cultural criticism 184
Cultural Revolution (China) 163, 305,
308
cultural studies 36, 128, 231
culture 164–67, 183
Japanese 204, 312
Cyprus 66
Czaplicka, M. A. 63
Czech Republic 51, 52, 53, 63, 65, 66
Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences 61Dacia, religion of 64
Dalits 129, 132
Damascus, Syria, University of 93
dance 256
Danfulani, Umar H. 117
Daodejing 263, 264, 265, 266
Daoism 92, 143, 145, 146, 147, 160,
161, 164, 167, 170, 173, 176,
178, 194, 263–64, 265
thought in 192
Davis, Edward 262
da’wah 93
Dawson, Christopher 168, 169
Deacon, Terrence 253
Deakin University, Australia 227
Dear, Peter 5
death, the dead 183, 273
decolonization 112, 118, 305
deconstruction 246, 318
deity, deities 175
Delacroix, Henri 255
Delhi, India 2, 131, 312
Delmas, Siméon 220
demarcation
religious studies and theology 4–7,
26, 88–89, 99, 103–4, 109, 112,
140, 181, 183, 202, 223, 233,
244–45, 276
scientific and theological 193, 320
studying and practicing religion 319
theological and non-theological 88–89
De Martino, Ernesto 30
Demarest, Arthur 267
democracy, democratic institutions,
democratic values 88, 99, 139,
202, 279, 307
demography 162
demons 285
demythologization 202
Deng Xiaoping 163, 165
Denmark 18, 28, 36, 38
Densusianu, Nicolae 64Derrida, Jacques 173, 246
Desai, A. R. (Akshayakumar Ramanlal)
128
descriptions 81
De Somogyi, Joseph 59
Despland, Michel 20, 248
Deutsche Vereinigung für
Religionsgeschichte [from 2005,
für Religionswissenschaft] 24
devil 273
Dewey, John 161
Dhaka, Bangladesh 127
University of 137, 312
Diacon, Todd 267
Diakonov, Igor Mikhailovich 67
dialogue, interreligious 6, 95, 143, 172,
208, 225, 302, 319
diaspora populations 24, 37, 138
Dimock, Edward 259
Di Nola, Alfonso 30
disciplines 88, 181
disease 183
diversification, religious 279
diversity 245, 281
regional 7, 15, 103, 118–19, 140
divination 117, 120
Divine Word Institute, Papua New
Guinea 227
Divine Word University, Papua New
Guinea 227, 232
Dobbins, James 262
Dobrovsk ̆, Josef 54
Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir 96
Dongguk University, Korea 180
Dongnip hyeophoe (Independence
association, Korea) 178
Doniger, Wendy 250, 259, 260
Donovan, Peter 224, 228, 233
Doty, William 252
Douglas, Mary 35, 249
dÿ(way), as distinct from kyÿ
(teaching) 194
drama 59
dress 134
Drori, Gili 310
Drower, Ethel 35
dualism 83
Dubrovnik, Croatia 67
Dubuisson, Daniel 18, 244
Dumézil, Georges 33–34, 61, 252, 260
Dumont, Louis 129, 131
Dunedin, New Zealand 220
Durban, South Africa 2330
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