Invention of Tradition and Syncretism in Contemporary Religions

1. Changing the Sacred: Creative Paths of Religious Experience
Stefania Palmisano, Nicola Pannofino

Part I. Invention of Tradition

2. The Itako of Tōhoku: Between Tradition and Change
Marianna Zanetta

3. Invisibility or Marginality? Assessing Religious Diversification Among Women Shamans in Eastern Siberia
Lia Zola

4. Evolution of Tradition in the Rāmānandī Order Among Hagiographies, Jagadguru and Maṭh
Daniela Bevilacqua

5. Re-membering the Goddess: The Avalon Sacred Path in Italy Between Tradition and Innovation
Roberta Pibiri

Part II. Syncretism

6. Creative Modalities of Adaptation of a Hindu Bodily Form of Rituality to Christian Spirituality
Maria Caterina Mortillaro

7. The Syncretic Religious Landscape of Contemporary Greece and Portugal: A Comparative Approach on Creativity Through Spiritual Synthesis
Eugenia Roussou

8. The New Furnace: Science‚ Technology, Plasticity and Religious Life
Alberto Groisman

9. Ritual Creativity and Ritual Failure in Popular Spanish Catholicism: A Case Study on Reformism and Miracles in La Mancha
Monica Cornejo

10. Conclusion
Stefania Palmisano, Nicola Pannofino

Keywords: Religious Studies, Comparative Religion, Sociology of Religion, Cultural Anthropology