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religious formation, transformation and cross-cultural exchange between East and West
xix, 373 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
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. -- Publisher's website.
Trading religions: foundational and introductory matters / Peter Wick and 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 -- 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 T. Halkias ; The Buddhaksetra of Bodhgaya: Sangha, exchanges and trade networks / Abhishek Singh Amar -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 cae of the household codes in Ephesians 5:21-6:9 in cross-cultural perspective / Loren T. Stuckenbruck.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Dynamics in the history of religion ; v. 5