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Religious Studies
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Religion Past & Present
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Index to the Study of R elIgIonS onlIne
Christian-Muslim Relations Online
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Contents 2 Major Reference Works 13 History of Religions / Comparative Religion 26 Jewish Studies 40 Religion in Antiquity 44 Philosophy of Religion See page 40
46 Religion & Society
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54 Theology 59 Church History 62 Missiology 63 Journals
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89 Order Information and Contact Page
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Major Reference Works Online
Index to the Study of Religions A cross-searchable database and bibliography of journal articles Edited by Katja Triplett, University of Marburg Associate Editors: Seong-Hee Choi and Friederike Böllmann Contributors and Consultants: Wanda Alberts, Maria Otávia Freitas, Elisabetta Porcu, Michael Pye, Jana Valtrova In cooperation with the Study of Religions Library, University of Marburg brill.nl/isro
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• Published since 2010 • E-ISSN 1876-6641 Options • Annual subscription • Outright Purchase with annual installment fee
The English language abstracts published in the Index to the Study of Religions are drawn from a wide range of journals in various languages and reflect an array of complementary disciplines. The number of entries will continue to grow each year. Index to the Study of Religions is the online version of the Brill journal Science of Religion. Articles are classified into the following three large sections: method and theory, religions in context by area, and textual and conceptual traditions. The list of journals consulted is reviewed regularly and suggestions for improvement are welcomed. The Index to the Study of Religions does not seek to appraise or criticise the contents of any articles.
Nor does it endorse any of the religious standpoints or agendas referred to in the articles indexed and abstracted. In all cases the individual authors are responsible for their own opinions and any reference to these opinions should take account of the complete article in the original source. The main objective of the Index to the Study of Religions is to facilitate the work and international collaboration of scholars in the academic study of religions and related fields. The Index to the Study of Religions is published with the support of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR).
Features and Benefits - Abstracts drawn from a wide range of journals in various languages - Covers an array of complementary disciplines - Regularly updated with new entries
Major Reference Works Online
Christian Muslim Relations Online General Editor: David Thomas, University of Birmingham Associate Editors: Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala, Johannes Pahlitzsch, Barbara Roggema,Mark Swanson, Herman Teule and John Tolan brill.nl/cmro
Christian-Muslim Relations Online
• Published since 2010 • E-ISSN 1877-8054 Options • Annual subscription • Outright Purchase main body of more than two hundred detailed entries on all the works recorded, whether surviving or lost. The result of collaboration between leading scholars, CMR Online is intended as a basic tool for research in Christian-Muslim relations. With the launch in 2010 CMR Online covers the first period 600-900. In the Autumn of 2010, the period 900-1200 will be added. The final period, 1200-1500, will be available mid 2011.
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Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History Online is a general online history of relations between the faiths. 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 essays on the treatment of Christians in the Qur’an, Qur’an commentaries, biographies of the Prophet, Hadith and Sunni law, and of Muslims in canon law, and the
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- International expert authorship - Unrivalled comprehensive bibliographic reference work on Chrisitan Muslim Relations - Cross-searchable database - Easy access to up-to-date information
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The History of Christian-Muslim Relations Edited by David Thomas, University of Birmingham, Tarif Khalidi, American University of Beirut, Gerrit Jan Reinink, University of Groningen and Mark Swanson, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago For more information please visit brill.nl/hcmr Christians and Muslims have been involved in exchanges over matters of faith and morality since the founding of Islam. Attitudes between the faiths today are deeply coloured by the legacy of past encounters, and often preserve centuries-old negative views. The History of Christian-Muslim Relations, Texts and Studies presents the surviving record of past encounters in authoritative, fully introduced text editions and annotated translations, and also monograph and collected studies. It illustrates the development in mutual perceptions as these are
ISSN: 1570-7350
contained in surviving Christian and Muslim writings, and makes available the arguments and rhetorical strategies that, for good or for ill, have left their mark on attitudes today. The series casts light on a history marked by intellectual creativity and occasional breakthroughs in communication, although, on the whole beset by misunderstanding and misrepresentation. By making this history better known, the series seeks to contribute to improved recognition between Christians and Muslims in the future.
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A Bibliographical History, Volume 1 (600-900)
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Edited by David Thomas & Barbara Roggema With Juan Pedro Monferrer Sala, Johannes Pahlitzsch, Mark Swanson, Herman Teule and John Tolan
• October 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 16975 3 • Hardback (944 pp.) • List price EUR 219.- / US$ 324.• The History of ChristianMuslim Relations, 11
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 essays on the treatment of Christians in the Qur’an, Qur’an commentaries, biographies of the Prophet, Hadith and Sunni law, and of Muslims in canon law, and the main body of more than two hundred detailed entries on all the works recorded, whether surviving or lost. These entries provide biographical details of the authors where known, descriptions and assessments of the works themselves, and complete accounts of manuscripts, editions, translations and studies. The result of collaboration between leading scholars, CMR1 is intended as a basic tool for research in Christian-Muslim relations.
Major Reference Works
Religion Past and Present Encyclopedia of Theology and Religion For more information please visit brill.nl/rpp Edited by Hans Dieter Betz, Don S. Browning, Bernd Janowski and Eberhard Jüngel
Volume 8 (Mai-Nas)
Volume 7 (Joh-Mah)
Volume 9
• June 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 14690 7 • Cloth (cxi + 739 pp) • List price EUR 259.- / US$ 299.-
• December 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 14691 4 • Cloth (cx, 729 pp.) • List price EUR 249.- / US$ 299.-
• June 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 14692 1 • Cloth • List price EUR 249.- / US$ 299.-
• November 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 14693 8 • Cloth • List price EUR 249.- / US$ 299.-
- RGG has been a standard reference work since the publication of the first edition in 1908. - Strongly international, cross-cultural and ecumenical, written by over 3,000 authors from 88 countries - 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. - The 4th edition of RGG, the basis of the RPP translation, includes hundreds of new entries on Eastern religions and other religious subjects. The editors of RPP have added a number of articles and revised others for a global English-speaking readership. - Short definitions and cross-references enable quick and easy searching - Over 15,000 entries and 8 million words - 13 volumes and an index - Completion scheduled for 2013
Religion Past and Present Online
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Religion Past & Present
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brill.nl/rppo • Published since 2009 • E-ISSN 1877-5888 Options • Annual subscription • Outright Purchase with annual installment fee
The online edition of Religion Past and Present (RPP) offers quick and easy access to the full content of this unique and invaluable reference work.
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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 works.
Major Reference Works
Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion Series Editor: James R. Lewis, University of Tromsø For more information please visit brill.nl/bhcr 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. The Handbooks will be international in scope, drawing on the expertise of scholars across the globe, bringing in contributors from a broad spectrum of different academic disciplines.
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Individual volumes will be devoted to areas of study that have generated substantial bodies of research (e.g., New Age, Contemporary Paganism, Megachurches), to common themes in the study of contemporary religions (e.g., Millennialism, Violence, Globalization), and to specific religious movements. It is anticipated that the majority of the Handbooks will be collections of essays, although Handbook-style monographs are also welcomed.
Handbook of Religion and the Authority of Science religious studies
Edited by James R. Lewis and Olav Hammer
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• November 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18791 7 • Hardback (909 pp.) • List price EUR 217.- / US$ 309.• Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion, 3
There has been a significant but little-noticed aspect of the interface between science and religion, namely the widespread tendency of religions to appeal to science in support of their truth claims. Though the appeal to science is most evident in more recent religions like Christian Science and Scientology, no major faith tradition is exempt from this pattern. Members of almost every religion desire to see their ‘truths’ supported by the authority of science – especially in the midst of the present historical period, when all of the comforting old certainties seem problematic and threatened. The present collection examines this pattern in a wide variety of different religions and spiritual movements, and demonstrates the many different ways in which religions appeal to the authority of science. The result is a wide-ranging and uniquely compelling study of how religions adapt their message to one of the major challenges presented by the contemporary world.
Major Reference Works
Encyclopaedia of Islam THREE Edited by 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 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 appears 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
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• Forthcoming 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18408 4 • Paperback • List price EUR 109.- / US$ 153.• Encyclopaedia of Islam Three, 2010-4
• December 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 18131 1 • Paperback (viii, 160 pp.) • List price EUR 109.- / US$ 153.• Encyclopaedia of Islam Three, 2009-4
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• Forthcoming 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18397 1 • Paperback • List price EUR 109.- / US$ 153.• Encyclopaedia of Islam Three, 2010-3
2010-1
• May 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18390 2 • Paperback (viii, 216 pp.) • List price EUR 109.- / US$ 153.• Encyclopaedia of Islam Three, 2010-1
• June 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17853 3 • Paperback (viii, 168 pp.) • List price EUR 109.- / US$ 153.• Encyclopaedia of Islam Three, 2009-2
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• June 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17852 6 • Paperback (viii, 200 pp.) • List price EUR 109.- / US$ 153.• Encyclopaedia of Islam Three, 2009-1
Encyclopaedia of Islam Online brill.nl/eio
encyclopaedia of islam online
• Published since 2007 • E-ISSN 1573-3912 Options • Annual subscription • Outright Purchase with annual installment fee
The result of decades of research and work, the Encyclopaedia of Islam (the New or 2nd edition) is generally acclaimed as one of the major scholarly enterprises of this century. Its sheer size and scope is enormous. Its thousands of pages contain a true mine of information of immense value for any student and researcher of the Islamic world. This invaluable reference work is now 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 are added every quarter. For a 30-day free trial (institutions only), 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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• Forthcoming 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18396 4 • Paperback • List price EUR 109.- / US$ 153.• Encyclopaedia of Islam Three, 2010-2
• October 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 18130 4 • Paperback (viii, 204 pp.) • List price EUR 109.- / US$ 153.• Encyclopaedia of Islam Three, 2009-3
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Major Reference Works
Set Complete: Encyclopaedia of Islam New Edition Edited by P.J. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel and W.P. Heinrichs For more information please visit brill.nl/eie or brill.nl/eif
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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 on the religion, but also on the believers and the countries in which they live. It embraces articles on distinguished Muslims of every era and origin, on tribes and dynasties, on crafts and sciences, on political and religious institutions, on the geography, ethnography, flora and fauna
of the various countries and on the history, topography and monuments of the major towns and cities. In its geographical and historical scope it encompasses the old Arabo-Islamic empire, the Islamic countries of Iran, Central Asia, the Indian sub-continent and Indonesia, as well as the Ottoman Empire and all other Islamic countries. The Encyclopaedia of Islam is the most important reference tool on Islam presently available.
English Edition • ISBN 978 90 04 16121 4 • Hardback (Set 13 Vols: Volumes I-XII + Index volume) • List price EUR 9900.- / US$ 14652.-
French Edition
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• ISBN 978 90 04 18316 2 • Hardback (Set 14 Vols: Tome I - XIII + Atlas set) • List price EUR 11500.- / US$ 16330.-
Encyclopédie de l’Islam Tome XIII Indices Établie par P.J. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel et W.P. Heinrichs • December 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 18170 0 • Hardback (vi, 1136 pp.) • List price EUR 660.- / US$ 940.• Encyclopédie de l’Islam, 13
Major Reference Works
Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World Executive Editor: Norman A. Stillman For more information please visit brill.nl/ejiw
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The Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World (EJIW) covers an area of Jewish history, religion and culture which until now 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.
Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World Online brill.nl/ejio
Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World Online
• Published since 2010 • E-ISSN 1878-9781 Options • Annual subscription • Outright purchase with annual installment fee
EJIW Online will be updated twice yearly with newly commissioned articles, illustrations, multimedia, and primary source material. The Outright Purchase price includes substantial additions of material in 2011 and 2012 (photographs, audio files, primary sources).
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• The only reference work of its kind • Up-to-date research and bibliographies make it indispensible for all levels of users • Over 350 internationally-renowned scholars from the United States, Canada, Uruguay, Israel, United Kingdom,the Netherlands, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Turkey, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Iran • Interdisciplinary articles cover a wide range of topics from history, law, music, visual arts, social sciences, philosophy, anthropology, and demography • Alphabetical order and cross-references enable quick and easy searching • Over 150 color and black and white illustrations, graphs, and maps • Over 2200 entries and 1.5 million words
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• August 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 17678 2 • Hardback Set (4 Volumes + 1 Resource and Index Volume) • List price EUR 899.- / US$ 1099.-
Major Reference Works
Encyclopaedia of the Qur’ān Edited by Jane Dammen McAuliffe
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The Qur’ān 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 qur’ānic interpretation and to the linguistic, rhetorical and narrative analysis of the text are sufficient to create entire libraries of qur’ānic studies. Drawing upon a rich scholarly heritage, Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Qur’ān (EQ) combines alphabetically-arranged articles about the contents of the Qur’ān. It is an encyclopaedic dictionary of qur’ānic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis extended with essays on the most important themes and subjects within qur’ānic studies. With nearly 1000 entries in 5 volumes, the EQ is the first comprehensive, multi-volume reference work on the Qur’ān to appear in a Western language.
Set: Volumes 1-5 plus Index Volume • ISBN 978 90 04 14743 0 • List price EUR 1339.- / US$ 1982.For pricing information per volume, please visit brill.nl/enqu
Volume One (A-D)
Volume Four (P-Sh)
Volume Two (E-I)
Volume Five (Si-Z)
Volume Three (J-O)
Index Volume
• September 2002 • ISBN 978 90 04 11465 4 • Hardback (xxxiv, 558 pp.)
• September 2002 • ISBN 978 90 04 12035 8 • Hardback (xxiv, 572 pp. 20 illus.)
• October 2003 • ISBN 978 90 04 12354 0 • Hardback (xxiv, 608 pp.)
• December 2004 • ISBN 978 90 04 12355 7 • Hardback (xxiv, 638 pp. 30 illus.)
• December 2005 • ISBN 978 90 04 12356 4 • Hardback (xxiv, 596 pp.)
• October 2006 • ISBN 978 90 04 14764 5 • Hardback (x, 862 pp.)
Encyclopaedia of the Qur’ān Online
Encyclopaedia of the
Qurʾa¯n Online
brill.nl/eio
• Published since 2007 • E-ISSN 1875-3922 Options • Annual subscription • Outright Purchase with annual installment fee
An encyclopaedic dictionary of qur’ānic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis extended with essays on the most important themes and subjects within qur’ānic studies. With nearly 1000 entries in 5 volumes, the EQ is the first comprehensive, multi-volume reference work on the Qur’ān to appear in a Western language.
The EQ Online includes access to 62 Early Printed Western Qurʾāns. With regular updates. For a 30-day free trial (institutions only), consortia deals and other pricing options, please send an e-mail to brillonline@brill.nl or brillonline@brillusa.com for customers in the Americas.
Major Reference Works
Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism Edited by Knut A. Jacobsen For more information please visit brill.nl/encyclopediahinduism
oral tradition, yet one with a huge number of sacred texts at its basis. Hinduism is both a religious identity and an object of academic scholarship. Illustrated with maps and photographs, Brill’s Encyclopedia presents the learned philosophical and theological traditions of Hinduism as well as its many folk traditions. Covering the spread of Hinduism over the last two hundred 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 Two
Volume One
Texts, Rituals, Arts, Concepts
Regions, Pilgrimage, Deities
• July 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 17893 9 • Hardback (850 pp.) • List price EUR 239.- / US$ 354.• Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2 South Asia, 22/2 Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism
• September 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17641 6 • Hardback (xliv, 832 pp.) • List price EUR 239.- / US$ 354.• Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2 South Asia, 22/1 Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism
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Volume III: Society, Theology, Biography ISBN 978 90 04 17894 6, planned publication 2011 Volume IV: History, Philosophy, Knowledge Traditions, Interreligious Contact ISBN 978 90 04 17895 3, planned publication 2012 Volume V: Symbolism, Diaspora, Modern Issues ISBN 978 90 04 17896 0, planned publication 2013
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Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism is part of the Handbook of Oriental Studies, Section 2: South Asia (HO2), which publishes scholarly reference works, bibliographies, and research tools pertaining to the political, economic, social, linguistic, and religious history of the Indian subcontinent. The five-volume Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism is a thematic encyclopedia, presenting the latest research on all the main aspects of the Hindu traditions in original essays written by the world’s foremost scholars on Hinduism. The Encyclopedia explicitly adopts an interdisciplinary and pluralistic approach, and in it, the term “Hinduism” is used critically in the knowledge that most of the traditions that today make up Hinduism are much older than the term itself. The Encyclopedia aims at a balanced and even-handed view of Hinduism, recognizing the tensions inherent in the academic examination of Hinduism. It emphasizes that Hinduism is a conglomerate of regional religious traditions and at the same time a global world religion. Hinduism is also both an ancient historical tradition and a living tradition flourishing in the contemporary world. It is an
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• Set, to be published from 2009 - 2013 • ISBN 978 90 04 18047 5 • Hardback, set of 5 volumes • List price EUR 1195.- / US$ 1796.- (set) • List price EUR 239.-/ US$ 354.- (per volume) • Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2, South Asia, 22
Major Reference Works
Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage Edited by Larissa J. Taylor, Colby College, Maine, et al.
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• October 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 18129 8 • Hardback (lxii, 836 pp.) • List price EUR 203.- / US$ 288.-
The Qurʾān in Context Historical and Literary Investigations into the Qurʾānic Milieu Edited by Angelika Neuwirth, Freie Universität Berlin, Nicolai Sinai, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Michael Marx, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
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The Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage is an interdisciplinary reference work, giving wide coverage of the role of travel in medieval religious life. Dealing with the period 300-1500 A.D., it offers both basic data on as broad a range of European pilgrimage as possible and clearly written, self-contained introductions to the general questions of pilgrimage research. Despite widespread modern interest in medieval pilgrimage and related issues, no comprehensive work of this type exists and it will be of interest to scholars and students for personal and academic use. Local sites of pilgrimage are represented in this work as well as the main routes to Rome, Jerusalem and Santiago. Written and material sources relating to pilgrimage are used to illustrate aspects of medieval society, from brewing, book production and the trade in relics, to the development of the towns, art, architecture and literature which pilgrimage engendered. The Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage will serve as the main starting point for any serious study of this phenomenon. The Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage is published in English in one illustrated volume of 550,000 words in 435 signed entries, and is compiled and written by over 180 contributors from Europe and North America. Entries are present alphabetically under headwords, with cross-references, maps, black-and-white illustrations, an editorial introduction and lists of theme and keywords.
• October 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17688 1 • Hardback (740 pp.) • List price EUR 218.- / US$ 323.• Texts and Studies on the Qurʾān, 6
Although recent scholarship has increasingly situated the Qur‘an in the historical context of Late Antiquity, such a perspective is only rarely accompanied by the kind of microstructural literary analysis routinely applied to the Bible. The present volume seeks to redress this lack of contact between literary and historical studies. Contributions to the first part of the volume address various general aspects of the Qur’an’s political, economic, linguistic, and cultural context, while the second part contains a number of close readings of specific Qur’anic passages in the light of Judeo-Christian tradition and ancient Arabic poetry, as well as discussions of the Qur’an’s internal chronology and transmission history. Throughout, special emphasis is given to methodological questions.
Handbook of Christianity in China Volume Two: 1800 - present Edited by R.G. Tiedemann, University of San Francisco
• December 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 11430 2 • Hardback (1000 pp. approx. 3 illus.) • List price EUR 249.- / US$ 369.• Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 4 China, 15/2
This second volume on Christianity in China covers the period from 1800 onwards up to the present, divided into three main periods, and dealing with the complexities of both Catholic and Protestant aspects. Also in this volume the reader will be guided to and through the Chinese and Western primary and secondary sources by carefully selected major scholars in the field. Produced with financial support from the Ricci Institute at the University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim.
History of Religions / Comparative Religion
Numen Book Series Studies in the History of Religions Series Editors: Steven Engler, Mount Royal University, Richard King, University of Glasgow, Kocku von Stuckrad, University of Groningen and Gerard Wiegers, University of Amsterdam For more information please visit brill.nl/nus The Numen Book Series publishes scholarly monographs and edited volumes on the historical, comparative, and crosscultural study of religions throughout the world, from antiquity to the present. The series publishes both methodologically
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contextualized historical research and theoretical and methodological contributions to the study of religion. A number of volumes of the Numen Book Series are published within the subseries Texts and Sources in the History of Religions.
The Social Dimension of Shin Buddhism Edited by Ugo Dessì, NCC Center for the Study of Japanese Religions in Kyōto
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Michael R. Darby In nineteenth-century Britain the majority of Jewish believers in Christ worshipped in Gentile churches. Some attained ethnic and institutional independence. A few debated the implications of incorporating into their worship the observance of Jewish tradition, and advocated the theological and liturgical independence of Hebrew Christianity, characterised by opponents as the “scandal of particularity”. Previous scholarship has documented several Hebrew Christian initiatives but this monograph breaks new ground by identifying almost forthy discrete institutions as components of a century-long movement. The book analyses the major pioneers, institutions and ideologies of this movement and recounts how, through identity negotiation, hebrew Christians - and also their Gentile supporters - prepared the way for the development in the twentieth century of Messianic Judaism.
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The Emergence of the Hebrew Christian Movement in Nineteenth Century Britain
• September 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18455 8 • Hardback (viii, 267 pp.) • List price EUR 97.- / US$ 137.• Numen Book Series, 128
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• September 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18653 8 • Hardback (301 pp.) • List price EUR 108.- / US$ 154.• Numen Book Series, 129
Shin Buddhism (Jōdo Shinshū), although weakened in many ways by secularization, continues to be a stable presence in Japanese society, as is emblematically shown by the very symmetrical position of the Nishi (Honganji-ha) and the Higashi Honganji (Ōtani-ha) head temples in the center of Kyōto, and by the recent projects for their renovation. This book addresses the need for more academic research on Shin Buddhism, and is specifically directed at describing and analyzing distinctive social aspects of this religious tradition in historical and contemporary perspective. The contributions collected here cover a wide range of issues, including the intersection between Shin Buddhism and fields as diverse as politics, education, social movements, economy, culture and the media, social ethics, gender, and globalization.
