Museums of World Religions

Charles D. Orzech is Reader in Religion, Conflict and Transition at the University of Glasgow, UK and Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA. He is the author of Politics and Transcendent Wisdom: The Scripture for Humane Kings in the Creation of Chinese Buddhism (1998) and General Editor of Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia (2011).

• Preface and AcknowledgementsPart I: Displaying the Divine: Religious Objects and Comparison1. Comparative Religion and World Religions Museums 2. The Body of God and the Matter of ReligionPart II: Five Museums of World Religions3. The Numinous in Marburg: Rudolf Otto’s Religionskundliche Sammlung4. Atheism, Science, and the History of Religions: St. Petersburg’s State Museum of the History of Religions5. Religion and Local Knowledge: Québec’s Le Musée Des Religions du Monde6. A Dialogical Museum: The Sacred Gaze and the St. Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art7. A Religious Museum: The Museum of World Religions in TaipeiConclusion: Rethinking Museums of ReligionsBibliographyIndex