 late twentieth-century Latin America, they systematically rejected being incorporated into
• Hardback (xviii, 218 pp.) the nation through the building of a community of agricultural settlements that maintain
• List price EUR 79.- / US$ 117.- ties across international borders. It explores how these imaginations are maintained and
• Religion in the Americas transformed through the analysis of schisms, conflict, and border management, together with a
Series, 7 biographical approach to conversion narratives, and the religious experience.
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Bamboo and Minjung in East Asian Perspective
Paul S. Chung, Luther Seminary, St. Paul
The project of constructing Asian irregular theology in East Asian perspective, based on life-
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Empirical Theology in Texts and Tables

Qualitative, Quantitative and Comparative Perspectives
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Empirical theology offers fresh and stimulating insights into the concerns of both the
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• List price EUR 109.- / US$ 170.- display the role both of qualitative studies, and of the analysis of quantitative data, in exploring
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Bible and Poverty in Kenya
An Empirical Exploration
Maurice Matendechere Sakwa, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and

Technology
Many strategies have been formulated to reduce poverty, the most recent being the need to
include the poor as co-agents in the development process. Culture, understood as commonly
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• ISBN 978 90 04 16462 8 for poverty alleviation. This work is centered on a conceptual model postulating that cultural
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Studies in Reformed Theology

Studies in Reformed Theology is an international triennial series that offers thematic volumes with articles on current issues and
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Theological Institute (IRTI). ‘Reformed’ refers to a theology in the tradition of the sixteenth-century reformation in Strasbourg,
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• October 2009 The Unity of the Church

• ISBN 978 90 04 17968 4
A Theological State of the Art and Beyond
• Studies in Reformed Theology, 18 Edited by E. van der Borght, VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
In contrast to its original name, Ecclesia Reformata, ecclesiology did not develop into a major
theme within the Reformed tradition. Notwithstanding the undeniable schismatic tendency and
the ecclesial embarrassment about disunity, the unity of the church did not rise to prominence
as a theological topic. This volume challenges this traditional low-key attitude towards the unity
of the church. It investigates theological aspects that contributed to a weak sensus unitatis,
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and explores approaches that remedy the disease of division. It discusses the role played by
scripture, the sacraments, confessions, and discipline; it searches for the best theological
practices within other Christian traditions; it links the unity of the church to the unity of God
and reformulates the nature of the church.
The Authority of Scripture in Reformed Theology

54 Truth and Trust
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Henk van den Belt, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
The authority of Scripture is the cornerstone of Reformed theology. Calvin introduced the
term autopistos from Greek philosophy to express that this authority does not depend on the
church or on rational arguments, but is self-convincing. After dealing with Calvin’s Institutes,
the development of Reformed orthodoxy, and the positions of Benjamin B. Warfield and Herman
Bavinck, the author draws theological conclusions, advocating a renewed emphasis on the
• January 2008 autopistia of Scripture as starting point for Reformed theology in a postmodern context. The
• ISBN 978 90 04 16307 2 subject-object scheme leads to separating the certainty of faith from the authority of Scripture.
• Hardback (xiv, 386 pp.) The autopistia of Scripture, understood as a confessional statement, implies that truth and trust
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and the way Christians deal with justice? What is our calling as Christians? The contributions in
this volume are the result of the 6th biannual IRTI conference in Seoul 2005 on this theme.
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Interdisciplinary Explorations into the Foundations of Western Monotheism
Edited by Anne-Marie Korte, Utrecht University & Maaike de Haardt, Radboud

University Nijmegen
What is the significance of monotheism in modern western culture, taking into account both
its problematic and promising aspects? Biblical texts and the biblical faith traditions bear a
continuous, polemical tension between exclusive and inclusive perceptions and interpretations
of monotheism. Western monotheism proves itself to be multi-significant and heterogeneous,
• December 2008 producing boundary-setting as well as boundary-crossing tendencies, is the common thesis of
• ISBN 978 90 04 17316 3 the authors of this book, who have been collectively debating this theme for two years in an
• Hardback (vi, 250 pp.) interdisciplinary scholarly setting. Their contributions range from the fields of biblical and
• List price EUR 89.- / US$ 139.- religious studies, history and philosophy of religion, systematic theology, to gender studies
• Studies in Theology and in theology and religion.The authors also explain the particular contribution of their own
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Religions Challenged by Contingency

Theological and Philosophical Approaches to the Problem of Contingency
Edited by Dirk-Martin Grube, Utrecht University,

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In this volume, the relationship between religion and contingency is investigated. Its historical
part comprises analyses of important philosophers’ interpretations of this relationship, viz.
that of Leibniz, Kant, Lessing, Jaspers, and Heidegger. Its systematic part analyses how this
relationship should be currently (re-)interpreted. The upshot of the different interpretations is
• June 2008 a re-evaluation of the traditional assumption that accepting contingency is detrimental to the
• ISBN 978 90 04 16749 0 pursuit of religion. It is shown that a number of the philosophers scrutinized are not as critical
• Hardback (viii, 248 pp.) regarding the acceptance of (certain sorts of) contingency in the religious realm as is often
• List price EUR 79.- / US$ 117.- thought, and the systematic contributions show that it may be unavoidable, sometimes even
• Studies in Theology and desirable, to accept contingency when dealing with religion.
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Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies

Edited by Andrew Davies, Mattersey Hall Graduate School, and William Kay, Bangor University
The Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies cover the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements from a variety of perspectives. The
series will focus on large cultural zones so as to display contextual influences upon the Pentecostal and charismatic movements and
on broad cross-cultural themes, whether these influences arise from history or from theology. The volumes within the series will
treat different themes within the Pentecostal-Charismatic movements from with a combination of historical, social scientific, and
theological approaches.
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• Oktober 2009 Two Paradigms for Divine Healing

• ISBN 978 90 04 17832 8
• Hardback (286)
Fred F. Bosworth, Kenneth E. Hagin, Agnes Sanford,
• List price EUR 99.- / US$ 147.- and Francis Macnutt In Dialogue
• Global Pentecostal and
Charismatic Studies, 4 Pavel Hejzlar
The doctrine and practice of healing through faith has been a hallmark of Pentecostalism since
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its inception and helps to account for the widespread appeal of the movement. While “divine
healing,” as it is called by insiders, has brought hope to the sick, it has also been a source of
disenchantment and controversy. The present study offers a close look at the teaching of four
major ministers of healing in the twentieth-century United States. The author distinguishes
between the healing evangelists and pastoral ministers of healing who react to them. This book
discusses in detail the merits of both schools and the author proposes a solution to the problems
inherent in the two paradigms under scrutiny.
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Pentecostal Churches in Transition
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Analysing the Developing Ecclesiology of the Assemblies of God in Australia
Shane Clifton, Alphacrucis College
The global growth of Pentecostal movements during the course of the twentieth century has
been widely documented although, to date, there has been little written on their developing
ecclesiology. After making the case for a concrete rather than idealised approach to
ecclesiology, this book describes and analyses the transitions that have framed the ways in
which Australian Pentecostals have understood church life and mission. From a loosely knit
• June 2009 faith missions movement, to congregational free church structures, to the so-called apostolic
• ISBN 978 90 04 17526 6 models of mega-churches, Australian pentecostalism stands as a microcosmos of ecclesial
• Hardback (x, 249 pp.) developments that have occurred throughout the world. This book, therefore, provides a means
• List price EUR 93.- / US$ 138.- of reflecting upon what has been gained and lost in the process of ecclesiological change.
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Theology
The Missionary Self-Perception of Pentecostal/Charismatic

Church Leaders from the Global South in Europe
Bringing Back the Gospel
Claudia Währisch-Oblau, United Evangelical Mission, Wuppertal
In a situation of growing interest in the religion of migrants, there are still few publications
dealing with pentecostal and charismatic Christians from the global South and the churches
they have been starting all over Europe. This ground-breaking study, based on extensive
• April 2009 interviews conducted during a nine-year research period encompassing more than 100
• ISBN 978 90 04 17508 2 churches, describes how pentecostal /charismatic migrant pastors live out their pastoral role,
• Hardback (x, 428 pp.) how they construct their missionary biographies, and how they conceptualize and practice
• List price EUR 146.- / US$ 216.- evangelism. The result is a comprehensive portrait of an immigrant group which does not define
• Global Pentecostal and itself as victimized and in need of assistance, but as expatriate agents with a clear calling and a
Charismatic Studies, 2 vision to change the continent they now live in.
The ‘Spiritual Death’ of Jesus
RELIGIOUS STUDIES
A Pentecostal Investigation
William P. Atkinson, Wisdom Christian College
The teaching of Kenyon, Hagin and Copeland that Jesus ‘died spiritually’ (JDS) is important
because of the influence of these men, not least on Pentecostalism. JDS originated with
Kenyon, and has been taught in the Word-faith movement by Hagin and Copeland, despite
much criticism. It incorporates three elements: in this death, Jesus was separated from God;
partook of a satanic nature; and was Satan’s prey. This theological appraisal takes research far 57
• February 2009 further than previous works, both in method and in scope. It concludes that adoption of JDS by
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• ISBN 978 90 04 17199 2 Pentecostalism would be damaging in several respects, and thus draw the latter away from its
• Hardback (x, 294 pp.) moorings in traditional Christianity. Pentecostals and others are advised to reject the bulk of
• List price EUR 95.- / US$ 152.- this teaching.
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A Companion to Ælfric
Edited by Hugh Magennis, Queen’s University Belfast,
and Mary Swan, University of Leeds
This collection provides a new, authoritative and challenging study of the life and works of
Ælfric of Eynsham, the most important vernacular religious writer in the history of Anglo-
Saxon England. The contributors include almost all of the key Ælfric scholars working today
and some important newer voices. Each of the chapters is a cutting-edge piece of work which
addresses one aspect of Ælfric’s works or career. The chapters are organised topically, rather
than by chronology, genre or biography, and between them cover the entire Ælfrician corpus
• June 2009 and the major contextual issues; consideration of Ælfric’s Latin writings is carefully integrated
• ISBN 978 90 04 17681 2 with that of his Old English works. Ælfric studies are currently a central element of Anglo-Saxon
• Hardback (480 pp.) studies, but while to date there has been a great deal of detailed work on some aspects of Ælfric,
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A Companion to the Great Western Schism (1378-1417)

Edited by Joëlle Rollo-Koster, University of Rhode Island, and Thomas M. Izbicki
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The division of the Church or Schism that took place between 1378 and 1417 had no precedent
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in Christianity. No conclave since the twelfth century had acted as had those in April and
September 1378, electing two concurrent popes. This crisis was neither an issue of the authority
claimed by the pope and the Holy Roman Emperor nor an issue of authority and liturgy.
The Great Western Schism was unique because it forced upon Christianity a rethinking of
the traditional medieval mental frame. It raised question of personality, authority, human
fallibility, ecclesiastical jurisdiction and taxation, and in the end responsibility in holding
• September 2009 power and authority. This collection presents the broadest range of experiences, center and
• ISBN 978 90 04 16277 8 periphery, clerical and lay, male and female, Christian and Muslim. Theology, including exegesis
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Church History
A Companion to Peter Martyr Vermigli

