Alatas, Syed Hussein 145
al-‘Alav¥, Abal-Ma‘Çl¥ 84
Al-Azhar University, Cairo 90–91
Albania 51
Albert, Hans 245
Albright, William F. 243
alchemy 258
Alcorta, Candace 253, 255
Alep (Aleppo), Syria 54
Algranti, Joaquín 271
Alles, Gregory D. 51, 255
All-Father, aboriginal Australia 220
Alliance israélite 59
Almond, Philip 224, 225, 230
Al-Mawrid, Lahore 136
Al-Quds University, Jerusalem 93
Alter, Joseph 258
Amanze, James 112
Amaya, Luis 273
Amazon, the 267
Ambedkar, Bhimrao Ramji 134
Ameigeiras, Aldo 271
America
scholars of religion 15
indigenous people, religions and
cultures of 30, 34
Central 270
Latin 266–68, 304, 307, 308, 317
North 2, 61, 88, 99, 119, 270, 276,
303–04, 312, 315, 316–18, 319
South 5
indigenous people, religions and
cultures of 34
religion in 267
American Academy of Religion 4, 15,
230, 244, 246, 254, 256, 260,
270
Americanization 2
American University in Cairo 92
American University of Beirut 91–92
Amman, Jordan 77, 94
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 20, 37
Amsturz, Galen 262
Anáhuac 281
Anatolia 77
ancestors, veneration of 160, 204
Andersen, Francis 222, 225
Andes 267, 281–85
Andrew Mellon Foundation 67
androcentrism 317
Anesaki, Masaharu 196, 198, 199, 200,
201, 205
Ankara, Turkey, University of 96Anlo people, Ghana 256
Antarctica 303
Antes, Peter 27
anthropology 33–34, 37, 67, 92, 97,
116, 119, 127–28, 129, 131,
135, 138, 139, 140, 143,
146–47, 148, 167, 168, 172,
179, 181, 182, 201, 211, 221,
231, 232, 234, 235, 243, 249,
250, 252, 260, 271, 272,
276, 279, 282, 286, 310–11,
316
academic 105
amateur 105
British 127
Islamic 137
North American 32, 127
of religion 203, 207, 223
social 127
anti-dogmatism 181
antiquity 174
Greco-Roman 16
anti-Semitism 22, 308
apartheid 108, 119
apocalypticism 68, 254
apocrypha, biblical 58, 59, 64, 68
apologetics 4, 28, 100, 137, 160–61,
180, 192, 194, 199, 204
Appadurai, Arjun 130, 315
Appleby, R. Scott 254
appropriation, cultural 279
Aprista Party, Peru 284
Aquinas, Thomas 6
Arabian Peninsula 77
Arabic
culture 79, 82
pre-Islamic 84
literature 99, 318
studies 92, 98, 108
Arabization 78
Araki, Michio 206, 210
archaeology 17, 97, 161, 260, 261,
264, 282, 310, 313
archaeomythology 61
architecture 282, 283
area studies 148
Arenal, Jaime del 277
Areopagus 171
Argentina 270–73, 285, 311
Armas Asin, Fernando 284
Armenian
religions 97–98
studies 97324
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