Images in Asian Religions

Text and Contexts

Asian Religions and Society

Edited by Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinohara

Published by: UBC Press

396 pages, 152.00 x 229.00 mm, 72 b&w photos and illustrations

ISBN: 9780774809498
Published: July 2005

£33.00

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<p>This collection offers a challenge to any simple understanding ofthe role of images by looking at aspects of the reception of imageworship that have only begun to be studied, including the manyhesitations that Asian religious traditions expressed about imageworship. Written by eminent scholars of anthropology, art history, andreligion with interests in different regions (India, China, Japan, andSoutheast Asia), this volume takes a fresh look at the many ways inwhich images were defined and received in Asian religions.</p> <p>Buddha Dharma Kyokai Foundation Book on Buddhism and ComparativeReligion</p> </div> </div> <div id="tab-2" class="tabs__panel tabs__panel--content" style="display: none"> <div class="tabs__content"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"><html><head><meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy, see www.w3.org"><title>

Contributors

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1: Defining Images: The Sacred Objects of IndianReligions

1. Images and Their Ritual Use in Medieval India: Hesitations andContradictions

2. Theology as History: Divine Images, Imagination, and Rituals inIndia

3. Of Metal and Clothes: The Location of Distinctive Features inDivine Iconography

Part 2: Images and the Elite Intellectual Culture:Accommodations and Ambiguities

4. At the Right Side of the Teacher: Imagination, Imagery, and Imagein Vedic and Saiva Initiation

5. The Competing Hermeneutics of Image Worship in Hinduism (Fifth toEleventh Century AD

6. Stories of Miraculous Images and Paying Respect to the ThreeJewels: A Discourse on Image Worship in Seventh-Century China

Part 3: Recreating the Context of Image Worship: CaseStudies

7. Icon and Incantation: The Goddess Zhunti and the Role of Imagesin the Occult Buddhism of China

8. The Tenjukoku Shucho Mandara: Reconstruction of the Iconographyand Ritual Context

9. Obaku Zen Portrait Painting and Its Sino-Japanese Heritage

10. Ritual and Image at Angkor Wat

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Images in Asian Religions

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Asian Religions and Society

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