Religions and trade : : religious formation, transformation and cross-cultural exchange between East and West / / edited by Peter Wick and Volker Rabens.

• Superior document: Dynamics in the history of religions, volume 5
• TeilnehmendeR: Wick, Peter.; Rabens, Volker.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Brill,, 2014.
• Year of Publication: 2013; 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Dynamics in the history of religion ; v. 5.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (393 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

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 trade relations with cultural and religious “commodities” which they contribute to the “market place” of human culture and religion. This leads to the inclusion, demarcation and densification as well as the amalgamation of religious traditions. In an attempt to find new pathways into the world of religious dynamics, this collection of essays focuses on four elements or “commodities” of religious interchange: topologies of religious space, religious symbol systems, religious knowledge, and religious-ethical ways of life.

Table of Contents

part one. Trade and the topology of religious space -- part two. Trade and religious symbol systems -- part three. Trade and religious knowledge -- part four. Trade and religious-ethical ways of life.