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Numen Volume 63, 2016 Issue 1 – Religious Studies Approaches to Scientology 1)Other Guy G. Stroumsa , R. J. Zwi Werblowsky: The Spark of Comparative Religion (1924–2015) 2)Research Article James R. Lewis , Scientology: Religious Studies Approaches Henrik Bogdan , The Babalon Working 1946: L. Ron Hubbard, John Whiteside Parsons, and the Practice of Enochian Magic Mikael Rothstein , The Significance of Rituals in Scientology: A Brief Overview and a Few Examples Donald A. Westbrook , Walking in Ron’s Footsteps: “Pilgrimage” Sites of the Church of Scientology Eugene V. Gallagher , Scientology’s Sunday Service: Scripture in Action 3)Book Review Christian H. Bull , The Theology of Arithmetic: Number Symbolism in Platonism and Early Christianity , written by Joel Kalvesmaki Olav Hammer , Between Occultism and Nazism: Anthroposophy and the Politics of Race in the Fascist Era , written by Peter Staudenmaier Christine M. Jacobsen , The Republic Unsettled: Muslim French and the Contradictions of Secularism , written by Mayanthi L. Fernando Jens Kreinath , Ethnographies of Islam: Ritual Performances and Everyday Practices , written by Baudouin Dupret, Thomas Pierret, Paulo G. Pinto, and Kathryn Spellman-Poots Gabriel Levy , The “Grammar” of Sacrifice: A Generativist Study of the Israelite Sacrificial System in the Priestly Writings with a “Grammar” of ! , written by Naphtali S. Meshel Margrethe Løøv , Media and Religion: Foundations of an Emerging Field , written by Daniel A. Stout Issue 2-3 - Divine Word and Divine Work: Late Platonism and Religion 1)Other Taneli Kukkonen and Pauliina Remes , Divine Word and Divine Work: Late Platonism and Religion 2)Research Article Tuomo Lankila , Post-Hellenistic Philosophy, Neoplatonism, and the Doxastic Turn in Religion: Continuities and Ruptures in Ancient Reflections on Religion Svetla Slaveva-Griffin , Socrates’ Debt to Asclepius: Physicians and Philosophers with Asclepian Souls in Late Antiquity Arja Karivieri , Divine or Human Images? Neoplatonic and Christian Views on Works of Art and Aesthetics Anne Karahan , Byzantine Visual Culture: Conditions of “Right” Belief and Some Platonic Outlooks Willemien Otten , Christianity’s Content: (Neo)Platonism in the Middle Ages, Its Theoretical and Theological Appeal Taneli Kukkonen , Al-Ghaz ! l on the Origins of Ethics Jay Bregman , Synesius of Cyrene and the American “Synesii” 3)Book Review Timothy Lubin , Rites et pratiques de l’hospitalité: Mondes juifs et indiens anciens , written by Philippe Bornet Olof Sundqvist , Magic and Kingship in Medieval Iceland: The Construction of a Discourse of Political Resistance , written by Nicolas Meylan Zsuzsanna Várhelyi , Pollution and Religion in Ancient Rome , written by Jack J. Lennon Stian Sundell Torjussen , Poetry as Initiation: The Center for Hellenic Studies Symposium on the Derveni Papyrus , written by Ioanna Papadopoulou and Leonard Muellner Issue 4 1)Research Article Laura Feldt , Religion, Nature, and Ambiguous Space in Ancient Mesopotamia: The Mountain Wilderness in Old Babylonian Religious Narratives Matthias egeler , The Hunt and the Otherworld: A Breton Reading of the Massleberg Stora Skee Rock Art Panel (Bohuslän, Southern Sweden) Niklas Foxeus , “I am the Buddha, the Buddha is Me”: Concentration Meditation and Esoteric Modern Buddhism in Burma/Myanmar 2)Book Review Christian H. Bull , The Individual in the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean , written by Jörg Rüpke Dag Øistein Endsjø , Sex, Gender and the Sacred: Reconfiguring Religion in Gender History , written by Joanna de Groot and Sue Morgan Peter Lüchau , Sects and Stats: Overturning the Conventional Wisdom about Cult Members , written by James R. Lewis Volume 62, 2015 Issue 1 - De-Orienting Religious Studies: Four Genealogies of the Study of Religions in Modern Asia 1)Other Andrea Marion Pinkney ; John Whalen-Bridge and Robbie B.H. Goh , De-Orienting Religious Studies: Four Genealogies of the Study of Religions in Modern Asia Russell T. McCutcheon , The Category “Religion” in Recent Publications: Twenty Years