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Religious Syncretism and Cultural Pluralism along the Central and East Asian Silk Road – New Discoveries and Venues for Research (2018)
Journal Article
Stoyanov, Y. (2018). Religious Syncretism and Cultural Pluralism along the Central and East Asian Silk Road – New Discoveries and Venues for Research. The Silk Road (Sofia), 4, 291-300

The current and continuing shifts in frequently contrasting „official” and popular stances multiculturalism and religious pluralism in Europe are clearly symptomatic of the growing crisis of state multiculturalism in Europe, a crisis increasingly vis... Read More about Religious Syncretism and Cultural Pluralism along the Central and East Asian Silk Road – New Discoveries and Venues for Research.

The sku-bla rite in imperial Tibetan religion (2015)
Journal Article
Hill, N. W. (2015). The sku-bla rite in imperial Tibetan religion. Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie, 24, 49-58. https://doi.org/10.3406/asie.2015.1313

Rolf Stein, Ariane Macdonald and other scholars regard the sku-bla as a mountain deity; however, whereas Stein sees this cult as a foreign import Macdonald regards it as central to Imperial Tibetan religion. After a re-examination of the relevant pas... Read More about The sku-bla rite in imperial Tibetan religion.

The Other God: Dualist Religions from Antiquity to the Cathar Heresy (2000)
Book
Stoyanov, Y. (2000). The Other God: Dualist Religions from Antiquity to the Cathar Heresy. Yale University Press. https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300190144

This fascinating book explores the evolution of religious dualism, the doctrine that man and cosmos are constant battlegrounds between forces of good and evil. It traces this evolution from late Egyptian religion and the revelations of Zoroaster and... Read More about The Other God: Dualist Religions from Antiquity to the Cathar Heresy.