Images in Asian Religions

Text and Contexts

Edited by Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinohara

Published by: UBC Press

Series: Asian Religions and Society

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

ISBN: 9780774809498
Published: July 2005

£34.00

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<p>UBC Press is pleased to announce a new series in Asian religions.Pilgrims, Patrons, and Place, a Buddha Dharma Kyokai Foundation Book onBuddhism and Comparative Literature, is the first book in this series.Click here to see other titles in this series.</p> <p>The study of images in Asian religions has tended to emphasize thecentrality of image worship in both Hinduism and Buddhism. Images inAsian Religions offers a challenge to any simple understanding of therole of images by looking at aspects of the reception of image worshipthat have only begun to be studied, including the many hesitations thatAsian religious traditions expressed about image worship.</p> <p>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. Areasaddressed include the complex, fluid, and contested nature of thereligious image; the reception of images within the intellectualculture of Hinduism and Buddhism; and the importance of historical andcultural context in the study of religious images.</p> <p>This compelling collection, demonstrating the range of debate overpractices of image worship, will expand our appreciation of the objectsthat serve, for many, as supports of divine presence. Of primaryinterest to scholars of Asian religions, it will also appeal to arthistorians, anthropologists, semioticians, and students of religion whoconcern themselves with images, icons, and material culture.</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>

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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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