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Case studies in archaeology and world religion : the proceedings of the Cambridge Conference

edited by Timothy Insoll

(BAR international series, 755)

Archaeopress, 1999

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Case studies in archaeology and world religion

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"Papers result from a conference entitled, 'The Cambridge Conference on Archaeology and World Religion: The Examples of Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism', which was held in St. John's College, Cambridge between the 14th-16th April 1998"--Foreword

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Each of the twenty papers presented in this book is a case study utilising archaeological research, or the results thereof, as a means of furthering our understanding of World Religions, and more specifically with regard to Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam and Hinduism. The papers can be classified under five broad headlines: sacred space; theoretical issues; iconography; aspects of a religious whole; and archaeology and the development of Religions.

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