Books

Nondirective Meditation is not about emptying the mind. Instead, mind wandering is seen as an important resource. Silently repeating a meditation sound helps to cultivate a free mental attitude.

Explores the contemporary nature and the diverse narratives, rituals, and performances of the Navarātri festival.

Six years before the Egyptian revolution of January 2011, many young Egyptians had resorted to blogging as a means of self-expression and literary creativity.

This volume maps the breadth and domain of genre literature in India across seven languages (Tamil, Urdu, Bangla, Hindi, Odia, Marathi and English) and nine genres for the first time.

New book on Brill edited by Jacob Høigilt and Gunvor Mejdell.

PhD candidate Olav Gjertsen Ørum's masterthesis has been published on Brill.

In this book Aike Rots traces the development in recent decades of the idea of Shinto as an 'ancient nature religion,' and a resource for overcoming environmental problems.

A new book about modern Buddhism edited by Hanna Havnevik, Ute Hüsken, Mark Teeuwen, Vladimir Tikhonov og Koen Wellens.

Mette Halskov Hansen has written a book about education in today's China, recently published by University of Washington Press.

The book opens with a chapter on folk religion as a field of cultural research in Scandinavia, but has a special focus on Bohuslän in western Sweden and the neighbouring disctricts in Norway.

A New History of SHINTO, Wiley-Blackwell

Æmula Lauri. The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, 1760-2010. Sciences History Publications, Sagamore Beach 2009.

Contemporary South Korean capitalism, Unipub 2010

Bondeliv på 1800-talet. Med utgångspunkt i en bondes dagböcker och brev, Novus 2009

Meeting the Challenges of Elder Care: Japan and Norway, Kyoto University Press 2010

Teater i perspektiv, Thalia Publishing 2010

Museum. En kulturhistorie, Pax 2009  

Ritual Matters. Dynamic Dimensions in Practice, Routledge 2010

Negotiating Pasts in the Nordic Countries, Nordic Academic Press 2009

iChina. The Rise of the Individual in Modern Chinese Society, NIAS Press 2010