History of Religions / Comparative Religion
Myths, Martyrs, and Modernity Studies in the History of Religions in Honour of Jan N. Bremmer Edited by Jitse Dijkstra, University of Ottawa, Justin Kroesen, University of Groningen and Yme Kuiper, University of Groningen
• January 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18089 5 • Hardback (lvi, 685 pp.) • List price EUR 188.- / US$ 278.• Numen Book Series, 127
This volume in honour of Jan N. Bremmer contains the contributions of numerous students, colleagues, and friends offered to him on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Throughout his career, Bremmer has distinguished himself as an internationally renowned scholar of religion both past and present, including first and foremost Greek and Roman religion, but also early Christianity and post-classical developments in religion and spirituality. In line with these three main areas of Bremmer’s research, the volume is divided into three parts, bringing together contributions from distinguished scholars in many fields. The result is a diverse book which provides a broad spectrum of original ideas and innovative approaches in the history of religions, thus reflecting the nature of the scholarship of Bremmer himself.
Religion and Retributive Logic religious studies
Essays in Honour of Professor Garry W. Trompf
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Edited by Carole Cusack, University of Sydney and Christopher Hartney, University of Sydney
• November 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17880 9 • Hardback (391 pp.) • List price EUR 125.- / US$ 185.• Numen Book Series, 126
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 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.
New Subseries of Numen Book Series:
Texts and Sources in the History of Religions Series Editors: Steven Engler, Mount Royal University, Calgary, Richard King, University of Glasgow, Kocku von Stuckrad, University of Groningen, and Gerard Wiegers, University of Amsterdam For more information please visit brill.nl/nus-tshr 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.
History of Religions / Comparative Religion
Aries Book Series Texts and Studies in Western Esotericism Editor in Chief: Marco Pasi, University of Amsterdam For more information please visit brill.nl/arbs Aries Book Series. Texts and Studies in Western Esotericism is the first professional academic book series specifically devoted to a long-neglected but now rapidly developing new domain of research in the humanities, usually referred to as “Western Esotericism”. This field covers a variety of “alternative” currents in western religious history, including the so-called “hermetic philosophy” and related currents in the early modern period;
ISSN: 1871-1405 alchemy, paracelsianism and rosicrucianism; Jewish and Christian kabbalah and its later developments; theosophical and illuminist currents; and various occultist and related developments during the 19th and 20th centuries, up to and including popular contemporary currents such as the New Age movement.
Kabbalah and Modernity Interpretations, Transformations, Adaptations
Music and Esotericism Edited by Laurence Wuidar, Le Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique
• May 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18267 7 • Hardback (x, 376 pp.) • List price EUR 108.- / US$ 153.• Aries Book Series, 9
This collection of essays analyzes the relationships that exist between esotericism and music from Antiquity to the 20th century, investigating ways in which magic, astrology, alchemy, divination, and cabbala interact with music. The volume seeks to dissolve artificial barriers between the history of art, music, science, and intellectual history by establishing an interdisciplinary dialogue about music as viewed against a specific cultural background. The synthesis of scientific and historical contexts with respect to music, explored here on a large scale for the first time, opens up a wealth of new approaches to music historical research, music performance, and musical composition. Each chapter presents either a unique example of music functioning within esoteric and scientific traditions or a demonstration of the influence of those traditions upon selected musical works. L’ouvrage analyse les relations entre l’ésotérisme et la musique de l’Antiquité au 20ème siècle étudiant comment la magie, l’astrologie, l’alchimie, la divination et la cabale ont interagit avec la musique. Il vise à dépasser les frontières entre l’histoire de l’art, l’histoire de la musique et l’histoire des sciences et des idées afin de nouer un dialogue interdisciplinaire sur la musique autour de contextes historiques et scientifiques précis. L’ouvrage offre une première synthèse sur les rapports entre ésotérisme et musique ainsi que diverses pistes de recherche à poursuivre.
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• September 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18284 4 • Hardback (vi, 436 pp.) • List price EUR 130.- / US$ 185.• Aries Book Series, 10
The persistence of kabbalistic groups in the twentieth century has largely been ignored or underestimated by scholars of religion. Only recently have scholars began to turn their attention to the many-facetted roles that kabbalistic doctrines and schools have played in nineteenth- and twentieth-century culture. Often, and necessarily, this new interest and openness went along with a contextualization and re-valuation of earlier scholarly approaches to kabbalah. This volume brings together leading representatives of this ongoing debate in order to break new ground for a better understanding and conceptualization of the role of kabbalah in modern religious, intellectual, and political discourse.
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Edited by Boaz Huss, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Marco Pasi, University of Amsterdam and Kocku von Stuckrad, University of Groningen
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New Series: Dynamics in the History of Religions Editor in Chief: Volkhard Krech, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany For more information please visit brill.nl/dhr
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The so-called world religions and other religious traditions are not, and have never been, homogenous, nor have they formed or evolve in isolation. Dynamics in the History of Religions focuses on the crucial role of mutual encounters in the origins, development, and internal differentiation of the major religious traditions. The primary thesis of the series consists in the assumption that interconnections of self-perception and perception by the other, of adaptation and demarcation, are crucial factors for historical dynamics within the religious field. The series includes exemplary and comparative studies on the formation of the major religious traditions via diachronic and synchronic cultural contact, on interactions essential to the process of institutionalization and spread of religions, on interreligious encounters under the condition of
• November 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18159 5 • Hardback (364 pp.) • List price EUR 126.- / US$ 179.• Dynamics in the History of Religions, 2
ISSN: 1878-8106 colonialism and globalization, and on the stimulus provided by such contacts to the development of basic religious notions. Presenting studies on such contact-driven dynamics of the history of religions and of its reflection, both case studies, and studies using a comparative perspective, the series creates systematic points of references which allow for the integration of diachronically and synchronically heterogenous material in a general history of religions. Theories and concepts are developed abductively in an interplay of hypothetical conceptualization and empirical studies, of object language and meta language. By bridging and reconciling scientific metadiscourse on religion with religious discourses and religious self-descriptions, both unempirical scientism and un-theoretical positivism can be avoided.
Early Buddhist Transmission and Trade Networks Mobility and Exchange within and beyond the Northwestern Borderlands of South Asia Jason Neelis, University of Florida This exploration of early paths for Buddhist transmission within and beyond South Asia retraces the footsteps of monks, merchants, and other agents of cross-cultural exchange. A reassessment of literary, epigraphic, and archaeological sources reveals hisorical contexts for the growth of the Buddhist saṅgha from approximately the 5th century BCE to the end of the first millennium CE. Patterns of dynamic Buddhist mobility were closely linked to transregional trade networks extending to the northwestern borderlands and joined to Central Asian silk routes by capillary routes through transit zones in the upper Indus and Tarim Basin. By examining material conditions for Buddhist establishments at nodes along these routes, this book challenges models of gradual diffusion and develops alternative explanations for successful Buddhist movement.
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Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe in Past and Present Times Edited by Volkhard Krech , Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany and Marion Steinicke, Käte Hamburger Kolleg at Bochum
• December 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18500 5 • Hardback (482 pp.) • List price EUR 152.- / US$ 216.• Dynamics in the History of Religions, 1
This first volume of the series “Dynamics in the History of Religions” reviews the opening conference of the “Käte Hamburger Kolleg” at the Ruhr-University Bochum. The first section concentrates on the formation of what later come to be termed “world religions” through inter-religious contact, the second part focuses on the significance of interreligious contacts also during their expansive phase. Methodological problems of multi-perspective research and especially the lack of a general religious terminology are discussed in the third chapter, while the final papers outline various aspects of secularization and (re-)sacralisation in the age of globalisation as an effect of multicultural contacts in a world wide web of religious interferences.
History of Religions / Comparative Religion
Brill’s Tibetan Studies Library Edited by Henk Blezer, Alex McKay and Charles Ramble For more information please visit brill.nl/btsl In the new book series Brill’s Tibetan Studies Library editors and publishers will present scholars with yearly two to three works of outstanding recent scholarship on Tibet. Publication of
ISSN: 1568-6183 out-of-print ‘classics’ is also being considered and suggestions wellcomed. Covered will be all aspects of Tibetan culture well into modernity, from a wide variety of disciplines.
Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang Rites and Teachings for This Life and Beyond Matthew T. Kapstein, École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris) and Sam van Schaik, the British Library
With Additional Materials Rolf A. Stein and Arthur P. McKeown, Harvard University
• April 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18338 4 • Hardback (400 pp.) • List price EUR 130.- / US$ 185.• Brill’s Tibetan Studies Library, 24
Tibetica antiqua represents the seminal work on Tibetan religious history by one of the foremost Tibetologists of the twentieth century. Herein, Stein discusses the cultural and religious interactions among Tibet, India, and China which resulted in what we now consider “Tibetan Buddhism” from the point of view of our earliest sources, the Dunhuang manuscripts. Stein first discusses the basic tool of religious language, and the extent to which translations from Chinese, often apocryphal, scriptures competed with translations from Sanskrit. Stein also analyzes evidence for the introduction of Buddhism to Tibet, as well as what a pre-Buddhist religion may have looked like, as distinct from modern Bon. Here, these groundbreaking articles are for the first time in the English language. They have been substantially updated, and supplemented with additional material from Stein’s lectures at the Collège de France.
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Rolf Stein’s Tibetica Antiqua
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• January 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18203 5 • Hardback (300 pp.) • List price EUR 103.- / US$ 147.• Brill’s Tibetan Studies Library, 25
Esoteric Buddhism in late first millennium Tibet and China is nowhere in evidence so clearly as in materials from Dunhuang. In the original contributions presented here, Robert Mayer and Cathy Cantwell examine the consecrations of the wrathful divinity Vajrakīlaya, while Sam van Schaik considers approaches to the vows of tantric adepts. Philosophical interpretations of Mahāyoga inform Kammie Takahashi’s study of the ‘Questions of Vajrasattva’. The background for later Tibetan tantric mortuary rites are examined in chapters by Yoshiro Imaeda and Matthew Kapstein. In the closing chapter, Katherine Tsiang investigates early printing in relation to esoteric dhāraṇīs, and their role as amulets accompanying the deceased. The collection is an important advance in our understanding of the historical development of Buddhist tantra.
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One Hundred Thousand Moons An Advanced Political History of Tibet Tsepon Wangchuck Deden Shakabpa and Derek F. Maher, East Carolina University
• October 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17732 1 • Hardback (vol.1: xlviii, 574 pp.; vol.2: viii, 612 pp.) • List price EUR 269.- / US$ 398.• Brill’s Tibetan Studies Library, 23
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Buddhism and Empire The Political and Religious Culture of Early Tibet Michael Walter, Lumbini International Research Institute
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Drawing on a vast array of historical and biographical sources, this volume elaborates Tibetan political history, arguing that Tibet has long been an independent nation, and that the 1950 incursion by the Chinese was an invasion of a sovereign country. The author situates Tibet’s relations with a series of Chinese, Manchurian, and Mongolian empires in terms of the preceptor-patron relationship, an essentially religious connection in which Tibetan religious figures offered spiritual instruction to the contemporaneous emperor or other militarily powerful figure in exchange for protection and religious patronage. Simultaneously, this volume serves as an introduction to many aspects of Tibetan culture, society, and especially religion. The book includes a compendium of biographies of the most significant figures in Tibet’s past.
• June 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17584 6 • Hardback (xxviii, 316 pp.) • List price EUR 130.- / US$ 185.• Brill’s Tibetan Studies Library, 22
This book convincingly reassesses the role of political institutions in the introduction of Buddhism under the Tibetan Empire (c. 620-842), showing how relationships formed in the Imperial period underlie many of the unique characteristics of traditional Tibetan Buddhism. Taking original sources as a point of departure, the author persuasively argues that later sources hitherto used for the history of early Tibetan Buddhism in fact project later ideas backward, thus distorting our view of its enculturation. Following the pattern of Buddhism’s spread elsewhere in Asia, the early Tibetan imperial court realized how useful normative Buddhist concepts were. This work clearly shows that, while some beliefs and practices per se changed after the Tibetan Empire, the model of socio-political-religious leadership developed in that earlier period survived its demise and still constitutes a significant element in contemporary Tibetan Buddhist religious culture.
Buddhism Beyond the Monastery Tantric Practices and their Performers in Tibet and the Himalayas Edited by Sarah Jacoby, Northwestern University and Antonio Terrone, Northwestern University
• September 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17600 3 • Hardback (202 pp.) • List price EUR 97.- / US$ 138.• Brill’s Tibetan Studies Library, 12 / Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS, 2003, 10
Monasteries have been the locus classicus of the academic investigation of Tibetan religions. This volume seeks to balance this emphasis with an exploration of the diverse religious specialists who operate outside of the monastery in Tibet and along the Himalayan belt. The articles collected here depict Tantric professionals, visionaries, village lamas, spirit mediums, and female religious leaders whose loyalties reside in the noncelibate sphere but whose activities have had a significant impact on Tibetan religion. Using methodologies drawn from anthropological and textual scholarship, these seven essays bolster our understanding of religious practices and their performers beyond the monasteries of Central and Eastern Tibet, Bhutan, and India from historical times to the present day.
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Western Himalayan Temple Records State, Pilgrimage, Ritual and Legality in Chambā Mahesh Sharma, Panjab University, Chandigarh
• June 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17693 5 • Hardback (xx, 400 pp.) • List price EUR 119.- / US$ 169.• Brill’s Indological Library, 31
While numerous studies exist on major South-Asian temples, surprisingly little is known about ‘minor shrines’ and ‘lesser states’. Here fifty-five new documents, in a western-Himalayan script and language, and belonging to a small Siddha shrine, redress this remarkable gap in our knowledge. The documents cover a wide spectrum—from revenue grants to those dealing with ritual, pilgrimage, legality and temple-economy—thus building a picture of the relationship between state and shrine, and particularly so for the minor centres: their popularity and relationship with major temples; mundane matters; notices, petitions, and law-suits. It becomes clear how ‘lesser states’, despite their limited resources, patronized numerous small shrines, along with major temples; and the role played by the Nath-Siddha-ascetics in creating consentto-rule, acculturation, and constructing hybridity between the Hindu and Tibetan-Buddhist traditions.
Edited by Stephen F. Teiser, Martin Kern and Timothy Brook For more information please visit brill.nl/Ho4
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Scholarly reference works and research tools on topics in the history, religions, culture and linguistics of China.
Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia Charles D. Orzech, University of North Carolina Greensboro, Henrik H. Sørensen, Copenhagen and Richard K. Payne, Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley In all likelihood, it was the form of Buddhism labeled “Esoteric Buddhism” that had the greatest geographical spread of any form of Buddhism. It left its imprint not only on its native India, but far beyond, on Southeast Asia, Central Asia, including Tibet and Mongolia, as well as the East Asian countries China, Korea and Japan. Not only has Esoteric Buddhism contributed substantially to the development of Buddhism in many cultures, but it also facilitated the transmission of religious art and material culture, science and technology. This volume, the result of an international collaboration of forty scholars, provides a comprehensive resource on Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in their Chinese, Korean, and Japanese contexts from the first few centuries of the common era right up to the present.
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• October 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18491 6 • Hardback (850 pp.) • List price EUR 213.- / US$ 303.• Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 4, China, 24
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Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 4 ,China
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Early Chinese Religion Part Two: The Period of Division (220-589 AD) Edited by John Lagerwey, École Pratique des Hautes Études and Pengzhi Lü, Sichuan University
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• November 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17585 3 • Hardback (vol 1. xx, 738 pp; vol. 2: viii, 814 pp.) • List price EUR 249.- / US$ 369.• Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 4 China, / Early Chinese Religion, 21, 2
Early Chinese Religion Part One: Shang through Han (1250 BC-220 AD) Edited by John Lagerwey, École Pratique des Hautes Études and Marc Kalinowski, École Pratique des Hautes Études
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After the Warring States, treated in Part One of this set, there is no more fecund era in Chinese religious and cultural history than the period of division (220-589 AD). During it, Buddhism conquered China, Daoism grew into a mature religion with independent institutions, and, together with Confucianism, these three teachings, having each won its share of state recognition and support, formed a united front against shamanism. While all four religions are covered, Buddhism and Daoism receive special attention in a series of parallel chapters on their pantheons, rituals, sacred geography, community organization, canon formation, impact on literature, and recent archaeological discoveries. This multi-disciplinary approach, without ignoring philosophical and theological issues, brings into sharp focus the social and historical matrices of Chinese religion.
• December 2008 • ISBN 978 90 04 16835 0 • Hardback (Vol I: xvi, 692 pp.Vol II: viii, 693-1256 pp.) • List price EUR 259.- / US$ 369.• Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 4 China, / Early Chinese Religion, 21/1
Together, and for the first time in any language, the 24 essays gathered in these volumes provide a composite picture of the history of religion in ancient China from the emergence of writing ca. 1250 BC to the collapse of the first major imperial dynasty in 220 AD. It is a multi-faceted tale of changing gods and rituals that includes the emergence of a form of “secular humanism” that doubts the existence of the gods and the efficacy of ritual and of an imperial orthodoxy that founds its legitimacy on a distinction between licit and illicit sacrifices. Written by specialists in a variety of disciplines, the essays cover such subjects as divination and cosmology, exorcism and medicine, ethics and self-cultivation, mythology, taboos, sacrifice, shamanism, burial practices, iconography, and political philosophy.
History of Religions / Comparative Religion
Sunnitischer Tafsīr in der modernen islamischen Welt Akademische Traditionen, Popularisierung und nationalstaatliche Interessen Johanna Pink, Free University of Berlin
• November 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18592 0 • Hardback (approx. 280 pp. in German) • List price EUR 109.- / US$ 155.• Texts and Studies on the Qurʾān, 7
Die Forschung zur neueren muslimischen Koranexegese hat sich bislang weitgehend auf modernisierende Trends konzentriert und sich dabei zumeist innerhalb der Grenzen eines Sprachraums bewegt. Das vorliegende Buch bricht diesen verengenden Fokus auf, indem es einen Korpus von zeitgenössischen sunnitischen Korankommentaren aus der arabischen Welt, Indonesien und der Türkei vergleichend untersucht und der Frage nach ihrer Prägung durch spezifische lokale Bedingungen ebenso nachgeht wie der Analyse des gemeinsamen geistigen Erbes, auf das sie sich stützen. Indem es neben neueren exegetischen Entwicklungen der Einbettung zeitgenössischer Koranexegese in eine mehr als tausend Jahre alte ideengeschichtliche Tradition besondere Aufmerksamkeit widmet, liefert es neue Erkenntnisse über den religiösen, akademischen, politischen und gesellschaftlichen Kontext exegetischer Tätigkeit in der modernen islamischen Welt.
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Islamic History and Civilization Studies and Texts Edited by Wadad Kadi and Sebastian Günther For more information please visit brill.nl/ihc
research into individual themes or issues, annotated translations and text editions and conference proceedings related to Islamic history.
Analysing Muslim Traditions Studies in Legal, Exegetical and Maghāzī Ḥadīth Harald Motzki, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nicolet Boekhoff-van der Voort, Radboud University Nijmegen and Sean W. Anthony
• November 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 18049 9 • Hardback (xvi, 520 pp.) • List price EUR 174.- / US$ 258.• Islamic History and Civilization, 78
Since its inception, the study of Ḥadīth conducted by scholars trained in the Western academic tradition has been marked by sharp methodological debates. A focal issue is the origin and development of traditions on the advent of Islam. Scholars’ verdicts on these traditions have ranged from “late fabrications without any historical value for the time concerning which the narrations purport to give information” to “early, accurately transmitted texts that allow one to reconstruct Islamic origins”. Starting from previous contributions to the debate, the studies collected in this volume show that, by careful analysis of their texts and chains of transmission, the history of Muslim traditions can be reconstructed with a high degree of probability and their historicity assessed afresh.
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Islamic History and Civilization. Studies and Texts straddles the wide world of Islam, from its earliest appearance until pre-modern times, and from its western to its eastern boundaries. The series provides space for diachronic studies of a dynasty or region,
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The Nuṣayrī - ‘Alawīs An Introduction to the Religion, History and Identity of the Leading Minority in Syria Yaron Friedman
• November 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17892 2 • Hardback (xxii, 352 pp.) • List price EUR 126.- / US$ 186.• Islamic History and Civilization, 77
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Letters of a Sufi Scholar The Correspondence of `Abd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī (1641-1731) Samer Akkach, Adelaide University
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Friedman offers new and updated research on the Nusayrī-‘Alawī sect, today a leading group in Syria, covering a variety of aspects and focusing on the Middle Ages. A century after Dussaud’s Histoire et religion des Nosairîs (1900), he reviews the history and religion of the sect in the light of old documents used by orientalists in the nineteenth century, documents that became available in the twentieth century, and later sources of the Nuṣayrī-‘Alawī sect published most recently in Lebanon. Also studied in depth for the first time is the question of the identity of the sect through the ‘Alawī-Sunnī-Shī‘ī triangle.
