Religious Encounters along the Silk Road

Connections, Competitions, and Comparisons

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Beskrivning

Religious Encounters along the Silk Road draws on a diverse range of sources to examine the connections, rivalries, and interactions among Buddhism, Christianity, and Daoism along the Silk Road during the medieval era. This book analyzes these dynamics from political, textual, ritual, and ethnic perspectives to argue that interreligious exchanges were integral to the broader process of medieval globalization, shaping political and religious life in Central Asia and China within a multilingual, multi-religious, and multi-ethnic environment. This book further suggests that Buddhists, Christians, and Daoists coexisted within shared political, textual, ritual, and ethnic spheres, developing distinct strategies to navigate and adapt to political and religious challenges. These communities likely influenced one another’s texts and rituals under the same political regime.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-02-19
Mått:152 x 230 x 20 mm
Vikt:540 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781666943887

Utforska kategorier

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

Mer om författaren

Huaiyu Chen is Professor of Buddhism and Chinese Religions at Arizona State University, USA.

Recensioner i media

Huaiyu Chen's Religious Encounters along the Silk Road: Connections, Competitions, and Comparisons is a delight to behold. It masterfully examines Buddhism, Christianity, and Daoism, the three major religious traditions of medieval Central Asia, while also paying due regard to less prominent faiths of the period and place such as Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, Judaism, and Islam. Solidly grounded in textual and epigraphical sources and amply illustrated with primary manuscripts and inscriptions, this trustworthy work of detailed scholarship transports the reader back a millennium and more to Dunhuang, Turfan, and other sites where these ancient texts, amulets, and portraits were the focus of vibrant communities of believers, now brought to life by the dedicated scholarship of the author.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresMapsIntroduction1. The Shared Political Community: State Ideology, True Portraits, and Creating the Church2. The Shared Textual Community: Shared Vocabulary and Different Doctrines3. The Shared Ritual Community: Scripture Pillars and Amulets4. The Shared Heavenly Community: Politics, Religions, and Science along the Silk RoadEpilogueBibliographyIndex