Images in Asian Religions

Text and Contexts

AvPhyllis Granoff,Koichi Shinohara

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2005-07-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 26 mm
Vikt:540 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Asian Religions and Society
Antal sidor:396
Förlag:University of British Columbia Press
ISBN:9780774809498

Utforska kategorier

Hinduism inom Filosofi och religion
Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Buddhism inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinoharaare both professors in the Department of Religious Studies at YaleUniversity.

Recensioner i media

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)

Innehållsförteckning

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