Baetke, Walter 22
Baghdad, Iraq 81
al-Baghdad¥ 84
Baha’is, Baha’i religion 111, 233
Bahrain 77
Bali 250
Balkans, the 52, 66, 77
Baltic region 61, 63
Bangalore, India 312
Bangkok, Thailand 146
Bangladesh 130, 136–38
Bang Na, Thailand 143
Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
97, 230
Barrera Rivera, Paulo 285
Barrett, Justin 253
Barth, Auguste 58
Base Communities 278, 285, 286
Bastide, Roger 255, 273
Baubérot, Jean 23
Bayer, Theophilus Siegfried 54
Bayreuth, Germany 3
Ba-Yunus, Ilyas 137
Beckford, James 243
BeDuhn, Jason 258
Beijing, China 55
Beirut, Lebanon 91–92, 95
Belarus 51
Belgium 15, 220
belief systems 89
Bell, Catherine 250, 251
Bellah, Robert 204
Benavides, Gustavo 304, 313
Benedict, Ruth 243
Ben Gurion University of the Negev,
Be’er Sheva, Israel 97
Ben Hur(film) 173
Bentham. Jeremy 53
Benveniste, Émile 250
Bergen, Norway 2, 25, 35
Berger, Peter 168, 172, 253
Bering, Jesse 253
Berlin Conference, 1884–1885 106
Berlin, Germany 54
Free University of 23
University of 201
Bethlehem, Palestinian territories
University of 94
Bhagavad-G¥tÇ54, 260
Bharatiya Janata Party 131
Bhargava, Rajeev 133
Bharucha, Rustom 133
Bianchetti, Cristina 273Bianchi, Ugo 26, 27, 30, 62
Bible, biblical studies 17, 27, 108, 118,
173, 194, 223, 226, 235, 236,
285
Bi≤urin, Iakinf 55
Biersack, Aletta 249
Biezais, Haralds 21
bin Laden, Osama 254
biology 34, 307, 313
biotechnology 184, 275
Birch, Charles 230
al-B¥rn¥82, 84
Bjorklund, David 253
Blancarte, Roberto 278
Bleeker, Claas Jouco 26, 28, 29, 33
Bloch, Maurice 252
Bloom, Alfred 262
Boas, Franz 243
Bochart, Samuel 16
Bodiford, William 261
body, the 183, 203, 257–58
Boer, Roland 236
Bogazici University, Istanbul 91–92
Böhme, Jakob 199
Bokenkamp, Stephen 264
Bolle, Kees 252
Bonn, Germany 22, 23
Borgeaud, Philippe 16, 20
Bórmida, Marcelo 272
Bosnia-Hercegovina 51
botany 313
Botswana 109, 112, 113, 119
Bourdieu, Pierre 173
Boyce, Mary 35
Boyer, Pascal 252, 253
Boym, Michael 54
‘brain drain’ seeemigration, of scholars
Brandon, S. G. F. 26
Bratislava, Slovakia 65
Braudel, Fernand 273
Braunstein, José 272
Brazil 2, 3, 267, 270, 273–77, 304
military dictatorship in 274
religions of 273–74
Brelich, Angelo 26, 30, 62
Breslau (Wroslaw, Poland), Rabbinic
Seminary of 59
Bressler, Eric 255
Brisbane, Australia 221, 222, 225, 233
Britain, seeUnited Kingdom
British Association for the History of
Religions [since 1989, for the
Study of Religions] 24326
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