Dynamics in the history of religions between Asia and Europe : encounters, notions, and comparative perspectives / edited by Volkhard Krech, Marion Steinicke.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. The formation of the major religious traditions through inter-religious contact -- pt. 2. Contacts between the major religious traditions during their expansion -- pt. 3. The notion of religion and religious semantics in a cross-cultural perspective -- pt. 4. Religion in the age of globalization.

This first volume of the series ¿́¿Dynamics in the History of Religions¿́¿ reviews the opening conference of the \'Ka¿te Hamburger Kolleg¿́¿ at the Ruhr-University Bochum. The first section concentrates on the formation of what later come to be termed \'world religions\' through inter-religious contact, the second part focuses on the significance of interreligious contacts also during their expansive phase. Methodological problems of multi-perspective research and especially the lack of a general religious terminology are discussed in the third chapter, while the final papers outline various aspects of secularization and (re-)sacralisation in the age of globalisation as an effect of multicultural contacts in a world wide web of religious interferences.

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