Threshold Religion

Introduction 

Bangladesh – Sergio Targa 

• Shaping Modern Bangladesh: The Ideological Configuration of the Pala Empire from 750 to 1162 ad and the Islamic Irruption from the xiii Century
• From British India to Pakistan and to Bangladesh: Between Core and Threshold Religion. The Political Maker of National Identity
• Threshold Religion: Practices from a Lost World
• Conclusion 

Indonesia – Matteo Rebecchi

• Arat Sabulungan
• Other Spirits
• Ancestors
• Sanitu
• Bajou and Kina
• Human Souls
• Shamanism
• Disease and Healing Ritual
• Black Magic 
• Divination
• Puliaijat 
• Conclusion 

Japan – Tiziano Tosolini

• The New Religions
• Shugendō
• Fortune-tellers and Chiromancers
• Conclusion

Philippines – Eugenio Pulcini

• Quiapo Case-Study
• Folk Religion in the Philippines: Old and New Shamanism
• Folk Religion in the Philippines: Practice and Practitioners
• Conclusion

Taiwan – Fabrizio Tosolini

• Divination in the Maze of Cosmic Symbols
• Listening to the Answers of Gods
• Actively Seeking the Responses of the Gods
• Trying to Make Some Sense of the Threshold Crossing
• Conclusion

Cumulative Index