Dynamics of religion : past and present : proceedings of the XXI World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions Erfurt August 23 29 2015 The dynamics of religions and cultural evolution: Worshipping Fuxi in contemporary China Hubert Seiwert Religion and public space in contemporary Japan: Re activation of the civilization of the axial age and the manifestation of State Shinto and Buddhism Susume Shimazono The tactics of (in)visibility among religious communities in contemporary Europe Kim Knott Religion intersecting de nationalization and re nationalization in post apartheid South Africa Gerald O. West Forms of religious communities in global society: tradition invention and transformation Peter Beyer Subversive spirituality: political contributions of ancestral cosmologies decolonizing religious beliefs Sylvia Marcos Religion and the historical imagination: esoteric tradition as poetic invention Wouter J. Hanegraff Religion and life trajectory: Islamists against self and other Abdulkader Tayob Angels animals and religious change in antiquity and today Ingvild Sælid Gilhus Gaining access to the radically unfamiliar: religion in modern times Kalpana Ram Cloning minds: Religion between individuals and collectives Jeppe Sinding Jensen Of yellow teaching and black faith: entangled knowledge cultures and the creation of religious traditions Karénina Kollmar Paulenz Global intellectual history and the dynamics of relgion Martin Muslow Narrating performing and feeling a religion : on representations of Judaism Cristiana Facchini