Crisis in Early Religion

Chapter 1 Crisis in Early Religion: An Introduction

Chapter 2 The Crisis of Authentic Buddhavacana in Tipiṭaka : Is Early Buddhist Sangha’s Politics Responsible?

Chapter 3 Prajñāpāramitā as a Crisis-Marker in Buddhism

Chapter 4 The Involvement of Buddhist Monks in the Court Intrigues in China and Japan During the Fourth to the Eighth Centuries

Chapter 5 The Ugaritic Combat Myth and Egypto-Hittite Relations in the Late Bronze Age

Chapter 6 Crises in the Hittite Religion: Examples of the Prayer of Kantuzili and Plague Prayers of Muršili II

Chapter 7 Divine Justice and Human Competition: Signs of Crises in Archaic Greece

Chapter 8 When Oracles Don’t Come True: Oedipus Tyrannus and Oracular Crisis

Chapter 9 ‘The Athenian ‘Plague’: Religion, ‘Rationality’, and Ethics’

Chapter 11 Crisis and Transformation of Gnostic Christianity in Late Roman and Early Byzantine Egypt