• October 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17102 2 • Hardback (xxiv, 536 pp.) • List price EUR 149.- / US$ 232.• Islamic History and Civilization, 74
As a leading Muslim thinker, ‘Abd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī of Damascus creatively engaged with the social, religious, and intellectual challenges that emerged during the early modern period in which he lived. Yet, at a time of high anti-mystical fervour, his Sufi-inspired views faced strong local antipathy. Through extensive correspondence, presented here for the first time, ‘Abd alGhanī projected his ideas and teachings beyond the parochial boundaries of Damascus, and was thus able to assert his authority at a wider regional level. The letters he himself selected, compiled, and titled shed fresh lights on the religious and intellectual exchanges among scholars in the eastern Ottoman provinces, revealing a dynamic and rigorous image of Islam, one that is profoundly inspired by humility, tolerance, and love.
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Commentaria Sacred Texts and Their Commentaries: Jewish, Christian and Islamic Founding Editors: Grover A. Zinn, William H. Danforth Professor of Religion (Emeritus), Michael A. Signer (ob.), University of Notre Dame Editors: Frans van Liere, Calvin College, Lesley Smith, Harris Manchester College, E. Ann Matter, University of Pennsylvania, Thomas E. Burman, University of Tennessee and Robert A. Harris, Jewish Theological Seminary New York For more information please visit brill.nl/comm Commentaria is dedicated to outstanding monographs or edited volumes of essays (topical or from conferences) that address subjects within the general area of the interpretation (exegesis) of the sacred texts of three major religious traditions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The time-period covered by the series extends from the Late Antiquity through the Late Middle Ages. The editors envision this series as embracing a broad range of topics, approaches, and methods. Monographs may address a single tradition or undertake a comparative study
ISSN: 1874-8236 of a theme, topic, or hermeneutical strategy in two or three of the traditions, or in several branches or aspects of the same tradition (e.g. Eastern Orthodox and Western Catholic traditions in Christianity, Al Tabari and Al Ghazali in Islam, or the schools of Rashi and Joseph Kimchi in Judaism). Commentaria welcomes studies on sacred myth and narrative; interreligious dialogue; scriptural exegesis; modes of representation; traditions of illumination; methods of manuscript production.
The Making of a Medieval Bible Commentary
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The Glossa Ordinaria Lesley Smith, Oxford University
The Multiple Meaning of Scripture The Role of Exegesis in Early-Christian and Medieval Culture Edited by Ineke Van’t Spijker, independent scholar
• December 2008 • ISBN 978 90 04 17184 8 • Hardback (viii, 344 pp.) • List price EUR 124.- / US$ 179.• Commentaria, 2
From the beginning of the Christian era and throughout the Middle Ages, biblical interpretation was the field where theological, philosophical and political matters were discussed. At the same time Scripture’s interpretation required the exploration of hermeneutical positions about how a literal and a hidden meaning could be established and how they related to each other. Ranging from early-Christian concerns about the text of the Bible itself, via Carolingian biblical commentaries, and the ever more diverse interpretations from the twelfth century and onwards, to the literary implications of (Jewish) commentary, the articles in this volume examine biblical exegesis both as a discourse on theology, philosophy and politics, and as the context for discussions on its underlying interpretative principles.
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• September 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17785 7 • Hardback (288 pp.) • List price EUR 108.- / US$ 154.• Commentaria, 3
The Glossa Ordinaria on the Bible was the ubiquitous text of the Middle Ages. Compiled in twelfthcentury France, this multi-volume work, containing the entire text of Scripture surrounded by a commentary drawn from patristic and medieval authors, is still extant in thousands of manuscripts, testifying to the centrality of the work for generations of medieval scholars. Although the Glossa has been the subject of modern study, it is surrounded by myth. This book, based on manuscript evidence, is the first to draw together the history of this monumental work, its authorship, content, layout, production and use. Raising new questions, and pointing the way to further research, it opens up the Glossa to all students of medieval religion and intellectual history.
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Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture Edited by Guy Stroumsa, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and David Shulman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem For more information please visit brill.nl/jsrc Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture includes 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
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• December 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18926 3 • Hardback (182 pp.) • List price EUR 86.- / US$ 123.• Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture, 12
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ISSN: 1570-078x 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.
Voice and Message in Viveka-Vedanta Sankara’s sankaracaryas Yohanan Grinshpon Sankaracarya of the 8th century A.D is considered the greatest philosopher of India up to this day. his teaching of the one and only self has become the most prestigeous expression of the Hindu spirit. Sankara is the author of the Brahmasutrabhasya, the most important text of the school known as Advaita-Vedanta. Sankara teaches of the self by dialogues between a winning exponent and a losing opponent. Up to this day, Sankara’s teaching has been invariably identified with the exponent’s doctrines. In this book a distinction between the invisible authon and his alleged exponent is offered. Sankara the author is a new intellectual hero different from his exponent. Thus, due to the aforementioned distinction, a new philosophy and theory of freedom emerges, the teaching of Sankara, the author distinguished from his apparent exponent. All those interested in Indian philosophy, mysticism and inteelectual history. Yohanan Grinshpon is a senior lecturer of Hindu philosophy, religion and literature in the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He has published books on Yoga (SilenceUnheard; Deathly Otherness in Patanjala-Yoga) and on the Upanishads (Crisis and Knowledge; The Upanishadic Experience and Story-Telling).
Syriac Idiosyncrasies Theology and Hermeneutics in Early Syriac Literature Serge Ruzer, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Aryeh Kofsky, the University of Haifa.
• July 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18498 5 • Hardback (viii, 188 pp.) • List price EUR 86.- / US$ 123.• Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture, 11
The study of early Syriac Christianity has for decades been steadily expanding, yet its scope still lags way behind that of research relating to Greek and Latin Christianity. One of the intriguing and understudied topics here is the nature of Syriac Christianity’s autonomous identity in late antiquity. This question is intrinsically connected to its genesis from an indigenous Christian Aramaic background as well as its interaction with the neighboring Jewish milieu. This volume unearthes some of the idiosyncracies -- mainly pertaining to trinitarian theology, christology and hermeneutics -- to be found in early Syriac literature before the onslaught of Greek hegemony. The idiosyncrasies analyzed here offer new insights into the nature of that peculiar brand of early Christianity, confirming a model of an indigenous early Syriac tradition gradually entering into a dynamic interaction with Greek influence.
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Interprétations de Moïse Égypte, Judée, Grèce et Rome Edited by Philippe Borgeaud, University of Geneva, Tomas Römer, Collège de France and Youri Volokhine, University of Geneva
• November 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17953 0 • Hardback (320 pp.) • List price EUR 104.- / US$ 154.• Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture, 10
This books brings together specialists of diverse ancient mediterranean culture working on the formation of a “Moses mythology”, from a comparative perspective, between Judea, Greece, Egypt and Rome. The concrete outcome of this comparative inquiry is the common translation and commentary of the fragments of the mysterious Artapanus. Ce volume rassemble des spécialistes de différentes cultures du monde méditerranéen ancien autour de la formation d’une “mythologie de Moïse”, entre la Judée, la Grèce, l’Egypte et Rome. Le résultat pratique de cette enquête comparatiste débouche sur la traduction et le commentaire des fragments du mystérieux Artapan.
Manuscripts and Commentary Ahuva Ho
Eros and Creativity in Russian Religious Renewal The Philosophers and the Freudians Anna Lisa Crone
• January 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18005 5 • Hardback (xiv, 266 pp.) • List price EUR 96.- / US$ 142.• Russian History and Culture, 3
This book is a fascinating exploration of largely uncharted territory in the history of Russian religious thought. Focusing on four brilliant representatives of the ‘Russian religious renaissance’ of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries--Vladimir Solovyov, Vasily Rozanov, Nikolai Berdyaev, and Boris Vysheslavtsev--Anna Lisa Crone masterfully details their efforts, which were at first quite independent of the work of Sigmund Freud and later highly critical of it, to establish the importance of the sex drive in human life and to reinterpret Christianity as a religion of the flesh as well as the spirit. Crone’s use of the concept of sexual sublimation (developed by Solovyov and Rozanov before Freud had described it) and its connection with human creativity is the perfect foil for bringing out and clarifying the agreements and differences between the Russian religious thinkers on the one hand and the secular psychoanalysts such as Freud, Carl Jung, and Otto Rank on the other. New light is cast on all these figures by Crone’s adroit analyses, which will also be welcomed by anyone interested in the roots of creativity, the cultural significance of sexuality, or the essence of Christianity.
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• March 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17180 0 • Hardback (xii, 460 pp.) • List price EUR 152.- / US$ 216.• Studies in the Aramaic Interpretation of Scripture, 7
This seminal and comprehensive study of Targum Jonathan to Zephaniah focuses on two major facets of exegesis: The twenty-one manuscripts from five different provenances, reflecting a variety of textual traditions and scribal erudition, thus revealing distinct stemmas; and the history of transmission of Targum Jonathan. Divergences from the literality of the MT unveil the emotions – fear, dismay, and hope – and the prayers of the meturgeman, as he reacts to historical events in the near past and in his own time.
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The Targum of Zephaniah
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IJS Studies in Judaica Conference Proceedings of the Institute of Jewish Studies, University College London Editorial Board: Mark Geller, François Guesnet and Ada Rapoport-Albert For more information please visit brill.nl/ijs These volumes are based on the international conference series of the Institute of Jewish Studies, University College London. Volumes focus on significant themes relating to Jewish
ISSN: 1570-1581 civilisation, and bring together from different countries, often for the first time, eminent scholars working in the same or allied fields of research.
Longing, Belonging, and the Making of Jewish Consumer Culture
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Edited by Gideon Reuveni, University of Melbourne and Nils Roemer, University of Texas at Dallas
• July 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18603 3 • Hardback (x, 233 pp.) • List price EUR 103.- / US$ 146.• IJS Studies in Judaica, 11
Jewish history has been extensively studied from social, political, religious, and intellectual perspectives, but the history of Jewish consumption and leisure has largely been ignored. The hitherto neglect of scholarship on Jewish consumer culture arises from the tendency within Jewish studies to chronicle the production of high culture and entrepreneurship. Yet consumerism played a central role in Jewish life. This volume is the first of its kind to deal with the topic of Jewish consumer culture. It gives new insights on Jewish belongings and longings and provides multiple readings of Jewish consumer culture as a vehicle of integration and identity in modern times.
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Tuning the Soul Music as a Spiritual Process in the Teachings of Rabbi Naḥman of Bratzlav Chani Haran Smith, Leo Baeck Rabbinical College, London
• May 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18381 0 • Hardback (xiv, 225 pp.) • List price EUR 97.- / US$ 137.• IJS Studies in Judaica, 10
This book is an in-depth study of the function of music in religious experience according to Rabbi Naḥman of Bratzlav. It provides new insights on his unique doctrine of the “Good Points”, which represent the core of loving kindness and holiness in the human soul, and the musical context in which they become both a means and a metaphor for spiritual transformation. Drawing on midrashic and kabbalistic sources, the book explores Naḥman’s perception of different types of “tzadiqim” (religious leaders), including himself, and the special role music plays in their leadership. It highlights the importance of creativity and renewal in the messianic process that involves both music and loving kindness.
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The Call of the Homeland Diaspora Nationalisms, Past and Present Edited by Athena S. Leoussi, University of Reading, Allon Gal, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Anthony D. Smith, LSE
• March 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18210 3 • Hardback (xxvi, 400 pp.) • List price EUR 140.- / US$ 199.• IJS Studies in Judaica, 9
This book brings together an array of distinguished scholars to consider diaspora nationalism. Through theoretical, typological and case-specific essays that discuss the Jewish, Greek, Armenian, Irish, Turkish, Sikh, Ukrainian, Hindu, Pentecostal and Muslim diasporas, the book shows the varieties and qualities of attachment of diaspora communities to their ancestral homelands, and the role that hostlands as well as the immigrants play in the form and intensity of these attachments. Setting contemporary diaspora nationalisms in the context of globalisation, with its ever-developing methods of transportation and communication, the book further shows the emergence of new concepts of diaspora - new notions of being at home and away from home - and of new ways of creating and sustaining ethnic networks and contact with the homeland, such as the internet and tourism.
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 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 texts and performance practices, covering a wide gamut of genres and traditions.
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Traditions of Maimonideanism Edited by Carlos Fraenkel, McGill University
• June 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17333 0 • Hardback (x, 358 pp.) • List price EUR 125.- / US$ 178.• IJS Studies in Judaica, 7
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 Maimonides’ work and the fascinating history of its reception from the 13th century to the present.
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• July 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17335 4 • Hardback (xvi, 260 pp.) • List price EUR 103.- / US$ 145.• IJS Studies in Judaica, 8
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Études sur le Judaïsme Médiéval Edited by Paul Fenton For more information please visit brill.nl/ejm
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• September 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18776 4 • Hardback (220 pp.) • List price EUR 103.- / US$ 146.• Études sur le Judaïsme Médiéval, 41
Linguistic Variety of Judaeo-Arabic in Letters from the Cairo Genizah Esther-Miriam Wagner, Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, Cambridge University The Cairo Genizah has preserved a vast number of medieval and post-medieval letters written in the Jewish variety of Arabic. The linguistic peculiarities of these letters provide an invaluable source for the understanding of the history of the Arabic language and the development of Arabic dialects. This work compares and contrasts various linguistic features of JudaeoArabic letters from different periods, and is one of the first studies to present a comprehensive linguistic investigation into non-literary Judaeo-Arabic. Its main focus is to provide an extensive diachronic linguistic description, while distinguishing between features of epistolary Arabic and vernacular phenomena. This study should be of interest to anyone working on the Arabic language, sociolinguistics, general historical linguistics and language typology.
Berakhyah Ben Natronai ha-Nakdan, Sefer Ko’aḥ ha-Avanim (On the Virtue of the Stones) Hebrew Text and English Translation With a Lexicological Analysis of the Romance Terminology and Source Study
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Gerrit Bos, University of Cologne and Julia Zwink, Free University of Berlin • May 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18310 0 • Hardback (x, 189 pp.) • List price EUR 93.- / US$ 131.• Études sur le Judaïsme Médiéval, 40
The lore of the supposed magic and medical virtue of stones goes back to the Babylonians and peaks out in the lapidary literature of the Middle Ages. The famous work of Marbode of Rennes, which made lapidaries a very popular type of medieval scientific literature, was translated into numerous vernacular languages. The Jewish tradition, missing a particular lapidary literature of its own, absorbed non-Jewish works like that of Marbode. Several Anglo-Norman Marbode translations could be identified as the main source of the present edited Hebrew lapidary Ko’aḥ ha-Avanim, written by Berakhyah Ben Natronai ha-Nakdan around 1300. The edition is accompanied by an English translation, a source study, and a linguistic analysis of the Romance, mostly Anglo-Norman, terms featuring within the text in Hebrew spelling.
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Abraham Ibn Ezra Book of the World A Parallel Hebrew English Critical Edition of the Two Versions of the Text Abraham. Ibn Era’s Astrological Writings, Volume 2 Shlomo Sela, Bar-Ilan University
• November 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17914 1 • Hardback (xii, 356 pp.) • List price EUR 99.- / US$ 147.• Études sur le Judaïsme Médiéval, 39
The present volume offers the first critical edition of the Hebrew text of the two versions of Ibn Ezra’s Book of the World, accompanied by an English translation and a commentary. These twin treatises represent the first Hebrew work, unique in medieval Jewish science, to discuss the theories and techniques of historical and meteorological astrology that had accumulated from Antiquity to Ibn Ezra’s time, on the basis of Greek, Hindu, Persian, and Arabic sources. This volume also incorporates the first critical edition, translated and annotated, of MāshāÞallāh’s Book on Eclipses, a work dealing with mundane astrology whose Hebrew translation was ascribed to Ibn Ezra, as well as a study of three brief texts in which Ibn Ezra either conveyed his own opinion about mundane astrology.
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Jewish Identities in a Changing World Edited by Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Yosef Gorny and Judith Bokser Liwerant For more information please visit brill.nl/jicw 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
issn:1570-7997 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.
American Israelis Migration, Transnationalism, and Diasporic Identity
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Uzi Rebhun, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Lilach Lev Ari, Oranim Academic College of Education
• April 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18388 9 • Hardback (xvi, 176 pp.) • List price EUR 93.- / US$ 131.• Jewish Identities in a Changing World, 13
This book is a scientific and comprehensive analysis of Israelis who live in the United States. Using different complementary sources of data, and through cutting-edge approaches in the social sciences, this volume examines the settlement patterns of the Israeli immigrants, their social profile, their economic achievements, their Americanization processes, as well as the nature and rhythm of their Jewish identification including changes in attachment to the homeland. The characteristics of the immigrants shed light on Israeli society. At the same time they also have important implications for the Jewish community in the host country and on Jewish continuity in America.
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Argentine Jews or Jewish Argentines? Essays on Ethnicity, Identity, and Diaspora Raanan Rein, Tel Aviv University
• January 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 17913 4 • Hardback (xxvi, 286 pp.) • List price EUR 104.- / US$ 154.• Jewish Identities in a Changing World, 12
The essays gathered here challenge essentialist concepts and overemphasis on Jewish particularity, as well as the common discourse of Jewish victimology. At the same time, they reveal how the Jews, like other ethnic groups, are not monolithic but fragmented by place of origin, social class, political ideologies, and gender. The topics discussed include the nonpolitical Zionism espoused by Sephardic Jews during the first half of the 20th century, Argentine neutrality during World War II, the entry of Nazi war criminals to Argentina, the regime of Juan Perón and its attitudes towards Jewish-Argentines and the state of Israel, the reactions of Jews to the anti-Semitic wave in Argentina following the kidnapping of Adolf Eichman by Mossad agents, the Latin American community in Israel, and protests by Argentine exiles in Israel against the 1978 world-cup soccer games, played in Argentina during a brutal military regime.
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Studia Post Biblica For more information please visit brill.nl/spb
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The Jews in Siciliy, Volume 18, Under the Rule of Aragon and Spain Shlomo Simonsohn, Tel Aviv University
The Jews in Sicily,
Shlomo Simonsohn, Tel Aviv University
• March 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18278 3 • Cloth with dustjacket (xii, 709 pp.) • List price EUR 230.- / US$ 340.• Studia Post Biblica, 17 / The Jews in Sicily, 48
This volume of the Documentary History of the Jews in Italy is the ninth of the second series, illustrating the history of the Jews in Sicily based on notarial and court records. It is the sequel to the eight volumes of the first series. Notarial deeds drawn up by public notaries in Palermo and elsewhere and cases brought before the Pretorian Court in Palermo present a kaleidoscopic picture of the private lives of the Jews of Sicily during the last three centuries of their presence on the island. They illustrate the economic, social and religious history of the Jewish minority and the relations with the Christian majority. Much information is provided on trade and commerce, crafts and professions, religious and family life. Some light is thrown also on the internal life of the communities, particularly the larger ones, including organization and institutions, the synagogue, education, customs and traditions. Although the surviving legal deeds present only a fraction of the total drawn up in those years, they are copious and abundant. Over 30,000 documents of this group were selected for publication, most appearing here for the first time. While some documents are discussed at length, the majority are only presented in summary form. The volume is provided with additional bibliography and indexes, while the introduction will appear at the end of the series.
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Volume 17, Sciacca (end), Caltabellotta, Agrigento, Syracuse, Noto, Catania, Scicli, Randazzo, Messina, Addenda et Corrigenda
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• May 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18654 5 • Hardback (xxi, 613 pp.) • List price EUR 230.- / US$ 340.• Studia Post Biblica, 18 / The Jews in Sicily, 48
This volume of the Documentary History of the Jews in Sicily is the eighteenth volume of the two series and concludes them. It is a monograph describing the last centuries of the Jewish presence on the island, under the rule of Aragon and Spain and a sequel to the Introduction at the beginning of volume one. It is based on the documents contained in volumes 2-17 and illustrates the political, legal, economic, social and religious history of the Jewish minority and its relations with the Christian majority.The records show that the Jews in Sicily were citizens and suffered from relatively few disabilities. This was true in particular in the economic sphere. No discriminatory legislation forced them into money-lending and trade in old clothes. They engaged in agriculture and industry, trade and commerce, including international trade and shipping, and in most professions, which in turn enhanced their social status. There was as an unusually large number of craftsmen and physicians among them. The majority, however, were labourers, on the land and in town. In the fifteenth century the Jewish population reached 25,000 or thereabouts. All this came to a sudden end with the expulsion order issued by the Catholic Monarchs in 1492. Some 80% of the Jews went into exile, while the remainder converted to Catholicism, only to be caught in the net of the Spanish inquisition. This volume is provided with addenda and corrigenda, additional bibliography and indexes.
Jewish Studies
Studies in Jewish History and Culture Edited by Giuseppe Veltri, University of Halle-Wittenberg For more information please visit brill.nl/sjhc 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
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• November 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 17900 4 • Hardback • List price EUR 199.- / US$ 283.• Studies in Jewish History and Culture, 26
ISSN: 1568-5004 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.
Judah ben Joseph Moscato. Sefer Nefus;.ot Yehudah (The Book of The Dispersed of Judah). Hebrew Text (Venice 1589) and English Translation Volume One edited and translated by: Giacomo Corazzol, Regina Grundmann, Don Harrán, Yonatan Meroz, Brian Ogren, and Adam Shear Edited by Gianfranco Miletto and Giuseppe Veltri Judah ben Joseph Moscato (c.1533–1590) was one of the most distinguished rabbis, authors, and preachers of the Italian-Jewish Renaissance. The book Sefer Nefus;.ot Yehudah belongs to the very centre of his important homiletic and philosophical oeuvre. Composed in Mantua and published in Venice in 1589, the collection of 52 sermons addresses the subject of the Jewish festivals, focussing on philosophy, mysticism, sciences and rites. This and subsequent volumes will provide a critical edition of the original Hebrew text, accompanied by an English translation.