Edited by Torrance Kirby, McGill University, Montreal,
Emidio Campi, Institute of Swiss Reformation History,
and Frank James III, Reformed Theological Seminary, Oviedo
The great Florentine Protestant reformer Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499-1562) made a unique
contribution to the scriptural hermeneutics of the Renaissance and Reformation, where
classical theories of interpretation derived from Patristic and Scholastic sources engaged with
new methods drawn from Humanism and Hebraism. Vermigli was one of the pioneers of the
sixteenth century in acknowledging and harnessing the biblical scholarship of the medieval
• May 2009 Rabbis. His eminence in the Catholic Church in Italy (until 1542) was followed by an equally
• ISBN 978 90 04 17554 9 distinguished career as theologian and exegete in Protestant Europe where he was Professor
• Hardback (544 pp.) successively in Strasbourg, Oxford, and finally in Zurich. The Companion consists of 24 essays
• List price EUR 163.- / US$ 261.- divided among five themes addressing Vermigli’s international career, hermeneutical method,
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A Companion to Paul in the Reformation
RELIGIOUS STUDIES
Edited by R. Ward Holder, St Anselm College
The reception and interpretation of the writings of St Paul in the early modern period forms the
subject of this volume, from late medieval Paulinism and the beginnings of humanist biblical
scholarship and interpretation, through the ways that theologians of various confessions
considered Paul. Beyond the ways that theological voices construed Paul, several articles
examine how Pauline texts impacted other areas of early modern life, such as political thought,
the regulation of family life, and the care of the poor. Throughout, the volume makes clear
the importance of Paul for all of the confessions, and denies the confessionalism of previous 59
• May 2009 historiography. The chapters, written by experts in the field, offer a critical overview of current
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• ISBN 978 90 04 17492 4 research, and introduce the major themes in Pauline interpretation in the Reformation and how
• Hardback (xx, 670 pp.) they are being interpreted at the start of the 21st century.
A New History of Penance

Edited by Abigail Firey, University of Kentucky
Between the third and sixteenth centuries, penance (the acts or gestures performed to
atone for transgression, usually with an interest in the salvation of the penitent’s soul) was a
crucial mode of participation in both society and the cosmos. Penance was incorporated into
political and legal negotiations, it erupted in improvisational social dramas, it was subject to
experimentation and innovation, and it saturated western culture with images of contrition,
suffering, and reconciliation. During the late antique, medieval, and early modern periods,
rituals for the correction of human errors became both sophisticated and popular. Creativity
• November 2008 in penitential expression reflects the range and complexity of social and spiritual situations in
• ISBN 978 90 04 12212 3 which penance was vital. Using hitherto unconsidered source materials, the contributors chart
• Hardback (viii, 464 pp) new views on how in western culture, human conduct was modulated and directed in patterns
• List price EUR 125.- / US$ 200.- shaped by the fearsome yet embraced practices of penance.

Church History
A History of Prayer
The First to the Fifteenth Century
Edited by Roy Hammerling, Concordia College, University of Notre Dame
“Prayer is real religion,” said Auguste Sabatier. If so, the academic study of prayer allows
scholars to examine the very heart of religious practices, beliefs, and convictions. Since prayers
exist in a wide variety of content, contexts, forms, and practices, a comprehensive approach
to the study of prayer is required. Therefore, this volume includes scholars from a wide range
of disciplines, in order to discover the breadth of “real religion” from the first to the fifteenth
• October 2008 centuries. This volume especially focuses upon the history of Christianity and monasticism,
• ISBN 978 90 04 17122 0 where prayer was the school of hope, faith, and critical thought, awakening the faithful to every
• Hardback (xviii, 484 pp.) aspect of religious and daily life.
A Companion to Juan Luis Vives

RELIGIOUS STUDIES
Edited by Charles Fantazzi, East Carolina University
The extraordinarily diverse oeuvre of Juan Luis Vives, marked by great erudition and
originality, still remains very little known in the English-speaking world. This collection of
essays considers his life and the influence of his writings, and examines some of his chief
works. These include his books on the education of women and on the relief of the poor, his
numerous political writings, and his huge encyclopedic treatise, De disciplinis, a comprehensive
critical and systematic review of universal learning and the state of the academic disciplines
60 at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Subsequent chapters discuss Vives’s ideas on the
• August 2008 soul, especially his analysis of the emotions, his contribution to rhetoric and dialectic and a
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Lutheran Ecclesiastical Culture, 1550-1675

Edited by Robert Kolb, Concordia Seminary, Saint Louis
Literature on confessionalization has opened new vistas for considering early-modern

Christianity and its place in Western social-political contexts, but the ecclesiastical cultures
of the period need further research and analysis to refine our focus on how Christians lived
in their own communities and related to society at large. This volume’s essays assess eight
elements of Lutheran life (its foundation in sixteenth-century processing of Luther’s legacy,
university teaching, preaching, catechesis, devotional literature, popular piety, church and
society, church and secular government) and two geographical areas (Nordic and Baltic lands,
• June 2008 the kingdom of Hungary) to orient readers to current scholarly discussion and suggest further
• ISBN 978 90 04 16641 7 avenues for exploration and evaluation. Each offers perspectives on Lutherans’ attempts to
• Hardback (x, 534 pp.) practise their faith in the world.
• Brill’s Companions to the Contributors are: Kenneth Appold, Gerhard Bode, Susan Boettcher, Christopher Boyd Brown,
Christian Tradition, 11 Robert Christman, David Daniel, Irene Dingel, Robert von Friedeburg, Mary Jane Haemig, and
Eric Lund.

Church History
Medieval Commentaries on Aristotle’s Categories

Edited by Lloyd A. Newton, Benedictine College, Atchison, Kansas
Medieval commentary writing has often been described as a way of “doing philosophy,” and not
without reason. The various commentaries on Aristotle’s Categories we have from this period
did not simply elaborate a dialectical exercise for training students; rather, they provided their
authors with an unparalleled opportunity to work through crucial philosophical problems,
many of which remain with us today. As such, this unique commentary tradition is important
not only in its own right, but also to the history and development of philosophy as a whole.
The contributors to this volume take a fresh look at it, examining a wide range of medieval
• June 2008 commentators, from Simplicius to John Wyclif, and discussing such issues as the compatibility of
• ISBN 978 90 04 16752 0 Platonism with Aristotelianism; the influence of Avicenna; the relationship between grammar,
• Hardback (viii, 440 pp.) logic, and metaphysics; the number of the categories; the status of the categories as a science;
• List price EUR 125.- / US$ 185.- realism vs. nominalism; and the relationship between categories.
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Bewegung und Beharrung: Aspekte des reformierten

Protestantismus, 1520-1650
Herausgegeben von Christian Moser, University of Zurich und Peter Opitz, 61
University of Zurich, unter Mitwirkung von Hans Ulrich Bächtold, Luca Baschera
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und Alexandra Kess
Wer sich der Erforschung des reformierten Protestantismus widmet, setzt sich mit einer
komplexen Bewegung auseinander: Religiöse, theologische und kulturelle Traditionen werden
kritisch reflektiert, bisweilen verworfen oder aber in neuer Interpretation weitergeführt.
• May 2009 Politische und soziale Veränderungen zeitigen gravierende Konsequenzen für Einzelne wie für
• ISBN 978 90 04 17806 9 ganze Landschaften. Gewollt oder ungewollt bleiben dabei Veränderung und Beharrung eng
• Hardback (x, 470 pp. in German ineinander verwoben.
with German, English texts) Historians recognize that the field of reformed Protestantism is multi-faceted: religious,
• List price EUR 99.- / US$ 147.- theological and cultural traditions are critically reflected, occasionally revised and
• Studies in the History of reinterpreted. Political and social changes can have a grave impact on individuals or landscapes.
Christian Traditions, 144 Traditions and change remain interwoven in this process, whether intentional or not.

Church History
Poverty’s Proprietors
Ownership and Mortal Sin at the Origins of the Observant Movement
James D. Mixson, University of Alabama
Focusing on the theme of property and community, this study offers a new account of the
origins of fifteenth-century Observant reform in the monasteries and canonries of the southern
Empire. Through close readings of unpublished texts, it traces how ideas about reformed
community emerged, both beyond and within the religious orders, in the era of the Council
of Constance. Focusing on reform among monks and canons in Bavaria and Austria to 1450, it
• March 2009 then shows how those ideas were applied in practice, through reforming visitation and through
• ISBN 978 90 04 17405 4 a devotional culture steeped in the “new piety” of the day. These considerations allow the
• Hardback (xvi, 264 pp.) Observant Movement to offer fresh perspectives on the history religious community, reform,
• List price EUR 99.- / US$ 147.- and the church in the fifteenth century.
• Studies in the History of
Christian Traditions, 143
Negotiating Community and Difference in Medieval Europe

RELIGIOUS STUDIES
Gender, Power, Patronage and the Authority of Religion

in Latin Christendom
Edited by Katherine Allen Smith, University of Puget Sound,

and Scott Wells, California State University, Los Angeles
This collection builds on the foundational work of Penelope D. Johnson, John Boswell’s
62 most influential student outside queer studies, on integration and segregation in medieval
• January 2009 Christianity. It documents the multiple strategies by which medieval people constructed
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• ISBN 978 90 04 17125 1 identities and, in the process, wove the boundaries of inclusion and exclusion among various
• Hardback (320 pp., 16, 1 vols.) individuals and groups. The collection adopts an interdisciplinary approach, encompassing
• List price EUR 99.- / US$ 158.- historical, art historical, and literary perpsectives to explore the definition of personal and
• Studies in the History of communal spaces within medieval texts, the complex negotiation of the relationship between
Christian Traditions, 142 devotee and saint in both the early and the later Middle Ages, the forming of partnerships
(symbolic, economic, devotional, etc.) between men and women across medieval Europe’s
considerable gender divide, and the ostracism of individuals and groups through various means
including imprisonment, violence, and their identification with pollution.

Church History
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• January 2010 Dire l’interdit: The Vocabulary of Censure and Exclusion

• ISBN 978 90 04 17922 6
• Hardback (347 pp. with English, in the Early Modern Reformed Tradition
French texts)
• List price EUR 99.- / US$ 147.- Edited by Raymond A. Mentzer, University of Iowa,
• Brill’s Series in Church Françoise Moreil, Université d’Avignon et des pays de Vaucluse,
History, 40 and Philippe Chareyre, Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour
Church discipline and the Reformed consistory, whether in Hungary, the Swiss world,
France, The Netherlands or the British Isles, have become the subject of intense scholarly
discussion. The fifteen essays gathered in this volume examine the process of censure and
excommunication across Europe from the mid-sixteenth through the late eighteenth centuries.
They reevaluate the relationship of women to ecclesiastical authority and explore the complex
ways in which exclusion from the Lord’s Supper operated. Several contributors trace the
decrease in excommunication over time; others underscore national differences in its nature
and the surprising infrequency of application. Together, they offer a fresh, unanticipated and
RELIGIOUS STUDIES
illuminating portrait of the reform of morals associated with John Calvin and his followers.
• September 2009 Arminius, Arminianism, and Europe

• ISBN 978 90 04 17887 8
• Hardback (320 pp., 1 vols.)
Jacobus Arminius (1559/60-1609)
• Brill’s Series in Church Edited by Marius van Leeuwen, Leiden University,
History, 39 Keith D. Stanglin, Harding University, 63
and Marijke Tolsma, Leiden University
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19 October 2009 marked the 400th anniversary of the death of Jacobus Arminius in Leiden. He
was esteemed for the way in which he sought a via media between strict Calvinism and a more
humanistic variant of Christian belief. However, because of his deviation from mainstream
Calvinism, he has also been violently attacked. Was he a pioneer, who enriched the Reformed
tradition by opening it towards new horizons, or a heretic, who founded a new tradition, as an
alternative to Reformed theology?
The day of the death of this remarkable theologian was commemorated with a conference at
Leiden University on Arminius, Aminianism, and Europe (9 and 10 October 2009). The main
contributions to that conference are collected in this book. The first part contains some essays
on the thinking of Arminius himself: the structure of his theology, his relation to Augustine,
and to Rome. The second part deals with Arminianism. Was it influenced by Socinianism,
as its opponents often claimed? How was it received in Europe: in Germany, Switzerland
(Geneva), England, and Ireland? How far did Arminianism prepare the way for the ideals of
the Enlightenment, which made its entry later on in the seventeenth century? An extensive
iconography of Jacobus Arminius and an annotated bibliography of all his known writings
complete, in the third part, this volume.

