{"product_id":"images-in-asian-religions-text-and-contexts-9780774809498","title":"Images in Asian Religions  Text and Contexts","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eForeword\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 1: Defining Images: The Sacred Objects of IndianReligions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Images and Their Ritual Use in Medieval India: Hesitations andContradictions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Theology as History: Divine Images, Imagination, and Rituals inIndia\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Of Metal and Clothes: The Location of Distinctive Features inDivine Iconography\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 2: Images and the Elite Intellectual Culture:Accommodations and Ambiguities\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. At the Right Side of the Teacher: Imagination, Imagery, and Imagein Vedic and Saiva Initiation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. The Competing Hermeneutics of Image Worship in Hinduism (Fifth toEleventh Century AD\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Stories of Miraculous Images and Paying Respect to the ThreeJewels: A Discourse on Image Worship in Seventh-Century China\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 3: Recreating the Context of Image Worship: CaseStudies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Icon and Incantation: The Goddess Zhunti and the Role of Imagesin the Occult Buddhism of China\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. The Tenjukoku Shucho Mandara: Reconstruction of the Iconographyand Ritual Context\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Obaku Zen Portrait Painting and Its Sino-Japanese Heritage\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Ritual and Image at Angkor Wat\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MN - University of British Columbia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359156470103,"sku":"9780774809498","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780774809498.jpg?v=1754123828","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/images-in-asian-religions-text-and-contexts-9780774809498","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}