Religion and Its Other. - Secular and Sacral Concepts and Practices in Interaction (Eigene und fremde Welten, Band 8)

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Reconfiguring Religion and Its Other

Rethinking Religious Reform

Law, Ethics and Religion in the Story of Egyptian Modernization

Muhammad Rashîd Ridâ (1865–1935) or: The Importance of Being ( a) Journalist

Islamic Reformism and the Secular: Rashîd Ridâ’s Theory on Miracles

Early Modern Probabilism as a Secularizing Doctrine: Including a Preliminary Comparison with Some Interpretative Instruments of » Liberal Islam «

Rewriting Genealogies

Beyond Religion: On the Lack of Belief During the Central and Late Middle Ages

The Islamic Ribat: A Model for the Christian Military Orders? Sacred Violence, Secularized Concepts of Religion and the Invention of a Cultural Transfer

The Formation of Jewish Mysticism and Its Impact on the Reception of Rabbi Abraham Abulafia in Contemporary Kabbalah

Transcending Borders and Boundaries

The Devil in Spandau: Demonology between Religion and Magic at the End of the Sixteenth Century

Science Treats, but only God Can Heal: Medical Pluralism between Religion and the Secular in Ghana

Formations of the Religious Self: Becoming »Women in Christ « in a Globalizing World

Image, Trance, and the Other in Mediterranean Folk Religion

Notes on Contributors

Index of Names and Places