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Michael Stausberg

Professor, Study of Religion
Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion
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  • E-mailmichael.stausberg@uib.no
  • Phone+47 55 58 23 29
  • Visitor Address
    Øysteins gate 3
    5007 Bergen
  • Postal Address
    Postboks 7805
    5020 Bergen

I have published books on research methods in the study of religions (2011, 2021), the demise of religions (2021), global religious history in the 20th century (2020), Zoroastrianism (2002, 2004, 2005, 2015), magic (2012), religion and tourism (2011), theories of religion (2009), ritual theory (2005, 2006), and the figure of Zoroaster in early modern Europe (1998). 

Ongoing publication: Religious Minorities Online (degruyter.com) 

Academic article
  • Show author(s) (2022). Taking Stock of the Academic Work of Geo Widengren: Some Observations on a Forgotten Classic and an "all-Round Historian of Religion". Method & Theory in the Study of Religion.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Auschwitz and the Meta-Topography of the Sacred. Saeculum. 319-339.
  • Show author(s) (2021). The Demise, Dissolution and Elimination of Religions. Numen. 103-131.
  • Show author(s) (2021). The Abyss of Intransitivity: On Critical Realism and Theories of Religion. Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft.
  • Show author(s) (2017). The sacred, the holy, the numinous – and religion: on the emergence and early history of a terminological constellation. Religion. 557-590.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Religious Studies in Germany: Institutional Frameworks and Constraints. NTT Journal for Theology and The Study of Religion. 58-73.
  • Show author(s) (2015). The psychology of religion/spirituality and the study of religion. Religion, Brain and Behavior. 147-157.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Bidrar religion til lykke - eller: Hvordan ble religionene lykkelige? En gjennomgang av empirisk forskning og en historisk kontekstualisering av hvordan lykke ble til et ledemotiv i nyere tids religionshistorie. DIN - Tidsskrift for religion og kultur. 117-134.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Advocacy in the study of religion\s. Religion. 220-232.
  • Show author(s) (2013). What is it all about? Some reflections on Wouter Hanegraaff's Esotericism and the Academy. Religion. 219-230.
  • Show author(s) (2013). The appropriation of a religion: The case of Zoroastrianism in contemporary Russia. Culture and Religion. 445-462.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Textbooks in review: Introductions to the psychology of religion. Religion. 135-150.
  • Show author(s) (2012). A new theory of religion? Introducing the review symposium on Manuel A. Vasquez: More Than Belief (2011). Religion. 597-608.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Vor und nach der middle passage: Varianten des Ritualtransfers in der afroamerikanischen Geschichte. Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft. 39-69.
  • Show author(s) (2011). The Bologna process and the study of religion\s in (Western) Europe. Religion. 187-207.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Introductory essay. Crisis and creativity: opportunities and threats in the global study of religion\s. Religion. 127-143.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Der Zoroastrismus als iranische Religion und die Semantik von ‚Iran’ in der zoroastrischen Religionsgeschichte. Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte. 313-331.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Prospects in theories of religion. Method & Theory in the Study of Religion. 223-238.
  • Show author(s) (2010). From 1799 to 2009: Religious Experience Reconsidered-background, argument, responses. Religion. 279-285.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Filmreife Epiphanien im dritten Raum: ein transreligiöser Kult in Mumbai. Numen. 30-77.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Distinctions, differentiations, ontology, and non-humans in theories of religion. Method & Theory in the Study of Religion. 354-374.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Hell in Zoroastrian history. Numen. 217-252.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Exploring the Meso-levels of Religious Mappings: European religion in regional, urban, and local contexts. Religion. 103-108.
  • Show author(s) (2008). On the State and Prospects of the Study of Zoroastrianism. Numen. 561-600.
  • Show author(s) (2007). The study of religion(s) in Western Europe (I): Prehistory and history until World War II. Religion. 294-318.
  • Show author(s) (2004). The Significance of the Kusti. A History of its Zoroastrian Interpretations. East and West. 9-29.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Reflexive Ritualisationen. Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte. 54-61.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Approaches to the Study of 'Time' in the History of Religions. Temenos. 247-268.
