No.1

Lady like religion: ritual and agency in the life of an eleventh-century Japanese noble woman/ Heather Blair . --- pp. [1]-22.

Mountains and early Daoism in the writings of GE Hong/ Thomas MIchael . --- pp. [23]- 54.

Cradling the sacred: image, ritual and affect in mexican and Meso American material religion/ Jennifer Scheper Hughes. --- pp. [55]-107.

Accounting for religious change: Ramalinga Adigal's transformation of Hindu giving in nineteenth-century India/Richard S. Weiss.--- pp.[108] -138.

No. 2

Mana in the North: power and religion in Medieval scandinavian historiography/Nicolas Meylan --- pp. [149] - 166.

Conversion as speech Act: Medieval icelandic and modern neopagan conversion narratives/Kathleen M. Self. --- pp. [167]-197.

Nets and snares: the Loki of Snorri's Edda and the Christian tradition/ Jeffrey Turco. --- pp.[198]--2 31.

No. 3

Substitutes for mysticism: a general model for the theological development of Hasidism in the nineteenth century/ Benjamin Brown. --- [247]---288.

Constructing a place, fracturing a geography: the case of the Japanase tendai cleric join/ Caleb S. Carier .--- [289]-310.

The love letters of a Buddhist tantric couple: reflections on poetic style and epistolary intimacy/Holly Gayley.--- pp. [311]-351.

No. 4

Between Bhakti and Pieta: untangling emotion in Marath ! Christian poetry./ Amanya Chakravarti .--- pp. [365]--387.

" God depends on the lowest devotees": gender, performance, and transformation in the tale of a female Hindu renouncer in Rajasthan/Antoinette Elizabeth DeNapoli. ---[388]--425.

Historiolae: narrative charms in magical texts and literature in late antiquity./Brian Sowers.---pp. [426]-448.