Church History
Sober, Strict, and Scriptural

Collective Memories of John Calvin, 1800-2000
Edited by Johan de Niet, Herman Paul, Leiden University,

and Bart Wallet, University of Amsterdam
Calvinism’s influence and reputation have received ample scholarly attention. But how John
Calvin himself – his person, character, and deeds – was remembered, commemorated, and
memorialized, is a question few historians have addressed. Focussing on the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries, this volume aims to open up the subject with chapters on Calvin’s
• April 2009 monumentalization in statues and museums, his appearance in novels, children’s books, and
• ISBN 978 90 04 17424 5 travel writing, his iconic function for Hungarian nationalists and Presbyterian missionaries to
• Hardback (xiv, 394 pp.) China, his reputation among Mormons and freethinkers, and his rivalry with Michael Servetus
• List price EUR 99.- / US$ 147.- in French Protestant memory. The result is a fresh contribution to the field of religious memory
• Brill’s Series in Church studies and an invitation to further comparative research.
History, 38
Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic Religions:

RELIGIOUS STUDIES
1700-Present
Edited by Jitse M. van der Meer, Redeemer University College,
and Scott Mandelbrote, Cambridge University
The four companion volumes of Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic Religions contribute to a
contextual evaluation of the mutual influences between scriptural exegesis and hermeneutics
on the one hand and practices or techniques of interpretation in natural philosophy and the
64 natural sciences on the other. We seek to raise the low profile this theme has had both in the
• January 2009 history of science and in the history of biblical interpretation. Furthermore, questions about
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• ISBN 978 90 04 17192 3 the interpretation of scripture continue to be provoked by current theological reflection on
• Hardback (2 vols.) scientific theories. We also seek to provide a historical context for renewed reflection on the role
• List price EUR 195.- / US$ 312.- of the hermeneutics of scripture in the development of theological doctrines that interact with
• Brill’s Series in Church the natural sciences.
History, 37
Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic Religions:

Up to 1700
Edited by Jitse M. van der Meer, Redeemer University College,
and Scott Mandelbrote, Cambridge University
The four companion volumes of Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic Religions contribute to a
contextual evaluation of the mutual influences between scriptural exegesis and hermeneutics
on the one hand and practices or techniques of interpretation in natural philosophy and the
natural sciences on the other. We seek to raise the low profile this theme has had both in the
• January 2009 history of science and in the history of biblical interpretation. Furthermore, questions about
• ISBN 978 90 04 17191 6 the interpretation of scripture continue to be provoked by current theological reflection on
• Hardback (2 vols.) scientific theories. We also seek to provide a historical context for renewed reflection on the role
• List price EUR 195.- / US$ 312.- of the hermeneutics of scripture in the development of theological doctrines that interact with
• Brill’s Series in Church the natural sciences.
History, 36

Church History
Petrus van Mastricht (1630-1706)

Reformed Orthodoxy: Method and Piety
Adriaan C. Neele, Yale University
This book is a first monograph on the life and work of Petrus van Mastricht (1630-1706).
Expanding the new interest in Protestant scholasticism this book portrays Mastricht as a post-
Reformation reformed theologian, philosopher and Christian Hebraist. The result provides a
fresh appraisal, in particular, on the relationship of biblical exegesis, doctrine, polemic, and
praxis.
• June 2009
• ISBN 978 90 04 16992 0
• Brill’s Series in Church
History, 35
The Limburg Sermons
RELIGIOUS STUDIES
Preaching in the Medieval Low Countries at the Turn
of the Fourteenth Century
Wybren Scheepsma
Translated by David F. Johnson
For a long time it was thought that there were no Middle Dutch sermons dating from the
thirteenth century. It was only after J.P. Gumbert had redated the manuscript from The Hague
containing the Limburg Sermons that its contents could be assigned to that century. Most of the 65
• August 2008 Limburg Sermons appear to be translations of the Middle High German St. Georgen sermons. But
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• ISBN 978 90 04 16969 2 sixteen of these texts are known only in Middle Dutch, and among these is to be found material
• Hardback (xiv, 490 pp.) drawn from the works of Hadewijch and Beatrijs van Nazareth. Thus the Limburg Sermons emerge
• List price EUR 99.- / US$ 148.- to take their place in the famous tradition of Brabantine mysticism.
History, 34
Models of Charitable Care

Catholic Nuns and Children in their Care in Amsterdam, 1852-2002
Annelies van Heijst, Tilburg University
Models of Charitable Care analyses the practice of Catholic nuns in Amsterdam in the 19th and
20th century. Attention is paid to the ambiguous ascetic spiritual discourse that underpinned
their work: it encouraged charity as solidarity with strangers, but caused intense emotional
distance too. Historiography is mainly manufactured by religious and lay academics who
shared the congregational perspective and presented fairly positive evaluations. Criticism from
• June 2008 within, however, is voiced by care leavers who grew up in homes ran by religious. Some are
• ISBN 978 90 04 16833 6 grateful, others bitter. The sisters were living models who combined an anti-worldly outlook
• Hardback (x, 418 pp.) with a practical concern for vulnerable creatures. Relating various theoretical interpretations, a
• List price EUR 99.- / US$ 148.- typology of three models is developed with ‘agency’ as the differentiating criterion.
History, 33

Church History
Raiding Saint Peter: Empty Sees, Violence,

and the Initiation of the Great Western Schism (1378)
Joëlle Rollo-Koster, University of Rhode Island
Throughout the European Middle Ages, the death of high-ranking prelates was usually
interwoven with violent practices. During Empty Sees, mobs ransacked bishops’ and popes’
properties to loot their movable goods. Eventually, in the later Middle Ages, they also plundered
the goods of newly-elected popes, and the cells of the Conclave. This book follows and analyzes
the history of this violence, using a methodology akin to cultural anthropology, with concepts
• March 2008 such as liminal periodization. It contends that pillaging was attached to ecclesiastical
• ISBN 978 90 04 16560 1 interregna, and the nature of ecclesiastical elections contributed to a pillaging ‘problem.’ This
• Hardback (288 pp.) approach allows for a fresh reading and re-contextualization of one of the greatest political
• List price EUR 99.- / US$ 148.- crises of the later Middle Ages, the Great Western Schism.
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• November 2009 The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews

• ISBN 978 90 04 17981 3
• Hardback (314 pp. (18
Jesuits of Jewish Ancestry and Purity-of-Blood Laws
illustrations), 1 vols.) in the Early Society of Jesus
• Studies in Medieval and Robert Aleksander Maryks, City University of New York
Reformation Traditions, 146
In The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews the author explains how Christians with Jewish family
backgrounds went within less than forty years from having a leading role in the foundation
of the Society of Jesus to being prohibited from membership in it. The author works at the
intersection to two important historical topics, each of which attracts considerable scholarly
attention but that have never received sustained and careful attention together, namely, the
early modern histories of the Jesuit order and of Iberian “purity of blood” concerns.
An analysis of the pro- and anti-converso texts in this book (both in terms of what they are
claiming and what their limits are) advance our understanding of early modern, institutional
Catholicism at the intersection of early modern religious reform and the new racism developing
in Spain and spreading outwards.

Church History
A Contrite Heart
Prosecution and Redemption in the Carolingian Empire
Abigail Firey, University of Kentucky
Between the middle of the eighth century and the late ninth century in western Europe, the
course of legal history was shaped by interaction with religious ideas, especially with regard to
the meaning of confession, suffering, and the balance of protections for an accused individual
and the welfare of the community. This book traces those themes through a selection of
Carolingian texts, such as archbishop Hincmar’s legal analysis of a royal divorce, the decrees of
• September 2009 church councils, the biography of a Saxon holy woman, anti-Judaic treatises, and Hrotswitha’s
• ISBN 978 90 04 17815 1 dramatisation of the legend of Thaïs, in order to make audible the lively debates over the
• Hardback (327 pp., 1 vols.) boundaries of clerical and lay authority, the nature and extent of permissible intervention in
• List price EUR 99.- / US$ 147.- the spiritual condition of the empire’s inhabitants, and distinctions between the private and
• Studies in Medieval and public domains. This work thus reveals the profound relation between law and penitential
Reformation Traditions, 145 ideologies promoted by the Carolingian imperial court.
Stephen Langton
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Erzbischof von Canterbury im England der Magna Carta (1207-1228)
Daniel Baumann
In historical research, Stephen Langton is primarily known as a Parisian master of theology.

This biography is dedicated to Langton’s works as archbishop of Canterbury (1207-1228). His
pontificate coincided with a period of political crisis in England, most notably the conflicts
leading to the Magna Carta and its aftermath. This study sets out to show how Langton actively
helped negotiate the Magna Carta: first, as an intercessor for the English barons and then by 67
• June 2009 acting as a mediator between King John and the rebels. Furthermore, he was significantly
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• ISBN 978 90 04 17680 5 involved in restoring the powers of kingship on the basis of the Magna Carta during the years
• Hardback (xiv, 478 pp. in German, of Henry III’s minority after the civil war. Langton‘s politics paint the picture of an archbishop
1 vols.) whose policies were based on principles he had laid out in his theological writings before. Apart
• List price EUR 129.- / US$ 191.- from Langton’s political role, this study also explores Langton’s pastoral and administrative
• Studies in Medieval and commitments as bishop and baron.
Early Modern Religious Communities

in East-Central Europe
Ethnic Diversity, Denominational Plurality, and Corporative Politics
in the Principality of Transylvania (1526-1691)
István Keul, Berlin Freie Universität
Conceived as another chapter in the European history of religions (Europäische

Religionsgeschichte), this book deals with the intense dynamics of the overlapping political,
• June 2009 ethnic, and denominational constellations in Reformation and post-Reformation Transylvania.
• ISBN 978 90 04 17652 2 Navigating along multiple narrative tracks, and attempting to treat the religious history of
• Hardback (336 pp., 43 ill., 1 vols.) an entire region – over a limited time period – in a differentiated, polyfocal way, the book
• List price EUR 99.- / US$ 147.- represents a departure from the master narratives of any singularly oriented religious history.
• Studies in Medieval and At the same time, the present work seeks to contribute to laying the groundwork at the micro-
Reformation Traditions, 143 and meso-contextual level of East-Central European confessionalization processes, and to
developing interpretive models for these processes in the region.

Church History
Christian Humanism
Essays in Honour of Arjo Vanderjagt
Edited by Alasdair A. MacDonald, Groningen University,

Zweder R.W.M. von Martels, Groningen University,
and Jan R. Veenstra, Groningen University
It is a misconception that Christianity and Humanism are in any way in conflict with each other.
The present book shows that through many centuries, and especially in the Renaissance, the
two stood in a relation that was mutually complementary. The contributions in this volume
• March 2009 treat aspects and manifestations of this cultural symbiosis, and they throw new light on authors
• ISBN 978 90 04 17631 7 and texts both more and less familiar. The subject-areas discussed include: religion, history,
• Hardback (xxxvi, 502, 1 vols.) philosophy, literature and education. The age of Renaissance and Reformation is the central
• List price EUR 99.- / US$ 147.- focus, but earlier and later periods are also featured.
• Studies in Medieval and The contributions comprise a Festschrift for Professor Arjo Vanderjagt, whose work deals
Reformation Traditions, 142 centrally with both Christianity and Humanism.
Conversos and Moriscos in Late Medieval Spain

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and Beyond
Volume One: Departures and Change
Edited by Kevin Ingram, Saint Louis University, Madrid
Converso and Morisco are the terms applied to those Jews and Muslims who converted to
Christianity in large numbers and usually under duress in late medieval Spain. The Converso
68 and Morisco Studies publications will examine the implications of these mass conversions for
• June 2009 the converts themselves, for their heirs (also referred to as Conversos and Moriscos) and for
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• ISBN 978 90 04 17553 2 medieval and modern Spanish culture. As the essays in this first volume attest, the study of
• Hardback (368 pp.) the Converso and Morisco phenomena is not only important for those scholars focused on
• List price EUR 99.- / US$ 148.- Spanish society and culture, but for academics everywhere interested in the issues of identity,
• Studies in Medieval and Otherness, nationalism, religious intolerance and the challenges of modernity.
The ‘Book’ of Travels

Genre, Ethnology, and Pilgrimage, 1250-1700
Edited by Palmira Brummett, University of Tennessee
The early modern era is often envisioned as one in which European genres, both narrative and
visual, diverged indelibly from those of medieval times. This collection examines a disparate
set of travel texts, dating from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries, to question that
divergence and to assess the modes, themes, and ethnologies of travel writing. It demonstrates
the enduring nature of the itinerary, the variant forms of witnessing (including imaginary
• April 2009 maps), the crafting of sacred space as a cautionary tale, and the use of the travel narrative
• ISBN 978 90 04 17498 6 to represent the transformation of the authorial self. Focusing on European travelers to
• Hardback (xxxvi, 332 pp.) the expansive East, from the soft architecture of Timur’s tent palaces in Samarqand to the
• List price EUR 99.- / US$ 147.- ambiguities of sexual identity at the Mughul court, these essays reveal the possibilities for
• Studies in Medieval and cultural translation as travelers of varying experience and attitude confront remote and foreign
Reformation Traditions, 140 (or not so foreign) space.

