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| 31. The Religions of Ancient Eurasia: Turko-Mongols, Finno-Ugrians, Balta-Slavs
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| 241. Hunters, nomads, warriors
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| 242. Tangri, the "Celestial God"
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| 243. The structure of the world
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| 244. The vicissitudes of creation
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| 245. The shaman and shamanic initiation
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| 246. Shamanic myths and rituals
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| 247. The meaning and importance of shamanism
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| 248. The religions of the northern Asians and the Finno-Ugrians
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| 249. The religion of the Baits
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| 250. Slavic paganism
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| 251. Rites, myths, and beliefs of the Old Slavs
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| 32. The Christian Churches up to the Iconoclastic Crisis
(Eighth to Ninth Centuries)
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| 252. Roma non pereat . . .
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| 253. Augustine: From Tagaste to Hippo
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| 254. The great predecessor of Augustine: Origen
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| 255. The polemical positions of Augustine: His doctrine of Grace and Predestination
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| 256. The cult of the saints: Martyria, relics, and pilgrimages
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| 257. The Eastern Church and the flowering of Byzantine theology
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| 258. The veneration of icons and iconoclasm
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| 33. Muhammad and the Unfolding of Islam
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| 259. Allah, deus otiosus of the Arabs
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| 260. Muhammad, the Apostle of God
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| 261. The ecstatic voyage to Heaven and the Holy Book
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| 262. The Emigration to Medina
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| 263. From exile to triumph
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| 264. The message of the Quran
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| 265. The irruption of Islam into the Mediterranean and the Near East
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| 34. Western Catholicism from Charlemagne to Joachim of Floris
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| 266. Christianity during the High Middle Ages
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| 267. The assimilation and reinterpretation of pre-Christian traditions: Sacred kingship and chivalry
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| 268. The Crusades: Eschatology and politics
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| 269. The religious significance of Romanesque art and courtly romance
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| 270. Esotericism and literary creations: Troubadours, Fedeli d'Amore, and the Grail cycle of history
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| 271. Joachim of Floris: A new theology
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| 35. Muslim Theologies and Mystical Traditions 113
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| 272. The fundamentals of the mainstream theology
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| 273. Shi'ism and the esoteric hermeneutic
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| 274. Ismailism and the exaltation of the Imam; the Great Resurrection; the Mahdi
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| 275. Sufism, esoterism, and mystical experiences
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| 276. Several Sufi masters, from Dhu 'l-Nun to Tirmidhi
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| 277. Al-Hallaj, mystic and martyr
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| 278. Al-Ghazzali and the reconciliation between Kalam and Sufism
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| 279. The first metaphysicians. Avicenna. Philosophy in Muslim Spain
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| 280. The last and greatest thinkers of Andalusia: Averroes and Ibn Arabi
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| 281. Sohrawardi and the mysticism of Light
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| 282. Jalal al-Din Rumi: Sacred music, poetry, and dance
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| 283. The triumph of Sufism and the reaction of the theologians. Alchemy
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| 36. Judaism from the Bar Kokhba Revolt to Hasidism
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| 284. The compilation of the Mishnah
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| 285. The Talmud. The anti-Rabbinic reaction: The Karaites
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| 286. Jewish theologians and philosophers of the Middle Ages
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| 287. Maimonides between Aristotle and the Torah
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| 288. The first expressions of Jewish mysticism
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| 289. The medieval Kabbalah
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| 290. Isaac Luria and the new Kabbalah
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| 291. The Apostate Redeemer
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| 292. Hasidism
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| 37. Religious Movements in Europe: From the Late Middle Ages to the Eve of the Reformation I
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| 293. The dualistic heresy in the Byzantine Empire: The Bogomils
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| 294. The Bogomils in the West: The Cathars
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| 295. Saint Francis of Assisi
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| 296. Saint Bonaventure and mystical theology
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| 297. Saint Thomas Aquinas and scholasticism
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| 298. Meister Eckhart: From God to the Deity
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| 299. Popular piety and the risks of devotion
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| 300. Disasters and hopes: From the flagellants to the devotio moderna
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| 301. Nicholas of Cusa and the twilight of the Middle Ages
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| 302. Byzantium and Rome. The filioque problem
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| 303. The Hesychast Monks. Saint Gregory Palamas
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| 38. Religion, Magic, and Hermetic Traditions before and after the Reformation
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| 304. The survival of pre-Christian religious traditions
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| 305. Symbols and rituals of a cathartic dance
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| 306. "Witch hunts" and the vicissitudes of popular religion
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| 307. Martin Luther and the Reformation in Germany
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| 308. Luther's theology. The polemic with Erasmus
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| 309. Zwingli, Calvin,_and the Catholic Reformation
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| 310. Humanism, Neoplatonism, and Hermeticism during the Renaissance
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| 311. New valorizations of alchemy: From Paracelsus to Newton
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| 39. Tibetan Religions
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| 312. The "religion of men"
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| 313. Traditional conceptions: Cosmos, men, gods
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| 314. The Bon: Confrontations and syncretism
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| 315. Formation and development of Lamaism
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| 316. Lamaist doctrines and practices
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| 317. The ontology and mystical physiology of Light
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| 318. Current interest in Tibetan religious creations
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