Images in Asian Religions

Text and Contexts
Herausgeber: Granoff, Phyllis

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Paperback
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 653g
• ISBN-13: 9780774809498
• ISBN-10: 0774809493
• Artikelnr.: 35655630

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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