religious 107, 111, 143, 202, 275,
280, 286
viewpoint characterized by 194
Pocock, D. F. (David Francis) 129, 131
Poland 2, 51, 52, 53, 56, 62, 63, 64, 65,
66
government in exile 60
polemical writings (kutub al-radd) 81
political discourse 183
political instability 114, 236
political needs 195, 270
political religion 285
political science 92, 120, 127, 129, 181,
311
political theory, theorists 133, 227
politics 110, 137, 166, 219, 232
and literary production 83
and religion 36, 145, 206, 226, 227,
275, 284, 285
and the study of religion 38, 88, 305,
308
term as an import from the ‘West’ 177
Pop, Rodica 67
Popescu, Radu 53
population growth 98
Porete, Marguerite 266
Port Harcourt, Nigeria, University of
107
Portugal 15
positivism 30, 52, 76, 88–89, 99–100,
274
Possamai, Adam 232
post-colonial, post-colonialism, post-
colonial studies, post-colonial
theory 33, 36, 37, 87, 100, 114,
128
post-Independence 127
postmodern, postmodernism 33, 36, 37,
52, 89, 95, 137, 173, 183, 185,
205, 207, 246
imperialistic aspects of 199
poststructuralism 205
‘post’-theories 257
poverty 285
power 117, 211, 272
differences in 3, 79, 85, 318
relations 284
tensions of 283
pragmatism 161, 205
Prague, the Czech Republic 61, 63, 67
Pratt, Douglas 225, 228
Preinhaelterová, Hana 67
pre-modernity 185‘primitive’ 115
Princeton University, United States 256
Prochazka, Martin 67
profane, the 18, 203
professionalization 19
Propp, Vladimir 250
prototype theory 244
Prozesky, Martin 111, 117
Pryzluski, Jean 62
psychology 20, 96, 97, 111, 139,
143, 148, 168, 172, 174,
182, 198, 199, 203, 227,
265, 276, 311
of religion 205, 206, 223, 226, 275
Puhvel, Jaan 61, 260
Punjab, India 133
Punjabi University, India 312
PurÇn.as, study of 67
purity 130
Pye, Michael 27, 35, 303al-Qalqashand¥ 86
Qatar 77
Qing dynasty 160, 170
Qinghai, China 167
queer theory 36, 236
Quezada, Noemi 286
Quilmes, Argentina, University of 273
Quinet, Edgar 55
Quintana Roo, Mexico 279
Qum, Iran, University of 93
Qur’Çn 79, 93, 96, 137, 235Rabat, Morocco 93
Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli 130, 312
Radin, Paul 243
Raelian movement 280
Rahman, Fazlur 136
Ramanujan, A. K. 130
Ramaswamy, Vijaya 130
Ramat Gan, Israel 97
Rappaport, Roy 249, 251
rationality, rationalization, modern 89,
199
Raveri, Massimo 29
al-RÇz¥, Fakhr al-D¥n 85
Reader, Ian 266
rebirth 5
reductionism, reductionist 89, 148, 181,
206
rejection of 251
theological 116
Reff, Daniel 266344
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