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SPIRITUALITY HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN IMPORTANT DIMENSION OF CULTURES AROUND THE WORLD. IN FACT, FOR MOST OF THE WORLD'S PEOPLES, RELIGION HELPS TO CONSTRUCT THE PUBLIC REALM. MOREOVER, AS THE AUTHORS OF THIS ARTICLE SUBSTANTIATE, SPIRITUALITY EMBODIED IN RELIGION HAS SERVED AS THE FOUNDATION FOR NATIONAL DIFFERENCES, RACIAL CONFLICTS, CLASS EXPLOITATION, AND GENDER DISCRIMINATION, ON THE ONE HAND, AS WELL AS FOR THE RESOLUTION AND THE ACHIEVEMNT OF FULL HUMANITY FOR THOSE AT THE BOTTOM OF ALL SOCIETIES, ON THE OTHER HAND. RELIGIOUS SPIRITUALITY REMAINS BOTH ENDEMIC TO CONTROVERSY AND EMPOWERING FOR SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION.

Do religious traditions not related to written texts have a history? The author explores this question using Buryat shamanism as a case study. Disentangling this religious tradition from its presumed ahistorical space, he places the history of Buryat shamanism in the context of sociopolitical events that unfolded in Mongolia and Transbaikalia between the late 16th and the 19th centuries

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Democracy and Religion in the Market -- 1 Denominational Uncoupling in a Divestment Age: Religion in the History of the American University -- 2 Markets, Religion, and Moral Deliberation: The Affordable Care Act's Contraceptive Mandate -- 3 Regulating Religion in the Public Arena: Lessons Learned from Global Data Collections -- 4 Shots Not Fired in the Culture War: Commercial Litigation in Contemporary Rabbinical Courts -- 5 Go Tell It [to the IRS]: American Suspicions Around Religious Profit-Making -- 6 The Liberty of the Will in Theology Permits the Liberated Markets of Liberalism -- 7 Neutral Principles and Legal Pluralism -- 8 Markets as Moral Contexts: An Account Based in Catholic Theological Anthropology -- 9 Regulating Religious Performance on the Commercial Stage -- Index.

International audience ; The Calendar Case (liyu 曆獄) is well known to historians of Chinese astronomy and to historians of the Jesuit mission to China; during the last sixty years, it has attracted increasing attention from both groups. The Jesuit missionary Johann Adam Schall von Bell (1592-1666) was in charge of the affairs of the Astronomical Bureau (Qintianjian 欽天監) from 1644, when Beijing fell to the Manchus. In 1664, under the rule of the four regents who governed in the name of the young Kangxi emperor (b. 1654, r. 1662-1722), Schall was impeached and tried, following accusations made by Yang Guangxian 楊光先 (1597-1669), a literatus who held no official position. Four years later, the emperor had the verdict reversed and appointed another Jesuit, Ferdinand Verbiest (1623-1688), as official astronomer. The present article provides a review of the secondary literature on this affair, showing how the narratives and analyses given by different authors reflect not only their personal research agendas, but also the wider evolution of historiography in both fields, from missiology to a China-centred history of Christianity in China, and from positivism to multifaceted narratives of controversies in the history of science.

International audience ; The Calendar Case (liyu 曆獄) is well known to historians of Chinese astronomy and to historians of the Jesuit mission to China; during the last sixty years, it has attracted increasing attention from both groups. The Jesuit missionary Johann Adam Schall von Bell (1592-1666) was in charge of the affairs of the Astronomical Bureau (Qintianjian 欽天監) from 1644, when Beijing fell to the Manchus. In 1664, under the rule of the four regents who governed in the name of the young Kangxi emperor (b. 1654, r. 1662-1722), Schall was impeached and tried, following accusations made by Yang Guangxian 楊光先 (1597-1669), a literatus who held no official position. Four years later, the emperor had the verdict reversed and appointed another Jesuit, Ferdinand Verbiest (1623-1688), as official astronomer. The present article provides a review of the secondary literature on this affair, showing how the narratives and analyses given by different authors reflect not only their personal research agendas, but also the wider evolution of historiography in both fields, from missiology to a China-centred history of Christianity in China, and from positivism to multifaceted narratives of controversies in the history of science.