... coedited volume Gender and Religion (1986), the first of its kind, has figured importantly in the development of the field many call comparative religion. Here Bynum's impact on selected scholars of Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, and Sikh religion — as well as of non‐Western Christianity — is assessed...

...Peter Valdina The basic argument of this contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium on xenophilia is that colonial attitudes toward South Asian religion and Hindus' attitudes toward Western intellectual discourse reveal an ambiguous mix of xenophilia and xenophobia. This articles focuses...

...Peter Skafish This article is an ethnographic account of the speculative thought of Jane Roberts, a spirit medium or “channel,” important in New Age religion for the books that she dictated at the behest of a personality named “Seth.” At first, she tried to understand her strange subjectivity...

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..., art historians, theologians, philosophers, theorists of gender, scholars of comparative religion, and students of material culture—always reframing those conversations in keeping with her commitment to the otherness of the past. If her work turns out to have relevance to conversations in the broader...

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.... Compare and contrast. With religion, too, the devil is in the details. — Michael P. Kramer doi 10.1215/0961754X-2818093 Pawel Maciejko, The Mixed Multitude: Jacob Frank and the Frankist Movement, 1755–1916 (Philadelphia: University...

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... and Experiment from Antiquity to the Anthropocene . David Bellos , an officer of the French National Order of Arts and Letters, is the Pyne Professor of French Literature and professor of comparative literature at Princeton University, where he founded and for many years directed the Program in Translation...

... of Christian Materiality: An Essay on Late Medieval Religion; Wonderful Blood; The Resurrection of the Body in Western Chris- tendom, 200 – 1336; Holy Feast and Holy Fast; Fragmentation and Redemption; Jesus as Mother; and Metamorphosis and Identity. William M. Chace, president emeritus of Emory...

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