Church History
King’s Sister – Queen of Dissent

Marguerite of Navarre (1492-1549) and her Evangelical Network
Jonathan A. Reid
This study reconstructs for the first time Marguerite of Navarre’s leadership of a broad circle of
nobles, prelates, humanist authors, and commoners, who sought to advance the reform of the
French church along evangelical (Protestant) lines. Hitherto misunderstood in scholarship, they
are revealed to have pursued, despite persecution, a consistent reform program from the Meaux
experiment to the end of Francis I’s reign through a variety of means: fostering local church
• June 2009 reform, publishing a large corpus of religious literature, high-profile public preaching, and
• ISBN 978 90 04 17497 9 attempting to shape the direction royal policy. Their distinctive doctrines, relations with major
• Hardback (2 vols.) reformers – including their erstwhile colleague Calvin – involvement in major Reformation
• List price EUR 190.- / US$ 281.- events, and the impact of their unsuccessful attempt are all explored.
• Studies in Medieval and
Wandering Women and Holy Matrons
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Women as Pilgrims in the Later Middle Ages
Leigh Ann Craig, Virginia Commonwealth University
This book explores women’s experiences of pilgrimage in Latin Christendom between 1300
and 1500 C.E. Later medieval authors harbored grave doubts about women’s mobility; literary
images of mobile women commonly accused them of lust, pride, greed, and deceit. Yet real
women commonly engaged in pilgrimage in a variety of forms, both physical and spiritual,
voluntary and compulsory, and to locations nearby and distant. Acting within both practical 69
• March 2009 and social constraints, such women helped to construct more positive interpretations of
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• ISBN 978 90 04 17426 9 their desire to travel and of their experiences as pilgrims. Regardless of how their travel was
• Hardback (xii, 316 pp.) interpreted, those women who succeeded in becoming pilgrims offer us a rare glimpse of
• List price EUR 99.- / US$ 148.- ordinary women taking on extraordinary religious and social authority.
• Studies in Medieval and

Missiology
Studies in Christian Mission

Editors: Marc R. Spindler and Heleen L. Murre-van den Berg, Leiden University
Editorial Board: Peggy Brock, Edith Cowan University, James Grayson, University of Sheffield,
and David Maxwell, Keele University
The book series Studies in Christian Mission publishes scholarly monographs and edited volumes on the history of Christian missionary
activities and related theological issues.
For more information about the series visit brill.nl/scm
• August 2009 Communication and Conversion in Northern Cameroon

• ISBN 978 90 04 17754 3
• Hardback (xvi + 244)
The Dii people and Norwegian Missionaries, 1934-1960
• Studies in Christian Mission, 37 Tomas Sundnes Drønen, School of Mission and Theology, Stavanger, Norway
Was modern Christian mission to Africa primarily a colonial project and a civilizing mission
or was it a spiritual revival spreading to new areas? This fascinating book tells the tale of the
Dii people in northern Cameroon and describes their encounter with Norwegian missionaries.
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Through archival studies and through fieldwork among the Dii, an intriguing scenario is
presented. Whereas the missionaries describe their mission as one of spiritual liberation, and
the Dii highligt the social liberation they received through literacy and political independence,
the author shows how both spiritual and social changes were results of captivation,
miscommunication and constant negotiations between the two parties.
The Making of Manhood among Swedish Missionaries in

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China and Mongolia, c.1890-c.1914
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Erik Sidenvall, Lund University
Over the last thirty years, issues of gender have been creatively explored within the field of
mission studies. Whereas the life and work of female missionaries have been fruitfully reflected
upon, male gender identity has often been understood as an unchanging category. This book
offers a pioneering account of the relationship between missionary work and masculinity. By
examining four individual men this study explores how self-making occurred within foreign
• May 2009 missions, but also how conceptions of male gender informed missionary work. Changes that
• ISBN 978 90 04 17408 5 occurred in the lives of these men are placed within the broader context of how issues of gender
• Hardback (xvi, 189 pp) were renegotiated within the contemporary missionary movement.
• Studies in Christian Mission, 36

Missiology
A History of Christianity in Indonesia

Edited by Jan Sihar Aritonang, Theological College of Jakarta, and Karel Steenbrink,
Utrecht University
Indonesia is the home of the largest single Muslim community of the world. Its Christian
community, about 10% of the population, has until now received no overall description in
English. Through cooperation of 26 Indonesian and European scholars, Protestants and
Catholics, a broad and balanced picture is given of its 24 million Christians. This book sketches
the growth of Christianity during the Portuguese period (1511-1605), it presents a fair account
of developments under the Dutch colonial administration (1605-1942) and is more elaborate for
• August 2008 the period of the Indonesian Republic (since 1945). It emphasizes the regional differences in this
• ISBN 978 90 04 17026 1 huge country, because most Christians live outside the main island of Java. Muslim-Christian
• Hardback (xvi, 1004 pp.) relations, as well as the tensions between foreign missionaries and local theology, receive
• List price EUR 179.- / US$ 265.- special attention.
• Studies in Christian Mission, 35
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Jewish Studies
Brill’s Series in Jewish Studies

Edited by David S. Katz, Tel-Aviv University
Scholarly monographs covering topics in Jewish history, language, society and culture up to the present era.
For more information about the series visit brill.nl/bsjs
The Jews of Iran in the Nineteenth Century

Aspects of History, Community, and Culture
David Yeroushalmi, Tel-Aviv University
The history of Iranian Jews after the establishment of the Safavid State in Iran in 1501 C.E.
has formed the subject of growing academic and broader interest over the last few decades.
However, despite the significant increase in the quantity and quality of the publications in
this area, some of the main aspects and periods in the history of Iranian Jews have received
little or no systematic treatment. Dealing with some broad but closely related areas of history,
• December 2008 community, society, and culture among the Jews of nineteenth-century Iran, the present book
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• ISBN 978 90 04 15288 5 provides sources of information as well as discussions and explanations related to some of the
• Hardback (lvi, 440 pp.) main conditions and realities that shaped the lives of the Iranian Jews prior to their accelerated
• List price EUR 150.- / US$ 240.- transformation in the course of the twentieth-century. Included among the eight sections and
• Brill’s Series in Jewish Studies, 40 over forty annotated and analyzed sources in the book are those that shed light on some of the
major areas of Jewish life in nineteenth-century Iran.
72 Studies in Jewish History and Culture

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Edited by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Arizona State University,

and Giuseppe Veltri, Leopold-Zunz-Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Halle-Wittenberg
Studies in Jewish History and Culture aims to present a wide spectrum of studies that cover Jewish history, society, and culture from
antiquity to the present. The series seeks to highlight diversity within Judaism as well as the interaction between Jewish and
non-Jewish civilizations. Encompassing all geographical areas and all periods in the history of Judaism, this series specializes in
intellectual history, translations and translation process, folklore and daily life, and literature and literary theory.
For more information about the series visit brill.nl/sjhc
Roots of Theological Anti-Semitism

German Biblical Interpretation and the Jews, from Herder
and Semler to Kittel and Bultmann
Anders Gerdmar, Uppsala University
As Adolf Hitler strategized his way to power, he knew that it was necessary to gain the support
of theology and the Church. This study begins two hundred years earlier, however, looking at
roots of theological anti-Semitism and how Jews and Judaism were constructed, positively and
negatively, in the biblical interpretation of German Protestant theology. Following the two
• November 2008 main streams of German theology, the salvation-historical and the Enlightenment-oriented
• ISBN 978 90 04 16851 0 traditions, it examines leading exegetes from the 1750s to the 1950s and explores how theology
• Hardback (xviii, 678 pp.) legitimizes or delegitimizes oppression of Jews, in part through still-prevailing paradigms.
• List price EUR 150.- / US$ 240.- This is the first comprehensive analysis of its kind, and the result of the analysis of the
• Studies in Jewish History and interplay between biblical exegesis and attitudes to Jews and Judaism is a fascinating and often
Culture, 20 frightening portrait of theology as a servant of power.

Jewish Studies
Supplements to The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy

The series Jewish Thought and Philosophy aims to present new and original scholarship on Jewish thought and philosophy from the
Middle Ages to the present day. Based on a broad concept of Jewish intellectual history, it covers medieval and modern halakhic
thought, philosophical exegesis of the Bible, medieval and modern philosophy, theology, mysticism, political theory, Jewish social
thought and ethics, including the interaction with non-Jewish thought. The focus is on high scholarly standards and innovative
methodological approach. While monographs are preferred, excellent collected volumes exploring important aspects of Jewish
intellectual history as well as editions and translations of essential texts are also welcome.
For more information about the series visit brill.nl/sjjt
The Cultures of Maimonideanism

New Approaches to the History of Jewish Thought
Edited by James T. Robinson, The University of Chicago, The Divinity School
In the history of Jewish thought, no individual scholar has exercised more influence than
Maimonides (1138-1204) – philosopher and physician, legal scholar and communal leader.
This collection of papers, originating at the 2007 EAJS colloquium, places primary emphasis
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on this influence – not on Maimonides himself but the many movements he inspired. Using
Maimonideanism as an interpretive lens, the authors of this volume – representing a variety
of fields and disciplines – develop new approaches to and fresh perspectives on the peculiar
• April 2009 dynamic of Judaism and philosophy. Focusing on social and cultural processes as well as
• ISBN 978 90 04 17450 4 philosophical ideas and arguments, they point toward an original reconceptualization of Jewish
• Hardback (xii, 440 pp.) thought.
• Supplements to The Journal of
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Renaissance Philosophy in Jewish Garb
Foundations and Challenges in Judaism on the Eve of Modernity
Giuseppe Veltri, University of Halle-Wittenberg
Based on several years of research on Jewish intellectual life in the Renaissance, this book
tries to distinguish the coordinates of “modernity” as premises of Jewish philosophy, and
vice versa. In the first part, it is concerned with the foundations of Jewish philosophy, its
nature as philosophical science and as wisdom. The second part is devoted to certain elements
and challenges of the humanist and Renaissance period as reflected in Judaism: historical
consciousness and the sciences, utopian tradition, the legal status of the Jews in Christian
• November 2008 political tradition and in Jewish political thought, aesthetic concepts of the body and
• ISBN 978 90 04 17196 1 conversion.
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Jewish Studies
[cover 28712] Zwischen Philosophie und Gesetz

• January 2009
Jüdische Philosophie und Theologie von 1933 bis 1938
• ISBN 978 90 04 16761 2
• Hardback (xiv, 334 pp.) Thomas Meyer, Simon-Dubnow-Insitute for Jewish History and Culture in Leipzig
• Supplements to The Journal of Despite the revival of intellectual history in recent years, there is still relatively little research
Jewish Thought and Philosophy, 7 into German-Jewish intellectual history between 1933 and 1938. The present work studies for
the first time the important discussions of the period from the debate between Leo Strauss and
Julius Guttmann, Alexander Altmann’s contribution to “Jewish theology,” to the reception of
the work of Franz Rosenzweig and Martin Heidegger as well as the works of David Baumgardt
and Fritz Heinemann. Many now forgotten texts of those discussions have been made accessible
here. All the leading figures presented in this study were sooner or later forced to choose
between “philosophy” and “law.”
Emil L. Fackenheim
Philosopher, Theologian, Jew
Edited by Sharon Portnoff, Pomona College, James A. Diamond, University of

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Waterloo, Ontario, and Martin D. Yaffe, University of North Texas
Emil L. Fackenheim: Philosopher, Theologian, Jew is a scholarly tribute to Fackenheim’s memory.

