Antje Flüchter & Jivanta Schöttli 
The Dynamics of Transculturality [PDF ebook] 
Concepts and Institutions in Motion

Introduction.- Part I. Conceptual considerations.- Marxism, Modernity, and Revolution: The Asian Experience.- From Religious Contact to Scientific Comparison and back. Some Methodological Considerations on Comparative Perspectives in the Science of Religion.- Part II. Politics and flow.- Hippodamos and Phoenicia: On city Planning and Social Order in a Transcultural Context.- A Forgotten Landscape of the Form of Government.- Military Intelligence and Early Modern Warfare. The Dutch East India Company and China 1622–1624.- ‘Cultural Citizenship’ and Media Representation in India: Towards a Trans-Policy Approach.- The Era of Crowds: Gustave Le Bon, Crowd Psychology, and Conceptualising of Mass-Elite Relations in China.- Part III. Religion and flow.- The Goddess’s New Clothes. Conceptualising an ‘Eastern’ Goddess for a ‘Western’ Audience.- Across Central Asia: Cultural Crossroads, Religious Interactions? The Monastery, H.2153 fol. 131v, Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi, Istanbul.- Importing and Exporting Gods? On the Flow of Deities between Egypt and its Neighboring Countries.