Pilgrims, Patrons and Place: Localizing Sanctity in Asian Religions (Asian Religions and Society) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0774810394 ISBN 13: 9780774810395

Verlag: University of British Columbia Press, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

This book brings together essays by anthropologists, scholars of religion, and art historians on the subject of sacred place and sacred biography in Asia. The chapters span a broad geographical area that includes India, Nepal, Thailand, Indonesia, and China, and explore issues from the classical and medieval periods to the present. They show how sacred places have a plurality of meanings and how in their construction, secular politics, private religious experience, and sectarian rivalry intersect.

Contributors explore the fundamental challenges that religious groups face as they expand from their homeland or confront the demands of modernity. While some chapters deal with well-known religious movements and sites, others discuss little-known groups and help to enrich our understanding of the diversity of religious belief in Asia.

The book will be of interest not only to scholars of Asian religion and hagiography, but also to others who seek to understand the ways in which religious groups accommodate the challenges of new environments and new times.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinohara are professors in the Department of Religious Studies at McMaster University.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of British Columbia Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0774810394
• ISBN 13: 9780774810395
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 392
• Herausgeber: Granoff Phyllis
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