Nanjÿ, Buny 200
Nanzan University, Japan 208
Napoleon Bonaparte 78
NashwÇn al-HimyÇr¥ 85
Nasr, Seyyed Vali Reza 137
National Academy of Science, Ukraine
65
National Council for Education
Research and Training, India 131
nationalism 22, 277
Islamic 138
Mexican 280
National Socialism 22–23, 32, 307–8,
309
National University of Singapore 141,
142, 144–47
‘native’ 115
Nattier, Jan 261
natural kind 11
naturism 114
al-Nawbakht¥ 83
Ndembu people, Zambia 250
‘Near East’ 77
Nederlands genootschap voor
godsdienstwetenschap (Dutch
Association for the Study of
Religion) 23
Neo-Confucianism 170
neoliberalism 76, 79, 307, 319
Neolithic religions 61
Neopaganism 61
Nepal 136, 138–39
Netherlands, The 18, 21, 25, 29, 32, 33
networks 304
New Age movement, spiritualities 36,
207, 232, 272, 275, 280
New Europe College, Romania 67
New Europe Foundation 66
New Guinea 219, 249, 251
New Religious Movements 36, 109,
114, 129, 146, 167, 183, 193,
203, 205, 206, 207, 223, 226,
235, 271, 275, 280
New South Wales, Australia 222, 234
Newton, Isaac 6
New York, United States 230
New Zealand 2, 88, 234, 304, 311, 316,
317, 319
indigenous religions of 224
religion in 226
New Zealand Association for the Study
of Religions 228–29, 230,
231–32, 233
Nichol, Christopher 224Nicodemism 247–48
Nigeria 107–08, 115, 116, 117, 118,
120, 121, 304
Nikitin, Afanasii 53–54
Ningxia, China 167
Nishida, Kitarÿ199–200
Nishitani, Keiji 200
Niue 219
Nkrumah, Kwame 107
nomenclature, in the study of religions
115
North American Association for the
Study of Religion 255, 319
Norway 2, 25
Novikov, Nikolai I. 54
Nsukka, Nigeria, university at 107
numinous, the 19Oaxaca, Mexico 279
Obermiller, Evgheni 60
Obeyesekere, Gananath 135
‘objective’ 89
Obolensky, Dimitri 67
Ochs, Peter 5
O’Connell, Joseph 259
Odobescu, Alexandru 56, 64
Oguchi, Iichi 207
Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko 258
Ois ̧teanu, Andrei 66
œkawa, Shmei 201
Oldenburg, Sergei F. 58
Old Testament 35, 56, 200, 225,
228
Olivelle, Patrick 259
Olupona, Jacob 111, 116–17
Oman 77
Open Society Foundation 66
Open University, United Kingdom 25
Open University of Israel 98
Opium War (1839–1842) 165
‘Opium War’, among Chinese scholars
of religion 165, 308
oracles 105
oral culture, texts, tradition 79, 104,
109, 120
Orientalism 10, 193, 205, 261
Oriental Studies 20, 34
Origuchi, Shinobu 202
Ortiz, Alejandro 283
Ortner, Sherry 252
Osborn, Eric 223
Otago, New Zealand 221
University of 221, 223, 225, 226,
227–28, 230–31, 232342
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