Religious Studies: A Global View

Abbasid caliphate 81

‘Abd al-JabbÇr 83

Abe, Masao 303

Aboriginal people, Australia 219, 220,

302

Aboriginal studies 231

Abrahamic religions 91

absolute nothinginess 199

Abal-FarÇj al-IsfahÇn¥ 83

academia, academic 88, 162, 172

academies, national 65

Academies of Social Sciences (provincial,

in China) 167

Academy of Korean Studies 181

Achebe, Chinua 120

adab(manners, customs) 82, 83, 86

Adelaide, Australia 233

University of 222, 228

Adelaide College of Advanced

Education, Australia 222, 225,

228

administrators, colonial 105

Adogame, Afe 117

Adrianople (Edire), Turkey 56

aesthetics of religion 36, 249, 256

Afghanistan 59, 77

Africa 2, 26, 98, 127–28, 302, 304, 317

East 2, 118–19

North 304–05, 307, 318

relations with North America and

Western Europe 76

Southern 108–09, 117, 118–19, 121

Sub-Saharan 305, 308, 313, 319

often marginalized in the study of

religion 103

pre-colonial education in 105

religions of 103, 224, 225

West 107–08, 118–19, 120, 318

African American religions, in Africa

111

African Association for the Study of

Religions 116, 119

African studies 97

African traditional religion(s) 103, 104,

105, 107, 109–10, 111, 114–17,

119, 120

and Christianity 120

and Islam 120

Afro-Argentinian religions 271

Afro-Brazilian

cultures 273–74

religions 275, 286

Afro-Christian traditions 274

agnosticism

in pre-colonial Africa 105

methodological 31, 33

Ahmed, Akbar 130, 132, 137

AIDS 121

air travel 3, 308

Ajo, Clara Luz 286

Akamatsu Chijÿ178, 200

Akbar (Mughal emperor) 86

Akhila Bharatiya Sanskrit Parishad 62

Akiba Takashi 178

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