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Subject(s)

• Asia—Religion [Browse]
• Material culture—Asia [Browse]
• Material culture—Religious aspects [Browse]

Editor

• Fleming, Benjamin J., 1967- [Browse]
• Mann, Richard D. [Browse]

Series

• Routledge research in religion, media and culture ; 4. [More in this series]
• Routledge research in religion, media and culture ; 4 [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Introduction : Material culture and religious studies / Benjamin J. Fleming and Richard D. Mann
• Part I. The Materiality of Writing. 2. Bamboo and the production of philosophy : a hypothesis about a shift in writing and thought in early China / Dirk Meyer ; 3. Seeing in between the space : the aura of writing and the shape of artistic productions in medieval South Asia / Jinah Kim ; 4. Manuscripts and shifting geographies : the Dvādaśajyotirliṅgastotra from the Deccan College as case study / Benjamin J. Fleming ; 5. Representations of religion in The Tibet mirror : the newspaper as religious object and patterns of continuity and rupture in Tibetan material culture / Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa
• Part II. Amulets, Talismans, and Religious Economies. 6. An ingestible scripture : Qur'ānic erasure and the limits of "popular" religion / Travis Zadeh ; 7. Buddhism on the battlefield : the cult of the "substitute body" talisman in imperial Japan (1890-1945) / Kevin Bond ; 8. The material turn : an introduction to Thai sources for the study of Buddhist amulets / Justin McDaniel
• Part III. Image in Context. 9. Ninshô, ryôhen, and the twenty-five bodhisattvas of Hakone / Hank Glassman ; 10. Encountering ascetics on and beyond the Indian temple wall / Tamara I. Sears ; 11. Goddesses in text and stone : temples of the Yoginīs in light of Tantric and Purānic literature / Shaman Hatley
• Part IV. Trade, Travel, and Hybridity. 12. Material culture and ruler ideology in South Asia : the case of Huviska's Skanda-Kumāra with Viśākha coinage / Richard D. Mann ; 13. Literary and visual narratives in Gandhāran Buddhist manuscripts and material cultures : localizations of Jātakas, Avadānas, and previous-birth stories / Jason Neelis ; 14. Reimagining the East : Eurasian trade, Asian religions, and Christian identities / Annette Yoshiko Reed ; 15. Seeing the religious image in the historical account : icons and idols in the Islamic past / Jamal J. Elias.

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ISBN

• 9780415843782 (alk. paper)
• 0415843782 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2013041860

OCLC

869458151

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