Fackenheim’s combination of erudition and generosity served to inspire a lifetime of
philosophical inquiry, and a number of his students are represented in this volume. The volume,
in order to provide a forum through which to introduce his thought to a broader audience,
• March 2008 covers a wide spectrum of Fackenheim’s work including biographical, philosophical, and
• ISBN 978 90 04 15767 5 theological aspects of his thought that have not been addressed adequately in the past. Elie
74 • Hardback (xviii, 342 pp.) Wiesel, a close personal friend to Fackenheim for over 30 years, has provided the Foreword for
• List price EUR 100.- / US$ 148.- the volume.
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Seeing with Both Eyes

Ephraim Luntshitz and the Polish-Jewish Renaissance
Leonard S. Levin, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York
This is an integrated study of the revival of philosophical studies in 16th-century central-

European Jewry focusing on seven major thinkers and especially on the intellectual
development of Ephraim Luntshitz (1550-1619). Preoccupation with philosophy is traced through
Moses Isserles, Solomon Luria, Mordecai Jaffe, Abraham Horowitz, Eliezer Ashkenazi, Maharal of
Prague, and Ephraim Luntshitz. Analysis of these thinkers’ intellectual affiliations is based on
close analysis of their primary texts, of which a generous selection is provided in translation for
• June 2008 the first time. This work advances the scholarly study of 16th-century Polish-Jewish culture, the
• ISBN 978 90 04 16484 0 Polish Jewish Renaissance, the philosophical interests of Ashkenazic Jewry, Jewish responses to
• Hardback (xx, 449 pp.) Renaissance humanism and the Reformation, and the early-modern background for the 18th-
• List price EUR 115.- / US$ 170.- century Jewish Enlightenment.

Jewish Studies
Jewish Identities in a Changing World

Edited by Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Yosef Gorny and Judith Liwerant
This series is about Klal Yisrael-the worldwide commonwealth of the Jewish people. It is based on the proceedings of an annual
seminar on the Jewish collective. This collective has found itself at several critical ideological, political, and cultural crossroads
over the past two hundred years. It now stands at a new crossroads that is no less critical. Quo vadis, O Jewish people? is the central
question in the series. All contributions are organized geographically.
For more information about the series visit brill.nl/jicw
The Place of the Mediterranean in Modern Israeli Identity

Alexandra Nocke, Potsdam University
While early Zionists envisioned the Jewish state as an outpost of Europe in the Middle East,
modern Israel is—geographically speaking—located in Asia and incorporates elements
from both “Orient and Occident.” This book sheds light on how the Mediterranean region,
its history, traditions, climate, and attitudes have shaped Israeli lived experience and
consciousness. It offers new perspectives on the evolving phenomenon of Yam Tikhoniut (hebr.
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Mediterraneanism), which centers around the longing to find a “natural” place in order that
Israel be accommodated in the region, both culturally and politically. This book explores
• March 2009 Mediterraneanism as reflected in popular music, literature, architecture, and daily life and
• ISBN 978 90 04 17324 8 analyzes the ways in which the notion comprises cultural identity, societal concepts, and
• Hardback (xxii, 282pp., 16 ills., 16) political realities.
• Jewish Identities in a Changing
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Jewish Studies
Études sur le Judaïsme Médiéval

Edited by Paul Fenton
For more information about the series visit brill.nl/ejm
Translating Religion
Linguistic Analysis of Judeo-Arabic Sacred Texts from Egypt
Benjamin H. Hary, Emory University
Translations of Hebrew and Aramaic sacred texts into Jewish languages, religiolects, and
varieties have been widespread throughout the Jewish world. This volume is a study of the
genre of these translations, known as the šarḥ, into Judeo-Arabic in Egypt in the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries. The study places Judeo-Arabic along the Jewish linguistic spectrum,
traces its history and offers insights to the spoken variety of Egyptian Judeo-Arabic, which set it
apart from other Arabic dialects. The book also provides a linguistic model of the translation of
• March 2009 the sacred texts. Rather than viewing the translation as only verbatim, the study traces in great
• ISBN 978 90 04 17382 8 detail the literal/interpretive linguistic tension with which the translators struggled in their
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• Hardback (iv, 384 pp.) work.

• Études sur le Judaïsme
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Three Approaches to Biblical Metaphor

76 From Abraham Ibn Ezra and Maimonides to David Kimhi
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Mordechai Z. Cohen, Yeshiva University
This volume explores how the poetic technique of biblical metaphor was analyzed within the
Jewish exegetical tradition that developed in Muslim Spain during the Golden Age of Hebrew
poetry and was then transplanted to a Christian milieu. Abraham Ibn Ezra and Maimonides
applied concepts from Arabic poetics, hermeneutics and logic to define metaphor and interpret
it within their philological-literary readings of Scripture. David Kimhi integrated their
• March 2008 methodologies with the midrashic creativity and sensitivity to nuance typical of his native
• ISBN 978 90 04 12971 9 Provence to create a new literary interpretive system that highlights the expressiveness of
• Hardback (xviii, 380 pp.) metaphor.
• List price EUR 130.- / US$ 193.- This study is important for readers interested in metaphor, the Bible as literature, the history of
• Études sur le Judaïsme biblical interpretation and the inter-relation between Arabic and Hebrew learning.
Médiéval, 26

Jewish Studies
IJS Studies in Judaica

General Editor: Mark Geller
These volumes are based on the international conference series of the Institute of Jewish Studies, University College London. The
language of publication is English, though individual volumes may feature one or two foreign language papers. Volumes focus on
significant themes relating to Jewish civilization, bringing together eminent scholars from different countries, working in the same
or allied fields of research.
For more information about the series visit brill.nl/ijs
Jewish Theatre
A Global View
Edited by Edna Nahshon, Jewish Theological Seminary in New York
While a frequently used term, Jewish Theatre has become a contested concept that defies
precise definition. Is it theatre by Jews? For Jews? About Jews? Though there are no easy answers
for these questions, Jewish Theatre: A Global View, contributes greatly to the conversation by
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offering an impressive collection of original essays written by an international cadre of noted
scholars from Europe, the United States, and Israel. The essays discuss historical and current
• July 2009 texts and performance practices, covering a wide gamut of genres and traditions.
• ISBN 978 90 04 17335 4
• Hardback (vi, 260)
• IJS Studies in Judaica, 8
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Traditions of Maimonideanism
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Edited by Carlos Fraenkel, McGill University in Montreal
The goal of the present volume is to shed light on a number of traditions of Maimonideanism
that have hitherto little been explored. Maimonides (1138 – 1204) was the most important
medieval Jewish philosopher and also made lasting contributions to many other fields. The
essays in the first part examine aspects of his work in medicine, Jewish law, and liturgy. The
essays in the second part look at how Maimonides was read, misread, and creatively reinvented
in a wide range of contexts in the East and in the West—from medieval Cairo to Crown Heights
in Brooklyn. Written by a group of leading scholars, the essays illustrate the breadth of
• July 2009 Maimonides’ work and the fascinating history of its reception from the 13th century to the
• ISBN 978 90 04 17333 0 present.
• Hardback (vi, 360 pp.)
• IJS Studies in Judaica, 7

Jewish Studies
Economic Analysis in Talmudic Literature

Rabbinic Thought in the Light of Modern Economics
Third Revised Edition
Roman A. Ohrenstein, Nassau College, State University of New York,
and Barry Gordon, University of Newcastle, NSW
This lucidly written study is unique in that there is no book extant by an economic historian
that discusses Talmudic economics in the light of modern economics. Its major focus is on
the intricate debates, statements and principles that were forged by the Talmudic Rabbis.
• June 2009 This ancient storehouse of learning includes a wealth of economic knowledge of modern
• ISBN 978 90 04 17462 7 sophistication. The book taps these “economic treasures” by way of analytic inquiry. The
• Hardback (xviii, 234 pp.) authors, both economic historians and economists, through their study of the original dialectics
• List price EUR 90.- / US$ 130.- in the Talmud, were able to discern a wide range of macro- and micro-economic ideas of major
significance. These concepts when viewed from either a contemporary or a modern perspective,
display an extraordinary degree of insight and sophistication. Indeed, sections of the Talmud
and the reflections of subsequent commentators on those passages, embody a wealth of
economic thought that was later to become significant in the reasoning of political economists,
or of their professional academic successors.
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The Legacy of Hans Jonas

Judaism and the Phenomenon of Life
Edited by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Arizona State University,

and Christian Wiese, University of Sussex
78 Hans Jonas (1903-1993) was one of the most creative and original Jewish thinkers of the
twentieth-century. This volume offers a retrospective of Jonas’s life and works by bringing
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together historians of modern Germany, Judaica scholars, philosophers, bioethicists, and

environmentalists to reflect on the meaning of his legacy today. From a historian of religions,
• June 2008 who wrote a path-breaking monograph on Gnosticism, Jonas turned to the philosophy of nature,
• ISBN 978 90 04 16722 3 extending his existential philosophy and phenomenological analysis to include all forms of
• Hardback (xlii, 578 pp.) life. Unique among twentieth-century Jewish philosophers, Jonas argued for the possibility of
• List price EUR 180.- / US$ 267.- a genuinely symbiotic relationship between humanity and nature, which he believed had been
suppressed by modern technology. Jonas spoke against the human domination of nature on the
basis of Jewish sources, especially the Bible and Lurianic Kabbalah, and he was among the first
to define the ethical challenges that modern technology poses to humanity.
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diversity of geographical regions and religions of the past as Method & Theory in the Study of Religion publishes articles, notes,
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lies on empirical, source-based research, typical contributions This includes such traditional points of departure as history,
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Abstracts and Index of Recent Articles Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism
Edited by Katja Triplett, University of Marburg Edited by Roland Edighoffer, University of Paris III-
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• 2009: Volume 34 (in 0 issues) Wouter J. Hanegraaff, University of Amsterdam and
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drawn from a wide range of journals in various languages and devoted to a long-neglected but now rapidly developing new
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Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte is a peer-reviewed
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Journal of Religion in Europe Journal of Religion in Africa

Edited by Hans G. Kippenberg, Jacobs University Bremen, Editors: Adeline Masquelier, Tulane University,
and Kocku von Stuckrad, University of Amsterdam and Brad Weiss, College of William and Mary
• 2009: Volume 2 (in 3 issues) • 2009: Volume 39 (in 4 issues)

• ISSN 1874-8910 / E-ISSN 1874-8929 • ISSN 0022-4200 / E-ISSN 1570-0666
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The peer-reviewed Journal of Religion in Europe (JRE) provides The Journal of Religion in Africa is interested in all religious
a forum for multi-disciplinary research into the complex traditions and all their forms, in every part of Africa, and it is
dynamics of religious discourses and practices in Europe, open to every methodology. Its contributors include scholars
82 both historically and contemporary. The Journal’s underlying working in history, anthropology, sociology, political science,
idea is that religion in Europe is characterized by a variety of missiology, literature and related disciplines. It occasionally
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pluralisms. There is a pluralism of religious communities that publishes religious texts in their original African language.
actively engage with one another; there exists a pluralism of Presenting a unique forum for the debate of theoretical issues
societal systems, such as nation, law, politics, economy, science, in the analysis of African religion past and present, the Journal
and art, all of them interacting with religious systems; finally, of Religion in Africa also encourages the development of new
in a pluralism of scholarly discourses religious studies, legal methodologies. It reviews a very wide range of books and
studies, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and regularly publishes longer review articles on works of special
psychology are addressing the religious dynamics involved. The interest. The Journal of Religion in Africa prides itself on being
JRE encourages new kinds of publications that respond to the highly international and is the only English-language journal
changing European dimension of social and cultural studies. dedicated to the study of religion and ritual throughout
Africa. In an effort to highlight emerging themes in the study
For more information see brill.nl/jre of religion in Africa, and promote the outstanding work of
younger scholars, the JRA regularly publishes special issues,
for example: Faith and AIDS in East Africa, Islamic Thought in
20th-Century Africa, Inventing Orthodoxy: African Shaping of
Mission Christianity During the Colonial Era, Christian-Muslim
Relations in Sub-Saharan Africa, New Dimensions in the Study of
Pentecostalism, and Twinship.
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Journals
Die Welt des Islams Exchange

