Jørn Borup: Decolonising the Study of Religion

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Book review of Jørn Borup: Decolonising the Study of Religion: Who Owns Buddhism? Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy. London: Routledge, 2023, 211 pp.

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  • Johannes Cairns, University of Turku

    is Collegium Researcher and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Biology and the Turku Collegium of Science, Medicine and Technology, University of Turku, and a scholar of Buddhism and ecology, University of Helsinki.

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2025-06-06

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Vol. 61 No. 1 (2025): Temenos - Nordic Journal for the Study of Religion

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Book Reviews

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Cairns, J. (2025). Jørn Borup: Decolonising the Study of Religion. Temenos - Nordic Journal for the Study of Religion, 61(1), 125-128. https://doi.org/10.33356/temenos.161039