TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wick,Peter
AU  - Rabens,Volker
TI  - Religions and trade: religious formation, transformation, and cross-cultural exchange between East and West 
T2  - Dynamics in the history of religions
SN  - 9789004255302
AV  - BL85 .R374 2014
U1  - 201/.7 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Leiden, The Netherlands
PB  - Brill
KW  - Religions
KW  - Relations
KW  - Globalization
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Commerce
KW  - Business
KW  - BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
KW  - Gaia & Earth Energies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christianity
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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."
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