Acknowledgements Table of Contents Editor's introduction: reconsidering discourses on "Self" in Anglophone philosophy of religion. Section A: Self and Spirit(s) 1. Conceptions of 'self' in Shinto, Maki Sato (Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo) 1.1 Embodiment (Kami) 1.2 Pure-spirit (Tama) 1.3 value-neutral being (Kotodama) 2. Afro-Brazilian religions and Candomblé, José Eduardo Porcher: Research Fellow, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil , Fernando Carlucci: Research Fellow, Jesuit School of Philosophy and Theology (FAJE), Belo Horizonte, Brazil , Daniel De Luca-Noronha: Assistant Professor, Jesuit School of Philosophy and Theology (FAJE), Belo Horizonte, Brazil 2.1 Possession 2.
2 Entities 2.3 Agency 3. uMina in Isintuism, Herbert Moyo (Professor, School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics, University of KwaZulu-Natal) 3.1 Impilo 3.2 Ukufa 3.3 Umoya 4. What makes a person Indigenous? Current conceptions among Native American sovereignty movements, Cindy Tekkobe, University of Illinois, Chicago 4.1 Relations 4.
2 Reciprocity 4.3 Ceremony Section B: Self and Society 5. Tshivenda, Self and Persistence, Mutshidzi Maraganedzha (Assistant Professor, School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics, University of KwaZulu-Natal) 5.1 Sialala 5.2 Murunzi 5.3 Thevhula 6. Embodying the Dao: Classical and Foundational Daoist Anthropological Views, Louis Komjathy (Independent scholar, Director and Distinguished Professor of Unlearning at The Underground University) 6.1 Pneumatology 6.
2 Shen ? ("body/self") 6.3 Somatology 7. Selfhood in the Confucian Tradition, Andrew Lambert, City University of New York, College of Staten Island 7.1 Ren (humaneness, virtuosity) 7.2 Familial Bonds 7.3 Roles and Relationships 8. Iqbal and the Actualizing Self: Gift or Task?, Abrahim H. Khan (Professor, Faculty of Divinity at Trinity College, University of Toronto) 8.
1 Love (Ishq) 8.2 Self (Khudi) 8.3 Self-actualization Section C: Self and Ontology 9. Self's Awareness of the Self. The arguments of Udayana from the Indian Nyaya tradition, Agnieszka Rostalska (FWO Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Ghent University) 9.1 Self (atman) 9.2 Merits and Demerits (karma) 9.3 Self-Awareness 10.
Self as Performance: Dogen's ethics of expression for today, Gereon Kopf, Luther College 10.1 pre-Dogen no/self 10.2 Dogen's no/self 10.3 Expression/performance 11. Conceptions of 'self' in Jainism, Anil Mundra (Alka Siddhartha Dalal Postdoctoral Fellow in the study of Jainism, Rutgers University) and Marie-Helene Gorisse (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Birmingham University) 11.1 soul (jiva) 11.2 experience/consciousness (upayoga) 11.3 liberation (mok?a) 12.
Jacques Derrida's plural conception of 'self', Nathan Loewen (Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of Alabama) 12.1 Prosthesis 12.2 Secret 12.3 Inheritance 13. Critical Epilogue, Tim Knepper (Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Drake University).