Religious Studies: A Global View

and Christianity in the Balkans and Anatolia, with a focus on apocalyptic traditions and apocryphal themes in Eastern Christiani ...

Bethlenfalvy, Géza 1989–90,Inner Asian Buddhist and Tibetan Studies. Papers read at the Bicentenary Csoma de KŒrös Symposium, Vi ...

Csetri, Elek 1989, ‘Central Asia as portrayed in early 19th century Transylvania’, Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungari ...

Gimbutas, Marija 1982, The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe, 6500–3500 BC: Myths and Cult Images, Berkeley, CA: University of Ca ...

Krasnowolska, Anna 1987, ‘Iranian studies in Poland’, Iranian Studies. Journal of the Society for Iranian Studies, vol. 20, nos. ...

Nikitin, Afanasii 1948, Khozhenie za tri moria Afanasiia Nikitina, 1466–1472 gg [Afanasii Nikitin’s Journey on Three Seas, 1466– ...

Szczésniak, Boleslaw 1947, ‘The beginnings of Chinese lexicography with particular reference to the work of Michael Boym (1612–1 ...

3 North Africa and West Asia Patrice Brodeur Geographical parameters 76 Pre-modern history of the study of religions 78 The emer ...

A NY DISCUSSION OF THE ACADEMIC STUDYof religions in North Africa and West Asia confronts two fundamental issues: the name of th ...

East’. The English language term ‘Middle East’ has its origins in the British colonial period. It emerged as a geographical cate ...

in civil society and private enterprise, both of which often meet around new initiatives for higher educational institutions, mo ...

language groups have developed etymologically over time. Their meanings have probably changed as a result of both internal and e ...

13th centuries CE), most of it written by Muslims, although examples exist of Christian, Jewish, Zoroastrian, and Manichaean wri ...

of writings whose interrelationship is significant for understanding the production of each text and the cumulative development ...

in specialized works. (.. .) [B]y this evolutionary end, the two opposing currents that we noted at the beginning of the second ...

rivalries between courts, many of which sought knowledge to gain and secure political power. Many fields benefited from this sur ...

although it contains much valuable information on biblical and many non- biblical religious others, there is no mention of pre-I ...

factor which has often been noticed but rarely understood. It may have been due to Persians often growing up bilingual, if not m ...

The influence of this ªad¥thalso appears in the famous kalÇmwork Sharª al-MawÇqif(Explanation of key points) of al-JurjÇn¥(1339– ...

shodand (Hierarchies of self-inflated people, including the first people who falsely claim to be prophets and also the messiah), ...