Description
Book SynopsisA comprehensive and balanced look at the role of images in Asian religions, which examines aspects of the reception of image worship that have only begun to be studied.
Trade ReviewThe 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 *
Table of ContentsContributors
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
