A comprehensive and balanced look at the role of images in Asian religions, which examines aspects of the reception of image worship that have only begun to be studied.
Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinoharaare both professors in the Department of Religious Studies at YaleUniversity.
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The essays are uniformly informative and well written. All of the essays in this collection are well-written and insightful. They certainly fulfill their mandate of dealing with images in Asian religions. - Alexander Soucy, St. Mary's University (Studies in Religion, 34/3-4, 2005)
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ContributorsForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Part 1: Defining Images: The Sacred Objects of IndianReligions1. Images and Their Ritual Use in Medieval India: Hesitations andContradictions2. Theology as History: Divine Images, Imagination, and Rituals inIndia3. Of Metal and Clothes: The Location of Distinctive Features inDivine Iconography Part 2: Images and the Elite Intellectual Culture:Accommodations and Ambiguities4. At the Right Side of the Teacher: Imagination, Imagery, and Imagein Vedic and Saiva Initiation5. The Competing Hermeneutics of Image Worship in Hinduism (Fifth toEleventh Century AD6. Stories of Miraculous Images and Paying Respect to the ThreeJewels: A Discourse on Image Worship in Seventh-Century China Part 3: Recreating the Context of Image Worship: CaseStudies7. Icon and Incantation: The Goddess Zhunti and the Role of Imagesin the Occult Buddhism of China8. The Tenjukoku Shucho Mandara: Reconstruction of the Iconographyand Ritual Context9. Obaku Zen Portrait Painting and Its Sino-Japanese Heritage10. Ritual and Image at Angkor Wat Index
