Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Marxism, Modernity, and Revolution: The Asian Experience

Chapter 3 From Religious Contact to Scientific Comparison and Back: Some Methodological Considerations on Comparative Perspectives in the Science of Religion

Chapter 4 Hippodamos and Phoenicia: On City Planning and Social Order in a Transcultural Context

Chapter 5 A Forgotten Landscape of the Forms of Government: The Case for the Counterfactual History of Political Theory

Chapter 6 Military Intelligence and Early Modern Warfare: The Dutch East India Company and China 1622–1624

Chapter 7 ‘Cultural Citizenship’ and Media Representation in India: Towards a Trans-Policy Approach

Chapter 8 The Era of Crowds: Gustave Le Bon, Crowd Psychology, and Conceptualizations of Mass-Elite Relations in China

Chapter 9 The Goddess’s New Clothes. Conceptualising an ‘Eastern’ Goddess for a ‘Western’ Audience

Chapter 10 Across Central Asia: Cultural Crossroads, Religious Interactions? The Monastery, H.2153 fol. 131v, Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi, Istanbul