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Merchants, Ritualists, and Bifurcated Hanumāns: A Cultural History of Miracle Deities in Rajasthan
This ethnographic-historical article analyzes urban merchant devotees and collaborating ritualists as agents of cultural change, as witnessed in the...
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History, Memory, and Forgetting: Epistemological Challenges for Latin American Biblical-Theological Studies
Starting from a critique of the epistemic racism present in university campuses, the author proposes a brief historical review of the process of...
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Disability Studies and Disability Theology Perspectives on Disability and Friendship
Recently we have evidenced an increasing interest in understanding disability and attempting the inclusion of people with disability into a wider...
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Decolonizing the Diaspora through the Center for Babaylan Studies
In this chapter, I speak about my journey toward the founding of the Babaylan Studies Center and my research and activism in the reclamation of the...
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Cultural Dimensions
This chapter focuses on the cultural dimensions of worldviews: the stories, master narratives, sacred texts, teachings, and ethical principles...
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Studies on Conflict Resolution and Peacemaking
Although conflict resolution has a long history, and a rich variety of practices in almost all cultures of the world, its historical and theoretical...
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Cultural and Social Integrations in Matrilineal, Matriarchal, Matrifocal Muslim Communities of South India
Matrilineal, matriarchal, and matrilocal practices prevalent among Muslim communities of South India contributed greatly to the integration and...
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Unveiling Hidden Narratives: Musa Dube’s Postcolonial Feminist Lens on Biblical Studies
Musa Dube’s theological endeavors contribute to and challenge how African Biblical Studies are done. This chapter gives readers a flavor of her...
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The Renewal of Festive Traditions in Mallorca: Ludic Empowerment and Cultural Transgressions
This chapter examines the rise of new festive traditions in Mallorca, a thriving and colourful scene popularly known as neofestes. The term describes...
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Matrifocal, Matrilineal, or Matriarchal? Cultural Resilience and Vulnerability Among the Matrilineal and Muslim Minangkabau in Indonesia
Minangkabau society has been variously claimed to be matrilineal, matrifocal, and matriarchal. This chapter surveys some distinctive features of...
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Conflict Transformation and Peace Initiative in a Cross-Cultural Context
Conflicts are as much a part of any society as its members themselves. Peace too is an important phenomenon in the society.
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Religious and Cultural Drivers of the Feminization of Food Insecurity in South Africa: Contextualizing Ruth
Research reveals that urban manifestations of food insecurity in South Africa are rising at a rapid rate. The locus of poverty and food insecurity is...
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Katie Geneva Cannon’s Cross-Cultural and Bridge-Building Womanist Ethics
The central focus of this chapter is on the concept of the human person as deserving dignity and respect, a theological claim upon which Katie Geneva...
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Modern Yoga and the Nordic Body: Between Authenticity and Cultural Appropriation
The chapter focuses on the development in Denmark where yoga has acquired immense popularity in religious and secular settings and has increasingly...
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Ritualized Art: Cultural Innovation and Greening at Festivals and Protestivals
Our chapter proposes ritualized art as a theoretical concept that suspends the boundary between these categories, ritual and art, bringing to the...
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Studies on Tantra in Bengal and Eastern India
This book explores the tantric concept of Shakti, or the principal female cosmic entity and her pilgrimage sites. It offers a first-hand view of the...
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Marginality, Cultural Positioning and Religion in ’Mpho ’M’atsepo Nthunya’s Singing Away the Hunger: Stories of a Life in Lesotho
This chapter explores the lived experience of the socio-cultural and economic marginalisation of ’Mpho ’M’atsepo Nthunya in her autobiography Singing...
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Beyond Black and White: The Italian Reception of the Debate on Native Indian Commentaries in Nineteenth-century Vedic Studies
This article discusses the nineteenth-century debate between German and British Indologists on ancient Indian commentators, shedding light on how...
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Cultural Creatives: Embodiment of a Transmodern Vision
This chapter aims to understand how the nonreligious spirituality of cultural creatives, who feel the urgency of creating a more sustainable and...