Images in Asian religions : texts and contexts
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Images in Asian religions : texts and contexts
(Asian religions and society series)(A Buddha Dharma Kyokai Foundation book)
UBC Press, c2004
- : pbk
Available at 10 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This collection offers a challenge to any simple understanding ofthe role of images by looking at aspects of the reception of imageworship that have only begun to be studied, including the manyhesitations that Asian religious traditions expressed about imageworship. Written by eminent scholars of anthropology, art history, andreligion with interests in different regions (India, China, Japan, andSoutheast Asia), this volume takes a fresh look at the many ways inwhich images were defined and received in Asian religions.
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Table of Contents
Contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: Defining Images: The Sacred Objects of IndianReligions
1. Images and Their Ritual Use in Medieval India: Hesitations andContradictions
2. Theology as History: Divine Images, Imagination, and Rituals inIndia
3. Of Metal and Clothes: The Location of Distinctive Features inDivine Iconography
Part 2: Images and the Elite Intellectual Culture:Accommodations and Ambiguities
4. At the Right Side of the Teacher: Imagination, Imagery, and Imagein Vedic and Saiva Initiation
5. The Competing Hermeneutics of Image Worship in Hinduism (Fifth toEleventh Century AD
6. Stories of Miraculous Images and Paying Respect to the ThreeJewels: A Discourse on Image Worship in Seventh-Century China
Part 3: Recreating the Context of Image Worship: CaseStudies
7. Icon and Incantation: The Goddess Zhunti and the Role of Imagesin the Occult Buddhism of China
8. The Tenjukoku Shucho Mandara: Reconstruction of the Iconographyand Ritual Context
9. Obaku Zen Portrait Painting and Its Sino-Japanese Heritage
10. Ritual and Image at Angkor Wat
Index
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