Edited by Stefan Reichmuth, Bochum, Germany A Journal of Missiological and Ecumenical Research
• 2009: Volume 49 (in 4 issues) Executive Editor: Freek L. Bakker, Interuniversity

• ISSN 0043-2539 / E-ISSN 1570-0607 Institute for Missiological and Ecumenical Research, Utrecht
• Institutional subscription rates
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present times. Special attention is given to literature from this
period. Over the last 40 years, Die Welt des Islams has established Established in 1972 by the Interuniversity Institute for
itself as a journal unrivalled by any other in its field. Its presence Missiological and Ecumenical Studies in Utrecht, Exchange is a 83
in both the major research libraries of the world and in the high-quality international journal devoted to missiology and
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private libraries of professors, scholars and students shows this ecumenical studies, charting developments in both fields across
journal to be an easy way of staying on top of your discipline. the broad spectrum of Christian and other religious traditions.
Boasting a large international circulation, Die Welt des Islams The journal seeks to focus on observation and interpretation
provides its readers with articles in English, French and German. of Third World theologies; gives attention to the interaction
Detailed notes add to already highly descriptive articles. of Christianity and local primal religions; and provides up-to-
Extensive reviews of relevant books are written by specialists, date reports on discussions of current developments. There is a
giving a broader look into the field of Islam. review section and survey of publications.
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Social Sciences and Missions Mission Studies

Sciences sociales et missions Journal of the International Association
(Formerly: Le Fait Missionnaire) for Mission Studies
Edited by Eric Morier-Genoud, Oxford University, Edited by Lalsangkima Pachuau, Catherine Rae Ross,
Didier Peclard, Swiss Peace Foundation, Bern, J. Jayakiran Sebastian and Susan Smith
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and Wendy Urban-Mead, Bard College

• 2009: Volume 26 (in 2 issues)
• 2009: Volume 22 (in 2 issues) • ISSN 0168-9789 / E-ISSN 1573-3831
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The origin of Social Sciences and Missions /Sciences sociales et Association for Mission Studies to expand its services as a forum
missions lies at the University of Lausanne where in 1995 its for the scholarly study of biblical, theological, historical and
predecessor Le Fait Missionaire was started. Social Sciences and practical questions related to mission.
Missions /Sciences sociales et missions takes missions and religion
as an object or area of study to understand important social For more information see brill.nl/mist
and political dynamics at work in different historical and
geographical contexts.
The issues of Social Sciences and Missions are generally topical.
The journal publishes articles in French and English in an even
balance. Its editors already have well-developed networks in
both Europe, Africa and the lusophone world. Networks such as
these are being established in Asia, the United States as well as in
Latin America in order to give the subject the geographical reach
it needs and deserves.
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Biblical Interpretation Vigiliae Christianae

A Journal of Contemporary Approaches A Review of Early Christian Life and Language
Edited by Hugh Pyper, University of Sheffield Executive Editors: J.C.M. van Winden, Leiden,
J. den Boeft, Free University of Amsterdam
• 2009: Volume 17 (in 5 issues) and J. van Oort, Utrecht/Nijmegen
• ISSN 0927-2569 / E-ISSN 1568-5152
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articles on various aspects of current biblical criticism. The
articles published either give a practical demonstration of Vigiliae Christianae contains articles and short notes of an 85
how a particular approach may be instructively applied to a historical, cultural, linguistic or philological nature on early
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biblical text or texts, or make a productive contribution to the Christian literature written after the New Testament, as well as
discussion of method. The journal provides a vehicle for the on Christian epigraphy and archaeology. Church and dogmatic
exercise and development of a whole range of newer techniques history are dealt with as they relate to social history; Byzantine
of interpretation, including feminist readings, semiotic, post- and medieval literature are treated as far as they exhibit
structuralist, reader-response and other types of literary continuity with the early Christian period.
readings, liberation-theological readings, ecological readings,
psychological readings, and post-colonial interpretation, among • Leading journal in its field.
many others. Alongside eclectic issues on various subjects, • Extensive book review section giving a critical analysis
the journal has published collections of articles on particular of other titles related to the field.
thematic issues such as: Reading Gender and Gender Reading;
The New Historicism; Negotiating Theology; Beyond the Biblical For more information see brill.nl/vc
Horizon; The Bible and the Arts; Virtual History and the Bible;
The Bible in Film; and Retellings — The Bible in Literature,
Music, Art and Film.
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Horizons in Biblical Theology Church History and Religious Culture

Edited by Lewis Donelson Formerly: Nederlands Archief voor
Kerkgeschiedenis
• ISSN 0195-9085 / E-ISSN 1871-2207
• Institutional subscription rates Edited by Wim Janse, VU University Amsterdam
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• Individual subscription rates • ISSN 1871-241X / E-ISSN 1871-2428
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86 For more information see brill.nl/hbth Church History and Religious Culture is a long-established, peer-
reviewed periodical, primarily devoted to the history of
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Christianity and including other specialized related areas. For

many years, the Nederlands Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis was an
unrivalled resource for the subject both in the major research
libraries of the world and in the private collections of professors
and scholars. With an international circulation, Church History
and Religious Culture provides its readers with articles in English.
Frequent theme issues allow deeper, cutting-edge discussion of
selected topics. An extensive book review section is included in
every issue keeping you up to date with all the latest information
in the field of church history. Articles for publication in
Church History and Religious Culture may be submitted online at
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Religion and the Arts Journal of Cognition & Culture

A Journal from Boston College Executive Editors: E. Thomas Lawson,
Queen’s University of Belfast/Western Michigan University,
Executive Editor: Dennis Taylor, Boston College and Pascal Boyer Washington University
Associate Editor: Jeffery Howe, Boston College
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The Journal of Cognition and Culture provides an interdisciplinary
Launched by the Boston College in late 1996, Religion and the Arts forum for exploring the mental foundations of culture and the
has rapidly developed into a major new international journal cultural foundations of mental life. The primary focus of the 87
in this important interdisciplinary field. Religion and the Arts journal is on explanations of cultural phenomena in terms of
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promotes the development of discourses for exploring the acquisition, representation and transmission involving cognitive
religious dimensions of the verbal, visual and performing arts. capacities without excluding the study of cultural differences.
The journal has attracted international acclaim for its approach The journal contains articles, commentaries, reports of
and its excellent quality and range of interest. Religion and the experiments, and book reviews that emerge out of the inquiries
Arts publishes interpretations that develop new approaches by, and conversations between, scholars in experimental
to the religious and spiritual aspects of works of art and psychology, developmental psychology, social cognition,
discussions on the role of religion in cultural studies. It includes neuroscience, human evolution, cognitive science of religion,
critical overviews of the state of scholarship in particular areas and cognitive anthropology.
and reviews, interviews, comment, debate, and surveys of recent
developments. Recent special issues were on: Shakespeare and For more information see brill.nl/jocc
Religion, The Holocaust and the Arts and Victorian Religious Discourse.
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Journals
Archive for the Psychology of Religion Journal of Empirical Theology

Archiv für Religionspychologie Executive Editor: Chris A.M. Hermans, Nijmegen
Edited by Heinz Streib, James Day • 2009: Volume 22 (in 2 issues)

and Ralph W. Hood, Jr. • ISSN 0922-2936 / E-ISSN 1570-9256
• 2009: Volume 31 (in 3 issues) Print + e: EUR 129.- / US$ 190.-
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• Individual subscription rates The Journal of Empirical Theology (JET) publishes theological
Print only: EUR 53.- / US$ 78.- articles and book reviews directly or indirectly based upon
empirical research and empirical methodology. It aims to
The international, peer-reviewed journal Archive for the broaden and advance empirical-theological knowledge and
88 Psychology of Religion/Archiv für Religionspsychologie is the oldest thought at an international level in order to contribute to a
periodical for research in the psychology of religion. It is the deeper understanding of religion in modern times in relation to
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organ of the International Association for the Psychology of the Christian tradition.
Religion (IAPR), founded in 1914. The Archive for the Psychology
of Religion/Archiv für Religionspsychologie is open to all scientific For more information see brill.nl/jet
methodologies, both quantitative and qualitative.
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Religion and Theology Worldviews

A Journal of Contemporary Religious Discourse Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology
Executive Editor: Gerhard A. van den Heever, Edited by Christopher Key Chapple,
University of South Africa Loyola Marymount University
Book review Editor: Whitney Bauman,
• 2009: Volume 16 (in 0 issues) Graduate Theological Union
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Religion & Theology publishes scholarly articles of high quality Print only: EUR 56.- / US$ 82.-
on religion, theology, and related fields. The journal pursues 89
new ways of conceptualizing religion, theology and academic Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology has as its focus the
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religious discourse, as well as reflecting on new meaning-giving relationships between religion, culture and ecology worldwide.
praxis. The journal functions as an international forum for Articles discuss major world religious traditions, such as Islam,
contemporary religious discourse with an emphasis on new Buddhism or Christianity; the traditions of indigenous peoples;
ways of understanding our multifaceted religious heritage and new religious movements; philosophical belief systems, such as
ourselves as ‘religious’ beings in this time of major change in pantheism, nature spiritualities and other religious and cultural
world history. Religion & Theology encourages dialogue between worldviews in relation to the cultural and ecological systems.
divergent theoretical, conceptual and disciplinary languages, Focussing on a range of disciplinary areas including
with a view to reconceptualising theology (in theory and praxis) Anthropology, Environmental Studies, Geography, Philosophy,
in the light of contemporary theory of religion, especially more Religious Studies, Sociology and Theology, the journal also
recent social and rhetorical theories of religion. presents special issues that center around one theme.
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International Journal Journal of Reformed Theology

of Public Theology Edited by E.A.J.G. Van der Borght
Edited by S. Kim • 2009: Volume 3 (in 3 issues)

• ISSN 1872-5163 / E-ISSN 1569-7312
• 2009: Volume 3 (in 4 issues) • Institutional subscription rates
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Print only: EUR 60.- / US$ 88.- The Journal of Reformed Theology (JRT) is a refereed international
journal of systematic, historical, and biblical theology. The JRT
Public Theology responds to the growing need for theology to is an instrument for the study of living and contextual theology
interact with public issues of contemporary society. It seeks to that provides a forum for debate on classical and contemporary
90 engage in dialogue with different academic disciplines such as theological issues and offers an update on new theological and
politics, economics, cultural studies, religious studies, as well biblical literature. The Journal of Reformed Theology originates
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as with spirituality, globalization and society in general. The from the International Reformed Theological Institute (IRTI).
International Journal of Public Theology, affiliated with the Global Established in 1995, IRTI comprises a world-wide network of
Network for Public Theology, aims at becoming the platform for scholars involved in Reformed theology. ‘Reformed’ refers to the
original interdisciplinary research in the field of public theology. theological tradition that started with the sixteenth-century
Reformation in Strasbourg, Zurich and Geneva, as an expression
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Faculty of Theology of de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
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Journals
Ecclesiology Journal of Pentecostal Theology

The Journal for Ministry, Mission and Unity Editor-in-Chief: John Christopher Thomas
Associate Editor: Lee Roy Martin
Edited by Paul Avis, Council for Christian Unity Founding Editors: Steven J. Land and Rickie D. Moore
and University of Exeter
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The Journal of Pentecostal Theology is the first academic serial to
Ecclesiology is an ecumenical and international theological publish constructive theological research from a Pentecostal
journal designed to meet the growing demand for theological perspective on an international scholarly level. Guest articles 91
resources in the area of ecclesiology – the scholarly study of the from and exchanges with leading scholars from outside the
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nature and the purpose of the Christian Church. The journal also ranks of Pentecostalism (e.g. Jurgen Moltmann, Harvey Cox,
features articles exploring wider issues in ecclesiology including Stanley Hauerwas and Clark Pinnock) are regularly featured,
those to do with the identity of the Christian Church and the fostering the fruitful ecumenical and theological interchange
place of ecclesiology within Christian theology. The main focus that continues to expand between global Pentecostalism and the
of the journal is on the mission, ministry and unity of the full spectrum of ecclesial and theological traditions.
Church. Ecclesiology is published in association with the Centre
for the Study of the Christian Church (University of Exeter and For more information see brill.nl/pent
Exeter Cathedral, UK).
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Pneuma Journal of Ancient Near Eastern