Academic lecture
  • Show author(s) (2022). Das Ende von Religionen.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Von der Globalisierung zur Kosmisierung von Religion.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Lebens-Wandel: zwischen Erfahrungen und Entscheidungen.
  • Show author(s) (2021). From religion to the religious.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Basiswissen Islam 28 - Zucker, Milch und Feuer: wie die Parsis (Zarathushtrier) nach Indien kamen und was sie darüber erzählen.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Die Heilsbringer.
  • Show author(s) (2019). What is religion like?
  • Show author(s) (2019). Endangered religions?
  • Show author(s) (2019). Comparison: from prejudice to practice.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Night Walks to Siddhivinayak: pathways of devotion in Mumbai.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Cosmopolitanism and Conviviality at Religious Sites in Mumbai.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Comsopolitanism and Polytropy.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Religion auf der Windschutzscheibe: Religion auf und in Mumbai-Taxis.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Heterogeneität und Kohärenz in der Religionswissenschaft.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Contemporary Theories of Religion.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Religionskonstruktive Religionstheorien: Babasaheb Ambedkar und Mordechai Kaplan.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Religion in Asian Megacities.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Die Unverwüstlichkeit des Heiligen.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Zarathustra in Moscow: The Emergence of Zoroastrianism in Russia.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Is There Progress in Theories of Religion?
  • Show author(s) (2013). Where is the M in MTSR?
  • Show author(s) (2013). Tourism as Location for Religion in Contemporary Europe.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Religious Nonconformism in Evolutionary Perspective.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Religione e turismo.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Religion and Tourism.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Die Parsis und ihre Priester.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Das Ende des Rituals wäre das Ende der Menschheit.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Zoroastrianism and the Mosaic Distinction.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Why religion is important to tourism - and why tourism matters to religion.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Tourism in Religion and Religion in Tourism.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Roundtable discussion: Teaching and ”Mastering” the Study of Religions. European Religious Studies masters programs compared.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Response to Wouter Hanegraaff, Esotericism and the Academy.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Om religiøsitetens og religionenes evolusjon: Evolusjonsteoretiske og religionshistoriske perspektiver.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Der historische Zarathustra.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Becoming Jewish in India and Indian in Israel: Bene Israel trajectories.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Panel: In Religionswissenschaft einführen.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Ist die Religionswissenschaft eine wissenschaftliche Disziplin?
  • Show author(s) (2010). Zoroastrische Unterscheidungen.
  • Show author(s) (2010). The Impact of the Bologna Process on the Study of Religion.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Mørtel, mening, makt og mer.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Der Zoroastrismus als iranische Religion.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Zwei Hauptformen der Mobilität in der Europäischen Religionsgeschichte.
  • Show author(s) (2009). The qualities of the good priest: Lay Zoroastrian perspectives.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Festivals: some theoretical observations.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Evolusjon og evolusjonsteorier i religionsvitenskap.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Agenten, Grenzen, Heilsversprechen: Annäherungen an rezente Religionstheorien.
  • Show author(s) (2008). The Changing Worlds of Iranian Zoroastrianism.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Musings on essentialism(s) and Zoroastrianism(s).
  • Show author(s) (2007). Zoroastrian Festivals.
  • Show author(s) (2007). The Study of Zoroastrianism: past, present, future.
  • Show author(s) (2007). The Experience of Fire among Parsi Priests.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Gode tanker, gode ord, gode handlinger. Etikk i zoroastrismen.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Concluding reflections.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Achaemenian Festivals.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Tourismus, Religion und Ritual: Streifzüge durch ein neues Forschungsfeld.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Religion og turisme: Introduktion til et nyt forskningsfelt.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Findes der en europæisk religionsvidenskab?
  • Show author(s) (2006). Concluding comments.
  • Show author(s) (2006). A Reinvention of Zoroastrianism in the Modern West: the Mazdasnan Movement.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Turisme-et forskningsprosjekt.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Towards a Religious History of Bombay City.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Renaissancen des Paganen.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Probing a Polytheistic Reading of the Avestan Texts: From Taboo to Theory.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Panel �Religionswissenschaft(ler) in der Kritik�: Einleitende Bemerkungen.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Zarathustras europäische Geschichte.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Transfer, Innovation und Identität.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Professionalisation and De-professionalisation.
