Dynamics of Religion: Past and Present. Proceedings of the XXI World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions

Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
The Dynamics of Religions and Cultural Evolution: Worshipping Fuxi in Contemporary China
Religion and Public Space in Contemporary Japan: Re-activation of the Civilization of the Axial Age and the Manifestation of State Shinto and Buddhism
The Tactics of (In)Visibility among Religious Communities in Contemporary Europe
Religion Intersecting De-nationalization and Re-nationalization in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Forms of Religious Communities in Global Society: Tradition, Invention, and Transformation
Subversive Spirituality: Political Contributions of Ancestral Cosmologies Decolonizing Religious Beliefs
Religion and the Historical Imagination: Esoteric Tradition as Poetic Invention
Religion and Life Trajectories: Islamists Against Self and Other
Angels, Animals and Religious Change in Antiquity and Today
Gaining Access to the Radically Unfamiliar: Religion in Modern Times
‘Cloning Minds’: Religion between Individuals and Collectives
Of Yellow Teaching and Black Faith: Entangled Knowledge Cultures and the Creation of Religious Traditions
Global Intellectual History and the Dynamics of Religion
Narrating, Performing and Feeling a ‘Religion’: On Representations of Judaism
The President’s Welcome Note to the 2015 Erfurt IAHR World Congress
The General Secretary’s Welcome Note to the 2015 Erfurt IAHR World Congress
The Academic Program
Abstracts
	A Balancing Act: Minority Religious Communities and Processes of Transformation–Exploring Aniconism
	Exploring the Post-Secular–Pentecostalism and the Practice of Religions in Nigeria: Adaptation and Transformation
	Performance of Language: Space and Time in Meister Eckhart and Modism–The Work of Data: Methods in the Study of Religions
Congress Committees
Minutes of the International Committee Meeting
Minutes of the General Assembly
Minutes of the Women Scholars Network Meeting
The Congress Directors’ General Report on the XXI IAHR World Congress
The Congress Administrator’s Statistical Report