ShintÿDirective 202
Shirres, Michael 235
Shoham, Giora 229
Shona people, Zimbabwe 104–05
shu‘b¥yah 82
Sierksma, Fokke 32
Sierra Leone 106
Sierra Norte of Puebla, Mexico 279
Siffredi, Alejandra 272
Sikhs, Sikh religion 111, 132, 133,
134, 167
Silla dynasty 176
Simon, Marcel 26
sin 30
Sinai 77
Singapore 140, 141, 144–47, 263
Sinha, Vineeta 313, 317–18
Siriraj Hospital 143
skepticism 105, 161, 192, 319
Slavic
religion 63
studies 62
Slavíãek, Carolus 54
Slavs 53
Slovakia 2, 51, 63, 65
Slovenia 51, 66
small-scale societies 252, 302
‘non-civilized peoples’ 20
Smart, Ninian 28, 30–31, 35, 168,
230–31, 302
Smith, Brian 259
Smith, Frederick 259
Smith, Jonathan Z. 16, 182, 244, 250,
251
Smith, Morton 265–66
Smith, Wilfred Cantwell 4, 168, 180,
182, 302, 312, 319
Smith, William Robertson 18
social fragmentation 285
socialism, socialist 93, 108
social organization 283
social theory, social thought 169,
170
Società Italiana di Storia delle
Religioni 24
Société Ernest-Renan: Société
Française d’Histoire des
Religions 24
Société Internationale de Sociologie des
Religions 210, 270
society
open 184
and religion 145, 227, 287Society for the Sociology of Religion,
Japan 207
Society of Biblical Literature 230, 246
sociology 20, 37, 67, 92, 96, 97, 111,
127, 129, 131, 133, 137, 139,
140, 143, 144, 146–47, 148, 162,
179, 181, 182, 198, 199, 201,
203, 211, 224, 227, 231, 232,
234, 243, 271, 275, 276, 311
of religion 30, 36, 38, 64, 116, 129,
146, 167, 168, 172, 203, 204,
206, 207, 208, 223, 224, 278,
286
religious 278
Söderblom, Nathan 18–19, 21
Sofia, Bulgaria 67
Sogang University, Seoul 180, 181,
184
Solomon, Odes of 225
Solomon Islands 219
Soloviov, Vladimir 58
Somalia 77
Soneira, Abelardo 271
Song dynasty 170
Soros, George 66
Sosis, Richard 253, 255
soteriology, soteriological religions
176–77
soul 273
South Africa 2, 103, 108, 111, 112,
113, 117, 118, 119, 303
‘Southwest Asia’ 77
Soviet Union 61, 179
domination of Eastern Europe 52
space, conceptions of 283
see alsocosmologies, cosmovision
Spain 2, 3, 15, 22, 31, 284
specialization 19
Spiritualism 274
spirituality 117
sports 183
Sri Lanka 135–36, 162, 260
Srinivas, M. N. (Mysore Narasimhachar)
128
Staal, Frits 251, 256, 258
Stalin, Joseph 57
Stark, Rodney 168, 172
Stasi (Ministerium für Staatssicherheit,
German Democratic Republic)
52
Stasiak, Stefan 60
State Bureau for Religious Affairs, China
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