  • Show author(s) (2004). 50 Years of Zoroastrian Studies.
Book review
  • Show author(s) (2022). Occult Roots of Religious Studies: On the Influence of Non-Hegemonic Currents on Academia around 1900, by Yves Mühlematter and Helmut Zander (eds.), Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021. Aries. 287-292.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Book review: Voices from Zoroastrian Iran. Vol. 1: Urban Centres, written by Sarah Stewart in collaboration with Mandana Moavenat // Voices from Zoroastrian Iran. Vol. 2: Urban and Rural Centres – Yazd and Outlying Villages, written by Sarah Stewart in collaboration with Mandana Moavenat. Numen. 427-432.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Book review: Manfred Hutter: Iranische Religionen. Zoroastrismus, Yezidentum, Bahāʾītum. De Gruyter Studium (Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter, 2019). Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Book review Thomas Tweed, Religion: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford 2000. Religion. 472-476.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Review essay: Bruce Lincoln,Apples and Oranges: Explorations In, On, and With Comparison. London, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. xii + 335 pp. isbn9780226563916 (hbk.), 9780226564074 (pbk.). Numen. 73-78.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Book review: Considering Comparison: A Method for Religious Studies by Oliver Freiberger, New York, Oxford University Press, 2019. Religion. 741-744.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Ingvild Sælid Gilhus, Luther H. Martin, Jeppe Sinding Jensen, and Jesper Sørensen (eds.), Evolution, Cognition, and the History of Religion: Festschrift in Honour of Armin W. Geertz. (Supplements to Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, Vol. 13.) Leiden: Brill, 2018. 702 pp. ISBN 9789004385108 (hbk.). Numen. 411-416.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Book review of Religion, Theory, Critique: Classic and Contemporary Approaches and Methodologies, edited by Richard King. Numen. 95-98.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Book review of Comparison: A Critical Primer by Aaron W. Hughes. Numen. 437-440.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Review of Bernd-Christian Otto, Jörg Rüpke, Susanne Rau (eds), History and Religion: Narrating a Religious Past. Berlin/New York 2015. Numen. 106-108.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Anmeldelse av Udo Tworuschka, Einführung in die Geschichte der Religionswissenschaft. Darmstadt 2015. Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft. 107-110.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Review of Alberto Melloni (ed.), Dizionario del sapere storico-religioso del Novecento. Bologna 2010. Religion. 134-138.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Book review: Methods for the Study of Religious Change: From Religious Studies to Worldview Studies. Journal of Contemporary Religion. 521-523.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Psychology of religion: autobiographical accounts. Edited by Jacob A. Belzen. The international journal for the psychology of religion. 164-168.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Anmeldelse av Manfred Bauschulte, Straßenbahnhaltestellen der Aufklärung. Studien zur Religionsforschung 1945–1989. Marburg 2012. Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft. 125-128.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Gods and demons, priests and scholars: critical explorations in the history of religions. The Journal of Religion. 244-246.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Anmeldelse av William E. Arnal and Russell T. McCutcheon, The Sacred is Profane: The political nature of “religion”. Oxford, New York 2013. Numen. 492-494.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Anmeldelse Bruce Lincoln, Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars: Critical Explorations in the History of Religions. Chicago, London, 2012. The Journal of Religion. 244-246.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Review Alex Norman: Spiritual Tourism: travel and religious practice in Western society. London, New York 2011. Numen. 618-620.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Pascal Boyer: The Fracture of an Illusion: science and the dissolution of religion. Frankfurt Templeton lectures 2008 (= Religion, Theologie und Naturwissenschaft, Bd. 20.) Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2010, 112 S. Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte. 70-72.
