| Foreword to Volume Two | 5 |
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| Editorial Note | 6 |
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| Part Four Comparing and Contrasting | 11 |
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| 4.1 Introduction to Part Four | 13 |
| 4.2 On Comparing Buddhism and Christianity | 21 |
| 4.3 Comparative Hermeneutics: A Brief Statement | 42 |
| 4.4 Shinto and the Typology of Religions | 50 |
| 4.5 Soteriological Orientations in Religion | 61 |
| 4.6 ‘Polytheism’ and ‘Monotheism’ as a Problem in the Typology of Religions | 72 |
| 4.7 Prayer and Meditation as Comparative Concepts | 82 |
| 4.8 Purification and Transformation in Comparative Perspective | 98 |
| Part Five Tradition and Innovation | 113 |
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| 5.1 Introduction to Part Five | 115 |
| 5.2 Religious Tradition and the Student of Religion | 118 |
| 5.3 Ernst Troeltsch and Gerardus van de Leeuw on Tradition | 127 |
| 5.4 Elements of a General Theory of Innovation in Religion | 140 |
| 5.5 New Religions in East Asia | 162 |
| 5.6 Won Buddhism as a Korean New Religion | 189 |
| 5.7 Aum Shinrikyo. Can Religious Studies Cope? | 212 |
| 5.8 Distant Cousins: Transmitting New Japanese Religions to Brazil | 228 |
| Part Six Transplantation and Syncretism | 251 |
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| 6.1 Introduction to Part Six | 253 |
| 6.2 The Transplantation of Religions | 257 |
| 6.3 Syncretism and Ambiguity | 263 |
| 6.4 Syncretism versus Synthesis | 274 |
| 6.5 Buddhism and Shinto on One lsland | 288 |
| 6.6 Syncretism in Chinese Temples of South-East Asia and Taiwan | 297 |
| Part Seven Some Contextual Questions: Identity, Plurality, Education, Dialogue, Peace | 317 |
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| 7.1 Introduction to Part Seven | 319 |
| 7.2 Religion and Identity: Clues and Threads | 324 |
| 7.3 Christian Churches and Political Change in Eastern Europe | 337 |
| 7.4 Reflecting on the Plurality of Religions | 352 |
| 7.5 The Study of Religions and the Dialogue of Religions | 362 |
| 7.6 Presuppositions of an Integrative Religious Education | 386 |
| 7.7 Peace in the Dialogue of Religions | 401 |
| Author’s Publications Cited in the Present Work | 412 |
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| Consolidated Index to Volumes I and II | 425 |
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