Religio

A Journal for the Study of Religions

Vol.34,No.1 (2026)

Table of Contents

Special feature: Narrating Catholic Martyrdoms Between Europe and Asia (13th-19th centuries)

Introduction: Narratives of Catholic Martyrdoms between Europe and Asia (13th-19th centuries)

Iveta Nakládalová, Jana Valtrová
https://doi.org/10.5817/Rel2026-43748

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Perspectives on Martyrdom among Medieval Franciscans in Asia

Jana Valtrová
https://doi.org/10.5817/Rel2026-43050

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End My Life on the Gallows: The Desire for Martyrdom in Early Modern Missionary Accounts

https://doi.org/10.5817/Rel2026-43232

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Historicizing Martyrdom in 19th and 20th Century Japan: A Political and Cultural Context

https://doi.org/10.5817/Rel2026-43272

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Articles

Portraying the 'chosen samurai' : the creation of an idealized image of the Japanese in 16th-century Jesuit printed works

145–168

Jaime González-Bolado
https://doi.org/10.5817/Rel2026-43047

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Boundaries of the "official church" : local narratives from the Belarusian Orthodox Prošča monastery

169–196

Bahdan Serdziuk
https://doi.org/10.5817/Rel2026-42775

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News

Religionistické i lidské vzpomínání na Ivana Štampacha mezi Brnem, Pardubicemi a Prahou

197–205

Luboš Bělka, Tomáš Bubík, Dušan Lužný, Miloš Mrázek, Dalibor Papoušek, Jitka Schlichtsová, Jan Sušer, Zdeněk Vojtíšek
https://doi.org/10.5817/Rel2026-44092

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Konference "Alternativní spiritualita", 16.-17. října 2025, Praha

206–209

Matouš Mokrý
https://doi.org/10.5817/Rel2026-44029

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Zpráva z devátého ročníku islamologické konference, 13.-14. listopadu 2025, České Budějovice

210–213

Martin Klapetek
https://doi.org/10.5817/Rel2026-44024

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Report on the Center for Studies on New Religions' 2025 conference, held in Cape Town, South Africa, between the 14th and 19th of November 2025

214–222

Márk Nemes
https://doi.org/10.5817/Rel2026-44026

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Reviews

"Cambridge elements" in new religious movements : an introduction to the book series

223–230

Zdeněk Vojtíšek
https://doi.org/10.5817/Rel2026-44028

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[Jančařík, Zdeněk; Balík, Stanislav; Šebek, Jaroslav. Český bůh: hovory o historii, víře a ateismu]

231–235

Radim Byrtus
https://doi.org/10.5817/Rel2026-44025

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[Nilsson, Sanja. Children in new religious movements]

236–240

Jitka Schlichtsová
https://doi.org/10.5817/Rel2026-44027

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[Sheng Jiang. Religion of the Han Empire: postmortem transformation, immortality, and the rise of Daoism]

246–249

Ondřej Pazdírek
https://doi.org/10.5817/Rel2026-44030

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