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“Genizat Germania” — Hebrew and Aramaic Binding Fragments from Germany in Context Edited by Andreas Lehnardt, Mainz University
• March 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 17954 7 • Hardback (320 pp.) • List price EUR 125.- / US$ 185.• Studies in Jewish History and Culture, 28
“Genizat Germania” is a project at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz focused on the search for and analysis of Hebrew and Aramaic binding fragments found in the books and files of archives and libraries. In recent years this systematic search has revealed several hundred new fragments, including some rare Talmudic, Midrashic and liturgical fragments. The new discoveries both in Germany and elsewhere in Europe have broadened the knowledge of Jewish literature in the Middle Ages and Early Modern periods. This volume collects the papers of international scholars which cover recent discoveries in Germany, the “European Genizah” or fragments found in Italy, Poland, Great Britain and Austria, the approaches of similar projects in Austria and the Czech Republic, as well as an extensive bibliography.
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Shabbatai Donnolo’s Sefer Ḥakhmoni Introduction, Critical Text, and Annotated English Translation Piergabriele Mancuso, Insubria University, Como
• April 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 16762 9 • Hardback (xii, 415 pp.) • List price EUR 135.- / US$ 200.• Studies in Jewish History and Culture, 27
Sefer Hakhmoni by the 10th-century Jewish polymath Shabbatai Donnolo is one of the first texts written in Hebrew in medieval Europe and one of the most important documents of the “Hebrew Renaissance” of Byzantine Jewry in southern Italy between the 9th and the 11th centuries. Written as a commentary on Sefer Yeîirah (Book of Formation, an anonymous text probably written in Palestine between the 3rd and the 6th centuries), Sefer Hakhmoni is in fact a much more complex work, consisting of biblical exegesis, astrology, medicine, a detailed analysis of the neo-Platonic idea of melothesia, and the correspondence between the elements of the microcosm and macrocosm. This volume offers the critical text, an annotated English translation, and a comprehensive introduction to Donnolo and his works.
Reincarnation in Early Modern Italian Kabbalah Brian Ogren, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mediene Remnants Yiddish Sources in the Netherlands Outside of Amsterdam Tehilah van Luit, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• July 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 15625 8 • Hardback (xxii, 216 pp.) • List price EUR 86.- / US$ 123.• Studies in Jewish History and Culture, 23
This inventory provides a survey of the extant Yiddish sources in Dutch archives and collections outside of Amsterdam. Until now, an overview and quantitative summary of the available Yiddish sources in The Netherlands was lacking. The compilation represents only a modest beginning, for the amount of material that has survived is enormous. An inventory relating to the Jewish community of Amsterdam requires a separate volume. The present inventory aims to stimulate new research-projects on the history of Ashkenazi Jewry in the Netherlands and to facilitate the research of the west-Yiddish speech variant that was spoken by the Ashkenazi Jews in The Netherlands.
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• September 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17764 2 • Hardback (x, 322 pp.) • List price EUR 108.- / US$ 154.• Studies in Jewish History and Culture, 24
Metempsychosis was a prominent element in Renaissance conceptualizations of the human being, the universe, and the place of the human person in the universe. A variety concepts emerged in debates about metempsychosis: human to human reincarnation, human to vegetal, human to animal, and human to angelic transmigration. As a complex and changing doctrine, metempsychosis gives us a well-placed window for viewing the complex and dynamic contours of Jewish thought in late fifteenth century Italy; as such, it enables us to evaluate Jewish thought in relation to non-Jewish Italian developments. This book addresses the problematic question of the roles and achievements of Jews who lived in Italy in the development of Renaissance culture in its Jewish and its Christian dimensions.
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Renaissance and Rebirth
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History and Folklore in a Medieval Jewish Chronicle The Family Chronicle of Aḥimaʿaz ben Paltiel Robert Bonfil, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• August 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17385 9 • Hardback (xviii, 388 pp., 32 illus.) • List price EUR 130.- / US$ 185.• Studies in Jewish History and Culture, 22
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Juvenile Sexuality, Kabbalah, and Catholic Reformation in Italy Tiferet Bahurim by Pinhas Barukh ben Pelatiyah Monselice Roni Weinstein
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Composed in Hebrew in Capua, Italy in 1054, the family chronicle of Ahima’az remains one of the most important historical sources of medieval Jewish life, folklore, culture, and mentalités in Western Europe, especially in the so-called Ashkenazi area. As such, it provides a rich resource to scholars of medieval history, cultural studies, gender studies, and anthropology. In this book Robert Bonfil provides a detailed historical introduction and new English translation of the chronicle. Readers knowledgeable in Hebrew will also greatly benefit from the new, vocalized critical edition of the Hebrew text, skillfully set up in front of the translation.
• September 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 16757 5 • Hardback (xii, 452 pp.) • List price EUR 130.- / US$ 185.• Studies in Jewish History and Culture, 21
This book provides the first publication of the tract Tiferet Bahurim (The Glory of Youth) which was written in the mid-seventeenth century by R. Pinhas Barukh ben Pelatiyah Monselic in Ferrara, Italy. The tract was written as a guide for young men about to marry regarding their family life and their sexual deportment. By analyzing the Tiferet Bahurim Roni Weinstein addresses the following questions: What was the source of the growing interest in sexuality, and controlling juvenile sexuality? How is this tract related to centuries-old Jewish ethical literature, as well as literature in contemporary Catholic Italy? Is the Tiferet Bahurim part of the religious and cultural fermentation of the Counter-Reformation? Finally, did Jewish mysticism and pietism of Kabbalah tradition play a role in the composition of this tract?
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The Brill Reference Library of Judaism Edited by Alan J. Avery-Peck, College of the Holy Cross and William Scott Green, University of Rochester For more information please visit brill.nl/brla The Brill Reference Library of Judaism presents research on fundamental problems in the study of the authoritative texts, beliefs and practices, events and ideas, of the Judaic religious world from the Hellenistic period to the present. Systematic accounts of principal phenomena characteristic of Judaic life,
ISSN: 1571-5000 works of a theoretical character, accounts of movements and trends, diverse expressions of the faith, all will find a place in the series, alongside new translations of and commentaries on classical texts.
Judaism and Christianity New Directions for Dialogue and Understanding Edited by Alan Avery-Peck, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester and Jacob Neusner, Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard College religious studies
• November 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17938 7 • Hardback (300 pp.) • List price EUR 108.- / US$ 154.• The Brill Reference Library of Judaism, 28
This volume treats the interrelationship between Judaism and Christianity from the first centuries and into modern times, paying particular attention to these faiths’ social, cultural, and theological interactions. The issues covered range from the formation of Jewish and Christian ideology in the context of Roman paganism to the ways in which Christian culture and theology of the medieval and modern periods form a backdrop to the creation of Jewish identity. While the historical periods and issues discussed are diverse, the result is to suggest the importance of our recognizing the close development of Judaism and Christianity. Written by top scholars in Judaic and Christian studies, these essays reflect on how the two faiths related to and were shaped by each other as they evolved in shared historical and cultural contexts, even as each maintained its own distinctive ideologies and beliefs.
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Supplements to The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy Edited by Leora Batnitzky, Princeton University, Christian Wiese, University of Sussex and Elliot Wolfson, New York University For more information please visit brill.nl/sjjt 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,
ISSN: 1873-9008 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.
Spirituality in the Writings of Etty Hillesum Proceedings of the Etty Hillesum Conference at Ghent University, November 2008 religious studies
Edited by Klaas A.D. Smelik, Ria van den Brandt and Meins G. S. Coetsier
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• October 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18858 7 • Hardback (515 pp.) • List price EUR 162.- / US$ 230.• Supplements to The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, 11
Much of the previous scholarship on Etty Hillesum (1914-1943) was done by individual scholars within the analyses of their fields. After the proceedings of the international Etty Hillesum Congress at Ghent University in November 2008, this Congress Volume is the first joined effort by more than twenty Hillesum experts worldwide. It is an absorbing account of international scholarship on the life, works and vision of the Dutch Jewish writer Etty Hillesum, whose life was shaped by the totalitarian Nazi-regime. Hillesum’s diaries and letters illustrate her heroic struggle to come to terms with her personal life in the context of World War II. Building on new interest in theology, philosophy, and psychology this book revives Hillesum research with a comprehensive rereading of both her published works and lesser-known secondary discourses on her life. The result is fascinating. With the current explosion of interest in inter-religious dialogue, peace studies, Judaism, the holocaust, gender studies and mysticism, it is clear that this Congress Volume will be invaluable to students and scholars in various disciplines.
The Mystery of the Earth Mysticism and Hasidism in the Thought of Martin Buber Israel Koren, Oranim College of Education and David Yellin College of Education in Israel
• January 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18123 6 • Hardback (xiv, 387 pp.) • List price EUR 121.- / US$ 179.• Supplements to The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, 10
Challenging the prevalent view that in order to establish his “Dialogical” thought Martin Buber had to forsake his earlier “mystical” work, Israel Koren demonstrates instead that mystical paradigms serve as the foundation for Buber’s dialogue and endow it with greater depth. While most scholars portray Buber’s dialogical thought mainly in its Western and modern philosophical background, the author examines Buber’s interpretation of Hasidic themes such as Devekut (attachment to God) among others, in order to establish that his dialogical writings evolved out of his interpretation of Judaism in general, his understanding of the Hasidic conception of the world and the mission of man in Hasidism in particular. Buber’s work is therefore shown to be original mystical neo-Hasidic thought, which serves as a new link in the historical chain of Jewish mysticism.
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Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism Edited by Hindy Najman, University of Toronto Associate Editors: Florentino García Martínez, University of Groningen and Benjamin G. Wright, III, Lehigh University For more information please visit brill.nl/jsjs The Journal for the Study of Judaism Supplement Series provides a forum for the publication of scholarly works on all aspects of Judaism from the Persian period through Late Antiquity. The scope of the Supplement Series corresponds to the scope of the journal. Volumes may be devoted to literary, socio-historical,
• September 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18626 2 • Cloth with dustjacket (x, 400 pp.) • List price EUR 130.- / US$ 185.• Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 143
ISSN: 1384-2161 religio-historical or theological themes, and may be written from any methodological perspective. Volumes of essays are welcome, provided that they have a coherent theme. Volumes dealing with the influence of Judaism on early Christianity also fall within the scope of the series.
Other Worlds and Their Relation to This World Early Jewish and Ancient Christian Traditions
Exploring the Scripturesque Jewish Texts and their Christian Contexts Robert Alan Kraft, University of Pennsylvania
• October 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17010 0 • Cloth with dustjacket (288 pp.) • List price EUR 99.- / US$ 147.• Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 137
These essays span about a third of a century and include both previously published and some unpublished studies by Robert A. Kraft which focus on interfaces between Jewish materials and the worlds in which they were transmitted and/or perceived, especially Christian contexts. The initial section on general context and methodology is followed by several detailed studies by way of example. The final section touches on some related issues involving Philonic and other texts. The primary concern is with “scripturesque” materials and traditions, whether they later became canonical or not, that seem to have been respected as “scriptural” by some individuals or communities in the period prior to (or apart from) the development of an exclusivistic canonical consciousness in some Jewish and Christian circles.
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Is there a future after death and how does this future look like? What kind of life can we expect, and in what kind of world? Is there another, hopefully better world than the one where we live? The articles collected in this volume, all written by leading experts in the field, deal with the question how ancient Jewish and Christian authors describe “otherworldly places and situations”, they ask why various forms of texts were created to address the questions above, how these texts functioned, and how they have to be understood. It is shown how ancient descriptions of the “otherworld” are taking over and reworking existing motifs, forms and genres, but also that they mirror concrete problems, ideas, experiences, and questions of their authors and the first readers.
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Edited by Tobias Nicklas, University of Regensburg, Germany, Joseph Verheyden, Catholic University of Louvain, Erik M.M. Eynikel and Florentino Garcia Martinez
Jewish Studies
Manières de penser dans l’Antiquité méditerranéenne et orientale Mélanges offerts à Francis Schmidt par ses élèves, ses collègues et ses amis Edited by Christophe Batsch, Lille University and ENS , Paris and Madalina Vârtejanu-Joubert, INALCO, Paris and Bucharest University
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• June 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17518 1 • Cloth with dustjacket (vi, 294 pp.) • List price EUR 108.- / US$ 154.• Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 134
Francis Schmidt’s works in various fields of religious studies (mainly ancient Judaism), can be characterized by three words: historiography, anthropological history, and comparatism. In that respect he placed himself in the continuation of previous French scholars, such as Maurice Halbwachs or Pierre Vidal-Naquet. Francis Schmidt also played an essential role in transmitting to a new generation of scholars the complex issues and debates concerning the Dead Sea scrolls and Qumranic research. The papers offered in this volume share all the same interest in ancient religions and the methodological devices previously mentioned. They offer a rare example of a large comparatism between Assyrian, Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Christian approaches of some essential social or intellectual issues, by some of the most competent specialists in each field.
Brill’s Series in Jewish Studies Edited by David S. Katz, Tel-Aviv University For more information please visit brill.nl/bsjs
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Scholarly monographs covering topics in Jewish history, language, society and culture up to the present era.
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• August 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18638 5 • Hardback (Vol.1 lxxi, 777 pp., Vol. 2 v, 778 pp.) • List price EUR 373.- / US$ 530.• Brill’s Series in Jewish Studies, 41
The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book An Abridged Thesaurus Marvin J. Heller The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book is an encyclopedic, bibliographic work describing books printed with Hebrew letters in that century. It records and describes the authors, publishers, and printers of Hebrew books, as well as the books themselves. Similar to the author’s other work, The Sixteenth Century Hebrew Book, it covers the gamut of Hebrew literature, encompassing liturgical works, Bibles, commentaries, Talmud, Mishnah, halakhic codes, kabbalistic works, and fables. There are 691 entries comprised of a descriptive text page, background on the author, a description of the book’s contents and physical makeup, all of which are accompanied by reproductions of the title or sample pages. There is an extensive introduction with an overview of Hebrew printing in the seventeenth century, as well as detailed back matter. It is a necessary work for bibliographers, historians, and students of Jewish literature.
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Selected Studies in the Slavonic Pseudepigrapha Andrei A. Orlov, Marquette University
• October 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17879 3 • Hardback (xvi + 440 pp.) • List price EUR 146.- / US$ 216.• Studia in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha, 23
This volume is a study of two of the most important Slavonic apocalypses, the Apocalypse of Abraham and 2 Enoch, as crucial conceptual links between the symbolic universes of Second Temple apocalypticism and early Jewish mysticism. The study seeks to understand the mediating role of these Slavonic pseudepigraphical texts in the development of Jewish angelological and theophanic traditions from Second Temple apocalypticism to later Jewish Merkabah mysticism attested in the Hekhalot and Shiʿur Qomah materials. The study shows that mediatorial traditions of the principal angels and the exalted patriarchs and prophets played an important role in facilitating the transition from apocalypticism to early Jewish mysticism.
Rabbinic Thought in the Light of Modern Economics - Third Revised Edition Roman A. Ohrenstein, State University of New York and Barry Gordon, University of Newcastle, N.S.W
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• June 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17462 7 • Hardback (xviii, 234 pp.) • List price EUR 94.- / US$ 130.-
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. This ancient storehouse of learning includes a wealth of economic knowledge of modern sophistication. The book taps these “economic treasures” by way of analytic inquiry. The authors, both economic historians and economists, through their study of the original dialectics 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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Economic Analysis in Talmudic Literature
Religion in Antiquity
Religions in the Graeco-Roman World Editors: H.S. Versnel, Leiden University, D. Frankfurter, University of New Hampshire and J. Hahn, Universität Münster For more information please visit brill.nl/rgrw Formerly Études Préliminaires aux Religions Orientales dans l’Empire Romain (EPRO), the series Religions in the Graeco-Roman World is a forum for studies in the social and cultural function of religions in the Greek and the Roman world, dealing with pagan religions both in their own right and in their interaction with and
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• November 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18882 2 • Hardback (326 pp.) • List price EUR 119.- / US$ 168.• Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 171
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issn: 0927-7633 influence on Christianity and Judaism during a lengthy period of fundamental change. Special attention is given to the religious history of regions and cities which illustrate the practical workings of these processes.
Isis on the Nile Egyptian Gods in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt Edited by Laurent Bricault and Miguel John Versluys The diffusion of the cults of Isis is recently again intensively studied. Research on this fascinating phenomenon has traditionally been characterised by its focus on L’Égypte hors d’Égypte, while developments in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt itself were often seen as belonging to a different domain. This volume tries to overcome that unhealthy dichotomy by studying the cults of Isis in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt itself in relation to developments in the Mediterranean at large. The book not only presents an overview of the most important deities, often based on new or unpublished material, but also pays ample attention to the cultural processes behind Isis on Nile, like relations between style and identity, religious choice, social- and cultural memory and Egypt’s view of its own past. All those interested in Egypt, the Hellenistic and Roman period, religious acculturation, cultural identity, cultural memory, the archaeology of Egypt, Egyptology and the cults of Isis.
Divine Images and Human Imaginations in Ancient Greece and Rome Joannis Mylonopoulos, Columbia University
• December 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17930 1 • Hardback (456 pp.) • List price EUR 135.- / US$ 200.• Religions in the Graeco-Roman 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.
Religion in Antiquity
Greek Religious Terminology – Telete & Orgia A Revised and Expanded English Edition of the Studies by Zijderveld and Van der Burg Feyo Schuddeboom, Het Amsterdams Lyceum
• October 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17813 7 • Hardback (228 pp.) • List price EUR 97.- / US$ 138.• Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 169
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.
Papers from the International Conference held at the University of Zaragoza, 30 Sept. – 1st Oct. 2005 Francisco Marco Simón, University of Zaragoza and Richard Gordon, University of Erfurt, Thuringia
The Afterlife of the Platonic Soul Reflections of Platonic Psychology in the Monotheistic Religions Edited by Maha Elkaisy-Friemuth, Leuven Catholic University and John M. Dillon, Trinity College, Dublin
• June 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17623 2 • Hardback (x, 236 pp.) • List price EUR 103.- / US$ 147.• Ancient Mediterranean and Medieval Texts and Contexts, 9 / Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition
Plato’s doctrine of the soul, its immaterial nature, its parts or faculties, and its fate after death (and before birth) came to have an enormous influence on the great religious traditions that sprang up in late antiquity, beginning with Judaism (in the person of Philo of Alexandria), and continuing with Christianity, from St. Paul on through the Alexandrian and Cappadocian Fathers to Byzantium, and finally with Islamic thinkers from Al-kindi on. This volume, while not aspiring to completeness, attempts to provide insights into how members of each of these traditions adapted Platonist doctrines to their own particular needs, with varying degrees of creativity.
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• December 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17904 2 • Hardback (706 pp.) • List price EUR 188.- / US$ 278.• Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 168
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.
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Magical Practice in the Latin West
Religion in Antiquity
Ritual Dynamics and Religious Change in the Roman Empire Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Heidelberg, July 5-7, 2007) Edited by Olivier Hekster, Radboud University Nijmegen, Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner, University of Heidelberg and Christian Witschel, University of Heidelberg • May 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17481 8 • Hardback (xii, 377 pp.) • List price EUR 126.- / US$ 179.• Impact of Empire, 9
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Corinth in Context Comparative Studies on Religion and Society Edited by Steven Friesen, Harvard University, Dan Schowalter, Carthage College and James Walters, Boston University
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This volume presents the proceedings of the eighth workshop of the international network ‘Impact of Empire’, which concentrates on the history of the Roman Empire and brings together ancient historians, archaeologists, classicists and specialists in Roman law from some thirty European and North American universities. The eighth volume focuses on the impact of the Roman Empire on religious behaviour, with a special focus on the dynamics of ritual. The volume is divided into three sections: ritualising the empire, performing civic community in the empire and performing religion in the empire.
• June 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18197 7 • Hardback (500 pp.) • List price EUR 162.- / US$ 230.• Novum Testamentum, Supplements, 134
This volume is the product of an interdisciplinary conference held at the University of Texas at Austin. Specialists in the study of inscriptions, architecture, sculpture, coins, tombs, pottery, and texts collaborate to produce new portraits of religion and society in the ancient city of Corinth. The studies focus on groups like the early Roman colonists, the Augustales (priests of Augustus), or the Pauline house churches; on specific cults such as those of Asklepios, Demeter, or the Sacred Spring; on media (e.g., coins, or burial inscriptions); or on the monuments and populations of nearby Kenchreai or Isthmia. The result is a deeper understanding of the religious life of Corinth, contextualized within the socially stratified cultures of the Hellenistic and Roman periods.
