Bergunder - Selected Publications in English

• Global Religious History in Theory and Practice.
  In: Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 33 (2021): 441-462.
• Hinduism, Theosophy, and Bhagavad Gita within a Global Religious History of the Nineteenth Century.
  In: Krämer, Hans Martin; Strube, Julian (Hrsg.): Theosophy across Boundaries. Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Modern Esoteric Movement. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2020, S. 65-107.
• Comparison in the Maelstrom of Historicity: A Postcolonial Perspective on Comparative Religion.

  In: Schmidt-Leukel, Perry; Nehring, Andreas (Hrsg.): Interreligious Comparisons in Religious Studies and Theology. Comparison Revisited. London: Bloomsbury, 2016, 34-52.

• "Religion" and "Science" within a Global Religious History
  In: Aries 16 (2016): 86-141.

• What is Religion? The Unexplained Subject Matter of Religious Studies.
  In: Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 26 (2014): 246-286
• Experiments with Theosophical Truth: Gandhi, Esotericism, and Global Religious History
  In: Journal of the American Academy of Religion 82: 2014, S. 398-426.
• Global History, Religion, and Discourse on Ritual.
  In: Ritual Dynamics and the Science of Ritual. Ed. by Axel Michaels. 5 vols. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2011, vol. iv, 219-235.
  
• Miracle Healing and Exorcism in South Indian Pentecostalism.
  In: Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Healing. Ed. by Candy Gunther Brown. New York: Oxford University Press 2011, S. 287-306.
  
• Saiva Siddhanta as a universal religion: J. M. Nallasvami Pillai (1864-1920) and Hinduism in colonial South India.
  In: Ritual, Caste, and Religion in Colonial South India. Ed. by Michael Bergunder, Heiko Frese, and Ulrike Schröder. Halle: Verlag der Franckeschen Stiftungen 2010, S. 30-88
• The Cultural Turn [and studying global Pentecostalism].
  In: Studying Global Pentecostalism. Theories and Methods. Ed. by Allan Anderson, Michael Bergunder, Andrée Droogers, and Cornelis van der Laan. Berkeley: University of California Press 2010, pp. 51-73.
• What is Esotericism? Cultural Studies Approaches and the Problems of Definition in Religious Studies.
  In: Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 22 (2010): 9-36
  
• Proselytism in the History of Christianity in India.
  In: India and the Indianness of Christianity. Essays on Understanding - Historical, Theological, and Bibliographical - in Honor of Robert Eric Frykenberg. Ed. by Richard Fox Young. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans 2009. pp. 181-195.
• The South Indian Pentecostal Movement in the Twentieth Century.
  Grand Rapids/Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2008.
• Constructing Pentecostalism. On Issues of Methodology and Representation.
  In: Journal of the European Pentecostal Theological Association. 27,1 (2007) 55-73.
  (abridged version of Constructing Indian Pentecostalism)
• Constructing Indian Pentecostalism. On Issues of Methodology and Representation.
  In: Allan H. Anderson und Edmond Tang (eds.), Asian and Pentecostal. The Charismatic Face of Christianity in Asia. Oxford 2005, pp. 177-213.
• Contested Past. Anti-brahmanical and Hindu nationalist reconstructions of early Indian history.
  In: Historiographia Linguistica, 31,1 (2004) 95-104.
  Reprint in: Swaraj Basu (ed.), Readings on Dalit Identity. History, Literature and Religion. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2016, pp. 31-80.

• From Pentecostal Healing Evangelist to Kalki Avatar. The Remarkable Life of Paulaseer Lawrie alias Shree Lahari Krishna (1921-1989). - A Contribution to the Understanding of New Religious Movements.
  In: Robert Eric Frykenberg (ed.), Christians and Missionaries in India. Cross-Cultural Communication since 1500. London 2003. pp. 357-375.

• Women and Leadership in the South Indian Pentecostal Movement.
  In: Dharma Deepika. Chennai. 6,2 (2002) 35-40.

• The "Pure Tamil Movement" and Bible Translation: The Ecumenical Thiruviviliam of 1995.
  In: Judith M. Brown und Robert Eric Frykenberg (eds.), Christians, Cultural Interactions, and India's Religious Traditions. Grand Rapids und London 2002, pp. 212-231.

• The Pentecostal movement and Basic Ecclesial Communities in Latin America. Sociological theories and theological debates.
  In: International Review of Mission. Geneva. 91 (2002) 163-186.

• Miracle Healing and Exorcism: The South Indian Pentecostal Movement in the Context of Popular Hinduism.
  In: International Review of Mission. Geneva. 90 (2001) 103-112.
• "Ministry of compassion": D. G. S. Dhinakaran - Christian Healer-Prophet from India. In: R. E. Hedlund (ed.), Christianity is Indian. The Emergence of an Indigenous Community. New Delhi 2000, pp. 158-174.
• Christian Friedrich Schwartz (1726-1798) in German mission literature.
  In: D. Jeyaraj (ed.), Christian Fredrick Schwartz. His Contributions to South India. Chennai 1999, pp. 37-57.
  

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