The book gives much attention to questions of universal values, Islam and democracy, gender issues, women's rights and pluralism, contrasting the thinking of Jihadists and radical Islamism with liberal reformist voices within Islam.

Exploring the religion of the North through an interdisciplinary approach, the book sheds new light on a number of topics, including rituals, gender relations, social hierarchies, and interregional contacts between the Nordic tradition and ...

This volume deals with its use in such contexts as healing and divination and as an aspect of the knowledge of nature's occult virtues and secrets.>

Questions have also arisen as to what this branch of Islamic heterodoxy represents in terms of old and new identities. In this book, these questions are addressed by some of the most prominent scholars in the field.

This books explores varying conceptions of the Nightmare hag, mara, in Scandinavian folk belief.

SLB: På s. 185-293 analyserar förf. sägner med skildringar av maran.

Rikt illustrerat verk om 1700-talsresenären och orientalisten Jacob Jonas Björnståhl.