Locating religions : : contact, diversity, and translocality / / edited by Reinhold F. Glei, Nikolas Jaspert.

• Superior document: Dynamics in the history of religions, volume 9
• TeilnehmendeR: Glei, Reinhold, 1959-; Jaspert, Nikolas,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2016; 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Dynamics in the history of religion ; v. 9.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (381 pages) :; illustrations, color map.
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Terms, Turns and Traps: Some Introductory Remarks /; Geography, History and Prophecy: Mechanisms of Integration in the Islamic Alexander Legend /; The Portuguese Discovery of Buddhism: Locating Religion in Early Modern Asia /; From Geographical Migration to Transmigration of Souls: Negotiating Religious Difference between Space among Jews in Early Modern Safed /; Translocating Religion in the Mediterranean Space: Monastic Confrontation under Muslim Dominion /; The Mirror and the Palimpsest: The Myth of Buddhist Kingship in Imperial Tibet /; Prester John, the Ten Tribes, and the Raja Rum: Representing the Distant Ally in Three Pre-Modern Societies /; Locating Religion, Controlling Territory: Conquest and Legitimation in Late Ninth-Century Vaspurakan and its Interreligious Context /; The Meeting of Daoist and Buddhist Spatial Imagination: The Construction of the Netherworld in Medieval China /; Locating the Dialogue: On the Topology of the Setting in Medieval Religious Colloquies /; Space, Entanglement and Decentralisation: On How to Narrate the Transcultural History of Christianity (550 to 1350 ce) /; Armlet of the Pinnacle of the Noble Victory Banner: Locating Traces of Imperial Tibet in a Dhāraṇī in the British Museum /; Index of Names and Places.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004335064
• ISSN: 1878-8106
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Reinhold F. Glei, Nikolas Jaspert.

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 that original setting. Also, many religious traditions are not only tied to or associated with the area its respective adherent live in, but are in fact “bi-local” or even “multi-local”, as they closely relate to various spatial centers or plains at once. This spatial diversity inherent to many religions is a corollary to religious diversity or plurality that merits in-depth research. The articles in this volume present important findings from a series of settings within and between Asia and Europe