Gilgul : : Essays on Transformation, Revolution and Permanence in the History of Religions, Dedicated to R. J. Zwi Werblowsky / / edited by S. Shaked, D. Shulman, G.G. Stroumsa.

• Superior document: Numen Book Series ; Volume 50
• TeilnehmendeR: Shaked, Shaul,; Shulman, David Dean, 1949-; Stroumsa, Guy G.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : E. J. Brill,, [1987]; ©1987
• Year of Publication: 1987
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English; German
• Series: Studies in the history of religions ; Volume 50.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: English or German.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / S. Shaked , D. Shulman and G.G. Stroumsa -- Foreword -- Bibliography of R. J. Zwi Werblowsky -- The Structuration of Meaning in a “Primitive Religion” / Uri Almagor -- Short History, but many Changes: A New Religious Movement / Eileen Barker -- Dualism in Religious Ethnology / Ugo Bianchi -- Das Deutsche wort “Judenchristen” und IHM Entsprechende Historische Sachverhalte / Carsten Colpe -- Agnus dei / Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin -- Paul's Jewish-Christian Opponents in the Didache / David Flusser -- Self-Sacrifice in Vedic Ritual / J. C. Heesterman -- Te'ezāza Sanbat: A Beta Israel work Reconsidered / Steven Kaplan -- Religious Visions of the end of the World / Joseph M. Kitagawa -- A Social and Religious Revolution Among the Mayan Tribes as Suggested by Mythology / Nahum Megged -- The Good and Evil Shepherd / Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty -- This-Worldly Benefits in Shin Buddhism / Michael Pye -- The History of Religions (Religionswissenschaft) and the Religious Situation in Eastern Europe: Some Comments / Kurt Rudolph -- Some Remarks about Muslim Names in Indo-Pakistan / Annemarie Schimmel -- Post-Mortem Immortality or: The Taoist Resurrection of the Body / Anna Seidel -- First Man, First King / Shaul Shaked -- The Secularization of the History of Religions / Eric J. Sharpe -- The Anthropology of the Avatar in Kampan's Irāmāvatāram / David Shulman -- The Importance of Diasporas / Ninian Smart and Santa Barbara -- The Parabolic use of Natural Order in Judaism of the Second Temple Age / Michael Edward Stone -- Myth into Metaphor: The Case of Prometheus / Gedaliahu G. Stroumsa -- Der Einzelne Stern / M. Heerma van Voss.