Material culture and Asian religions : text, image, object / edited by Benjamin J. Fleming and Richard D. Mann
- Bib ID:
- 6491676
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- Book
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- Edition:
- 1 [edition].
- Description:
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- New York : Routledge, 2014
- 1 online resource (xv, 313 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- ISBN:
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- 113501373X (electronic book)
- 9781135013738 (electronic book)
- Invalid ISBN:
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- 0415843782 (alkaline paper)
- 9780415843782 (alkaline paper)
- Series:
- Routledge research in religion, media and culture ; 4.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Introduction : Material culture and religious studies / Benjamin J. Fleming and Richard D. Mann
- 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 / Dirk Meyer ; 3. Seeing in between the space : the aura of writing and the shape of artistic productions in medieval South Asia / Jinah Kim ; 4. Manuscripts and shifting geographies : the Dvādaśajyotirliṅgastotra from the Deccan College as case study / Benjamin J. Fleming ; 5. Representations of religion in The Tibet mirror : the newspaper as religious object and patterns of continuity and rupture in Tibetan material culture / Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa
- Part II. Amulets, Talismans, and Religious Economies. 6. An ingestible scripture : Qur'ānic erasure and the limits of "popular" religion / Travis Zadeh ; 7. Buddhism on the battlefield : the cult of the "substitute body" talisman in imperial Japan (1890-1945) / Kevin Bond ; 8. The material turn : an introduction to Thai sources for the study of Buddhist amulets / Justin McDaniel
- Part III. Image in Context. 9. Ninshô, ryôhen, and the twenty-five bodhisattvas of Hakone / Hank Glassman ; 10. Encountering ascetics on and beyond the Indian temple wall / Tamara I. Sears ; 11. Goddesses in text and stone : temples of the Yoginīs in light of Tantric and Purānic literature / Shaman Hatley
- Part IV. Trade, Travel, and Hybridity. 12. Material culture and ruler ideology in South Asia : the case of Huviska's Skanda-Kumāra with Viśākha coinage / Richard D. Mann ; 13. Literary and visual narratives in Gandhāran Buddhist manuscripts and material cultures : localizations of Jātakas, Avadānas, and previous-birth stories / Jason Neelis ; 14. Reimagining the East : Eurasian trade, Asian religions, and Christian identities / Annette Yoshiko Reed ; 15. Seeing the religious image in the historical account : icons and idols in the Islamic past / Jamal J. Elias.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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