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• Vol. 11 No. 1 (2020)

  In this issue, you will find five articles dealing with various topics like spiritual convergence and holy places, religious policies and relations, national belonging and gender, and concepts of transcendence and enlightenment.

  More precisely, the authors let us dive deeper into subjects like the theoretical concept of "spiritual convergence" in multi-religious places of worship as in late antique Mamre; Gendered issues of national belonging for muslims in Switzerland; Swedish grassroots relations between Orthodox and Lutherans in the seventeenth century; concepts of transcendence in ancient Philippine religion; and the influence of the concept of Enlightenment of Laplandish indigenous religion.

  In the miscellaneous section, we present you two more contributions; one tells us about coping processes among migrating adolescents, and the other contains a review of the Liturgy of Beta Israel-CD-box.

  Another review can be found in this issue's review section. Claire Maes discusses The Snake and the Mongoose: The Emergence of Identity in Early Indian Religion by Nathan McGovern (2019).

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  Senses, Religion and Religious Encounter

  Vol. 10

  Guest Editors: Alexandra Cuffel, Licia Di Giacinto, Volkhard Krech

  This special issue is the outcome of the conference "Religion and the Senses", held at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg in September 2016.

  After having been disregarded in favour of doctrines and dogmas for a long time, the sensory dimension of religions has recently attracted a large scholarly attention in religious studies. In tune with the surrounding academic landscape, the Käte Hamburger Kolleg "Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe" has devoted the academic year 2015-2016 to the scrutiny of the role of the theme "senses" from the perspective of interreligious, intrareligious and intersocietal contact. The conference summarized the main results of this work. 

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  The Changing Landscapes of Cross-Faith Places and Practices

  Vol. 9 (2019)

  Guest Editor: Manfred Sing

  The present special issue of Entangled Religions has emerged from a conference about “Shared Sacred Places and Multi-Religious Space” that took place at the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) in Mainz in September 2016. As the title of the conference indicates, a main interest was to re-think the relation between place and space and between different religions. The conference took place in the framework of the IEG focus topic “Europe from the Margins,” which also included a lecture series on processes of marginalization and exclusion with regard to social and religious minorities within and beyond Europe. This background explains the range of topics in this special issue to a certain degree, because the conference had the aim to de-centre established notions of Europe and religion and understand them in their multi-dimensionality. While cross-faith practices are a worldwide phenomenon, the main geographical focus of the following articles is on southeastern Europe and the Mediterranean with their spatial extensions to Asia. Proceeding from here, the contributions in this volume understand multi-faith practices as embedded in local arrangements as well as in larger multi-religious landscapes, thus taking account of the interconnection between the local and the global and paying attention to the micro and macro levels of analysis.

• Vol. 8 (2019)

  In this volume you will find no less than 11 articles and one book review. The articles cover a wide range of topics, such as traditions, religious identities, tolerance, memory and more.

  Traditions can be dealt with in different ways, religious groups, and times: Islamic traditions can be understood as bodies of ideas or bodies of texts; the ‘Tangut ideology’ or ‘Tangut tradition’, although limited in its reconstruction, consists of multiple facets, one of which is examined here; traditions and roles of foundational religious texts change among Jews and Muslims in present-day London; how Buddhist tradition in Russian Trans-Baikal is constructed; the analysis of traditions of power and virtue and their dynamics in South Asia.

  Other contributions deal with specific events such as religious conversion during the refugee crisis in Germany or dynamics and stability in the expansion of the Vineyard movement.

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  Between the Altar and the Pulpit: The (New?) Materiality of the Spiritual

  Vol. 7 (2018)

  Guest Editors: Raingard Esser and Andrea Strübind

  The special issue is based on papers presented at the international conference “Zwischen Kanzel und Altar. Die (neue) Materialität des Spirituellen” held at the Johannes a Lasco Bibliothek, Emden in April 2016. Continuity and change in church interiors were key concepts addressed at the conference. The studies presented here analyse the impact of confessional change on church interiors and intentionally move away from the cathedrals and parish churches in the political and religious centres of early modern Europe.

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  Historical Engagements and Interreligious Encounters - Jews and Christians in Premodern and Early Modern Asia and Africa

  Vol. 6 (2018)

  Guest Editors: Alexandra Cuffel and Ophira Gamliel

  The essays in this special issue are based on the proceedings of the workshop Eastern Jews and Christians in Interaction and Exchange in the Islamic World and Beyond: A Comparative View held in Jerusalem and Raʿanana in June 2016. Accordingly, the essays address interreligious encounters in the Islamic world and beyond, examining social and religious attitudes towards religious Others in a wide range of disciplinary approaches. What binds these essays together is an attempt to shed light on a little-known history of Jewish-Christian relations in premodern Asia and Africa, a subject that stands at the heart of the research project Jews and Christians in the East: Strategies and Interactions between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean.

• Vol. 5 (2018)

  In this full packed volume, we offer you seven diverse articles. Dealing with the topic of religious encounters and exchange, Stephen Berkwitz focuses on Asian Buddhists and European Christians in Sri Lanka, Cambodia, and Japan from the sixteenth century onwards, while Faris Zwirahn examines Christian-Muslim relations and religious dialogue in the early fourteenth century.

  Thomas Jurcyk and Christoph Anderl study the use and role of images and text in an Armenian letter from the seventeenth century and through Buddhist “Auspicious Statues” during the later Tang and Five Dynasties period.

  Other contributions of this volume investigate inter-religious encounters in modern societies: Evangelical encounters with Islam in Britain (Greg Smith), Buddhism in Russia’s politics and education in Buryatia (Ivan Sablin) and Christian Churches and Chapels in Japan (Beate Löffler).

• Vol. 4 (2017)

  Along with five reviews of books on various subjects in the religious studies, this volume provides you with essays by Mattias Brand, Björn Bentlage and Gerold Necker.

  These deal with archaeological findings in the Dakhleh Oasis in the Egyptian desert and the insights into the local situation of Egyptian religion, Christianity, and Manichaeism in late antiquity, as well as the development of an entanglement perspective on piety in the Ayyubid age.

• Vol. 3 (2016)

  The articles in this issue deal with various subjects such as pluralistic societies and intercultural translation as well as religious life-writing and autobiographies.

  Furthermore the four contributions to our miscellaneous section include essays on the concept of religious competition, Vedic religion, the religious practice of Bede Griffith in California and more.

  Our book review section contains no less than 26 reviews of the newest publications by established scholars.

• Vol. 2 (2015)

  In our second volume, we introduce new sections for our readers: a new book review section as well as a new miscellaneous section.

  We offer you multiple book reviews with educated opinions on cutting-edge publications, not older than two years. Other publications include articles and miscellaneous on topics such as biblical metaschematism and religious transfer (Knut Martin Stünkel) and the history of religion with a triple analysis of Mircea Eliade and Moshe Idel’s work (Eduard Iricinschi). 

• Vol. 1 (2014)

  After months of planning and working on the project of Entangled Religions, our journal launched in November 2014.

  This first volume includes two editorials and three thematically diverse articles by contributors established in the field. The subjects treated in these articles include Buddhist iconography of the Kushan era (Jessie Pons), postural yoga and haṭhayoga (Stuart Ray Sarbacker) as well as Muslim mainstream missions, the Ahmadiyya mission, to inter-war continental Europe (Gerdien Jonker).