Empires of faith in late antiquity : histories of art and religion from India to Ireland
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Empires of faith in late antiquity : histories of art and religion from India to Ireland
Cambridge University Press, 2023, c2020
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  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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First published: 2020
Includes bibliographical references (p. 434-507) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book reveals the rewards of exploring the relationship between art and religion in the first millennium, and the particular problems of comparing the visual cultures of different emergent and established religions of the period in Eurasia - Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity and the pagan religions of the Roman world. Most of these became established and remained in play as what are called 'the world religions'. The chapters in this volume show how the long traditions of studying these topics are caught up in complex local, ancestral, colonial and post-colonial discourses and biases, which have made comparison difficult. The study of Late Antiquity turns out also to be an examination of the intellectual histories of modernity.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction Jas Elsner
- Part I. The Imperial Context: 2. The Gandharan problem Robert Bracey
- 3. Writing the art, archaeology and religion of the Roman Mediterranean Philippa Adrych and Dominic Dalglish
- 4. Mystery cult and material culture in the Graeco-Roman world Philippa Adrych and Dominic Dalglish
- 5. The Viennese invention of late antiquity: between politics and religion in the forms of late Roman art Jas Elsner
- 6. The rise of Byzantine art and archaeology in late Imperial Russia Maria Lidova
- 7. Ferdinand Piper's Monumentale Theologie (1867) and Schleiermacher's legacy: the attempted foundation of a Protestant theology of art Stefanie Lenk
- Part II. After Imperialism: Orientalism and its Resistances
- 8. The road from decadence: agendas and personal histories in the rise of early Islamic art Nadia Ali
- 9. Connecting art and Zoroastrianism in Sasanian studies Rachel Wood
- 10. 'Hindu' art and the primordial Siva Robert Bracey
- Part III. Post-colonialist, Old Colonialist and Nationalist Fantasies: 11. Jewish art: before and after the Jewish state (1948) Jesse Lockard and Jas Elsner
- 12. Whose history is it anyway? Contests for India's past in the twentieth century Robert Bracey
- 13. Acculturated natives who rebel: revivalist, Ottomanist and Pan-Arabist engagements with early Islamic art (1876-1930s) Nadia Ali
- 14. Barbarians at the British Museum: Anglo-Saxon art, race and religion Katherine Cross.
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