The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies Religions
Edited by Frank D. Macchia, Vanguard University Editor: Chris Woods, Oriental Institute in Chicago
Editorial Board: John Baines, David Frankfurter,
• 2009: Volume 31 (in 2 issues) Brian Schmidt, Seth Sanders and Theo van den Hout
• ISSN 0272-0965 / E-ISSN 1570-0747
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Pneuma is the Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies (SPS). Print only: EUR 47.- / US$ 69.-
Since its founding in 1970, the SPS has become an international
92 society of scholars interested in Pentecostal and Charismatic The journal focuses on the religions of the area commonly
studies. Though many of the more than 600 members of the referred to as the Ancient Near East encompassing Egypt,
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Society belong to one of the Pentecostal or Charismatic churches, Mesopotamia, Syria-Palestine, and Anatolia, as well as
a number of others are involved in the Society’s annual meetings immediately adjacent areas under their cultural influence,
from other churches or merely from university settings. In 1979, from prehistoric times onward to the beginning of the common
Pneuma first appeared as the Journal of the SPS. The Journal era. JANER thus explicitly aims to include not only the Biblical,
became a major medium for the international discussion of Hellenistic and Roman world as part of Ancient Near Eastern
scholarly issues related to Pentecostal and Charismatic studies. civilization but also the impact of its religions on the western
Articles have appeared over the years on matters related to Mediterranean. JANER is the only scholarly journal specifically
the special interest groups of the SPS, namely, biblical studies, and exclusively addressing this range of topics. In the preserved
history, theology, missions, praxis, ecumenism, and religion records of Ancient Near Eastern civilizations religion can be
and culture. The Journal has cherished an ecumenical and an seen pervading practically every aspect of daily life, while it
international vision as well. The staff at Pneuma trust that the is reflected in multiform and often impressive ways in their
Journal will bring the scholarship of the SPS and beyond to the art and material culture. Ancient Near Eastern religions are
broader awareness of the academy and the churches for the therefore vital not only to our understanding of the cultures
mutual benefit of both. of that time and area but also as providing the roots and the
background for the religions that were to become three major
For more information see brill.nl/pneu world creeds. JANER is a peer-refereed journal and is intended
to provide an international scholarly forum for studies on all
aspects of ancient religions. Beside studies of a more general
historical, comparative or methodological nature, contributions
can include philological studies aimed at disclosing new material
that is considered important for our understanding of ancient
religions of the area, as well as articles on religious iconography
or architecture. JANER addresses itself to scholars and students
of the Ancient Near East and its heritage, as well as to historians
of religion in general.
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Ancient Civilizations Journal of Egyptian History

from Scythia to Siberia Editor: Thomas Schneider,
An International Journal of Comparative Studies University of British Columbia (visiting)
Editorial Board: C. Cannuyer, L. Depuydt, A. Dodson,
in History and Archaeology A. Gnirs-Loprieno, K. Jansen-Winkeln, J. Manning,
L. Morenz, T. Wilkinson
Edited by G. Bongard-Levin, Moscow, G. Gnoli, Rome,
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and A. Ivantchik, Bordeaux/Moscow • 2009: Volume 2 (in 2 issues)
• ISSN 1874-1657 / E-ISSN 1874-1665
• 2009: Volume 15 (in 2 issues) • Institutional subscription rates
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a focused debate on writing and interpreting Egyptian history
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Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia is an international ranging from the Neolithic foundations of Ancient Egypt to
journal covering such topics as history, archaeology, its modern reception. It covers all aspects of Ancient Egyptian
numismatics, epigraphy, papyrology and the history of history (political, social, economic, and intellectual) and of
material culture. It discusses art and the history of science and modern historiography about Ancient Egypt (methodologies,
technology, as applied to the Ancient World, and relating to hermeneutics, interplay between historiography and other
the territory of the former Soviet Union. Particular emphasis disciplines, and history of modern Egyptological historiography).
is given to the Black Sea area, the Caucasus, Asia Minor, Siberia The journal is open to contributions in English, German, and
and Central Asia, and the littoral of the Indian Ocean. Ancient French.
Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia has already established itself
as an invaluable resource for the subject both in the private For more information see brill.nl/jeh
collections of professors and scholars as well as in the major
research libraries of the world. Each volume contains, besides
a selection of high-quality original papers, an abundance of
instructive figures.
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Indo-Iranian Journal Journal for the Study of Judaism

In the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Period
• ISSN 0019-7246 / E-ISSN 1572-8536
• Institutional subscription rates Executive Editors: F. García Martínez, University of
Print + e: EUR 418.- / US$ 614.- Groningen and E.J.C. Tigchelaar, Florida State University
E-only: EUR 376.- / US$ 553.-
• Individual subscription rates • 2009: Volume 40 (in 5 issues)
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Indo-Iranian Journal, founded in 1957, focuses on the ancient E-only: EUR 284.- / US$ 419.-
and medieval languages and cultures of South Asia and of pre- • Individual subscription rates
islamic Iran. It publishes articles on Indo-Iranian languages Print only: EUR 118.- / US$ 173.-
(linguistics and literatures), such as Sanskrit, Avestan, Middle
Iranian and Middle & New Indo-Aryan. It publishes specialized The Journal for the Study of Judaism is a leading international
94 research on ancient Iranian religion and the Indian religions, forum for scholarly discussions on the history, literature
such as the Veda, Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism (including and religious ideas on Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic and
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Tibetan). The journal welcomes epigraphical studies as well as Roman period. It provides biblical scholars, students of rabbinic
general contributions to the understanding of the (pre-modern) literature, classicists and historians with essential information.
history and culture of South Asia. Illustrations are accepted. A Since 1970 the Journal for Study of Judaism has been securing its
substantial part of Indo-Iranian Journal is reserved for reviews of position as one of the world’s leading journals. The Journal for the
new research. Twice a year it contains a detailed bibliography of Study of Judaism features an extensive book review section as well
all publications received. The Journal predominantly publishes as a separate section reviewing articles.
articles in English and occasionaly in French and German.
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Review of Rabbinic Judaism Images

Ancient, Medieval, and Modern A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture
(Formerly The Annual of Rabbinic Judaism) Edited by Steven Fine, Yeshiva University in New York
City, Vivian Mann, The Jewish Museum , New York, and
Edited by Alan J. Avery-Peck, Margaret Olin, Art Institute of Chicago
College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
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• 2009: Volume 3
The study of Jewish art and visual culture, which has been 95
The Review of Rabbinic Judaism, the first and only journal to focus cultivated for over a century in European, American and Israeli
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upon Rabbinic Judaism in particular, will publish principal institutions, has burgeoned in the last fifteen years. Major
articles, essays on method and criticism, systematic debates universities have established graduate programs that integrate
(Auseindersetzungen), occasional notes, long book reviews, reviews Jewish art and visual studies, and Jewish museums dot the
of issues of scholarly journals, assessments of textbooks and landscape in Israel, Europe and North America. Contemporary
instructional materials, and other media of academic discourse, scholarship on Jewish art and visual culture intersects with
scholarly and educational alike. The Review fills the gap in concerns of the wider academy; a lively interchange among
the study of Judaism, which is left by the prevailing division scholars has ensued. The field has now achieved the breadth and
of Rabbinic Judaism among the standard historical periods maturity to sustain an international journal that represents the
(ancient, medieval, modern) that in fact do not apply; and by the interests of this interdisciplinary community of scholars. IMAGES
common treatment of the Judaism in bits and pieces (philosophy, invites scholarly articles on Jewish art and visual culture,
mysticism, law homiletics, institutional history, for example). No ranging in time from Greco-Roman antiquity to the present day.
journal in “Jewish studies” focuses upon the study of religion, let Articles may concentrate on any geographical area in which
alone upon the single most important Judaism of all time. Jewish participation had an impact, and any discipline, including
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Authors Index
29 Afnán, M.H., The Genesis of the Bábi-Bahá’í Faiths in Shíráz and 20 Dean, K. and Zheng Z., Ritual Alliances of Putian
Fárs 44 Dosenrode, S., Christianity and Resistance in the 20th Century,
62 Allen Smith, K. and Wells, S.(eds), Negotiating From Kaj Munk and Dietrich Bonhoeffer to Desmond Tutu
Community and Difference in Medieval Europe, Gender, 70 Drønen Sundnes, T., Communication and Conversion
Power, Patronage and the Authority of Religion in Latin in Northern Cameroon, The Dii people and Norwegian
Christendom Missionaries, 1934-1960
71 Aritonang Sihar, J. and Karel Steenbrink (eds), 11 Ergene, B. A., Judicial Practice, Institutions and Agents
A History of Christianity in Indonesia 6 Fahlbusch, E., Lochman, J.M., Mbiti, J., Pelikan, J.
57 Atkinson, W.P., The “Spiritual Death” of Jesus, A Pentecostal and Vischer, L., (eds), The Encyclopedia of Christianity
Investigation 60 Fantazzi, C., A Companion to Juan Luis Vives
46 Bakker, F.L., The Challenge of the Silver Screen, An Analysis 59 Firey, A.(ed.), A New History of Penance
of the Cinematic Portraits of Jesus, Rama, Buddha and 67 Firey, A.(ed.), A Contrite Heart, Prosecution and Redemption
Muhammad in the Carolingian Empire
67 Baumann, D., Stephen Langton, Erzbischof von Canterbury 53 Francis, L.J., Robbins, M. and Astley, J., Empirical
im England der Magna Carta (1207-1228) Theology in Texts and Tables, Qualitative, Quantitative and
11 Bearman, P.J.; Bianquis, Th.; Bosworth, C.E; Comparative Perspectives
van Donzel, E. and W.P. Heinrichs, W.P. (eds), 77 Fraenkel, C., Traditions of Maimonideanism
Encyclopaedia of the Islam, see p.10 for index volume 16 Gallego, M.A.; Bleaney, H.and García Suárez, P.,
47 Becker, F. and Geissler, W., Aids and Religious Practice Bibliography of Jews in the Islamic World
in Africa 72 Gerdmar, A., Roots of Theological Anti-Semitism, German
31 BeDuhn, J.D., New Light on Manichaeism, Papers from the Biblical Interpretation and the Jews, from Herder and Semler
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Sixth International Congress to Kittel and Bultmann

54 Belt van den, H., The Authority of Scripture in Reformed 44 Giordan, G., Conversion in the Age of Pluralism
Theology, Truth and Trust 39 Gordon, R.L. and Simón, F.M., Magical Practice in the
2 Betz, H. D., Browning, D.S, Janowski, B. and Jüngel, Latin West Papers from the International Conference held at the
E. (eds), Religion Past and Present University of Zaragoza, 2005
16 Bleaney, C.H. et al (eds), Index Islamicus 55 Grube, D-M. and Jonkers, P., Religions Challenged by
54 Borght van der E., The Unity of the Church, A Theological Contingency, Theological and Philosophical Approaches to the
State of the Art and Beyond Problem of Contingency
100 54 Borght van der E., Christian Identity 39 Hahn, J. Emmel, S. and Gotter, U., From Temple to
37 Borgeaud, P., Römer, T. and Volokhine, Y. (eds), Church, Destruction and Renewal of Local Cultic Topography
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Interprétations de Moïse, Égypte, Judée, Grèce et Rome in Late Antiquity

