Images in Asian religions : texts and contexts

Author(s)

• Granoff, P. E.
• Shinohara, Koichi

Bibliographic Information

Images in Asian religions : texts and contexts

edited by Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinohara

（Asian religions and society series）（A Buddha Dharma Kyokai Foundation book）

UBC Press, c2004

• : pbk

Note

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. Buddha Dharma Kyokai Foundation Book on Buddhism and ComparativeReligion

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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Details

• NCID: BA69773346
• ISBN:
  • 0774809485
  • 9780774809498
• Country Code: cn
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Vancouver, B.C.
• Pages/Volumes: x, 382 p.
• Size: 23-24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC22 : 203.7095
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Idols and images -- Asia
  • LCSH : Asia -- Religion
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA62874287
  • BA62874640