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Early Buddhist Transmission and Trade Networks
Mobility and Exchange within and beyond the Northwestern Borderlands of South Asia
Av Jason Neelis
Inbunden, 2010
3013 kr
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This exploration of early paths for Buddhist transmission within and beyond South Asia retraces the footsteps of monks, merchants, and other agents of cross-cultural exchange. A reassessment of literary, epigraphic, and archaeological sources reveals hisorical contexts for the growth of the …
Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe
Encounters, Notions, and Comparative Perspectives
Inbunden, 2011
3534 kr
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This first volume of the series “Dynamics in the History of Religions” reviews the opening conference of the "Käte Hamburger Kolleg” at the Ruhr-University Bochum. The first section concentrates on the formation of what later come to be termed "world religions" through inter-religious contact, the …
Purity and the Forming of Religious Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean World and Ancient Judaism
Inbunden, 2012
4512 kr
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Purity is a cultural construct that had a central role in the forming and the development of religious traditions in the ancient Mediterranean. This volume analyzes concepts, practices and images associated with purity in the main cultures of Antiquity, and discusses from a comparative perspective …
Religion and Secularity
Transformations and Transfers of Religious Discourses in Europe and Asia
Inbunden, 2013
2336 kr
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Religion and Secularity traces the history of the conceptual binary of religion and secularity in Europe and the repercussions it had in other regions and cultures of the Eurasian continent during the age of imperialism and beyond. Twelve authors from a wide range of disciplines, deal in their …
Religions and Trade
Religious Formation, Transformation and Cross-Cultural Exchange between East and West
Inbunden, 2013
3052 kr
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In Religions and Trade a number of international scholars investigate the ways in which eastern and western religions were formed and transformed from the perspective of "trade." Trade changes religions. Religions expand through the help of trade infrastructures, and religions extend and enrich the …
Discourses of Purity in Transcultural Perspective (300–1600)
Inbunden, 2015
3052 kr
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While comparative studies on purity and impurity presented in the last decades have mostly concentrated on the ancient world or on modern developments, this volume focusses the hitherto comparatively neglected period between ca. 300 and 1600 c. E. The collection is innovative because it not only …
Transfer of Buddhism Across Central Asian Networks (7th to 13th Centuries)
Inbunden, 2015
2642 kr
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The interdisciplinary volume Transfer of Buddhism across Central Asian Networks (7th to 13th Centuries), edited by Carmen Meinert, offers a new transregional and transcultural vision for religious transfer processes in Central Asian history. It looks at the region as an integrated (religious) whole …
Locating Religions
Contact, Diversity, and Translocality
Inbunden, 2016
3065 kr
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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) themselves beyond …
Buddhist Encounters and Identities Across East Asia
Av Ann Heirman
Inbunden, 2018
3050 kr
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Encounters, networks, identities and diversity are at the core of the history of Buddhism. They are also the focus of Buddhist Encounters and Identities across East Asia, edited by Ann Heirman, Carmen Meinert and Christoph Anderl. While long-distance networks allowed Buddhist ideas to travel to all …
Buddhism in Central Asia I
Patronage, Legitimation, Sacred Space, and Pilgrimage
Inbunden, 2020
3130 kr
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The ERC-funded research project BuddhistRoad aims to create a new framework to enable understanding of the complexities in the dynamics of cultural encounter and religious transfer in pre-modern Eastern Central Asia. Buddhism was one major factor in this exchange: for the first time the …
Buddhism in Central Asia II
Practices and Rituals, Visual and Material Transfer
Av Yukiyo Kasai
Inbunden, 2022
3456 kr
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The ERC-funded research project BuddhistRoad aims to create a new framework to enable understanding of the complexities in the dynamics of cultural encounter and religious transfer in pre-modern Eastern Central Asia. Buddhism was one major factor in this exchange: for the first time the …
Key Concepts in the Study of Religions in Contact
Inbunden, 2024
2964 kr
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There is no religion lest there are two religions. Therefore, it is only possible to examine the history of religions by taking the crucial situations of contact into account. Contact needs concepts. Not only scholars but also participants in situations of contact are forced to conceptualize …
Stepping Back and Looking Ahead: Twelve Years of Studying Religious Contact at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg Bochum
Inbunden, 2023
2009 kr
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This book includes a collection of articles by leading researchers on the topic of religious contact in the study of religion. Resulting from the final conference of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg "Dynamics in the History of Religions"–one of the largest research initiatives in the interdisciplinary …
Secrets in Contact
Secrecy as a Promoter of Contacts Between Religious Traditions
Inbunden, 2025
2920 kr
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Secrets in Contact presents a revolutionary perspective on religious secrecy—revealing how the concealed becomes a bridge between faiths rather than a barrier. This ground-breaking collection of essays challenges conventional wisdom by demonstrating how secrets function as powerful catalysts for …
Buddhism in Central Asia III
Impacts of Non-Buddhist Influences, Doctrines
Av Lewis Doney
Inbunden, 2024
3287 kr
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The BuddhistRoad project has been creating a new framework to understand the dynamics of cultural encounter and religious transfer across premodern Eastern Central Asia. This framework includes a new focus on the complex interactions between Buddhism and non-Buddhist traditions and a deepening of …
Kusāli Yogi
Vinaya, Tantric Yoga, and the Internalization of Practice in the Early Kagyupa Tradition
Inbunden, 2026
1788 kr
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This book offers a new interpretation of early Kagyupa Buddhism by demonstrating that Vinaya, tantric yoga, and mahāmudrā are not separate domains but integrated aspects of a single path. Focusing on Jikten Sumgön and his lineage, it shows how disciplined conduct functions as a method for …