Corinth in Context (Paperback edition) Comparative Studies on Religion and Society Edited by Steven Friesen, Harvard University, Dan Schowalter, Carthage College and James Walters, Boston University
• June 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18211 0 • Paperback (xxvi, 518 pp.) • List price EUR 49.- / US$ 73.-
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Brill’s Companion to Aphrodite Edited by Amy C. Smith, University of Reading and Sadie Pickup, University of Oxford
• March 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18003 1 • Hardback (xviii, 454 pp.) • List price EUR 146.- / US$ 216.• Brill’s Companions in Classical Studies
Brill’s Companion to Aphrodite brings together an international and multidisciplinary team of experts in the study of Aphrodite—one of the best known, yet ambiguous and complex GraecoRoman deities. The contributions, which reevaluate conventional approaches to this remarkable goddess, are thematically grouped in four parts according to aspects of the goddess: ‘Aphrodite’s Identity’; ‘Aphrodite’s Companions and Relations’; ‘The Spread of Aphrodite’s Cults’ and ‘The Reception of the Goddess.’ Each part draws on literary and visual sources, incorporates Greek, Roman, and later material, and ranges across places and periods—from prehistoric Cyprus and the Near East to the antiquities market in 19th century France. This book therefore crosses interdisciplinary boundaries, as well as the multiple aspects and characteristics of the goddess
Babylonian Celestial Divination and Its Legacy Francesca Rochberg, University of California, Berkeley
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• June 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18389 6 • Hardback (xxii, 445 pp.) • List price EUR 152.- / US$ 216.• Studies in Ancient Magic and Divination, 6
Celestial divination, in the form of omens from lunar, planetary, astral, and meteorological phenomena, was central to Mesopotamian cuneiform scholarship and science from the late second millennium BCE into the Hellenistic period. Beyond the boundaries of ancient Mesopotamia, the ideas, texts, and traditions of Babylonian celestial divination are traceable in Hellenistic sciences and philosophies. This collection of essays investigates features of Babylonian celestial divination with special focus on those aspects that influenced later GrecoRoman astronomy, astrology, and theories of signs. A multi-faceted collection of philological, historical, and philosophical investigations, In the Path of the Moon offers Assyriologists, Classicists, and historians of ancient science a wide-ranging series of studies unified around the theme of Babylonian celestial divination’s legacy.
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In the Path of the Moon
Philosophy of Religion
New Series: Philosophical Studies in Science and Religion Editor: F. LeRon Shults, University of Agder, Norway For more information please visit brill.nl/pssr
ISSN: 1877-8542
Philosophical Studies in Science and Religion is a peer-reviewed book series that seeks to offer critical analyses of and constructive proposals for the interdisciplinary field of “science and religion”. The series will engage both material and methodological themes, focusing on the mediating role of philosophy in the late modern dialogue among scholars of science and religion.
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• October 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18799 3 • Hardback • List price EUR 119.- / US$ 168.• Philosophical Studies in Science and Religion, 2
God and the World of Signs Trinity, Evolution, and the Metaphysical Semiotics of C. S. Peirce Andrew Robinson Christianity has been described as “a religion seeking a metaphysic”. Drawing on the philosophy of C. S. Peirce, Robinson develops a metaphysical framework centred around a ‘semiotic model’ of the Trinity. The model invites a fresh approach to the claim that Jesus was the incarnate Word of God and suggests a new way of understanding how nature may bear the imprint of the Triune Creator in the form of ‘vestiges of the Trinity in creation’. Scientific spin-offs include a new perspective on the problem of the origin of life and a novel hypothesis about the evolution of human distinctiveness. The result is an original contribution to Trinitarian theology and a bold new way of integrating philosophy, science and religion.
Philosophy, Science and Divine Action Edited by F. LeRon Shults, University of Agder, Nancey Murphy, Fuller Seminary, Pasadena and Robert John Russell, Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, Berkeley
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• August 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17787 1 • Hardback (vi, 443 pp.) • List price EUR 152.- / US$ 216.• Philosophical Studies in Science and Religion, 1
One of the most important and controversial themes in the contemporary dialogue among scientists and Christian theologians is the issue of “divine action” in the world. This volume brings together contributions from leading scholars on this topic, which emerged out of the Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action project, co-sponsored by the Vatican Observatory and the Center for Theology and Natural Science. This multi-year collaboration involved over 50 authors meeting at five international conferences. The essays collected here demonstrate the pervasive role of philosophy in this dialogue.
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New Series: Philosophy of Religion - World Religions Jerome Gellman, Ben Gurion University (Editor-in-Chief), Pamela Anderson, Oxford and Robert McKim, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign For more information please visit brill.nl/prwr
ISSN: 2210-481X
This series does not focus on history, phenomenology, or description, but purely on philosophy of religion. It include topics such as the problem of freedom and determinism in Islam, Buddhism and God, Indian Religions and the problem of religious diversity, polytheism and modernity, the problem of evil in Medieval Jewish philosophy, religious exclusivism and multiculturalism, Christianity and World Religions, the esoteric vs. exoteric in Western religions and the philosophy of modern religions.
Wittgenstein’s (Misunderstood) Religious Thought Earl Stanley B. Fronda, University of the Philippines in Diliman
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• August 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18609 5 • Hardback (xx, 242 pp.) • List price EUR 103.- / US$ 146.• Philosophy of Religion World Religions, 1
Wittgenstein’s religious thought is not well understood. And Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion is charged with fideism, religious non-realism, and even crypto-atheism. These charges, however, are borne of misunderstandings that are a result of the critics’ being oblivious of apophatic theology. This book is intended to help clear some of those misunderstandings and neutralize the above-mentioned charges. It argues that Wittgenstein’s religious thought shares kinship with the thought of apophaticists in Christendom such as the Pseudo-Dionysius and St. Thomas Aquinas. What appear to be fideism, non-realism, or crypto-atheism to the critics appear differently to those who see Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion from the apophaticists’ point of view--Wittgenstein’s religious point of view.
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New Series: Empirical Research in Religion and Human Rights Editor in Chief: J.A. van der Ven, Radboud University Nijmegen Editorial Board: C. Sterkens, Radboud University Nijmegen, J. van de Vyver, Emory University Atlanta and H.-G. Ziebertz, University of Würzburg For more information please visit brill.nl/errh Brill’s series Empirical Research in Religion and Human Rights publishes the results of empirical research on the mutual influences of different religions and human rights. The series focuses on studying people’s views on human rights and human
ISSN: 1877-881X rights policy as related to their religious convictions by using data from international comparative research. In doing so, the series aims at becoming an international outlet for the study of religion and human rights from a humanities point of view.
Human Rights or Religious Rules?
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Johannes A. van der Ven, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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• March 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18304 9 • Hardback (xii, 448 pp.) • List price EUR 135.- / US$ 195.• Empirical Research in Religion and Human Rights, 1
The relation between religion and human rights is a contested one, as they appear to compete with one another. Religion is often considered to represent a tradition of heteronomy and subordination in premodern times. Human rights emerged from early modern and modern times and stand for principles like human dignity, autonomy, equality. The first question in this book is how to define religion, its meaning, functions and structures, and how to study it. The second question is how to understand religion from its relation with human rights in such a way that justice is done to both religion and human rights. These questions are dealt with using a historical and systematic approach. The third question is what the impact of religion might be on attitudes towards human rights, i.e. human rights culture. For an answer, empirical research is reported among about 1000 students, Christians, Muslims, and nonreligious, at the end of secondary and the beginning of tertiary education in the Netherlands.
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New Series: Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion Edited by Enzo Pace, Luigi Berzano and Giuseppe Giordan For more information please visit brill.nl/arsr
ISSN: 1877-5233
The purpose of the Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion (ARSR) is to investigate the “new” role of religion in the contemporary world, which is characterized by cultural pluralism and religious individualism. It is the aim of the ARSR to combine different methods within the social scientific study of religion. The ARSR employs an interdisciplinary and comparative approach at an international level, to describe and interpret the complexity of religious phenomena within different geopolitical situations, highlighting similarities and discontinuities. Dealing with a single theme in each volume, the ARSR intends to tackle the relationship between the practices and the dynamics of everyday life and the different religions and spiritualities, within the framework of the post-secular society. All contributions are welcome, both those studying organizational aspects and those exploring individual religiosity.
Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion Volume 1: Youth and Religion Edited by Giuseppe Giordan religious studies
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• October 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18790 0 • Hardback (x, 488 pp.) • List price EUR 152.- / US$ 216.• Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion, 1
The purpose of the Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion (ARSR) is to investigate the “new” role of religion in the contemporary world, which is characterized by cultural pluralism and religious individualism. It is the aim of the ARSR to combine different methods within the social scientific study of religion. The ARSR employs an interdisciplinary and comparative approach at an international level, to describe and interpret the complexity of religious phenomena within different geopolitical situations, highlighting similarities and discontinuities. Dealing with a single theme in each volume, the ARSR intends to tackle the relationship between the practices and the dynamics of everyday life and the different religions and spiritualities, within the framework of the post-secular society. All contributions are welcome, both those studying organizational aspects and those exploring individual religiosity.
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International Studies in Religion and Society Edited by Lori G. Beaman and Peter Beyer, University of Ottawa For more information please visit brill.nl/isrs
ISSN: 1573-4293
Brill’s series International Studies in Religion and Society (ISRS) intends to publish about 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. The Series’ aim is making contributions to the development of theories on the interplay between religion and society by focussing on a deeper understanding of different systems of thought, values and belief, and the ways in which these systems interact.
Exploring the Postsecular The Religious, the Political and the Urban
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Edited by Arie L. Molendijk, Justin Beaumont and Christoph Jedan, University of Groningen
• June 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18544 9 • Hardback (xviii, 406 pp.) • List price EUR 130.- / US$ 185.• International Studies in Religion and Society, 13
The re-emergence of the religious in secular domains has led prominent scholars such as Jürgen Habermas and Charles Taylor to speculate about a new ‘postsecular’ age. The alleged shift from the secular to the postsecular is most visible in the spheres of urban public space, governance and civil society. This volume addresses contemporary relations between religion, politics and urban societies primarily from a theoretical perspective, while also paying attention to empirical manifestations of the central conceptual ideas. The primary focus is the relations between public religion, deprivatization of religion and theorizations of modernity and modernities, with the secondary and closely related focus on theorizing postsecular urbanism including the role of faith based organizations (FBOs) in cities.
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Religions of Modernity Relocating the Sacred to the Self and the Digital Edited by Stef Aupers, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Dick Houtman, Erasmus University Rotterdam
• July 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18451 0 • Hardback (xii, 276 pp.) • List price EUR 108.- / US$ 154.• International Studies in Religion and Society, 12
Religions of Modernity challenges the social-scientific orthodoxy that, once unleashed, the modern forces of individualism, science and technology inevitably erode the sacred and evoke the profane. The book’s chapters, some by established scholars, others by junior researchers, document instead in rich empirical detail how modernity relocates the sacred to the deeper layers of the self and the domain of digital technology. Rather than destroying the sacred tout court, then, the cultural logic of modernization spawns its own religious meanings, unacknowledged spiritualities and magical enchantments. The classical theoretical accounts of modernity by Max Weber, Emile Durkheim and others, it is argued in the introductory chapter, already hinted that there’s a future for such religions of modernity.
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Medicine, Religion, and the Body Edited by Elizabeth Burns Coleman, Monash University and Kevin White, Australian National University
• October 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17970 7 • Hardback (x, 290 pp.) • List price EUR 104.- / US$ 154.• 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 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.
Civil Religion, Nationalism, and Globalisation Edited by Annika Hvithamar, University of Southern Denmark, Margit Warburg, University of Copenhagen and Brian Arly Jacobsen, University of Copenhagen
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• October 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17828 1 • Hardback (281 pp.) • List price EUR 103.- / US$ 147.• International Studies in Religion and Society, 10
Along with the processes of globalisation 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 legitimising 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 globalisation 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.
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Holy Nations and Global Identities
Religion & Society
Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion Edited by Ralph Piedmont, Loyola College and Andrew Village, York St John University For more information please visit brill.nl/rssr
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Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion Volume 21
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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 includes a special section on spirituality and hope that brings together theoreticists and practitioners who present original research on this important and neglected topic. Alongside this section are papers presenting studies on subjects such as civic participation, suffering with God and spirituality. Together these papers represent important contributions that advance theory and evidence in a number of different fields of contemporary relevance to the study of religion. • July 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18523 4 • Hardback (xiv, 250 pp.) • List price EUR 93.- / US$ 131.• Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, 21
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Religion and the Social Order For more information please visit brill.nl/reso
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The Association for the Sociology of Religion (ASR) is an international scholarly association that seeks to advance theory and research in the sociology of religion. The book series Religion and the Social Order was initiated by the ASR in 1991, under the General Editorship of David G. Bromley. In 2004 an agreement between Brill and the ASR renewed the series with the publication of Volume 11.
Religion Crossing Boundaries Transnational Religious and Social Dynamics in Africa and the New African Diaspora Edited by Afe Adogame, University of Edinburgh and Jim Spickard, University of Redlands
• September 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18730 6 • Hardback (274 pp.) • List price EUR 103.- / US$ 146.• Religion and the Social Order, 18
Across the past twenty years major change has taken place in the structure of global society with respect to the nature of migration. The predominant pattern since at least the eighteenth century had been for peoples to move to and settle in Western countries permanently, with relatively little substantive interchange with their former homelands, hence adopting the modes of articulation characteristic of their new societies (a process expressed with respect to the USA, for example, as “Americanization”). This pattern has now changed, and there is considerable interaction between homeland and migrant peoples. One of the places this has become especially important is in religious exchanges. While some negative effects of this process may grab headlines, there have also been extensive positive interactions, not least among African peoples, especially with respect to pentecostal and allied religious movements. The chapters in this book illustrate the variety of these exchanges.
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Studies in Religion and the Arts Edited by James Najarian, Boston College and Eric Ziolkowski , Lafayette College For more information please visit brill.nl/sart 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. The goal
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of the series is to form an international and multi-disciplinary forum for the scholarly discussion on the expression of religious sentiments in art.
Traversing the Heart Journeys of the Inter-religious Imagination Edited by Eileen Rizo-Patron, Boston College and Richard Kearney, Boston College
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• May 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18380 3 • Hardback (x, 488 pp., 20 illus., Index) • List price EUR 152.- / US$ 216.• Studies in Religion and the Arts, 2
The key wager of Traversing the Heart - Journeys of the Inter-religious Imagination is that a spiritual imaginary operating at the level of metaphor, narrative, symbol and epiphany can traverse the borders of dogma and ideology and open genuine conversations between wisdom traditions. Like every hermeneutics of the heart, this journey begins to unfold in a concrete space and time: the interreligious conference at Bangalore in June 2007. While this collection does not claim to cover the religious traditions of all continents, its concluding essay on transculturation in Andean-Christian art highlights the importance of the North-South dialogue as a necessary supplement to the East-West one largely addressed in the book. As a call to future journeys and dialogue, this volume aims to communicate the one seminal lesson learned during the India conference: that in our third millennium, religions will be inter-religious or they will not be at peace.
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An Analysis of the Cinematic Portraits of Jesus, Rama, Buddha and Muhammad Freek L. Bakker, University of Utrecht
• November 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 16861 9 • Hardback (viii, 282 pp.) • List price EUR 108.- / US$ 154.• Studies in Religion and the Arts, 1
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 did not always approve of these films, they did find a ready audience among believers. This book explores these films and looks at how these films dealt with the fundamental question of portraying an individual thought to have either divine status or a very special and unique status among human beings. This book will thus benefit not only students of religious film but also those studying the portrayal of central religious figures in the contemporary world.
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The Challenge of the Silver Screen
Religion & Society
Studies of Religion in Africa Supplements to the Journal of Religion in Africa Edited by Benjamin Soares, African Studies Centre, Leiden and Frans Wijsen, Radboud University, Nijmegen For more information please visit brill.nl/sra
The book series Studies of Religion in Africa promotes the historical, empirical, and comparative study of religion. Contributions to the series cover the field of African indigenous religions, the interaction between Islam, Christianity and African religions and cultures in both the past and the present. In addition it covers the field of contemporary religious
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movements on the African continent as well as Diaspora studies. All themes within the series are assessed from a religious studies, historical, anthropological or interdisciplinary perspective. Studies of Religion in Africa considers only nonconfessional work.
Professional Women in South African Pentecostal Charismatic Churches religious studies
Maria Frahm-Arp, St. Augustine College, Johannesburg
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• April 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 16875 6 • Hardback (ivx, 298 pp., index) • List price EUR 104.- / US$ 154.• Studies of Religion in Africa, 38
This book gives a unique insight into the changing shape of contemporary religion examining the new role that Pentecostal Charismatic Christianity plays in the lives of young, professional, black women who are enjoying career success and becoming part of South Africa’s new middle class. Amongst these women an interesting relationship has emerged between work and religion as they feel that the social networks and self confidence they gain from their religious communities are as important as their spiritual experiences. But not all the women who join these churches remain, and this book explores why some women leave the churches in which they had previously felt they gained so much. “…this book is an innovative and insightful study in the South African context of a very important phenomenon among women all over the developing world. It crucially advances our understanding and should be of major interest to the very large numbers of people, in the media and the academy, now tracing these developments world-wide.” Dr. David Martin, London School of Economics
Catholic Pentecostalism and the Paradoxes of Africanization Processes of Localization in a Catholic Charismatic Movement in Cameroon Ludovic Lado
• November 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 16898 5 • Hardback (xii, 245 pp.) • List price EUR 93.- / US$ 142.• Studies of Religion in Africa, 37
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 Churches. Very few anthropological studies have looked at similar processes within mission churches. Through an ethnographic study of localizing processes in a Charismatic movement in Cameroon and Paris, the book critically explores the dialectics between ‘Pentecostalization’ and ‘Africanization’ within contemporary African Catholicism. It appears that both processes pursue, although for different purposes, the missionary policy of dismantling local cultures and 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.
Religion & Society
Religion in the Americas Series Edited by Henri Gooren, Oakland University, Rochester Editorial Board: Helen Rose Ebaugh, University of Houston, Steven Engler, Mount Royal University, Calgary and Alejandro Frigerio, FLACSO, Argentina For more information please visit brill.nl/ream The Religion in the Americas Series is a series of publications devoted to the study of religious influences within and between South, Central, Latin, and North America. A particular focus lies on the interaction of different forms of Christianity with the societies, politics, religions, economies, symbols, and cultures of the variety of peoples in the Americas. The complex theologies, philosophies, and contributions of their expressions and experiences throughout the Americas have
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profoundly influenced not only Catholicism but many other religions - not just in the Americas but all across the globe. Religion in the Americas seeks to bring to the forefront new and promising works that deal with these issues, particularly from the perspectives from cultural anthropology, sociology, history, psychology, Latin American Studies, history, religious studies, or theology.
Winds From the North Edited by Michael Wilkinson, Trinity Western University and Peter Althouse, Southeastern University
Latin American Evangelical Theology in the 1970’s The Golden Decade Daniel Salinas
• 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17699 7 • Hardback (x, 229 pp.) • List price EUR 97.- / US$ 138.• Religion in the Americas Series, 9
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 dialogue is documented and analysed.
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• August 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18574 6 • Hardback (281 pp.) • List price EUR 103.- / US$ 146.• Religion in the Americas Series, 10
Much of the scholarly focus on early twentieth-century Pentecostalism is dominated by the origins debates of the United States. The polarization between those who argue for Parham’s theological contribution or Seymour’s African American experiential contribution is well known. Beyond these debates scholars typically focus on the role of Americans in the development of Pentecostalism. However, the Hebden mission in Toronto, Canadian women, and the Latter Rain revival illustrate the transnational and innovative qualities of the movement. This book contextualizes the global story of Pentecostalism with some important and often neglected contributions by Pentecostals in Canada and their influence on Pentecostalism in the United States and the world.
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Canadian Contributions to the Pentecostal Movement
Theology
Studies in Reformed Theology Edited by Eddy Van der Borght, VU University Amsterdam For more information please visit brill.nl/srt Studies in Reformed Theology is an international triennial series that offers thematic volumes with articles on current issues and in-depth monographs in the field of Systematic, Historical and Biblical Theology. Studies in Reformed Theology is edited by the International Reformed Theological Institute (IRTI).
ISSN: 1571-4799 Established in 1995, IRTI comprises a world-wide network of scholars involved in Reformed Theology. ‘Reformed’ refers to a theology in the tradition of the sixteenth-century reformation in Strasbourg, Zurich and Geneva, as an expression of Christian faith of all times and in all places.
Freedom of Religion
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Abraham van de Beek, VU University Amsterdam, Eddy Van der Borght, VU University Amsterdam, and Ben P. Vermeulen, VU University Amsterdam
• February 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 15807 8 • Hardback (246 pp.) • List price EUR 93.- / US$ 138.• Studies in Reformed Theology, 19
The idea of freedom of religion was developed in Europe in the 16th and 17th century in the context of religious diversity as an alternative for religious wars. The concept requires reconsideration in the current globalized culture: religious plurality has increased as has the awareness of the religious potential for social cohesion and for sectarian division and violence. In this volume, legal experts, sociologists, theologians, and philosophers clarify the historical development of the concept, and analyze the present situation in various countries with religious tensions. They propose possible models and solutions, and discuss the fundamental question of whether the Western model of human rights with its separation of religion and state and freedom of religion can be conceived as universal.
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The Unity of the Church A Theological State of the Art and Beyond Edited by Eddy Van der Borght, VU University, Amsterdam
• November 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17968 4 • Hardback (335 pp.) • List price EUR 114.- / US$ 169.• Studies in Reformed Theology, 18
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, 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.
Theology
Studies in Systematic Theology Edited by Stephen Bevans, Catholic Theological Union and Miikka Ruokanen, University of Helsinki/Nanjing Union Theological Seminary For more information please visit brill.nl/sist Brill’s series Studies in Systematic Theology accepts for publication monographs of high academic quality in the field of the systematic research of Christian doctrinal theology. All books published in the series must employ a systematic method of research. The scope of the series covers the entire history of the development of the Christian doctrine and theological thought, although the series focuses on modern theological questions. Works relating systematic theology with biblical theology are also welcomed. Studies in Systematical Theology
ISSN: 1876-1518 is an ecumenical and non-confessional series of publications, it covers studies related with any Christian confession or with no confession. Further, the series aims at an intercultural investigation of Christian systematic theology. Studies crossing the cultural, racial, linguistic, geographic and other borders are warmly welcomed. Special attention is given to research of the non-western interpretations of Christian doctrine. Both contextual and global aspects of Christian theology are appreciated.
