Bøger af Department of Religious Studies

Ritual theorizing has tended to focus on perfect rituals, as prescribed in sacred texts, yet ritual mistakes occur all the time-crucial items can go missing or get broken, incorrect phrases can be said.

North Indian poetry, music, religion, and politics come to life in Bodies of Song, a textual and ethnographic work on the oral traditions of Kabir, the great fifteenth-century iconoclastic poet.

After more than a century of debate about the significance of imperial cults for the interpretation of Revelation, this study to examines both the archaeological evidence and the Biblical text in depth.

Argues that Jesus, like many of his later followers, proclaimed that God was soon to intervene in human affairs and bring all of history to a screeching halt. Through a careful evaluation of the New Testament Gospels and other sources, the author shows why Jesus should be understood as an apocalyptic prophet.

Matthew's gospel begins and ends with the Jewish-Gentile debate, and at the heart of both the issue and the gospel is the story of the Canaanite woman. This study focuses on the stereotype of the woman as a Canaanite as well as Matthew's sources and the form of the story.