Locating religions : : contact, diversity, and translocality / / 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...
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| Superior document: | Dynamics in the history of religions, volume 9 |
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| 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. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Terms, Turns and Traps: Some Introductory Remarks / Reinhold Glei and Nikolas Jaspert
- Geography, History and Prophecy: Mechanisms of Integration in the Islamic Alexander Legend / Anna Akasoy
- The Portuguese Discovery of Buddhism: Locating Religion in Early Modern Asia / Stephen C. Berkwitz
- From Geographical Migration to Transmigration of Souls: Negotiating Religious Difference between Space among Jews in Early Modern Safed / Alexandra Cuffel
- Translocating Religion in the Mediterranean Space: Monastic Confrontation under Muslim Dominion / Ana Echevarría
- The Mirror and the Palimpsest: The Myth of Buddhist Kingship in Imperial Tibet / Georgios T. Halkias
- Prester John, the Ten Tribes, and the Raja Rum: Representing the Distant Ally in Three Pre-Modern Societies / Adam Knobler
- Locating Religion, Controlling Territory: Conquest and Legitimation in Late Ninth-Century Vaspurakan and its Interreligious Context / Zaroui Pogossian
- The Meeting of Daoist and Buddhist Spatial Imagination: The Construction of the Netherworld in Medieval China / Henrik H. Sørensen
- Locating the Dialogue: On the Topology of the Setting in Medieval Religious Colloquies / Knut Martin Stünkel
- Space, Entanglement and Decentralisation: On How to Narrate the Transcultural History of Christianity (550 to 1350 ce) / Dorothea Weltecke
- Armlet of the Pinnacle of the Noble Victory Banner: Locating Traces of Imperial Tibet in a Dhāraṇī in the British Museum / Michael Willis and Tsering Gonkatsang
- Index of Names and Places.