An Intercultural Theology of Migration Gemma Tulud Cruz, DePaul University
A Protestant Theology of Passion Korean Minjung Theology Revisited Volker Küster, Protestant Theological University in Kampen
• March 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 17523 5 • Hardback (xx, 167 pp. + 50 illus.) • List price EUR 89.- / US$ 132.• Studies in Systematic Theology, 4
Minjung Theology is introduced here through theological biographical sketches of its main representatives. They formulated a protestant liberation theology under the South Korean military dictatorship of the 1970s and 80s. Their strong emphasis on the suffering (han) of the people (minjung) led them to the formulation of a genuine theology of the cross in Asia. Volker Küster explores the reception of Minjung Theology and raises the question what happened to it during the democratization process and the rise of globalization in the 1990s. Interpretations of art works by Minjung artists provide deep insights into these transformation processes. Prologue and epilogue abstract from the Korean case and offer a concise theory of contextual theology in an intercultural framework.
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• January 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18122 9 • Hardback (xii, 360 pp.) • List price EUR 126.- / US$ 179.• Studies in Systematic Theology, 5
Migration has long been associated with the social sciences. However, as a phenomenon that provides windows into possibly new forms of oppression and, at the same time, paths toward human liberation a systematic theological look at contemporary migration is long overdue. Building on the emerging interest on migration in theology this book presents an intercultural theology of migration drawn from the experience of Filipino women domestic workers in Hong Kong in dialogue with theological ethics and liberationist theologies. The result is a new look at the phenomenon of contemporary migration.
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Pilgrims in the Wilderness
Theology
Empirical Studies in Theology For more information please visit brill.nl/est The book series Studies in Empirical Theology publishes monographs and edited volumes in the crossover field between theological and social-scientific research. Books published in the series involve both qualitative and quantitative interpretations of empirical approaches within the field of theology.
ISSN: 1389-1189 All publications aim to contribute to empirically focused theological reflection on religion in all its aspects within secularized and multicultural societies in view of the development of religion in these societies now and in the future.
Religion and Ethnocentrism An Empirical-theological Study
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Dave Capucao
• May 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18470 1 • Hardback (viii, 320 pp.) • List price EUR 108.- / US$ 154.• Empirical Studies in Theology, 19
Previous studies reveal that religion, despite its ideal of solidarity, hospitality and compassion, has been the primary origin of ethnocentrism. However, other researches dispute this sweeping claim by indicating several other factors that affect this complex relationship. This empiricaltheological study is an endeavour to dig deeper into these factors by examining the extent to which a number of religious images which are culled from five religious themes, namely, God, Jesus, Spirit, salvation and church, contribute to ethnocentrism. It situates these religious attitudes within the framework of the Dutch civil religion, and the different reactions to it by contemporary Dutch catholic believers.
Participation and Beliefs in Popular Religiosity
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An Empirical-Theological Exploration among Italian Catholics Francesco Zaccaria
• December 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 18096 3 • Hardback (x, 310 pp., illus.) • List price EUR 104.- / US$ 154.• Empirical Studies in Theology, 18
Many academic disciplines have contributed to the study of popular religiosity, but the definition of this phenomenon and of its relation with official religion still remains a problematic topic. This book offers an empirical-theological investigation of popular religiosity by exploring among Italian Catholics the relation between popular religious participation (processions, pilgrimages, vows, et cetera) and religious beliefs. The investigated beliefs are beliefs about God, about human suffering in relation to God, about Jesus Christ, and about the church. The results indicate that popular religious participation influences some of these beliefs. This study contributes to an empirically based picture of a complementary relation between popular religiosity and official religion within the Catholic Church in Italy.
Theology
Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies Edited by Andrew Davies, University of Birmingham and William Kay, Glyndŵr University For more information please visit brill.nl/gpcs 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,
ISSN: 1876-2247 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.
The Embattled but Empowered Community Comparing Understandings of Spiritual Power in Argentine Popular and Pentecostal Cosmologies Wilma Wells Davies, All Nations Christian College, Ware, UK
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Fred F. Bosworth, Kenneth E. Hagin, Agnes Sanford, and Francis Macnutt In Dialogue Pavel Hejzlar The doctrine and practice of healing through faith has been a hallmark of Pentecostalism since 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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Two Paradigms for Divine Healing
• November 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17832 8 • Hardback (xii, 289 pp.) • List price EUR 99.- / US$ 147.• Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies, 4
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• April 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 17830 4 • Hardback (340 pp.) • List price EUR 108.- / US$ 154.• Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies, 5
The global phenomenon of Pentecostal growth continues to interest scholars, particularly its local manifestations. Although previous explanations may have noted the connections between the cultural substrata and local Pentecostal practices, this book concentrates on seeking out the connections. Using both extensive field research and reflection on Latin American scholarship, the author proposes that a major link exists at the level of worldview assumptions, particularly in understandings of spiritual power. The book concludes with a reflection on the implications a conversion based on the search for spiritual power has for the future of the evangelical church in Latin America.
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Studies in Theology and Religion For more information please visit brill.nl/star
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Scholasticism Reformed Essays in Honour of Willem J. van Asselt
• April 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18317 9 • Hardback (x, 390 pp.) • List price EUR 130.- / US$ 185.• Studies in Theology and Religion, 14
This Festschrift celebrates Professor Willem J. van Asselt’s many contributions to the study of Reformed scholasticism on the occasion of his retirement from Utrecht University. The authors argue that the resurgence of interest in scholasticism, especially in Reformed scholasticism, has in turn reformed our views of scholasticism. While most of the volume’s essays contribute to the reassessment of scholasticism through relevant historical case studies or new systematic analyses of the value and validity of scholasticism for contemporary theology, some authors endeavour a critical confrontation with various aspects of this reassessment. Thus, this volume not only mirrors Van Asselt’s interest in the sound historical evaluation of Reformed scholasticism and its application to contemporary philosophical theology, but also provides cutting-edge scholarship on a major development in historical theology.
The Mystery of God: Early Jewish Mysticism and the New Testament
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Christopher Rowland, University of Oxford and, Christopher R.A. Morray-Jones
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Edited by: Maarten Wisse, VU University Amsterdam, Marcel Sarot, Utrecht University and Willemien Otten, University of Chicago
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 themes in the later books of the New Testament. The second and third parts explore the character of early Jewish mysticism by taking important themes in the early Jewish mystical texts such as the Temple and the Divine Body to demonstrate the relevance of this material to New Testament interpretation.
• June 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17532 7 • Hardback (687 pp.) • List price EUR 191.- / US$ 272.• Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum, 12
Church History
Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition For more information please visit brill.nl/bcct BCCT is a series of handbooks and reference works on the intellectual and religious life of Europe, 500-1800. Each volume deals with persons, movements, schools and genres in medieval and early modern Christian life, thought and practice. Written by the foremost specialists in the respective fields, they aim
ISSN: 1871-6377 to provide full, balanced accounts at an advanced level, as well as synthesis of debate and the state of scholarship in eight to fifteen substantial chapters. Volumes are in English (contributions from continental scholars are translated).
A Companion to Clare of Assisi Life, Writings, and Spirituality Joan Mueller, Creighton University
Ulrich L. Lehner, Marquette University and Michael Printy, Wesleyan University
• May 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18351 3 • Hardback (vi, 466 pp.) • List price EUR 162.- / US$ 230.• Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition, 20
This book offers the first comprehensive overview of the Catholic Enlightenment in Europe. It surveys the diversity of views about the structure and nature of the movement, pointing toward the possibilities for further research. The volume presents a series of comprehensive treatments on the process and interpretation of Catholic Enlightenment in France, Spain, Portugal, Poland, the Holy Roman Empire, Malta, Italy and the Habsburg territories. An introductory overview explores the varied meanings of Catholic Enlightenment and situates them in a series of intellectual and social contexts. The topics covered in this book are crucial for a proper understanding of the role and place not only of Catholicism in the eighteenth century, but also for the social and religious history of Modern Europe.
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A Companion to the Catholic Enlightenment in Europe
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• April 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18216 5 • Hardback (xii, 316 pp.) • List price EUR 126.- / US$ 179.• Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition, 21
Clare of Assisi: Life, Writings and Spirituality examines Clare not merely as an obedient footnote to the friars, but as a Franciscan founder in her own right who kept primitive Franciscan ideals alive into the middle of the thirteenth century and transposed them into a woman’s key. Bringing together the best of international research, the text examines Clare’s importance within the early Franciscan milieu and her contribution to the thirteenth-century women’s movement. It studies the radicalism of Clare’s Franciscan choice, her life within the Monastery of San Damiano, her politicking with Agnes of Prague for the “privilege of poverty,” and her uniqueness among other women in Gregory IX’s Damianite ordo. Following this historical study are critical translations and literary analyses of Clare’s four letters to Agnes of Prague as well as a new translation and commentary on Clare’s Forma Vitae.
Church History
A Companion to Peter Martyr Vermigli W.J. Torrance Kirby, McGill University, Emidio Campi, University of Zurich and Frank A. James III, Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida.
• July 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17554 9 • Hardback (xviii, 542 pp.) • List price EUR 170.- / US$ 261.• Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition, 16
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A Companion to Paul in the Reformation R. Ward Holder, Saint Anselm College
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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 Rabbis. His eminence in the Catholic Church in Italy (until 1542) was followed by an equally distinguished career as theologian and exegete in Protestant Europe where he was professor successively in Strasbourg, Oxford, and finally in Zurich. The Companion consists of 24 essays divided among five themes addressing Vermigli’s international career, hermeneutical method, biblical commentaries, major theological topics, and his later influence.
• April 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17492 4 • Hardback (670 pp.) • List price EUR 191.- / US$ 294.• Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition, 15
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 historiography. The chapters, written by experts in the field, offer a critical overview of current research, and introduce the major themes in Pauline interpretation in the Reformation and how they are being interpreted at the start of the 21st century.
Mediaeval Commentaries on the Sentences of Peter Lombard Volume 2 Philipp W. Rosemann, University of Dallas
• December 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 11861 4 • Hardback (544 pp.) • List price EUR 163.- / US$ 241.• Medieval Commentaries on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, 2
Continuing a project begun in 2002, with the publication of volume 1 of Mediaeval Commentaries on the “Sentences” of Peter Lombard, this volume fills some major lacunae in current research on the standard textbook of medieval theology. Twelve chapters study the tradition of the Sentences, from the first glosses of the twelfth century through Martin Luther’s marginal notes. The questions addressed in these chapters throw light on the history of the Sentences literature as a whole, focusing on changes in literary structure and methodology as much as on matters of textual transmission and doctrinal content. The conclusion synthesizes the individual contributions, succinctly presenting the current state of our knowledge of the main structures that characterize the tradition of the Sentences.
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The Primacy of the Postils Catholics, Protestants, and the Dissemination of Ideas in Early Modern Germany John M. Frymire, University of Missouri
• December 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 18036 9 • Hardback (xiv, 642 pp.) • List price EUR 129.- / US$ 191.• Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 147
A New History of the Sermon The Nineteenth Century Edited by Robert Ellison, Marshall University
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The latest installment in Brill’s New History of the Sermon series offers innovative studies of sacred rhetoric in the nineteenth century. The three sections—Theory and Theology, Sermon and Society in the British Empire, and Sermon and Society in America—contain a total of sixteen essays on such topics as biblical criticism, Charles Darwin, the Oxford Movement, the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), English Catholicism, sermon-novels, and the slave trade on both sides of the Atlantic. Multiple traditions are represented, including the Anglican and Presbyterian churches, English nonconformity, Judaism, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, making this a compilation that will appeal to a wide range of preachers, historians, literary scholars, and students of the rhetorical tradition. Biographical note
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• August 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18572 2 • Hardback (xiv, 574 pp.) • List price EUR 174.- / US$ 247.• A New History of the Sermon, 5
Scholarship on the German Reformation has long equated preaching with Protestantism, just as many scholars have employed sermons but usually in supplemental and unsystematic ways. Based on an analysis of over 400 standard sermon collections (postils) produced by Catholics, Lutherans, and Calvinists (1520-1620), this study offers the first comprehensive, systematic presentation of these works from a cross-confessional perspective. It lays to rest the notion that preaching was somehow distinctively Protestant while tracing the creation, production, use, and censorship of postils. These sermon collections were nothing less than the applied distillation of Christianity delivered on a regular basis by the clergy to the laity, and as such the most important vehicle for the dissemination of ideas in early modern Germany.
Missiology
Studies in Christian Mission General Editor: Heleen L. Murre-van den Berg, Leiden University For more information please visit brill.nl/scm Studies in Christian Mission publishes scholarly monographs and edited volumes in the history of the world-wide missionary movements, the dynamics of Christian witness and service in new environments, the transition from movements to churches, and the areas of cultural initiative or involvement of Christian
issn: 0924-9389 bodies and individuals such as education, health, community development, press, literature and art. A special focus lies on the study of the theories and paradigms of missions in their respective contexts and contributions to missiology as a discipline.
Encounters in Quest of Christian Womanhood The Basel Mission in Pre- and Early Colonial Ghana
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Ulrike Sill
• June 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18888 4 • Hardback (xviii, 422 pp.) • List price EUR 130.- / US$ 185.• Studies in Christian Mission, 39
Christianity has come to be a religion embraced especially by women and not least in Africa. This book provides one of the as yet rare case studies for the early stages of this development: how African women on the pre- and early colonial Gold Coast (Ghana) encountered Basel Mission Christianity, 1843-1885. Popular interpretations have tended to describe Christianity as either ‘empowering’ or ‘domesticating’ African women. Looking at variegated push-andpull factors and in its focus on the agency of Ghanaian women this detailed analysis moves beyond. It situates the quest for Christian womanhood as part of trans-national discourses and exchanges, as well as local interactions, and writes a social history that is at once transnational and transcultural.
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German Moravian Missionaries in the British Colony of Victoria, Australia, 1848-1908 Influential Strangers Felicity Jensz, Münster Universität
• January 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 17921 9 • Hardback (xviii, 274 pp.) • List price EUR 99.- / US$ 147.• Studies in Christian Mission, 38
Focusing on the six decades that German Moravian missionaries worked in the British colony of Victoria, Australia, this book enriches understanding of colonial politics and the role of the nonBritish other in manipulating practice and policy in foreign realms. Central to the transnational nature of the book are questions of identity and of how individuals, and the organisations they worked for, can be seen as both colluders and opposers within nation-state borders and politics. It analyses the ways in which the Moravian missionaries navigated competing agendas within the colonial setting, especially those that impacted on their sense of personal vocation, their practices of conversion, and their understandings of the indigenous non-Christian peoples in the settler society of Victoria.
Journals
Numen
Aries
International Review for the History of Religions
Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism
Executive Editors: Olaf Hammer, University of Southern Denmark and Gregory Alles, McDaniel College
Edited by Roland Edighoffer, University of Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle, Antoine Faivre, Sorbonne, Paris, Peter Forshaw, University of Amsterdam and Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, Exeter Centre for the Study of Esotericism
For more information see brill.nl/nu
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”. This field covers a variety of “alternative” currents in western religious history, including the so-called “hermetic philosophy” and related currents in the early modern period; alchemy, paracelsianism and rosicrucianism; christian kabbalah and its later developments; theosophical and illuminist currents; and various occultist and related developments during the 19th and 20th centuries, up to and including popular contemporary currents such as the New Age movement. Aries is a peer-reviewed journal publishing articles and book reviews in English, French, German and Italian. For more information see brill.nl/arie
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Numen publishes papers representing the most recent scholarship in all areas of the history of religions. It covers a diversity of geographical regions and religions of the past as well as of the present. The approach of the journal to the study of religion is strictly non-confessional. While the emphasis lies on empirical, source-based research, typical contributions also address issues that have a wider historical or comparative significance for the advancement of the discipline. Numen also publishes papers that discuss important theoretical innovations in the study of religion and refl ective studies on the history of the discipline. The journal also publishes review articles and book reviews to keep professionals in the discipline updated about recent developments.
• 2010: Volume 10 (in 2 issues) • ISSN 1567-9896 / E-ISSN 1570-0593 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 131.- / US$ 178.E-only: EUR 109.- / US$ 148.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 55.- / US$ 79.-
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• 2010: Volume 57 (in 5 issues) • ISSN 0029-5973 / E-ISSN 1568-5276 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 342.- / US$ 466.E-only: EUR 285.- / US$ 388.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 104.- / US$ 142.-
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Science of Religion Abstracts and Index of Recent Articles
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Edited by Katja Triplett, University of Marburg
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• 2010: Volume 35 (in 2 double issues) • ISSN 0165-8794 / E-ISSN not online • Institutional subscription rates Print only: EUR 164.- / US$ 223.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 39.- / US$ 53.The objective of Science of Religion is to provide a systematic bibliography of articles which contribute in various ways to the academic study of religions. This in turn is intended to facilitate the work and international collaboration of all scholars working in this field. The abstracts published in Science of Religion are drawn from a wide range of journals in various languages and refl ect a range of contributory or complementary disciplines. The list of periodicals consulted is reviewed regularly and suggestions for improvement are welcomed. Science of Religion does not seek to appraise or criticise the contents of any articles. Nor does it endorse any of the religious standpoints or agendas referred to in the articles abstracted. In all cases the individual authors are responsible for their own opinions and any reference to these opinions should take account of the complete article in the original source. The online version of this journal, Index to the Study of Religions, will become available in 2009, please see page 2 for more information. For more information see brill.nl/scor
Journal of Cognition and Culture Executive Editors: E. Thomas Lawson, Queen’s University of Belfast/Western Michigan University, and Pascal Boyer, Washington University • 2010: Volume 10 (in 2 double issues) • ISSN 1567-7095 / E-ISSN 1568-5373 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 224.- / US$ 306.E-only: EUR 187.- / US$ 255.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 91.- / US$ 124.The Journal of Cognition and Culture provides an interdisciplinary forum for exploring the mental foundations of culture and the cultural foundations of mental life. The primary focus of the journal is on explanations of cultural phenomena in terms of acquisition, representation and transmission involving cognitive capacities without excluding the study of cultural differences. The journal contains articles, commentaries, reports of experiments, and book reviews that emerge out of the inquiries by, and conversations between, scholars in experimental psychology, developmental psychology, social cognition, neuroscience, human evolution, cognitive science of religion, and cognitive anthropology. For more information see brill.nl/jocc
Journals
Method & Theory in the Study of Religion Journal of the North American Association for the Study of Religion
Worldviews Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology
• 2010: Volume 14 (in 3 issues) • ISSN 1363-5247 / E-ISSN 1568-5357 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 157.- / US$ 215.E-only: EUR 131.- / US$ 178.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 59.- / US$ 80.-
Method & Theory in the Study of Religion publishes articles, notes, book reviews and letters which explicitly address the problems of methodology and theory in the academic study of religion. This includes such traditional points of departure as history, philosophy, anthropology and sociology, but also the natural sciences, and such newer disciplinary approaches as feminist theory and studies. Method & Theory in the Study of Religion also concentrates on the critical analysis of theoretical problems prominent in the study of religion. Articles for publication in Method and Theory in the Study of Religion may be submitted online at edmgr.com/mtsr
Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology has as its focus the relationships between religion, culture and ecology worldwide. Articles discuss major world religious traditions, such as Islam, Buddhism or Christianity; the traditions of indigenous peoples; new religious movements; philosophical belief systems, such as pantheism, nature spiritualities and other religious and cultural worldviews in relation to the cultural and ecological systems. Focusing on a range of disciplinary areas including Anthropology, Environmental Studies, Geography, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Sociology and Theology, the journal also presents special issues that center around one theme.
