Religions and trade : religious formation, transformation, and cross-cultural exchange between East and West /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, 2014.
Description:	1 online resource (xix, 373 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Dynamics in the history of religions ; VOLUME 5 Dynamics in the history of religion ; v. 5.
Subject:	Religions. Religions -- Relations. Globalization -- Religious aspects. Commerce. Business -- Religious aspects. Commerce Interfaith relations. Business -- Religious aspects. Commerce. Globalization -- Religious aspects. Religions.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13357631

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Other authors / contributors:	Wick, Peter, editor. Rabens, Volker, 1971- editor.
ISBN:	9789004255302 9004255303 1306210305 9781306210300 9789004255289 9004255281
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Religions and Trade carves new pathways into the world of religious dynamics. In this array of essays a number of international scholars investigate the ways in which eastern and western religions were formed and transformed from the perspective of "trade."
Other form:	Print version: Wick, Peter. Religions and Trade : Religious Formation, Transformation and Cross-Cultural Exchange between East and West. Brill 2013 9789004255289

Table of Contents:

Preface; List of Contributors; List of Ilustrations; "Trading Religions": Foundational and Introductory Matters; With the Grain Came the Gods from the Orient to Rome: The Example of Serapis and Some Systematic Reflections; Part One Trade and the Topology of Religious Space; Localizing the Buddha's Presence at Wayside Shrines in Northern Pakistan; When the Greeks Converted the Buddha: Asymmetrical Transfers of Knowledge in Indo-Greek Cultures; The Buddhaksetra of Bodhgaya: Sangha, Exchanges and Trade Networks; Part Two Trade and Religious Symbol Systems.
"Trading Religions" and "Visible Religion "in the Ancient Near EastTrading the Symbols of the Goddess Nanaya; "Trading Religions" from Bronze Age Iran to Bactria; Part Three Trade and Religious Knowledge; From World Religion to World Dominion: Trading, Translation and Institution-building in Tibet; Religious Transformation between East and West: Hanukkah in the Babylonian Talmud and Zoroastrianism; Sharing the Concept of God among Trading Prophets: Reading the Poems Attributed to Umayya b. Abi Salt; Part Four Trade and Religious-Ethical Ways of Life.
Trading Institutions: The Design of Daoist MonasticismPhilo's Attractive Ethics on the "Religious Market" of Ancient Alexandria; Traveling Ethics: The Case of the Household Codes in Ephesians 5:21-6:9 in Cross-Cultural Perspective; Index.

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