| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 373 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Dynamics in the history of religions ; VOLUME 5
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Dynamics in the history of religion ; v. 5.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Preface; List of Contributors; List of Ilustrations; "Trading Religions": Foundational and Introductory Matters; With the Grain Came the Gods from the Orient to Rome: The Example of Serapis and Some Systematic Reflections; Part One Trade and the Topology of Religious Space; Localizing the Buddha's Presence at Wayside Shrines in Northern Pakistan; When the Greeks Converted the Buddha: Asymmetrical Transfers of Knowledge in Indo-Greek Cultures; The Buddhaksetra of Bodhgaya: Sangha, Exchanges and Trade Networks; Part Two Trade and Religious Symbol Systems. |
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"Trading Religions" and "Visible Religion "in the Ancient Near EastTrading the Symbols of the Goddess Nanaya; "Trading Religions" from Bronze Age Iran to Bactria; Part Three Trade and Religious Knowledge; From World Religion to World Dominion: Trading, Translation and Institution-building in Tibet; Religious Transformation between East and West: Hanukkah in the Babylonian Talmud and Zoroastrianism; Sharing the Concept of God among Trading Prophets: Reading the Poems Attributed to Umayya b. Abi Salt; Part Four Trade and Religious-Ethical Ways of Life. |
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Trading Institutions: The Design of Daoist MonasticismPhilo's Attractive Ethics on the "Religious Market" of Ancient Alexandria; Traveling Ethics: The Case of the Household Codes in Ephesians 5:21-6:9 in Cross-Cultural Perspective; Index. |
| Summary |
Religions and Trade carves new pathways into the world of religious dynamics. In this array of essays a number of international scholars investigate the ways in which eastern and western religions were formed and transformed from the perspective of "trade." |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Subject |
Religions.
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Religions. |
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Religions -- Relations.
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Religions -- Relations. |
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Globalization -- Religious aspects.
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Globalization -- Religious aspects. |
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Commerce.
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Business -- Religious aspects.
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Commerce. |
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Gaia & Earth Energies. |
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Business -- Religious aspects. |
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- General. |
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RELIGION / History. |
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Interfaith relations. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Wick, Peter, editor.
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Rabens, Volker, 1971- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wick, Peter. Religions and Trade : Religious Formation, Transformation and Cross-Cultural Exchange between East and West. Brill 2013 9789004255289 |
| ISBN |
9789004255302 (electronic book) |
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9004255303 (electronic book) |
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1306210305 (electronic book) |
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9781306210300 (electronic book) |
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9789004255289 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9004255281 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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