Religions and trade : religious formation, transformation and cross-cultural exchange between East and West
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Religions and trade : religious formation, transformation and cross-cultural exchange between East and West
（Dynamics in the history of religions / editors-in-chief, Volkhard Krech, Marion Steinicke ; advisory board, Jan Assmann ... [et al.], v. 5）
Brill, 2014
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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In Religions and Trade a number of international scholars investigate the ways in which eastern and western religions were formed and transformed from the perspective of "trade." Trade changes religions. Religions expand through the help of trade infrastructures, and religions extend and enrich the trade relations with cultural and religious "commodities" which they contribute to the "market place" of human culture and religion. This leads to the inclusion, demarcation and densification as well as the amalgamation of religious traditions.
In an attempt to find new pathways into the world of religious dynamics, this collection of essays focuses on four elements or "commodities" of religious interchange: topologies of religious space, religious symbol systems, religious knowledge, and religious-ethical ways of life.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- List of Illustrations
"Trading Religions": Foundational and Introductory Matters
Peter Wick & Volker Rabens
- PROGRAMMATIC ESSAY
With the Grain Came the Gods from the Orient to Rome: The Example of Serapis and Some Systematic Reflections - Christoph Auffarth
- PART ONE: TRADE AND THE TOPOLOGY OF RELIGIOUS SPACE
Localizing the Buddha's Presence at Wayside Shrines in Northern Pakistan - Jason Neelis
When the Greeks Converted the Buddha: Asymmetrical Transfers of Knowledge in Indo-Greek Cultures - Georgios Halkias
The Buddhaksetra of Bodhgaya: Sangha, Exchanges and Trade-Networks - Abhishek Singh Amar
- PART TWO: TRADE AND RELIGIOUS SYMBOL SYSTEMS
Trading Religions" and "Visible Religion" in the Ancient Near East - Izak Cornelius
Trading the Symbols of the Goddess Nanaya - Joan Goodnick Westenholz
"Trading Religions" from Bronze Age Iran to Bactria - Sylvia Winkelmann
- PART THREE: TRADE AND RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE
From World Religion to World Dominion: Trading, Translation and Institution-building in Tibet - Michael Willis
Religious Transformation between East and West: Hanukkah in the Babylonian Talmud and Zoroastrianism - Geoffrey Herman
Sharing the Concept of God among Trading Prophets: Reading the Poems Attributed to Umayya b. Abi Salt - Al Makin
- PART FOUR: TRADE AND RELIGIOUS-ETHICAL WAYS OF LIFE
Trading Institutions: The Design of Daoist Monasticism - Livia Kohn
Philo's Attractive Ethics on the "Religious Market" of Ancient Alexandria Volker Rabens
Traveling Ethics: The Case of the Household Codes in Ephesians 5:21-6:9 in Cross-Cultural Perspective - Loren T. Stuckenbruck
- Index
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