Overview

This book brings together essays by anthropologists, scholars of religion, and art historians on the subject of sacred place and sacred biography in Asia. The chapters span a broad geographical area that includes India, Nepal, Thailand, Indonesia, and China, and explore issues from the classical and medieval periods to the present. They show how sacred places have a plurality of meanings and how in their construction, secular politics, private religious experience, and sectarian rivalry intersect. Contributors explore the fundamental challenges that religious groups face as they expand from their homeland or confront the demands of modernity. While some chapters deal with well-known religious movements and sites, others discuss little-known groups and help to enrich our understanding of the diversity of religious belief in Asia. The book will be of interest not only to scholars of Asian religion and hagiography, but also to others who seek to understand the ways in which religious groups accommodate the challenges of new environments and new times.

Full Product Details

Author:   Phyllis Granoff ,  Koichi Shinohara
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
Imprint:   University of British Columbia Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.580kg
ISBN:  

9780774810395

ISBN 10:   0774810394
Pages:   392
Publication Date:   01 January 2004
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction - Pilgrims, Patrons, and Place: Localizing Sanctity in Asian Religions / Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinohara 1 The Twenty-four Dioceses and Zhang Daoling: The Spatio-Liturgical Organization of Early Heavenly Master Taoism / Franciscus Verellen 2 The Story of the Buddha's Begging Bowl: Imagining a Biography and Sacred Places / Koichi Shinohara 3 Where Ascetics Get Comfort and Recluses Go Public: Museums for Buddhist Saints in Thailand / Louis Gabaude 4 Paradise Found, Paradise Lost: Hariram Vyas's Love for Vrindaban and What Hagiographers Made of It / Heidi Pauwels 5 Pilgrimage as Revelation: Sankaradeva's Journey to Jagannatha Puri / Phyllis Granoff 6 The Early Hindi Hagiographies by Anantadas / Winand M. Callewaert 7 Dvaraka: The Making of a Sacred Place /Andre Couture 8 Place in the Sacred Biography at Borobudur / Robert L. Brown 9 Ratannath's Travels / Veronique Bouillier 10 The Interweave of Place, Space, and Biographical Discourse at a South Indian Religious Centre / K.I. Koppedrayer 11 Portratiure and Jain Sacred Place: The Patronage of the Ministers Vastupala and Tejahpala / Jack C. Laughlin 12 Saints and Scared Places in Saurashtra and Kutch: The Cases of the Naklamki Cult and the Jakhs / Francoise Mallison Bibliography Index

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Pilgrims, Patrons, and Place: Localizing Sanctity in Asian Religions is an important marker of the growing awareness in Asian Studies of the significance of ?place? as a productive analytical category ... This volume will play a useful role in the scholar's library.? Frances Garrett, University of Toronto Quarterly, Winter 2004/05

Author Information

Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinohara are both professors in the Department of Religious Studies at McMaster University. Neil McMullin is the general editor of Buddha Dharma Kyokai Foundation books, and professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Toronto.

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