27 Borup, J., Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhism, 20 Halbertsma, T.H.F., Early Christian Remains of Inner Mongolia
Myōshinji, a living religion 60 Hammerling, R (ed), A History of Prayer, The First to
11 Bosworth,C.E. (ed), Historic Cities of the Islamic World Fifteenth Century
38 Bremmer, J.N., Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible and the 30 Hanegraaf, W.J. and Kripal, J.J., Hidden Intercourse, Eros
Ancient Near East and Sexuality in the History of Western Esotericism
34 Brooke, G.J, Najman, H. and Stuckenbruck, L.T. 76 Hary, B.H., Translating Religion, Linguistic Analysis of Judeo-
(eds), The Significance of Sinai, Traditions about Sinai and Arabic Sacred Texts from Egypt
Divine Revelation in Judaism and Christianity 30 Heidle, A. and Snoek, J.A.M., Women’s Agency and Rituals
68 Brummett, P., The ‘Book’ of Travels, Genre, Ethnology, in Mixed and Female Masonic Orders
and Pilgrimage, 1250-1700 65 Heijst van, A., Models of Charitable Care, Catholic Nuns and
43 Burns Coleman, E., Medicine, Religion and the Body Children in their Care in Amsterdam, 1852-2002
50 Cañás Bottos, L., Old Colony Mennonites in Argentina and 56 Hejzlar, P., Two Paradigms for Divine Healing, Fred F. Bosworth,
Bolivia, Nation Making, Religious Conflict and Imagination of Kenneth E. Hagin, Agnes Sanford and Francis Macnutt In
the Future Dialogue
52 Chung, P. S., Constructing Irregular Theology, Bamboo and 59 Holder, R.W., A Companion to Paul in the Reformation
Minjung in East Asian Perspective 50 Holvast, R., Spiritual Mapping in the United States and
56 Clifton, S., Pentecostal Churches in Transition, Analysing the Argentina, 1989-2005: A Geography of Fear
Developing Ecclesiology of the Assemblies of God in Australia 33 Houtman, A., de Jong, A. and Misset-van de Weg,
76 Cohen, M.Z., Three Approaches to Biblical Metaphor, M., Empsychoi Logoi — Religious Innovations in Antiquity,
From Abraham Ibn Ezra and Maimonides to David Kimhi Studies in Honour of Pieter Willem van der Horst
69 Craig, L.A., Wandering Women and Holy Matrons, Women as 51 Huang, P., Confronting Confucian Understandings of the
Pilgrims in the Later Middle Ages Christian Doctrine of Salvation, A Systematic Theological
26 Cusack, C.M. and Christopher Hartney, C., (eds), Analysis of the Basic Problems in the Confucian-Christian
Religion and Retributive Logic, Essays in Honour of Professor Dialogue
Garry W. Trompf 43 Hvithamar, A., Warburg, M. and Arly Jacobsen, B.,
14 Daftary, F. and Madelung, W., Encyclopaedia Islamica Holy Nations and Global Identities, Civil Religion, Nationalism,
13 Dammen McAuliffe, J. (ed.), Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān and Globalisation

Authors Index
68 Ingram, K., Conversos and Moriscos in Late Medieval Spain and 36 McGowan, A.B., Daley, B.E. and Gaden, T.J.,
Beyond, Volume 1: Departures and Change God in Early Christian Thought, Essays in Memory of Lloyd G.
36 Itter, A.C., Esoteric Teaching in the Stromateis of Clement of Patterson
Alexandria 64 Meer van der, J. and Mandelbrote, S., (eds),
17 Jacobsen, K. A., with Basu, H.; Malinar, A. and Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic Religions: Up to 1700
Vasudha Narayanan, V. (eds), Brill’s Encyclopedia of 64 Meer van der, J. and Mandelbrote, S., (eds),
Hinduism Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic Religions: 1700-Present
3 Johnson, T.M. and Grim, B.J. (eds), World Religion 63 Mentzer, R.A., Moreil, F. and Chareyre, P.,
Database International Religious Demographic Statistics and Dire l’interdit: The Vocabulary of Censure and Exclusion
Sources in the Early Modern Reformed Tradition
4 Johnson, T.M. (ed.), World Christian Database 74 Meyer, T., Zwischen Philosophie und Gesetz, Jüdische
15 Joseph, S., Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures Philosophie und Theologie von 1933 bis 1938
67 Keul, I., Early Modern Religious Communities in East-Central 62 Mixson, J.D., Poverty’s Proprietors, Ownership and Mortal
Europe, Ethnic Diversity, Denominational Plurality, Sin at the Origins of the Observant Movement
and Corporative Politics in the Principality of Transylvania 61 Moser, C., Bewegung und Beharrung: Aspekte des reformierten
(1526-1691) Protestantismus, 1520-1650
59 Kirby, T., Campi, E. and James, F., A Companion to Peter 38 Mylonopoulos, I., Divine Images and Human Imaginations in
Martyr Vermigli Ancient Greece and Rome
34 Kooten van, G.H. and Ruiten van, J., (eds), The Prestige 77 Nahshon, E., Jewish Theatre, A Global View
of the Pagan Prophet Balaam in Judaism, Early Christianity and 65 Neele, A.C., Petrus van Mastricht (1630-1706) Reformed
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Islam Orthodoxy: Method and Piety
60 Kolb, R., Lutheran Ecclesiastical Culture, 1550-1675 46 Neufeld, D., The Social Sciences and Biblical Translation
26 Konik, A., Buddhism and Transgression, The Appropriation of 61 Newton, L.A., Medieval Commentaries on Aristotle’s Categories
Buddhism in the Contemporary West 64 Niet de, J., Paul, H. and Wallet, B., Sober, Strict and
55 Korte, A-M., and de Haardt, M., The Boundaries Scriptural, Collective Memories of John Calvin, 1800-2000
of Monotheism, Interdisciplinary Explorations into the 75 Nocke, A., The Place of the Mediterranean in Modern Israeli
Foundations of Western Monotheism Identity
41 Koutzarova, T., Das Transzendentale bei Ibn Sīnā, Zur 78 Ohrenstein, R.A. and Gordon, B., Economic Analysis in
Metaphysik als Wissenschaft erster Begriffs- und Talmudic Literature, Rabbinic Thought in the Light of Modern
Urteilsprinzipien Economics 101
10 Krämer, G., Matringe, D., Nawas, J. and Rowson, E. 51 Osborne, K., A Theology of the Church for the Third Millennium,
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(eds), Encyclopaedia of Islam Three A Franciscan Approach
28 Kreinath, J. and Snoek, J. and Stausberg, M., 19 Overmyer, D.L., Local Religion in North China in the Twentieth
Theorizing Rituals, Volume 1: Issues, Topics and Concepts. Century, The Structure and Organization of Community
47 Lado, L., Catholic Pentecostalism and the Paradoxes of Rituals and Beliefs
Africanization, Processes of Localization in a Catholic 48 Palmié, S., Africas of the Americas, Beyond the Search for
Charismatic Movement in Cameroon Origins in the Study of Afro-Atlantic Religions
18 Lagerwey, J. and Lü, P., Early Chinese Religion, 31 Pettipiece, T., Pentadic Redaction in the Manichean Kephalaia
Part Two, The Period of Division (221-589 AD) 45 Piedmont, R.L. and Village, A., Research in the Social
18 Lagerwey, J. and Kalinowski, M., Early Chinese Religion, Scientific Study of Religion ,Volume 20
Part One, Shang through Han (1250 BC-220 AD) 45 Piedmont, R.L., Research in the Social Scientific Study of
63 Leeuwen van, M., Stanglin, K.D. and Tolsma, Religion, Volume 19
M., Arminius, Arminianism and Europe, Jacobus Arminius 9 Pizza, M. and Lewis, J.R., (eds), Handbook of Contemporary
(1559/60-1609) Paganism
74 Levin, L.S., Seeing with Both Eyes, Ephraim Luntshitz 35 Pomykala, K., Israel in the Wilderness, Interpretations of the
and the Polish-Jewish Renaissance Biblical Narratives in Jewish and Christian Traditions
39 Lipka, M., Roman Gods, A Conceptual Approach 74 Portnoff, S., Diamond, J.A. and Yaffe, M.D., Emil L.
68 MacDonald, A.A., von Martels, Z.R.W.M. and Fackenheim, Philosopher, Theologian, Jew
Veenstra, J.R., Christian Humanism, Essays in Honour 27 Poo, M-C., Rethinking Ghosts in World Religions
of Arjo Vanderjagt 27 Porcu, E., Pure Land Buddhism in Modern Japanese Culture
58 Magennis, H. and Swan, M., A Companion to Ælfric 32 Poorthuis, M., Schwartz, J. and Turner, J., Interaction
8 Marjanen, A. and Luomanen, P., A Companion to Second- between Judaism and Christianity in History, Religion, Art and
Century Christian ‘Heretics’ Literature
66 Maryks, R.A., The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews, Jesuits 69 Reid, J.A., King’s Sister – Queen of Dissent, Marguerite of
of Jewish Ancestry and Purity-of-Blood Laws in the Early Navarre (1492-1549) and her Evangelical Network
Society of Jesus 73 Robinson, J.T., The Cultures of Maimonideanism, New
44 McCloud, S. and Mirola, W.A., Religion and Class in Approaches to the History of Jewish Thought
America: Culture, History, and Politics 58 Rollo-Koster, J., A Companion to the Great Western Schism
(1378-1417)

Authors Index
66 Rollo-Koster, J., Raiding Saint Peter: Empty Sees, Violence 40 Thomas, D. and Roggema, B., with Monferrer Sala,
and the Initiation of the Great Western Schism (1378) J.P., Pahlitzsch, J., Swanson, M., Teule, H. and Tolan,
35 Rowland, C. and Morray-Jones, C., The Mystery of God, J. (eds), Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History.
Early Jewish Mysticism and the New Testament Volume 1 (600-900)
40 Ryad, U., Islamic Reformism and Christianity, A Critical 41 Thomas, D., Christian Doctrines in Islamic Theology
Reading of the Works of Muhammad Rashīd Riḍā and His 8 Thomassen, E., The Spiritual Seed — The Church of the
Associates (1898-1935) ‘Valentinians’
53 Sakwa, M.M., Bible and Poverty in Kenya, An Empirical 19 Tiedemann, R.G., (ed.), Handbook of Christianity in China
Exploration Volume Two 1800 – present
49 Salinas, D., Latin American Evangelical Theology in the 1970’s. 78 Tirosh-Samuelson, H. and Wiese, C., The Legacy of Hans
The Golden Decade Jonas, Judaism and the Phenomenon of Life
65 Scheepsma, W., The Limburg Sermons, Preaching in the 4 Triplett, K. (ed.), Index to the Study of Religions Online
Medieval Low Countries at the Turn of the Fourteenth 73 Veltri, G., Renaissance Philosophy in Jewish Garb, Foundations
Century and Challenges in Judaism on the Eve of Modernity
42 Schorsch, J., Swimming the Christian Atlantic: 57 Währisch-Oblau, C., The Missionary Self-Perception of
Judeoconversos, Afroiberians and Amerindians in the Pentecostal/CharismaticChurch Leaders from the Global South in
Seventeenth Century Europe, Bringing Back the Gospel
38 Schuddeboom, F.L., Greek Religious Terminology – Telete & 48 Welch, P., Church and Settler in Colonial Zimbabwe,
Orgia, A Revised and Expanded English Edition of the Studies A Study in the History of the Anglican Diocese of
by Zijderveld and Van der Burg Mashonaland/Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1925
70 Sidenvall, E., The Making of Manhood among Swedish 48 Wild-Wood, E., Migration and Christian Identity in Congo (DRC)
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Missionaries in China and Mongolia, c.1890-c.1914 29 Williams, A., The Zoroastrian Myth of Migration from Iran and
43 Sjørup, L. and Rømer Christensen, H., Settlement in the Indian Diaspora, Text, Translation and Analysis
Pieties and Gender of the 16th Century Qesse-ye Sanjān ‘The Story of Sanjan’
28 Srinivas, S., In the Presence of Sai Baba, 49 Wit de H. and West, G.O., (eds) African and European
Body, City and Memory in a Global Religious Movement Readers of the Bible in Dialogue In Quest Of a Shared Meaning
19 Standaert, N., Handbook of Christianity in China, 72 Yeroushalmi, D., The Jews of Iran in the Nineteenth Century,
Volume One, 635 - 1800 Aspects of History, Community and Culture
12 Stillman, N.A. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World
102 37 Strousma, G.G. (ed.), Morton Smith and Gershom Scholem,
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