Secrets in Contact : Secrecy as a Promoter of Contacts Between Religious Traditions / edited by Knut Martin Stünkel, Anna Akasoy, and Georgios Halkias.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Akasoy, Anna, editor.

Halkias, Georgios, editor.

Stünkel, Knut Martin, editor.

Series:

Dynamics in the History of Religions ; 16.

Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

Dynamics in the History of Religions ; 16

Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2026

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (419 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Secrecy as a Promoter of Contacts Between Religious Traditions

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Secrets in Contact presents a revolutionary perspective on religious secrecy—revealing how the concealed becomes a bridge between faiths rather than a barrier. This ground-breaking collection of essays challenges conventional wisdom by demonstrating how secrets function as powerful catalysts for religious contact and exchange. From Paul's "Unknown God" to Daoist-Buddhist exchanges, this volume unveils the sophisticated strategies through which religious traditions use secrecy to communicate, influence, and transform one another. Essential reading for scholars seeking fresh insights into the hidden mechanisms that shape inter-religious encounters across cultures and centuries.

Contents:

Front Cover

Contents

Acknowledgments

Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Secrets in Contact-Secrecy as a Promoter of Contacts between Religious Traditions

The Secret of Religious Language: Some Tentative Considerations with Reference to the Gospel of Thomas and Herodotus' Euterpe

'Secrecy' and Its Function in the Traditions of Early Jewish Mysticism

Jewish and Christian Interreligious Exchange with Hellenistic Mystery Cults in the First Century CE

The Mystery of Paul's Mysterion in Romans 11:25-36

Deipnon/Symposion-Sacramentum/Mystērion: Blank Spaces in the History of the Christian Eucharistic Ritual

The 'Transferred Secret': on Religious Appropriations and Exchanges between Daoism and Esoteric Buddhism in China

Mystery and Secrecy in the Contact of Daoism and Buddhism in Early Medieval China

Alawite Politics of Religious Secrecy: Dynamics of Dissimulation and Concealment among a Religious Minority in Antakya, Türkiye

Religious Polemics and Imagined Secrecy: Contemporary Literary, Cinematic and Artistic Responses to Islamophobia and Religious Violence

Reimagining Taqiyya: the "Narrative of the Four Pillars" and Strategies of Secrecy among the Ismāʿīlīs of Central Asia

From the "Hautes Sciences" to Esotericism

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-74901-2

9789004749016

OCLC:

1564375565

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004749016 DOI