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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Glei, Reinhold F., 1959- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017.
Colección:Dynamics in the history of religion ; v. 9.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Preliminary Material
  • Terms, Turns and Traps: Some Introductory Remarks / Reinhold Glei and Nikolas Jaspert
  • Geography, History and Prophecy: Mechanisms of Integration in the Islamic Alexander Legend / Anna Akasoy
  • The Portuguese Discovery of Buddhism: Locating Religion in Early Modern Asia / Stephen C. Berkwitz
  • From Geographical Migration to Transmigration of Souls: Negotiating Religious Difference between Space among Jews in Early Modern Safed / Alexandra Cuffel
  • Translocating Religion in the Mediterranean Space: Monastic Confrontation under Muslim Dominion / Ana Echevarría
  • The Mirror and the Palimpsest: The Myth of Buddhist Kingship in Imperial Tibet / Georgios T. Halkias
  • Prester John, the Ten Tribes, and the Raja Rum: Representing the Distant Ally in Three Pre-Modern Societies / Adam Knobler
  • Locating Religion, Controlling Territory: Conquest and Legitimation in Late Ninth-Century Vaspurakan and its Interreligious Context / Zaroui Pogossian
  • The Meeting of Daoist and Buddhist Spatial Imagination: The Construction of the Netherworld in Medieval China / Henrik H. Sørensen
  • Locating the Dialogue: On the Topology of the Setting in Medieval Religious Colloquies / Knut Martin Stünkel
  • Space, Entanglement and Decentralisation: On How to Narrate the Transcultural History of Christianity (550 to 1350 ce) / Dorothea Weltecke
  • Armlet of the Pinnacle of the Noble Victory Banner: Locating Traces of Imperial Tibet in a Dhāraṇī in the British Museum / Michael Willis and Tsering Gonkatsang
  • Index of Names and Places.