Religions and trade : religious formation, transformation, and cross-cultural exchange between East and West /

Religions and trade : religious formation, transformation, and cross-cultural exchange between East and West /

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 e...

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Other Authors: Wick, Peter.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Boston : Brill, 2013.

Series: Dynamics in the History of Religions 5.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2014, ISBN: 9789004262492.

Subjects:

Religions.
Religions > Relations.
Globalization > Religious aspects.
Commerce.
Business > Religious aspects.

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Call Number: BL85 .R374 2013

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • "Trading Religions": Foundational and Introductory Matters /
  • Peter Wick and Volker Rabens
  • With the Grain Came the Gods from the Orient to Rome: The Example of Serapis and Some Systematic Reflections /
  • Christoph Auffarth
  • 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 Buddhakṣetra of Bodhgaya: Saṅgha, Exchanges and Trade Networks /
  • Abhishek Singh Amar
  • "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
  • 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 born Abī Ṣalt /
  • Al Makin
  • 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.