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Book SynopsisAnthropologists, religious scholars, and art historians contemplate sacred place and sacred biography in Asia to show how secular politics, religious experience, and sectarian rivalry intersect.
Trade ReviewPilgrims, 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 *
Table of ContentsContributors
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 /André Couture
8 Place in the Sacred Biography at Borobudur / Robert L. Brown
9 Ratannath’s Travels / Véronique 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 / Françoise Mallison
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