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• 2010: Volume 22 (in 4 issues) • ISSN 0943-3058 / E-ISSN 1570-0682 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 222.- / US$ 298.E-only: EUR 185.- / US$ 252.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 67.- / US$ 91.-
religious studies
Edited by Matthew Day, Florida State University, Tallahassee
Edited by Christopher Key Chapple, Loyola Marymount University Book Review Editor: Whitney Bauman, Graduate Theological Union
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Religion & Human Rights
Religion and the Arts
An International Journal
A Journal from Boston College
Managing Editor: Nazila Ghanea
Editor: James Najarian Associate Editor: Roberto Goizueta
• 2010: Volume 5 (in 3 issues) • ISSN 1871-031X / E-ISSN 1871-0328 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 180.- / US$ 245.E-only: EUR 150.- / US$ 204.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 54.- / US$ 73.Religion & Human Rights provides a unique academic forum for thediscussion of issues which are of crucial importance and whichhave global reach. The Journal covers the interactions, confl ictsand reconciliations between religions or beliefs on the onehand; and systems for the promotion and protection of human rights, international, regional and national, on the other. The Journal tackles these issues fearlessly, and draws its materials from all relevant disciplines - theology, anthropology, history, international relations, human rights, religious studies, and many others - but with special emphasis on legal frameworks. It is an indispensable source for all those concerned with monitoring, studying, teaching, analysing or developing policies on the relationship between religion and human rights today. This peer-reviewed, academic journal is published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers - the world’s leading imprint for international Human Rights books and periodicals. The Journal is available online as well as in traditional form. For more information see brill.nl/rhrs
• 2010: Volume 14 (in 5 issues) • ISSN 1079-9265 / E-ISSN 1568-5292 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 367.- / US$ 499.E-only: EUR 306.- / US$ 416.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 84.- / US$ 114.Launched by the Boston College in late 1996, Religion and the Arts has rapidly developed into a major new international journal in this important interdisciplinary field. Religion and the Arts promotes the development of discourses for exploring the religious dimensions of the verbal, visual and performing arts. The journal has attracted international acclaim for its approach and its excellent quality and range of interest. Religion and the Arts publishes interpretations that develop new approaches to the religious and spiritual aspects of works of art and discussions on the role of religion in cultural studies. It includes critical overviews of the state of scholarship in particular areas and reviews, interviews, comment, debate, and surveys of recent developments. Recent special issues were on: Shakespeare and Religion, The Holocaust and the Arts and Victorian Religious Discourse. For more information see brill.nl/rart
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Archive for the Psychology of Religion Archiv für Religionspychologie Edited by Heinz Streib, James Day, Ralph W. Hood, Jr. and David Wolff
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• 2010: Volume 41 (in 2 issues) • ISSN 0047-2662 / E-ISSN 1569-1624 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 148.- / US$ 201.E-only: EUR 123.- / US$ 167.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 45.- / US$ 61.The peer-reviewed Journal of Phenomenological Psychology publishes articles that advance the discipline of psychology from the perspective of the Continental phenomenology movement. Within that tradition, phenomenology is understood in the broadest possible sense including its transcendental, existential, hermeneutic, and narrative strands and is not meant to convey the thought of any one individual. Articles advance the discipline of psychology by applying phenomenology to enhance the field’s philosophical foundations, critical reflection, theoretical development, research methodologies, empirical research, and applications in such areas as clinical, educational, and organizational psychology. Over its four decades, the Journal of Phenomenological Psychology has consistently demonstrated the relevance of phenomenology for psychology in areas involving qualitative research methods, the entire range of psychological subject matters, and theoretical approaches such as the psychoanalytic, cognitive, biological, behavioral, humanistic, and psychometric. The overall aim is to further the psychological understanding of the human person in relation to self, world, others, and time. Because the potential of Continental phenomenology for enhancing psychology is vast and the field is still developing, innovative and creative applications or phenomenological approaches to psychological problems are especially welcome. For more information see brill.nl/jpp
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The international, peer-reviewed journal Archive for the Psychology of Religion/Archiv für Religionspsychologie is the oldest periodical for research in the psychology of religion. It is the organ of the International Association for the Psychology of Religion (IAPR), founded in 1914. The Archive for the Psychology of Religion/Archiv für Religionspsychologie is open to all scientific methodologies, both quantitative and qualitative.
Edited by Frederick J. Wertz, Fordham University, New York Review Editor: Mufid James Hannush, Rosemont College, Rosemont, PA religious studies
• 2010: Volume 32 (in 3 issues) • ISSN 0084-6724 / E-ISSN 1573-6121 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 163.- / US$ 222.E-only: EUR 136.- / US$ 185.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 50.- / US$ 68.-
Journal of Phenomenological Psychology
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Research in Phenomenology
Journal of Moral Philosophy
Edited by John Sallis, Boston College Associate Editor: James Risser, Seattle University
Edited by Thom Brooks, University of Newcastle Reviews Editor: Fabian Freyenhagen, University of Essex
• 2010: Volume 40 (in 3 issues) • ISSN 0085-5553 / E-ISSN 1569-1640 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 262.- / US$ 356.E-only: EUR 218.- / US$ 297 .• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 79.- / US$ 108.-
• 2010: Volume 7 (in 4 issues) • ISSN 1740-4681 / E-ISSN 1745-5243 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 323.- / US$ 440.E-only: EUR 269.- / US$ 366.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 71.- / US$ 97.-
Research in Phenomenology deals with phenomenological philosophy in a broad sense, including original phenomenological research, critical and interpretative studies of major phenomenological thinkers, studies relating phenomenological philosophy to other disciplines, and historical studies of special relevance to phenomenological philosophy.
The Journal of Moral Philosophy is a peer-reviewed journal of moral, political and legal philosophy with an international focus. It publishes articles in all areas of normative philosophy, including pure and applied ethics, as well as moral, legal, and political theory. Articles exploring non-Western traditions are also welcome. The Journal seeks to promote lively discussions and debates for established academics and the wider community, by publishing articles that avoid unnecessary jargon without sacrificing academic rigour. It encourages contributions from newer members of the philosophical community. The Journal of Moral Philosophy is published four times a year, in January, April, July and October. One issue per year is devoted to a particular theme and each issue will contain articles, discussion pieces, review essays and book reviews.
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International Journal of the Platonic Tradition Edited by John F. Finamore, University of Iowa
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• 2010: Volume 40 (in 4 issues) • ISSN 0022-4200 / E-ISSN 1570-0666 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 276.- / US$ 375.E-only: EUR 230.- / US$ 313.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 130.- / US$ 177.The Journal of Religion in Africa is interested in all religious traditions and all their forms, in every part of Africa, and it is open to every methodology. Its contributors include scholars working in history, anthropology, sociology, political science, missiology, literature and related disciplines. It occasionally publishes religious texts in their original African language. Presenting a unique forum for the debate of theoretical issues in the analysis of African religion past and present, the Journal of Religion in Africa also encourages the development of new methodologies. It reviews a very wide range of books and regularly publishes longer review articles on works of special interest. The Journal of Religion in Africa prides itself on being highly international and is the only English-language journal dedicated to the study of religion and ritual throughout Africa. In an effort to highlight emerging themes in the study 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. For more information see brill.nl/jra
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This journal is published under the auspices of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies. This exciting new journal covers all facets of the Platonic tradition (from Thales through Thomas Taylor, and beyond) from all perspectives (including philosophical, historical, religious, etc.) and all corners of the world (Pagan, Christian, Jewish, Islamic, etc.).
Editors: Adeline Masquelier, Tulane University, and Brad Weiss, College of William and Mary
religious studies
• 2010: Volume 4 (in 2 issues) • ISSN 1872-5082 / E-ISSN 1872-5473 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 182.- / US$ 248.E-only: EUR 152.- / US$ 207.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 55.- / US$ 75.-
Journal of Religion in Africa
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Journal of Religion in Europe
Die Welt des Islams
Edited by Hans G. Kippenberg, Jacobs University Bremen, and Kocku von Stuckrad, University of Groningen
Edited by Stefan Reichmuth, Bochum, Germany
• 2010: Volume 3 (in 3 issues) • ISSN 1874-8910 / E-ISSN 1874-8929 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 182.- / US$ 248.E-only: EUR 152.- / US$ 207.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 55.- / US$ 75.The peer-reviewed Journal of Religion in Europe (JRE) provides a forum for multi-disciplinary research into the complex dynamics of religious discourses and practices in Europe, both historically and contemporary. The Journal’s underlying idea is that religion in Europe is characterized by a variety of pluralisms. There is a pluralism of religious communities that actively engage with one another; there exists a pluralism of societal systems, such as nation, law, politics, economy, science, and art, all of them interacting with religious systems; finally, in a pluralism of scholarly discourses religious studies, legal studies, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology are addressing the religious dynamics involved. The JRE encourages new kinds of publications that respond to the changing European dimension of social and cultural studies. For more information see brill.nl/jre
• 2010: Volume 50 (in 4 issues) • ISSN 0043-2539 / E-ISSN 1570-0607 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 313.- / US$ 426.E-only: EUR 261.- / US$ 355.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 95.- / US$ 129.Die Welt des Islams focuses on the history and culture of the people of Islam from the end of the eighteenth century until present times. Special attention is given to literature from this period. Over the last 40 years, Die Welt des Islams has established itself as a journal unrivalled by any other in its field. Its presence in both the major research libraries of the world and in the private libraries of professors, scholars and students shows this journal to be an easy way of staying on top of your discipline. Boasting a large international circulation, Die Welt des Islams provides its readers with articles in English, French and German. Detailed notes add to already highly descriptive articles. Extensive reviews of relevant books are written by specialists, giving a broader look into the field of Islam. For more information see brill.nl/wdi
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Indo-Iranian Journal Edited by Hans Bakker, University of Groningen and Jonathan Silk, Leiden University
For more information see brill.nl/iij
Editorial Board: John Baines, Jan Bremmer, David Frankfurter, Brian Schmidt, Seth Sanders and Theo van den Hout • 2010: Volume 10 (in 2 issues) • ISSN 1569-2116 / E-ISSN 1569-2124 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 154.- / US$ 209.E-only: EUR 128.- / US$ 174.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 47.- / US$ 64.-
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The journal focuses on the religions of the area commonly referred to as the Ancient Near East encompassing Egypt, Mesopotamia, Syria-Palestine, and Anatolia, as well as immediately adjacent areas under their cultural influence, from prehistoric times onward to the beginning of the common era. JANER thus explicitly aims to include not only the Biblical, Hellenistic and Roman world as part of Ancient Near Eastern civilization but also the impact of its religions on the western Mediterranean. JANER is the only scholarly journal specifically and exclusively addressing this range of topics. In the preserved records of Ancient Near Eastern civilizations religion can be seen pervading practically every aspect of daily life, while it is reflected in multiform and often impressive ways in their art and material culture. Ancient Near Eastern religions are therefore vital not only to our understanding of the cultures of that time and area but also as providing the roots and the background for the religions that were to become three major 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. For more information see brill.nl/jane
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Indo-Iranian Journal, founded in 1957, focuses on the ancient and medieval languages and cultures of South Asia and of preislamic Iran. It publishes articles on Indo-Iranian languages (linguistics and literatures), such as Sanskrit, Avestan, Middle Iranian and Middle & New Indo-Aryan. It publishes specialized research on ancient Iranian religion and the Indian religions, such as the Veda, Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism (including Tibetan). The journal welcomes epigraphical studies as well as general contributions to the understanding of the (pre-modern) history and culture of South Asia. Illustrations are accepted. A substantial part of Indo-Iranian Journal is reserved for reviews of new research. Twice a year it contains a detailed bibliography of all publications received. The Journal predominantly publishes articles in English and occasionaly in French and German.
Editor: Chris Woods, Oriental Institute in Chicago
religious studies
• 2010: Volume 53 (in 4 issues) • ISSN 0019-7246 / E-ISSN 1572-8536 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 451.- / US$ 614.E-only: EUR 376.- / US$ 512.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 137.- / US$ 186.-
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Journal of Egyptian History
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Editor: Thomas Schneider, University of British Columbia (visiting) Editorial Board: C. Cannuyer, L. Depuydt, A. Dodson, A. Gnirs-Loprieno, K. Jansen-Winkeln, J. Manning, L. Morenz and T. Wilkinson
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• 2010: Volume 3 (in 2 issues) • ISSN 1874-1657 / E-ISSN 1874-1665 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 169.- / US$ 136.E-only: EUR 113.- / US$ 154.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 40.- / US$ 54.The Journal of Egyptian History aims to encourage and stimulate a focused debate on writing and interpreting Egyptian history ranging from the Neolithic foundations of Ancient Egypt to its modern reception. It covers all aspects of Ancient Egyptian history (political, social, economic, and intellectual) and of modern historiography about Ancient Egypt (methodologies, hermeneutics, interplay between historiography and other disciplines, and history of modern Egyptological historiography). The journal is open to contributions in English, German, and French. For more information see brill.nl/jeh
Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus Edited by Robert L. Webb Book Review Editor: Michael Daise • 2010: Volume 8 (in 3 issues) • ISSN 1476-8690 / E-ISSN 1745-5197 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 236.- / US$ 322.E-only: EUR 197.- / US$ 268.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 72.- / US$ 98.The Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus provides an international forum for the academic discussion of Jesus within the context of first-century Palestine. The journal is accessible to all who are interested in how this complex topic has been addressed in the past and how it is approached today. The journal investigates the social, cultural and historical context in which Jesus lived, discusses methodological issues surrounding the reconstruction of the historical Jesus, examines the history of research on Jesus and explores how the life of Jesus has been portrayed in the arts and other media. The Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus presents articles and book reviews discussing the latest developments in academic research in order to shed new light on Jesus and his world. For more information visit brill.nl/jshj
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Vigiliae Christianae A Review of Early Christian Life and Language Executive Editors: J.C.M. van Winden, Leiden, J. den Boeft, Free University of Amsterdam and J. van Oort, Utrecht/Nijmegen
For more information see brill.nl/vc
Edited by Joachim H. Knoll, Bochum, Julius H. Schoeps, Potsdam, Hans J. Hillerbrand, Durham, USA, Helmut Peitsch, Potsdam Coordinated by Julius Schoeps and Gideon Botsch • 2010: Volume 61 (in 4 issues) • ISSN 0044-3441 / E-ISSN 1570-0739 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 249.- / US$ 366.E-only: EUR 224.- / US$ 329.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 111.- / US$ 163.The Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte was founded in 1948 by Hans-Joachim Schoeps and Ernst Benz. It has a longstanding tradition and is one of the most outstanding journals in the humanities of the German-speaking world. Today, it is a forum for interdisciplinary research and scholarly dialogue in the fields of religious and intellectual history. The Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte is a peerreviewed journal and comprises original papers, miscellanea and reviews both in German and English from the crossroads of philosophy, the history of religions, cultural studies, theology, ethnology, European history, the history of art and the history of the sciences. It is not bound to any specific period, field, scholarly method or school but rather to the excellence and the innovative character of texts and ideas. Each issue aims at presenting a mixture of insights from outsiders and newcomers as well as scholarly views and outlooks from insiders along with an extensive book review section. For more information see brill.nl/zrgg
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Vigiliae Christianae contains articles and short notes of an historical, cultural, linguistic or philological nature on early Christian literature written after the New Testament, as well as on Christian epigraphy and archaeology. Church and dogmatic history are dealt with as they relate to social history; Byzantine and medieval literature are treated as far as they exhibit continuity with the early Christian period. • Leading journal in its field. • Extensive book review section giving a critical analysis of other titles related to the field.
Journal of Religious and Cultural Studies
religious studies
• 2010: Volume 64 (in 5 issues) • ISSN 0042-6032 / E-ISSN 1570-0720 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 342.- / US$ 466.E-only: EUR 285.- / US$ 414.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 104.- / US$ 142.-
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Biblical Interpretation
Church History and Religious Culture
A Journal of Contemporary Approaches
Formerly: Nederlands Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis
religious studies
Edited by Hugh Pyper, University of Sheffield Book Review Editor: Tat-siong Benny Liew, Chicago Theological Seminary
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• 2010: Volume 18 (in 5 issues) • ISSN 0927-2569 / E-ISSN 1568-5152 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 319.- / US$ 435.E-only: EUR 266.- / US$ 362.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 97.- / US$ 132.This innovative and highly-acclaimed journal accommodates articles on various aspects of current biblical criticism. The articles published either give a practical demonstration of how a particular approach may be instructively applied to a biblical text or texts, or make a productive contribution to the discussion of method. The journal provides a vehicle for the exercise and development of a whole range of newer techniques of interpretation, including feminist readings, semiotic, poststructuralist, reader-response and other types of literary readings, liberation-theological readings, ecological readings, psychological readings, and post-colonial interpretation, among many others. Alongside eclectic issues on various subjects, the journal has published collections of articles on particular thematic issues such as: Reading Gender and Gender Reading; The New Historicism; Negotiating Theology; Beyond the Biblical 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. For more information see brill.nl/bi
Edited by Wim Janse, VU University Amsterdam • 2010: Volume 90 (in 4 issues) • ISSN 1871-241X / E-ISSN 1871-2428 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 200.- / US$ 273.E-only: EUR 167.- / US$ 227.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 61.- / US$ 83.Church History and Religious Culture is a long-established, peerreviewed periodical, primarily devoted to the history of 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, cuttingedge 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 editorialmanager.com/chrc. For more information see brill.nl/chrc
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Horizons in Biblical Theology Edited by Lewis Donelson
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• 2010: Volume 4 (in 4 issues) • ISSN 1872-5171 / E-ISSN 1569-7320 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 199.- / US$ 270.E-only: EUR 166.- / US$ 226.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 60.- / US$ 82.Public Theology responds to the growing need for theology to interact with public issues of contemporary society. It seeks to engage in dialogue with different academic disciplines such as politics, economics, cultural studies, religious studies, as well as with spirituality, globalization and society in general. The International Journal of Public Theology, affiliated with the Global Network for Public Theology, aims at becoming the platform for original interdisciplinary research in the field of public theology. For more information see brill.nl/ijpt
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Horizons in Biblical Theology publishes articles that address all aspects of the relationship between biblical studies and theology. This includes traditional historical readings of biblical texts, thematic studies within biblical texts and theology, explorations of methodology and hermeneutics, and even readings from within confessional traditions. The journal welcomes both technical articles that address historical and linguistic issues in biblical texts and theoretical articles that address innovations and difficulties in theological reading of texts. Contributions are peer-reviewed.
Edited by Sebastian Kim
religious studies
• 2010: Volume 32 (in 2 issues) • ISSN 0195-9085 / E-ISSN 1871-2207 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 124.- / US$ 168.E-only: EUR 103.- / US$ 140.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 51.- / US$ 69.-
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Ecclesiology The Journal for Ministry, Mission and Unity
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Edited by Paul Avis, Council for Christian Unity and University of Exeter
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• 2010: Volume 6 (in 3 issues) • ISSN 1744-1366 / E-ISSN 1745-5316 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 193.- / US$ 263.E-only: EUR 161.- / US$ 219.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 58.- / US$ 79.Ecclesiology is an ecumenical and international theological journal designed to meet the growing demand for theological resources in the area of ecclesiology – the scholarly study of the nature and the purpose of the Christian Church. The journal also features articles exploring wider issues in ecclesiology including those to do with the identity of the Christian Church and the place of ecclesiology within Christian theology. The main focus of the journal is on the mission, ministry and unity of the Church. Ecclesiology is published in association with the Centre for the Study of the Christian Church (University of Exeter and Exeter Cathedral, UK). For more information see brill.nl/ecso
Journal of Empirical Theology Executive Editor: Chris A.M. Hermans, Nijmegen • 2010: Volume 23 (in 2 issues) • ISSN 0922-2936 / E-ISSN 1570-9256 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 139.- / US$ 190.E-only: EUR 116.- / US$ 158.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 42.- / US$ 57.The Journal of Empirical Theology (JET) publishes theological articles and book reviews directly or indirectly based upon empirical research and empirical methodology. It aims to broaden and advance empirical-theological knowledge and thought at an international level in order to contribute to a deeper understanding of religion in modern times in relation to the Christian tradition. For more information see brill.nl/jet
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Journal of Pentecostal Theology
Journal of Reformed Theology
Editor-in-Chief: John Christopher Thomas Associate Editor: Lee Roy Martin Founding Editors: Steven J. Land and Rickie D. Moore
Edited by E.A.J.G. Van der Borght
For more information see brill.nl/pent
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The Journal of Pentecostal Theology is the first academic serial to publish constructive theological research from a Pentecostal perspective on an international scholarly level. Guest articles from and exchanges with leading scholars from outside the ranks of Pentecostalism (e.g. Jurgen Moltmann, Harvey Cox, Stanley Hauerwas and Clark Pinnock) are regularly featured, fostering the fruitful ecumenical and theological interchange that continues to expand between global Pentecostalism and the full spectrum of ecclesial and theological traditions.
The Journal of Reformed Theology (JRT) is a refereed international journal of systematic, historical, and biblical theology. The JRT is an instrument for the study of living and contextual theology that provides a forum for debate on classical and contemporary theological issues and offers an update on new theological and biblical literature. The Journal of Reformed Theology originates from the International Reformed Theological Institute (IRTI). Established in 1995, IRTI comprises a world-wide network of scholars involved in Reformed theology. ‘Reformed’ refers to the theological tradition that started with the sixteenth-century Reformation in Strasbourg, Zurich and Geneva, as an expression of Christian faith of all times and places. IRTI is linked to the Faculty of Theology of de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
religious studies
• 2010: Volume 19 (in 2 issues) • ISSN 0966-7369 / E-ISSN 1745-5251 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 211.- / US$ 287.E-only: EUR 176.- / US$ 240.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 25.- / US$ 34.-
• 2010: Volume 4 (in 3 issues) • ISSN 1872-5163 / E-ISSN 1569-7312 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 145.- / US$ 197.E-only: EUR 121.- / US$ 165.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 58.- / US$ 79.-
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Religion and Theology
Pneuma
A Journal of Contemporary Religious Discourse
The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies
Executive Editor: Gerhard A. van den Heever, University of South Africa
Edited by Amos Yong, Regent University and Dale Coulter, Regent University
• 2010: Volume 17 (in 2 double issues) • ISSN 1023-0807 / E-ISSN 1574-3012 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 215.- / US$ 293.E-only: EUR 179.- / US$ 244.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 65.- / US$ 88.-
• 2010: Volume 32 (in 3 issues) • ISSN 0272-0965 / E-ISSN 1570-0747 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 222.- / US$ 302.E-only: EUR 185.- / US$ 252.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 50.- / US$ 68.-
Religion & Theology publishes scholarly articles of high quality on religion, theology, and related fields. The journal pursues new ways of conceptualizing religion, theology and academic religious discourse, as well as refl ecting on new meaning-giving praxis. The journal functions as an international forum for contemporary religious discourse with an emphasis on new ways of understanding our multifaceted religious heritage and ourselves as ‘religious’ beings in this time of major change in world history. Religion & Theology encourages dialogue between divergent theoretical, conceptual and disciplinary languages, with a view to reconceptualising theology (in theory and praxis) in the light of contemporary theory of religion, especially more recent social and rhetorical theories of religion.
