Religious Studies: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides)

index

material dimension 30, 135–136
Matthew, Gospel of 124, 143
Mau Mau Uprising 140
Mauss, Marcel 95–96, 207
Mayāyāna Buddhism 95
Mead, Margaret 62
Mecca 173–174
Medici, Giovanni di Bicci de’ 78
medicine man 234
meditation 73, 136–137
Melpa 65
memory 137–138, 164–165
Mende 25
mendicancy 143
Mennonites 169
menstruation 181, 231
mercantilism 78
merkabah 136
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice 41
Meru, Mt. 57
Mesopotamian religion 117
Messiah 123–124; false 124
messianic movements 140–141
metanoia 55
metaphors 138–139
Meter: cult of 61
Metternich Stele 134
Michaels, Alex 109, 148–149
mihrāb 29
Milindapañha 228
millenarianism 129, 139–141
millennium 28
Milne Bay Prophet Cult 141
Minā 174
minbar 29
Minos 118
Mīrābāī 131
miracles 218
Mitassini Cree 77
Mithen, Steven 11
Mithra 244
Mithras: cult of 60, 235–236
modernism 249
modernity 62–63, 142
monastic orders 53
monasticism 112, 142–146

monism 146–148

Monkey-hold School 102

monolatrism 109

monotheism 99, 148–149, 182–183

monothetical definition of

religion 12

moon 245

Mormons 48

Morocco 64

mortuary rites 23

Mosaic covenant 59

Moses 204–205, 221

mosques 29

mourning 67

Mozart, Wolfgang 150

muein 152

Muhammad 113; messages from

God 222; power 186; as prophet

192–193, 204–205; tomb 174;

and women 259

Muir, John 15

Muir, William 15

Mukanda rite 206

Müller, Friedrich Max 3, 54, 76,

108–109, 148–149, 158–159

Murji’ites 251

Murring 205

music 149–151; and ritual 150–151

Mu’tazilites 251

mutuality 129

mystery cults 60, 75, 236–237

mysticism 54, 80–81, 136, 138,

151–155; extroverted 153;

introverted 153; monistic 153;

panenhenic 153; theistic 153

myth 56, 155–161

Myth and Ritual School

158, 207

mythemes 161

nāgārjuna 90, 201

nāgasena 228

nagi 237–238

nakedness 48

nānak, Guru 113

nanshoku 231