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Locating Religions : Contact, Diversity, and Translocality.
This collection of articles is an innovative contribution to religious studies, because it picks up concepts developed in the wake of the so-called "spatial turn". Religions are always located in a certain cultural and spatial environment, but often tend to locate (or translocate) themselv...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
BRILL,
2016.
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| Colección: | Dynamics in the History of Religions Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Illustrations; Terms, Turns and Traps: Some IntroductoryRemarks; Chapter 1 Geography, History and Prophecy: Mechanisms of Integration in the Islamic Alexander Legend; Chapter 2 The Portuguese Discovery of Buddhism: Locating Religion in Early Modern Asia; Chapter 3 From Geographical Migration to Transmigration of Souls: Negotiating Religious Difference between Space among Jews in Early Modern Safed; Chapter 4 Translocating Religion in the Mediterranean Space: Monastic Confrontation under Muslim Dominion
- Chapter 5 The Mirror and the Palimpsest: The Myth of Buddhist Kingship in Imperial TibetChapter 6 Prester John, the Ten Tribes, and the Raja Rum: Representing the Distant Ally in Three Pre-Modern Societies; Chapter 7 Locating Religion, Controlling Territory: Conquest and Legitimation in Late Ninth-Century Vaspurakan and its Interreligious Context; Chapter 8 The Meeting of Daoist and Buddhist Spatial Imagination: The Construction of the Netherworld in Medieval China; Chapter 9 Locating the Dialogue: On the Topology of the Setting in Medieval Religious Colloquies
- Chapter 10 Space, Entanglement and Decentralisation: On How to Narrate the Transcultural History of Christianity (550 to 1350 CE)Chapter 11 Armlet of the Pinnacle of the Noble Victory Banner: Locating Traces of Imperial Tibet in a Dhāraṇī in the British Museum; Index of Names and Places