  • Show author(s) (2012). A New Science: The Discovery of Religion in the Age of Reason. History of Religions. 189-192.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Charled Guittard (ed.). Le monothéisme. Diversité, exclusivisme ou dialogue? Paris, 2010. Numen. 566-572.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Religious America, Secular Europe? A Theme and Variations. Religion. 324-326.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Rainer Flasche, Religionswissenschaft Treiben: Versuch einer Grundlegung der Religionswissenschaft, Berlin 2008. Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft. 105-107.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Historic religious sciences. An introduction. Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte. 183-185.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Anmeldelse Peter Antes: Grunriss der Religionsgeschichte, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2006. Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte. 81-83.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Anmeldelse Jörg Rüpke: Historische Religionswissenschaft, Stutggart 2007. Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte. 183-185.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Theorising religion. Classical and contemporary debates. Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte. 179-182.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Anmeldelse Tourism, Religion and Spiritual Journeys, Dallen Timothy, Daniel H. Olsen (eds), London, 2006. Religion. 96-98.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Anmeldelse Theorising Religion: Classical and Contemporary Debates, James A. Beckford, John Walliss (eds), Aldershot, Burlington 2006. Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte. 179-182.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Anmeldelse Arne Bugge Amundsen (red.), Norges religionshistorie, Universitetsforlaget, Oslo, 2005. DIN - Tidsskrift for religion og kultur. 60-78.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Review: James L. Cox, A Guide to the Phenomenology of Religion: Key Figures, Formative Influences, and Subsequent Debates , T and T International, London, New York (2006). Religion. 352-355.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Religious theory compendium. Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte. 93-94.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Anmeldelse Kompendium Religionstheorie, Volker Drehsen, Wilhelm Gräb, Birgit Weyel (eds), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2005. Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte. 93-94.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Anmeldelse "Wörterbuch der Religionen, Crhistoph Auffarth, Hans Kippenberg, Axel Michaels (eds), Stuttgart: Alfred Kröner Verlagsanstalt 2006". Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft. 83-86.
  • Show author(s) (2006). The Zoroastrian diaspora. Religion and migration. The Ratanbai Katrak lectures, the Oriental Faculty. Numen. 115-120.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Review: Éric Phalippou, Aux sources de Shéhérazade. Contes et coutumes des femmes zoroastriennes. Avec 191 photographies en hors-texte de l'auteur et de Martine Phalippou, Leuven 2003 (The sources of Sheherazade: stories and traditions of zoroastrian women, with 191 photographs by the author and Martine Phalippou). History of Religions. 93-94.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Review: New Approaches to the Study of Religion, 2 vols, Peter Antes, Armin Geertz, Randi W. Warne (eds), Berlin, New York 2004. Numen. 238-246.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Review eppe Sinding Jensen, The Study of Religion in a new Key. Theoretical and Philosophical Soundings in the Comparative and General Study of Religion, Århus 2003. Religious Studies Review. 101-101.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Review Religionsvitenskapens komparative utfordring, Joel Haviv, Anders Lisdorf, Peter Weiss Poulsen (eds), København 2005. Religious Studies Review. 100-100.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Review John R. Hinnells, The Zoroastrian Diaspora. Religion and Migration. The Ratanbai Katrak Lectures, the Oriental Faculty, Oxford 1985, Oxford 2005. Numen. 215-220.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Review: Religion im kulturellen Diskurs / Religion in Cultural Discourse. Festschrift für Hans G. Kippenberg zu seinem 65. Geburtstag / Essays in Honor of Hans G. Kippenberg on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday, Brigitte Luchesi and Kocku von Stuckrad (eds), Berlin, New York 2004. Numen. 517-524.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Book review: D. Jason Slone, Theological Incorrectness. Why Religious People Believe What They Shouldn't. Oxford, 2004. Numen. 149-151.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Book review: "Themes and Problems of the History of Religions in Contemporary Europe", ed. by Giulia Sfameni Gasparri, Cosenza 2002. Numen. 283-283.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Book Review: Handbuch Religionswissenschaft. Religionen und ihre zentralen Themen, Johannes J. Figl (ed.), Innsbruck, Wien, Göttingen 2003. Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte. 273-274.
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
  • Show author(s) (2021). The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Religion. Routledge.
  • Show author(s) (2020). The Demise of Religion How Religions End, Die, or Dissipate. Bloomsbury Academic.
