Studies in Religion

What are the global and cross-cultural phenomena of religion anyway? They are not things-in-the-world, not things "in themselves," and yet we know they are very real because they constitute the means by which we make up our lives. As thought, …

The author asks, tantalizingly, what happens when we die? If we are looking for answers in the field of religion, he says, we may find that death is rarely, if ever, represented as a complete end of individual existence. But, …

This book explores how identities emerge, persist and change and which power resources are tapped in the course of this process - topics that are of great importance in academic and popular debates today. The thrust of this collection of …