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
Macmillan, 1999
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Bibliography: [163]-178
Includes index
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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
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: 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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