Images in Asian Religions
Subtitle: Texts and Contexts (Asian Religions and Society)
Contributors: Phyllis Granoff (Editor); Koichi Shinohara (Editor)
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Published: October 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780774809481
Subjects: Buddhism; Hinduism; Social Science; Religion - Commentaries / Reference; Sociology; China; India; Japan; South East Asia; Reference; Sociology - General; Asia; Asie; Culte; Idoles et images; Idols and images; Vie religieuse; Worship
Description: "Written by eminent scholars of anthropology art history, and religion with interests in different regions (India, China, Japan, and Southeast Asia), this volume takes a fresh look at the many ways in which images were defined and received in Asian religions." "This collection demonstrating the range of debate over practices of image worship will expand our appreciation of the objects that serve for many as supports of divine presence of primary interest to scholars of Asian religions, it will also appeal to art historians, anthropologists, semioticians, and students of religion who concern themselves with images icons and material culture."--BOOK JACKET.