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Title Locating religions : contact, diversity, and translocality / edited by Reinhold F. Glei, Nikolas Jaspert.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017.

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Series Dynamics in the history of religions, 1878-8106 ; v. 9
Dynamics in the history of religion ; v. 9.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary This collection of articles is an innovative contribution to religious studies, because it picks up concepts developed in the wake of the so-called "spatial turn". Religions are always located in a certain cultural and spatial environment, but often tend to locate (or translocate) themselves beyond that original setting. Also, many religious traditions are not only tied to or associated with the area its respective adherent live in, but are in fact "bi-local" or even "multi-local", as they closely relate to various spatial centers or plains at once. This spatial diversity inherent to many religions is a corollary to religious diversity or plurality that merits in-depth research. The articles in this volume present important findings from a series of settings within and between Asia and Europe.
Contents Preliminary Material -- Terms, Turns and Traps: Some Introductory Remarks / Reinhold Glei and Nikolas Jaspert -- Geography, History and Prophecy: Mechanisms of Integration in the Islamic Alexander Legend / Anna Akasoy -- The Portuguese Discovery of Buddhism: Locating Religion in Early Modern Asia / Stephen C. Berkwitz -- From Geographical Migration to Transmigration of Souls: Negotiating Religious Difference between Space among Jews in Early Modern Safed / Alexandra Cuffel -- Translocating Religion in the Mediterranean Space: Monastic Confrontation under Muslim Dominion / Ana Echevarría -- The Mirror and the Palimpsest: The Myth of Buddhist Kingship in Imperial Tibet / Georgios T. Halkias -- Prester John, the Ten Tribes, and the Raja Rum: Representing the Distant Ally in Three Pre-Modern Societies / Adam Knobler -- Locating Religion, Controlling Territory: Conquest and Legitimation in Late Ninth-Century Vaspurakan and its Interreligious Context / Zaroui Pogossian -- The Meeting of Daoist and Buddhist Spatial Imagination: The Construction of the Netherworld in Medieval China / Henrik H. Sørensen -- Locating the Dialogue: On the Topology of the Setting in Medieval Religious Colloquies / Knut Martin Stünkel -- Space, Entanglement and Decentralisation: On How to Narrate the Transcultural History of Christianity (550 to 1350 ce) / Dorothea Weltecke -- Armlet of the Pinnacle of the Noble Victory Banner: Locating Traces of Imperial Tibet in a Dhra in the British Museum / Michael Willis and Tsering Gonkatsang -- Index of Names and Places.
Subject Religion and geography.
Religion et géographie.
RELIGION / Comparative Religion
RELIGION / Essays
RELIGION / Reference
Religion and geography
Added Author Glei, Reinhold F., 1959- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Locating religions Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017 9789004335059 (DLC) 2016052298
ISBN 9789004335066 (E-book)
9004335064
9789004335059 (hardback : alk. paper)
9004335056 hardcover alkaline paper
Standard No. 9789004335059
10.1163/9789004335066 doi
AU@ 000059543594
AU@ 000073995991

 
    
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