ISBN:
9780415843782
Language:
English
Pages:
XV, 313 S.
,
23,5 cm
,
Ill.
Edition:
1 [edition]
Series Statement:
Routledge research in religion, media, and culture 4
Series Statement:
Routledge research in religion, media, and culture
DDC:
200.95
Keywords:
Asia Religion
;
material culture
;
Material culture Religious aspects
;
Material culture
;
Material culture
;
Material culture
;
Material culture
;
Religion
;
Asia
;
Religious aspects
;
Religious aspects
;
Asia
;
Asia
;
Asia -- Religion
;
material culture -- Asia
;
Material culture -- Religious aspects
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Asien
;
Religion
;
Sachkultur
;
Kultgerät
Abstract:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Material Culture and Religious Studies; PART I The Materiality of Writing; 2 Bamboo and the Production of Philosophy: A Hypothesis about a Shift in Writing and Thought in Early China; 3 Seeing In Between the Space: The Aura of Writing and the Shape of Artistic Productions in Medieval South Asia; 4 Manuscripts and Shifting Geographies: The Dvādaśajyotirliṅgastotra from the Deccan College as Case Study
Abstract:
5 Representations of Religion in The Tibet Mirror: The Newspaper as Religious Object and Patterns of Continuity and Rupture in Tibetan Material CulturePART II Amulets, Talismans, and Religious Economies; 6 An Ingestible Scripture: Qurʾānic Erasure and the Limits of "Popular" Religion; 7 Buddhism on the Battlefield: The Cult of the "Substitute Body" Talisman in Imperial Japan (1890-1945); 8 The Material Turn: An Introduction to Thai Sources for the Study of Buddhist Amulets; PART III Image in Context; 9 Ninshō, Ryōhen, and the Twenty-Five Bodhisattvas of Hakone
Abstract:
10 Encountering Ascetics On and Beyond the Indian Temple Wall11 Goddesses in Text and Stone: Temples of the Yoginīs in Light of Tantric and Purāṇic Literature; PART IV Trade, Travel, and Hybridity; 12 Material Culture and Ruler Ideology in South Asia: The Case of Huviṣka's Skanda-Kumāra with Viśākha Coinage; 13 Literary and Visual Narratives in Gandhāran Buddhist Manuscripts and Material Cultures: Localizations of Jātakas, Avadānas, and Previous-Birth Stories; 14 Reimagining the East: Eurasian Trade, Asian Religions, and Christian Identities
Abstract:
15 Seeing the Religious Image in the Historical Account: Icons and Idols in the Islamic PastList of Contributors; Index
Abstract:
Traditionally, research on the history of Asian religions has been marked by a bias for literary evidence, privileging canonical texts penned in 'classical' languages. Not only has a focus on literary evidence shaped the dominant narratives about the religious histories of Asia, in both scholarship and popular culture, but it has contributed to the tendency to study different religious traditions in relative isolation from one another. Today, moreover, historical work is often based on modern textual editions and, increasingly, on electronic databases. What may be lost, in the process, is the
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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