  • Show author(s) (2016). The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion. Oxford University Press.
  • Show author(s) (2015). The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Zoroastrianism. Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Defining Magic: a reader. Equinox Publishing.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Religionswissenschaft. Walter de Gruyter (De Gruyter).
  • Show author(s) (2011). The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Religion. Routledge.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Contemporary Theories of Religion: a critical companion. Routledge.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Theorizing Rituals. Vol. 1: Issues, Topics, Approaches, Concepts. Brill Academic Publishers.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Zoroastrian Rituals in Context. Brill Academic Publishers.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Riter och ritteorier. Religionshistoriska diskussioner och teoretiska ansatser. Bokförlaget Nya Doxa.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Show author(s) (2017). Zur Unverwüstlichkeit des Heiligen. 10 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Theories of Religion. 21 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2016). History. 29 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Definition. 24 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Zoroastrians in Modern Iran. 18 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Zarathustra: Post-Gathic Trajectories. 13 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Scholarship on Zoroastrianism. 18 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Rituals. 15 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Religion and spirituality in tourism. 12 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Introductions to Parts I-IV. 12 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2013). General introduction. 13 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Structured observation. 13 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Introduction: research methods in the study of religion\s. 18 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Free-listing. 11 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Comparison. 19 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Zoroastrianism. 16 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2009). There is life in the old dog yet: an introduction to contemporary theories of religion. 21 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Renaissancen: Vermittlungsformen des Paganen. 27 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Parsi-Priester über Sinn, Leistungen und Funktionsweise von Ritualen. 36 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Interventionist practices and the promises of religion: On Martin Riesebrodt, Cultus und Heilsversprechen (2007). 19 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Back and forth. 13 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Zoroastrism. 2 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Tourismus. 18 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Western Europe. 36 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Raffaele Pettazzoni and the History of Religions in Fascist Italy (1928-1938). 31 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Para-Zoroastrianisms: Memetic transmissions and appropriations. 19 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Iran: Zoroastrianism. 4 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2007). A Name for All and No One: Zoroaster as a Figure of Authorization and a Screen of Ascription. 22 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Zarathus(h)tra-Zoroaster: Ost-westliche Spiegelungen von den Anfängen bis Nietzsche. 19 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Sammenligning. 22 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Ritual Studies, Ritual Theory, Theorizing Rituals-An Introductory Essay. 1 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Reflexivity. 20 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2006). 'Ritual': A Lexicographic Survey of Some Related Terms from an Emic Perspective [Introduction]. 5 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2006). 'Ritual': A Lexicographic Survey of Some Related Terms from an Emic Perspective (Concluding Remarks). 3 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Theology: Iran. 2 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Sacred Texts and Canonicity: Iran. 2 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Ritualtheorien und Religionstheorien. 20 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Patterns of Ritual Change among Parsi-Zoroastrians in Recent Times. 10 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Monday-nights at the Banaji, Fridays at the Aslaji: Ritual Efficacy and Transformation in Bombay City. 66 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Manekji Limji Hataria on Iranian Zoroastrian Rituals: A Translation of Selected Passages from his Travel Report (1865). 35 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Iran. Appendix: Zoroastrianism. 4 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Contextualizing the Contexts. On the Study of Zoroastrian Rituals. 56 pages.
Academic literature review
  • Show author(s) (2018). Introduction: On dragons and elephants: Religion in domestic and international tourism in China and India. International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage. 1-7.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Bellah’s religion in human evolution: a post-review. Numen. 281-299.
  • Show author(s) (2009). The study of religion(s) in Western Europe III: further developments after World War II. Religion. 261-282.
  • Show author(s) (2009). The lure of empire. Review essay (on) Bruce Lincoln, Religion, Empire, and Torture: the case of Achaemenian Persia, Chicago/London, 2007. Numen. 477-489.
  • Show author(s) (2008). The study of religion(s) in Western Europe (II): Institutional developments after World War II. Religion. 305-318.
  • Show author(s) (2008). On the State and Prospects of the Study of Zoroastrianism. Numen. 561-600.

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