| Description |
x, 382 p. : ill. |
| Series |
Asian religions and society series |
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Asian religions and society series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Images and their ritual use in medieval India : hesitations and contradictions / Phyllis Granoff -- Theology as history : divine images, imagination, and rituals in India / Gilles Tarabout -- Of metal and cloths : the location of distinctive features in divine iconography (Indian Himalayas) / Daniela Berti -- At the right side of the teacher : imagination, imagery, and image in Vedic and ?Saiva initiation / Hans Bakker -- The competing hermeneutics of image worship in Hinduism (fifth to eleventh century AD) / G?erard Colas -- Stories of miraculous images and paying repect to the three jewels : a discourse on image worship in seventh-century China / Koichi Shinohara -- Icon and incantation : the goddess Zhunti and the role of images in the occult Buddhism of China / Robert M. Gimello -- The Tenjukoju Sh?uch?o Mandara : reconstruction of the iconography and ritual context / Chari Pradel -- ?Obaku Zen portrait painting and its Sino-Japanese heritage / Elizabeth Horton Sharf -- Ritual and image at Angkor Wat / Robert L. Brown. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Language |
Includes some text in Chinese and Japanese ; some bibliographical references in Chinese and Japanese. |
| Subject |
Idols and images -- Asia -- Worship.
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Idoles et images -- Asie -- Culte.
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Asia -- Religion.
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Asia -- Religious life and customs.
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Asie -- Religion.
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Asie -- Vie religieuse.
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| Indexed Term |
Asian religions |
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Images |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Granoff, P. E. (Phyllis Emily), 1947-
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Shinohara, Koichi, 1941-
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780774851107 |
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0774809485 (hard : alk. paper) |
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