The Foreign Encounter in Myth and Religion -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Tribal Foreign Relations and Mythical Ancestry -- Identity and Memory in Ethnogenetic Myth -- Pseudo-Speciation and the Cinstitution of the Foreign -- Mythical Exchanges -- 2. Sedentary-Nomad Encountersin Semitic Myth and Religion -- Ethnogenisis and Foreign Relations in Mesopotamian Mythology -- Imperial and Nomadic Antecedents of the Semitic Monotheisms -- Foreign Relations in the Bible and the Koran -- 3. Warrior Heroes in theIndo-European Lineage -- From Aryan-Dravidian Synthesis to Hindu Nationalism -- Heroes of the Hellenic World in the Mirror of Western Imperialism -- Warrior and Fertility Myths from the Scythians to Wagner -- 4. Imperial Cosmologies andthe Nomad Counterpoint -- Imperial Confucianism and Frontier Buddhism -- Contending Buddhisms on China's Frontier -- Frontier Origins and Imperial Transformation of Roman Christianity -- Crusaders and Muslims -- 5. Rival Fundamentalisms on the Imperial Frontier -- Militant Calvinism and Western Hegemony -- Zionism and Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel -- Islam the New Nomad Creed? -- References -- Index.