Numen : International Review for the History of Religions : Vol. LVIII, No. 1 ; 2-3; 4 ; 5-6 [2011]

24x16cm, 771 pages., FOUR VOLUMES (comprised of 6 issues). Complete for Volume 58 [2011]. This is a collection of six issues [bound in four] of the six-times-annually-published periodical ''Numen : International Review for the History of Religions",  each separately bound in original wrappers, complete for Volume 58 [2011]. Each issue contains 6 papers + reviews & notices. Issues no. 2-3 and 5-6 are double issues. Issue no. 1 is a special issue devoted to the theme of "Perspectives on Shamanism". Issue no. 2-3 is a special issue devoted to "Memory and Islam". Papers include: [no. 1] A Methodology for a Deconstruction and Reconstruction of the Concepts 'Shaman' and 'Shamanism'; The State Oracle of Tibet, Spirit Possession and Shamanism; [no.s 2-3]; The Persistence of Heresy: Paul of Tarsus, Ibn Saba, and Historical Narrative in Sunni Identity Formation; Conquest and Controversy: Intertwined Themes in the Islamic Interpretive Tradition;  Marginalia and Peripheries: A Tunisian Historian and the History of Qur'anic Exegesis; Classical Islamic Discourse on the Origins of Language: Cultural Memory and the Defense of Orthodoxy; Cultural Memory of the Pious Ancestors (Salaf) in al-Ghazali; [no.4]  The Role of the Sun in the Pantheon's Design and Meaning; [no. 5-6] Buddhist Nuns: Between Past and Prsent; The Cognition of Hardship Experience in Himalayan Pilgrimage; Isis and Osiris: Demonology vs. Henotheism; etc.…