Religions of the Silk Road : overland trade and cultural exchange from antiquity to the fifteenth century

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Religions of the Silk Road : overland trade and cultural exchange from antiquity to the fifteenth century

Richard C. Foltz

Macmillan, 1999

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Bibliography: [163]-178

Includes index

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Volume

ISBN 9780333775271

Description

During the latter decades of the 19th century, popular European fascination with the world beyond reached an all-time high. The British and French empires spanned the globe, and their colonial agents sent home exotic goods and stories. The Silk Route dates from this romantic period, in name if not in reality. In the century since its invention as a concept, the Silk Route has captured and captivated the Western imagination. It has given us images of fabled cities and exotic peoples. "Religions of the Silk Route" tells the story of how religions accompanied merchants and their goods along the overland Asian trade routes of pre-modern times. It is a story of continuous movement, encounters, mutual reactions and responses, adaptation and change. Beginning as early as the 8th century BCE, Israelite and Iranian traditions travelled eastwards in this way, and they were followed centuries later by the great missionary traditions of Buddhism, Christianity, Manichaeism, and Islam. The Silk Route was more than just a conduit along which these religions hitched rides East it was a formative and transformative rite of passage, and no religion emerged unchanged at the end of that arduous journe

Table of Contents

The Silk Route and its Travellers - Religion and Trade in Ancient Eurasia - The Rise and Spread of Buddhism - Heresies in Flight: Nestorian Christianity and Manichaeism - Islam and the Silk Route - Ecumenical Mischief Under the Mongols - A Melting Pot No More
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780333946749

Description

During the latter decades of the 19th century, popular European fascination with the world beyond reached an all-time high. The British and French empires spanned the globe, and their colonial agents sent home exotic goods and stories. The Silk Route dates from this romantic period, in name if not in reality. In the century since its invention as a concept, the Silk Route has captured and captivated the Western imagination. It has given us images of fabled cities and exotic peoples. "Religions of the Silk Route" tells the story of how religions accompanied merchants and their goods along the overland Asian trade routes of pre-modern times. It is a story of continuous movement, encounters, mutual reactions and responses, adaptation and change. Beginning as early as the 8th century BCE, Israelite and Iranian traditions travelled eastwards in this way, and they were followed centuries later by the great missionary traditions of Buddhism, Christianity, Manichaeism, and Islam. The Silk Route was more than just a conduit along which these religions hitched rides East it was a formative and transformative rite of passage, and no religion emerged unchanged at the end of that arduous journey.

Table of Contents

The Silk Route and its Travellers Religion and Trade in Ancient Eurasia The Rise and Spread of Buddhism Heresies in Flight: Nestorian Christianity and Manichaeism Islam and the Silk Route Ecumenical Mischief Under the Mongols A Melting Pot No More

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  • NCID
    BA45565446
  • ISBN
    • 0333775279
    • 033394674X
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    viii, 186 p., [12] p. of plates
  • Size
    22 cm
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