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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. 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. 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. 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.

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Author:   Phyllis Granoff ,  Koichi Shinohara
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
Imprint:   University of British Columbia Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9780774809498

ISBN 10:   0774809493
Pages:   396
Publication Date:   01 July 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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 Index

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The essays are uniformly informative and well written. All of the essays in this collection are well-written and insightful. They certainly fulfill their mandate of dealing with images in Asian religions. -- Alexander Soucy, St. Mary's University * Studies in Religion, 34/3-4, 2005 *

The essays are uniformly informative and well written. All of the essays in this collection are well-written and insightful. They certainly fulfill their mandate of dealing with images in Asian religions. - Alexander Soucy, St. Mary's University (Studies in Religion, 34/3-4, 2005)

IMAGES IN ASIAN RELIGIONS: TEXTS AND CONTEXTS. ED. PHYLLIS GRANOF AND KOICHI SHINOHARA. The essays are uniformly informative and well written. All of the essays in this collection are well-written and insightful. They certainly fulfill their mandate of dealing with images in Asian religions. - Alexander Soucy, St. Mary's University, Studies in Religion, 34/3-4, 2005.

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Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinoharaare both professors in the Department of Religious Studies at YaleUniversity.

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