Pneuma is the Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies (SPS). Since its founding in 1970, the SPS has become an international society of scholars interested in Pentecostal and Charismatic studies. Though many of the more than 600 members of the Society belong to one of the Pentecostal or Charismatic churches, a number of others are involved in the Society’s annual meetings from other churches or merely from university settings. In 1979, Pneuma first appeared as the Journal of the SPS. The Journal became a major medium for the international discussion of scholarly issues related to Pentecostal and Charismatic studies. Articles have appeared over the years on matters related to the special interest groups of the SPS, namely, biblical studies, history, theology, missions, praxis, ecumenism, and religion and culture. The Journal has cherished an ecumenical and an international vision as well. The staffat Pneuma trust that the Journal will bring the scholarship of the SPS and beyond to the broader awareness of the academy and the churches for the mutual benefit of both.
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Mission Studies
Social Sciences and Missions
Journal of the International Association for Mission Studies
Sciences sociales et missions (Formerly: Le Fait Missionnaire)
Edited by Lalsangkima Pachuau
Edited by Eric Morier-Genoud, Oxford University, Didier Péclard, Swiss Peace Foundation, Bern, and Wendy Urban-Mead, Bard College
For more information see brill.nl/mist
The origin of Social Sciences and Missions /Sciences sociales et missions lies at the University of Lausanne where in 1995 its predecessor Le Fait Missionaire was started. Social Sciences and Missions /Sciences sociales et missions takes missions and religion as an object or area of study to understand important social 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 welldeveloped 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. For more information see brill.nl/ssm
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The aim of Mission Studies is to better enable the International Association for Mission Studies to expand its services as a forum for the scholarly study of biblical, theological, historical and practical questions related to mission.
• 2010: Volume 23 (in 2 issues) • ISSN 1874-8937 / E-ISSN 1874-8945 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 126.- / US$ 172.E-only: EUR 105.- / US$ 143.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 55.- / US$ 75.-
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Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture
A Journal of Missiological and Ecumenical Research
Edited by Shlomo Berger, Michael Brocke and Irene Zwiep
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Executive Editor: Freek L. Bakker, Interuniversity Institute for Missiological and Ecumenical Research, Utrecht
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• 2010: Volume 39 (in 4 issues) • ISSN 0166-2740 / E-ISSN 1572-543X • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 230.- / US$ 331.E-only: EUR 192.- / US$ 261.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 70.- / US$ 95.Established in 1972 by the Interuniversity Institute for Missiological and Ecumenical Studies in Utrecht, Exchange is a high-quality international journal devoted to missiology and ecumenical studies, charting developments in both fields across the broad spectrum of Christian and other religious traditions. The journal seeks to focus on observation and interpretation of Third World theologies; gives attention to the interaction of Christianity and local primal religions; and provides up-todate reports on discussions of current developments. There is a review section and survey of publications. For more information see brill.nl/exch
• 2010: Volume 7 (in 1 issue) • ISSN 1571-7283 / E-ISSN 1875-0214 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 102.- / US$ 138.E-only: EUR 85.- / US$ 116.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 31.- / US$ 42.Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture aims to fill a gap that has become more and more conspicuous among the wealth of scholarly periodicals in the field of Jewish Studies. Whereas existing journals provide space to medium and large sized articles, they neglect the small but poignant contributions, which may be as important as the extended, detailed study. Zutot serves as a platform for small but incisive contributions, and provides them with a distinct context. The substance of these contributions is derived from larger perspectives and, though not always presented in an exhaustive way, will have an impact on contemporary discussions. Zutot covers Jewish culture in its broadest sense, i.e. encompassing various academic disciplines—literature, languages and linguistics, philosophy, art, sociology, politics and history—and refl ects binary oppositions such as religious and secular, high and low, written and oral, male and female culture. For more information see brill.nl/zuto
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European Journal of Jewish Studies
Images
The Journal of the European Association for Jewish Studies (formerly EAJS Newsletter)
A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture
• 2010: Volume 4 (in 2 issues) • ISSN 1025-9996 / E-ISSN 1872-471X • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 120.- / US$ 163.E-only: EUR 100.- / US$ 136.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 55.- / US$ 75.-
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• 2010: Volume 4 • ISSN 1871-7993 / E-ISSN 1871-8000 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 134.- / US$ 182.E-only: EUR 112.- / US$ 152.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 41.- / US$ 56.The study of Jewish art and visual culture, which has been cultivated for over a century in European, American and Israeli institutions, has burgeoned in the last fifteen years. Major universities have established graduate programs that integrate Jewish art and visual studies, and Jewish museums dot the landscape in Israel, Europe and North America. Contemporary scholarship on Jewish art and visual culture intersects with concerns of the wider academy; a lively interchange among scholars has ensued. The field has now achieved the breadth and maturity to sustain an international journal that represents the interests of this interdisciplinary community of scholars. IMAGES invites scholarly articles on Jewish art and visual culture, ranging in time from Greco-Roman antiquity to the present day. Articles may concentrate on any geographical area in which Jewish participation had an impact, and any discipline, including architecture, painting, sculpture, treasury arts, book arts, graphics, textiles, photography and film, and other areas of the visual environment. In addition, IMAGES welcomes articles on historiography and theory, as well as textual studies that reflect on the themes of the journal. For more information see brill.nl/ims
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The main purpose of the journal of the European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS) is to publish high-quality research articles, essays and shorter contributions on all aspects of Jewish Studies. Submissions are all double-blind peer-reviewed. Additionally, EJJS seeks to inform its readers on current developments in Jewish Studies: it carries comprehensive review-essays on specific topics, trends and debated questions, as well as regular book-reviews. A further section carries reports on conferences, symposia, and descriptions of research projects in every area of Jewish Studies.
Edited by Steven Fine, Yeshiva University in New York City, Vivian Mann, The Jewish Museum , New York, and Margaret Olin, Art Institute of Chicago religious studies
Edited by Giuseppe Veltri, University of Halle-Wittenberg/Leopold-Zunz-Zentrum Managing Editor: Diana Matut, University of Halle-Wittenberg/Leopold-Zunz-Zentrum
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Journal for the Study of Judaism In the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Period Executive Editors:
religious studies
F. García Martínez, University of Groningen and E.J.C. Tigchelaar, Catholic University of Leuven
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• 2010: Volume 41 (in 5 issues) • ISSN 0047-2212 / E-ISSN 1570-0631 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 341.- / US$ 465.E-only: EUR 197.- / US$ 268.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 124.- / US$ 169.The Journal for the Study of Judaism is a leading international forum for scholarly discussions on the history, literature and religious ideas on Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman period. It provides biblical scholars, students of rabbinic literature, classicists and historians with essential information. Since 1970 the Journal for Study of Judaism has been securing its position as one of the world’s leading journals. The Journal for the Study of Judaism features an extensive book review section as well as a separate section reviewing articles. For more information see brill.nl/jsj
The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy Edited by Elliot R. Wolfson, New York University, Catherine Chalier, University of Paris X - Nanterre, Robert Gibbs, University of Toronto, Irene Kajon, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, and Michael Zank, Boston University Managing Editor: Dana Hollander, McMaster University • 2010: Volume 18 (in 2 issues) • ISSN 1053-699X / E-ISSN 1477-285X • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 286.- / US$ 388.E-only: EUR 238.- / US$ 324.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 86.- / US$ 117.The aim of the journal is to provide an international forum for Jewish thought, philosophy, and intellectual history from any given period. The emphasis is on high scholarly standards with an interest in issues of interpretation and the contemporary world. Articles are expected to cover philosophy, biblical studies, mysticism, literary criticism, political theory, sociology and anthropology. For more information see brill.nl/jjtp
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Review of Rabbinic Judaism Ancient, Medieval, and Modern (Formerly The Annual of Rabbinic Judaism) Edited by Alan J. Avery-Peck, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
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The Review of Rabbinic Judaism, the first and only journal to focus upon Rabbinic Judaism in particular, will publish principal articles, essays on method and criticism, systematic debates (Auseindersetzungen), occasional notes, long book reviews, reviews of issues of scholarly journals, assessments of textbooks and instructional materials, and other media of academic discourse, scholarly and educational alike. The Review fills the gap in the study of Judaism, which is left by the prevailing division of Rabbinic Judaism among the standard historical periods (ancient, medieval, modern) that in fact do not apply; and by the common treatment of the Judaism in bits and pieces (philosophy, mysticism, law homiletics, institutional history, for example). No journal in “Jewish studies” focuses upon the study of religion, let alone upon the single most important Judaism of all time.
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Adogame, A. and Spickard, J., Religion Crossing
Boundaries, Transnational Religious and Social Dynamics in Africa and the New African Diaspora Akkach, S., Letters of a Sufi Scholar, The Correspondence of `Abd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī(1641-1731) Aupers, S. (ed.), Religions of Modernity, Relocating the Sacred to the Self and the Digital Avery-Peck, A. and Neusner, J., Judaism and Christianity, New Directions for Dialogue and Understanding Bakker, F.L., The Challenge of the Silver Screen, An Analysis of the Cinematic Portraits of Jesus, Rama, Buddha and Muhammed Batsch, C. and Vârtejanu-Joubert, M. (eds), Manières de penser dans l’Antiquité méditerranéenne et orientale, Mélanges offerts à Francis Schmidt par ses élèves, ses collègues et ses amis Bearman, P.J., Bianquis, Th., Bosworth, C.E., van Donzel, E. and Heinrichs W.P., Encyclopaedia of Islam New Edition Beek van de, A., Borght Van der, E. and Vermeulen, B.P., Freedom of Religion Betz, H.D., Browning, D., Janowski, B. and Jüngel, E., Religion Past and Present, Volumes 9, 8, 7 and 6 Bonfil, R., History and Folklore in a Medieval Jewish Chronicle, The Family Chronicle of Aḥimaʿaz ben Paltiel Borgeaud, P., Römer, T. and Volokhine, Y. (eds), Interprétations de Moïse, Égypte, Judée, Grèce et Rome Borght, van der E. (ed.), The Unity of the Church, A Theological State of the Art and Beyond Bos, G., Berakhyah Ben Natronai ha-Nakdan, Sefer Ko’aḥ ha-Avanim (On the Virtue of the Stones). Shem Tov ben Isaak of Tortosa: Sefer ha - Shimmush. Book 29, Part 1 Bricault, L. and Versluys, M.J., Isis on the Nile, Egyptian Gods in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt Burns Coleman, E. and White, K. (eds), Medicine, Religion and the Body Capucao, D.D., Religion and Ethnocentrism, An EmpiricalTheological Study Crone, A.L., Eros and Creativity in Russian Religious Renewal, the Philosophers and the Freudians Cruz, G.T., An Intercultural Theology of Migration, Pilgrims in the Wilderness Cusack, C. and Hartney, C. (eds), Religion and Retributive Logic, Essays in Honour of Professor Garry W. Trompf Dammen McAuliffe, J., Encyclopedia of the Qur’ān Darby, M.R., The Emergence of the Hebrew Christian Movement in Nineteenth-Century Britain Dessì, U. (ed.), The Social Dimension of Shin Buddhism Dijkstra, J., Kroesen, J. and Kuiper, Y. (eds), Myths, Martyrs, and Modernity, Studies in the History of Religions in Honour of Jan N. Bremmer Elkaisy-Friemuth, M. and Dillon, J.M. (eds), The Afterlife of the Platonic Soul, Reflections of Platonic Psychology in the Monotheistic Religions Ellison, R. (ed.), A New History of the Sermon, The Nineteenth Century Fraenkel, C. (ed.), Traditions of Maimonideanism
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Frahm-Arp, M., Professional Women in South African
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Friedman, Y., The Nuṣayrī - ‘Alawīs, An Introduction to the
Pentecostal Charismatic Churches.
Religion, History and Identity of the Leading Minority in Syria Friesen, S., Schowalter, D. and Walters, J. (eds), Corinth in Context, Comparative Studies on Religion and Society 45 Fronda, E.S.B.,Wittgenstein’s (Misunderstood) Religious Thought 61 Frymire, J.M., The Primacy of the Postils, Catholics, Protestants and the Dissemination of Ideas in Early Modern Germany 47 Giordan, G., Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion, Volume 1, Youth and Religion 24 Grinshpon, Y., Voice and Message in Viveka-Vedanta, Sankara’s sankaracaryas 57 Hejzlar, P., Two Paradigms for Divine Healing, Fred F. Bosworth, Kenneth E. Hagin, Agnes Sanford and Francis Macnutt In Dialogue 42 Hekster, O., Schmidt-Hofner, S. and Witschel, C. (eds), Ritual Dynamics and Religious Change in the Roman Empire, Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Heidelberg, 2007) 38 Heller, M.J., The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book, An Abridged Thesaurus 25 Ho, A., The Targum of Zephaniah, Manuscripts and Commentary 60 Holder, R.W., A Companion to Paul in the Reformation 49 Hvithamar, A., Warburg, M. and Jacobsen, B. (eds), Holy Nations and Global Identities, Civil Religion, Nationalism and Globalisation 15 Huss, B., Pasi, M. and von Stuckrad, K., Kabbalah and Modernity, Interpretations, Transformations, Adaptations 11 Jacobsen, K.A., Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism 18 Jacoby, S. and Terrone, A. (eds), Buddhism Beyond the Monastery, Tantric Practices and their Performers in Tibet and the Himalayas 62 Jensz, F., German Moravian Missionaries in the British Colony of Victoria, Australia, 1848-1908, Influential Strangers 17 Kapstein, M.T. and Schaik van, S., Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang, Rites and Teachings for This Life and Beyond 36 Koren, I., The Mystery of the Earth, Mysticism and Hasidism in the Thought of Martin Buber 37 Kraft, R.A., Exploring the Scripturesque, Jewish Texts and their Christian Contexts 7 Krämer, G., Matringe, D., Nawas, J. and Rowson, E., Encyclopedia of IslamTHREE 16 Krech, V. and Steinicke, M., Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe in Past and Present Times 55 Küster, V., A Protestant Theology of Passion, Korean Minjung Theology Revisited 52 Lado, L., Catholic Pentecostalism and the Paradoxes of Africanization, Processes of Localization in a Catholic Charismatic Movement in Cameroon 20 Lagerwey, J. and Lü, P. (eds), Early Chinese Religion, Part 2: The Period of Division (220-589 AD) 42
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30 30
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Reuveni, G. and Roemer, N. (eds), Longing, Belonging,
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Rizo-Patron, E. and Kearney, R. (eds), Traversing the
and the Making of Jewish Consumer Culture
Heart, Journeys of the Inter-religious Imagination Robinson, A., God and the World of Signs, Trinity, Evolution and the Methaphysical Semiotics of C.S.Pierce 43 Rochberg, F., In the Path of the Moon, Babylonian Celestial Divination and Its Legacy 60 Rosemann, P.W., Mediaeval Commentaries on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, Volume 2 58 Rowland, C. and Morray-Jones, C., The Mystery of God: Early Jewish Mysticism and the New Testament 24 Ruzer, S. and Kofsky, A., Syriac Idiosyncrasies, Theology and Hermeneutics in Early Syriac Literature 53 Salinas, D., Latin American Evangelical Theology in the 1970’s, The Golden Decade 41 Schuddeboom, F., Greek Religious Terminology - Telete & Orgia, A Revised and Expanded English Edition of the Studies by Zijderveld and Van der Burg 29 Sela, S., Abraham Ibn Ezra Book of the World, A Parallel Hebrew English Critical Edition of the Two Versions of the Text Abraham Ibn Era’s Astrological Writings, Volume 2 18 Shakabpa, T.W.D. and Maher, D.F., One Hundred Thousand Moons, An Advanced Political History of Tibet 19 Sharma, M., Western Himalayan Temple Records, State, Pilgrimage, Ritual and Legality in Chambā 44 Shults, F.L., Murphy, N. and Russell, R. (eds), Philosophy, Science and Divine Action 62 Sill, U., Encounters in Quest of Christian Womanhood, The Basel Mission in Pre- and Early Colonial Ghana 41 Simón, F.M. and Gordon, R., Magical Practice in the Latin West, Papers from the International Conference, Zaragoza, 2005 31 Simonsohn, S., The Jews in Sicily, Volume 18, Under the Rule of Aragon and Spain 31 Simonsohn, S., The Jews in Sicily, Volume 17, Sciacca (end), Caltabellotta, Agrigento, Syracuse, Noto, Catania, Scicli, Randazzo, Messina, Addenda et Corrigenda 36 Smelik, K.A.D., van den Brandt, R. and Coetsier, M.G.S., Spirituality in the Writings of Etty Hillesum, Proceedings of the Etty Hillesum Conference at Ghent University, 2008 43 Smith, A.C. and Pickup, S. (eds), Brill’s Companion to Aphrodite 26 Smith, C.H., Tuning the Soul, Music as a Spiritual Process in the Teachings of Rabbi Naḥman of Bratzlav 23 Smith, L., The Glossa Ordinaria, The Making of a Medieval Bible Commentary 23 Spijker, Van’t, I., The Multiple Meaning of Scripture, The Role of Exegesis in Early-Christian and Medieval Culture 17 Stein, R. and McKeown, A.P., Rolf Stein’s Tibetica Antiqua 9 Stillman, N.A., Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World 12 Taylor, L.J. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage 3 Thomas, D. and Roggema, B. (eds), Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History, Volume 1 (600-900) 12 Tiedemann, G. (ed.), Handbook of Christianity in China, Volume Two: 1800-present 44
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Religion, Part 1: Shang through Han (1250 BC-220 AD) Lehnardt, A. (ed.), “Genizat Germania” - Hebrew and Aramaic Binding Fragments from Germany in Context Lehner, U.L. and Printy, M., A Companion to the Catholic Enlightenment in Europe Leoussi, A.S., Gal, A. and Smith, A.D. (eds), The Call of the Homeland, Diaspora Nationalisms, Past and Present Lewis, J.R. and Hammer, O., Handbook of Religion and the Authority of Science Luit van, T., Mediene Remnants, Yiddish Sources in the Netherlands Outside of Amsterdam Mancuso, P., Shabbatai Donnolo’s Sefer Ḥakhmoni, Introduction, Critical Text, and Annotated English Translation Marco Simón, F. and Gordon, R., Magical Practice in the Latin West, Papers from the International Conference held at the University of Zaragoza, 2005 Miletto, G. and Veltri, G. (eds), Judah ben Joseph Moscato. Sefer Nefus;.ot Yehudah (The Book of The Dispersed of Judah) Molendijk, A.L., Beaumont, J. and Jedan, C., Exploring the Postsecular, The Religious, the Political and the Urban Motzki, H., Boekhoff-van der Voort, N. and Anthony, S.W., Analysing Muslim Traditions, Studies in Legal, Exegetical and Maghāzī Ḥadīth Mueller, J., A Companion to Clare of Assisi, Life, Writings, and Spirituality Mylonopoulos, J., Divine Images and Human Imaginations in Ancient Greece and Rome Nahshon, E. (ed.), Jewish Theatre: A Global View Neelis, J., Early Buddhist Transmission and Trade Networks, Mobility and Exchange within and beyond the Northwestern Borderlands of South Asia Neuwirth, A., Sinai, N. and Marx, M. (eds), The Qurʾān in Context, Historical and Literary Investigations into the Qurʾānic Milieu Nicklas, T., Verheyden, J., Eynikel, E. and Garcia Martinez, F. (eds), Other Worlds and their Relation to this World, Early Jewish and Ancient Christian Traditions Ogren, B., Renaissance and Rebirth, Reincarnation in Early Modern Italian Kabbalah Ohrenstein, R. and Gordon, B., Economic Analysis in Talmudic Literature, Rabbinic Thought in the Light of Modern Economics - Third Revised Edition Orlov, A., Selected Studies in the Slavonic Pseudepigrapha Orzech, C.D. and Payne, R.K., Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia Piedmont, R.L. and Village, A. (eds), Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion Pink, J., Sunnitischer Tafsīr in der modernen islamischen Welt, Akademische Traditionen, Popularisierung und nationalstaatliche Interessen Rebhun, U. and Ari, L.L., American Israelis, Migration, Transnationalism and Diasporic Identity Rein, R., Argentine Jews or Jewish Argentines? Essays on Ethnicity, Identity and Diaspora
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Lagerwey, J. and Kalinowski, M. (eds), Early Chinese
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Torrance Kirby, W.J., Campi, E. and James, F. A., A Companion to Peter Martyr Vermigli Triplett, K., Index to the Study of Religions Tulud Cruz, G., An Intercultural Theology of Migration, Pilgrims in the Wilderness Ven, J.A., Human Rights or Religious Rules? Wagner, E.-M., Linguistic Variety of Judaeo-Arabic in Letters from the Cairo Genizah Walter, M., Buddhism and Empire, The Political and Religious Culture of Early Tibet Ward Holder, R., A Companion to Paul in the Reformation Weinstein, R., Juvenile Sexuality, Kabbalah, and Catholic Reformation in Italy, Tiferet Bahurim by Pinhas Barukh ben Pelatiyah Monselice
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Wells Davies, W., The Embattled but Empowered Community, Comparing Understandings of Spiritual Power in Argentine Popular and Pentecostal Cosmologies Wilkinson, M. and Althouse, P., Winds From the North, Canadian Contributions to the Pentecostal Movement Wisse, M., Sarot, M. and Otten, W. (eds), Scholasticism Reformed, Essays in Honour of Willem J. van Asselt Wuidar, L. (ed.), Music and Esotericism Zaccaria, F., Participation and Beliefs in Popular Religiosity, An Empirical-Theological Exploration among Italian Catholics
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