Images In Asian Religion
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Author | : Phyllis Granoff |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2010-10-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0774859806 |
This collection offers a challenge to any simple understanding of the role of images by looking at aspects of the reception of image worship that have only begun to be studied, including the many hesitations that Asian religious traditions expressed about image worship. Written by eminent scholars of anthropology, art history, and religion with interests in different regions (India, China, Japan, and Southeast Asia), this volume takes a fresh look at the many ways in which images were defined and received in Asian religions. Buddha Dharma Kyokai Foundation Book on Buddhism and Comparative Religion
Author | : Richard Davis |
Publisher | : Westview Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1998-04-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
"In this edited volume, Richard Davis and his colleagues examine how religious images are understood by practitioners in Asia and what social, cultural, and political aspects are connected to the "mira"
Author | : Benjamin Fleming |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2014-03-26 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1135013721 |
Traditionally, research on the history of Asian religions has been marked by a bias for literary evidence, privileging canonical texts penned in ‘classical’ languages. Not only has a focus on literary evidence shaped the dominant narratives about the religious histories of Asia, in both scholarship and popular culture, but it has contributed to the tendency to study different religious traditions in relative isolation from one another. Today, moreover, historical work is often based on modern textual editions and, increasingly, on electronic databases. What may be lost, in the process, is the visceral sense of the text as artifact – as a material object that formed part of a broader material culture, in which the boundaries between religious traditions were sometimes more fluid than canonical literature might suggest. This volume brings together specialists in a variety of Asian cultures to discuss the methodological challenges involved in integrating material evidence for the reconstruction of the religious histories of South, Southeast, Central, and East Asia. By means of specific ‘test cases,’ the volume explores the importance of considering material and literary evidence in concert. What untold stories do these sources help us to recover? How might they push us to reevaluate historical narratives traditionally told from literary sources? By addressing these questions from the perspectives of different subfields and religious traditions, contributors map out the challenges involved in interpreting different types of data, assessing the problems of interpretation distinct to specific types of material evidence (e.g., coins, temple art, manuscripts, donative inscriptions) and considering the issues raised by the different patterns in the preservation of such evidence in different locales. Special attention is paid to newly-discovered and neglected sources; to our evidence for trade, migration, and inter-regional cultural exchange; and to geographical locales that served as "contact zones" connecting cultures. In addition, the chapters in this volume represent the rich range of religious traditions across Asia – including Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Shinto, and Chinese religions, as well as Islam and eastern Christianities.
Author | : Phyllis Granoff |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2004 |
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Author | : Robert H. Sharf |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780804739894 |
The essays in this volume focus on the historical, institutional, and ritual context of a number of Japanese Buddhist paintings, sculptures, calligraphies, and relics?some celebrated, others long overlooked.
Author | : Fred W. Clothey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : India, South |
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Author | : Thomas David DuBois |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2011-04-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139499467 |
Religious ideas and actors have shaped Asian cultural practices for millennia and have played a decisive role in charting the course of its history. In this engaging and informative book, Thomas David DuBois sets out to explain how religion has influenced the political, social, and economic transformation of Asia from the fourteenth century to the present. Crossing a broad terrain from Tokyo to Tibet, the book highlights long-term trends and key moments, such as the expulsion of Catholic missionaries from Japan, or the Taiping Rebellion in China, when religion dramatically transformed the political fate of a nation. Contemporary chapters reflect on the wartime deification of the Japanese emperor, Marxism as religion, the persecution of the Dalai Lama, and the fate of Asian religion in a globalized world.
Author | : T. S. Maxwell |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Predominantly on the Hindu and Buddhist gods of Southeast Asia.
Author | : Patricia Ann Berger |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 1994-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780824816629 |
Author | : Robert Daniel DeCaroli |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2015-03-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 029580579X |
This deft and lively study by Robert DeCaroli explores the questions of how and why the earliest verifiable images of the historical Buddha were created. In so doing, DeCaroli steps away from old questions of where and when to present the history of Buddhism’s relationship with figural art as an ongoing set of negotiations within the Buddhist community and in society at large. By comparing innovations in Brahmanical, Jain, and royal artistic practice, DeCaroli examines why no image of the Buddha was made until approximately five hundred years after his death and what changed in the centuries surrounding the start of the Common Era to suddenly make those images desirable and acceptable. The textual and archaeological sources reveal that figural likenesses held special importance in South Asia and were seen as having a significant amount of agency and power. Anxiety over image use extended well beyond the Buddhists, helping to explain why images of Vedic gods, Jain teachers, and political elites also are absent from the material record of the centuries BCE. DeCaroli shows how the emergence of powerful dynasties and rulers, who benefited from novel modes of visual authority, was at the root of the changes in attitude toward figural images. However, as DeCaroli demonstrates, a strain of unease with figural art persisted, even after a tradition of images of the Buddha had become established.