Later 2)Research Article Vasudha Narayanan , The History of the Academic Study of Religion in Universities, Centers, and Institutes in India Christian Meyer , The Emergence of “Religious Studies” (zongjiaoxue) in Late Imperial and Republican China, 1890–1949 Thongchai Winichakul , Buddhist Apologetics and a Genealogy of Comparative Religion in Siam Lily Kong , Disrupting “Asian Religious Studies”: Knowledge (Re)production and the Co-construction of Religion in Singapore 3)Book Review Knut A. Jacobsen , Modern Hindu Personalism: The History, Life, and Thought of Bhaktisiddh nta Sarasvat # , written by Ferdinando Sardella Britt-Mari Näsström , Religiöse Rollen römischer Frauen in “griechischen” Ritualen , written by Darja # terbenc Erker Issue 2-3 - Religion and Identity Politics: Defining ‘Acceptable’ and ‘Unacceptable’ Religion 1)Other 2)Research Article Ingvild Sælid Gilhus , The Construction of Heresy and the Creation of Identity: Epiphanius of Salamis and His Medicine-Chest against Heretics Mar Marcos , Religious Violence and Hagiography in Late Antiquity Boaz Huss , Kabbalah and the Politics of Inauthenticity: The Controversies over the Kabbalah Center James R. Lewis , Scientology: Sect, Science, or Scam? Jonas Otterbeck , “I wouldn’t call them Muslims!”: Constructing a Respectable Islam Mikael Aktor , Asymmetrical Religious Commitments? Religious Practice, Identity, and Self-Presentation among Western Scholars of Hinduism and Buddhism Jan Hjärpe , Essentialism or an Anthropological Approach: The Role and Function of the Scientific Study of Religion in a Historical Perspective Winnifred Fallers Sullivan , Religion Under Bureaucracy: The u.s. Case Armin W. Geertz , Recognition of Minority Denominations in Denmark: Negotiations in Religion, Identity and Judicial Process 3)Book Review Gregory D. Alles , Dancing Culture Religion , written by Sam Gill Egil Asprem , Occultism in a Global Perspective , written by Henrik Bogdan and Gordan Djurdjevic Mathieu Boisvert , Pilgrimage in the Hindu Tradition: Salvific Space , written by Knut A. Jacobsen Gina Dahl , Iconic Books and Texts , written by James W. Watts Muhammad Aurang Zeb Mughal , Islamic Civilization in South Asia: A History of Muslim Power and Presence in the Indian Subcontinent , written by Burjor Avari Issue 4 1)Other Satoko Fujiwara , Noriyoshi Tamaru(1931–2014) 2)Research Article Thomas Gaston , The Egyptian Background of Gnostic Mythology Kieko Obuse , Finding God in Buddhism: A New Trend in Contemporary Buddhist Approaches to Islam Anne Koch , Alternative Healing as Magical Self-Care in Alternative Modernity 3)Book Review Torkel Brekke , Taiwan’s Tzu Chi as Engaged Buddhism: Origins, Organization, Appeal and Social Impact , written by Yu-Shuang Yao Christian H. Bull , The Importance of Religion: Meaning and Action in our Strange World , written by Gavin Flood Mark W. MacWilliams , The Invention of Religion in Japan , written byJason $ nanda Josephson Ann Taves and Michael Barlev , Past Minds: Studies in Cognitive Historiography , written by Luther H. Martin and Jesper Sørensen Sissel Undheim , Religion in Republican Rome: Rationalization and Ritual Change , written by Jörg Rüpke Chaminda Weerawardhana , Religion in Times of Crisis , written by Gladys Ganiel, Heidemarie Winkel, and Christophe Monnot Franz Winter , Establishing the Revolutionary: An Introduction to New Religions in Japan , written byBirgit Staemmler and Ulrich Dehn Issue 5-6 1)Other Jane Skjoldli , The Backwash of Norenzayan’s Big Gods: A Post-Review Essay 2)Research Article Matthias Egeler , The Plane Trees of Diomedes: Staging the Islands of the Blessed in the Adriatic Sea McComas Taylor , How to Do Things with Sanskrit: Speech Act Theory and the Oral Performance of Sacred Texts Egil Asprem , Dis/unity of Knowledge: Models for the Study of Modern Esotericism and Science Berit Thorbjørnsrud , “The Problem of the Orthodox Diaspora”: The Orthodox Church between Nationalism, Transnationalism, and Universality Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui , The Construction of Inner Religious Space in Wandering Religion of Classical Greece
