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This issue explores archaeology's contribution to the study of religious change, transmission, interaction and reception. While the study of how certain religious traditions move into new areas and relate to pre-existing religious, cultural, political and economic structures has been dominated by sociology, anthropology and comparative religion, archaeology has made significant contributions to the field. The aim of this volume is to bring together recent field-based research on the material correlates of religious change. Of particular interest are those studies which look beyond the traditional ritual-based focus of religious change, to its wider economic, political or 'practical' ramifications. The resulting papers encompass a broad chronological and geographical scope, ranging from the fifth millennium BC to the sixteenth century AD, and including case studies from Australia, the Indian subcontinent, South America, Scandinavia, Spain and northern England. Eight out of a total of ten papers deal with three of the major 'religions of the book', Christianity, Buddhism and Islam, and their interaction with pre-existing traditions; the remaining two deal with the origins of prehistoric religions in northern Europe (Bradley and Numara), while Eeckhout focuses on early Peruvian traditions prior to European contact.

THE ARTICLE RE-EXAMINES THE HERITAGE OF EU CONSTITUTIONALISM. IT DEVELOPS A PROCESS-BASED AND NON-TELEOLOGICAL CONCEPTION OF EU CONSTITUTIONALISM. THE EU IS UNDERSTOOD AS CONTESTED AND CONTESTABLE IN TERMS OF ITS EVOLUTION AND IT IS SUGGESTED THAT THE OPEN-TEXTURED CONCEPT OF POSTNATIONALISM CAN USEFULLY CAPTURE SOME OF ITS "SUI GENERIS" ELEMENTS.