Andrei-Razvan Coltea is an anthropologist and historian with an intense curiosity regarding religions, which has guided his academic interests since observing their spectacular post-communist resurgence in his country, Romania. After graduating the ‘Global Studies’ Ph.D. program at Shanghai University, he decided to publish all the results of his research throughout the years in this monograph, hoping, by an intensely interdisciplinary approach, to shed some light on the dynamic nature of religious phenomena.