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category: Religion
published: Jul 2005
ISBN:9780774809498
publisher: UBC Press

Images in Asian Religions

Text and Contexts

edited by Phyllis Granoff & Koichi Shinohara

tagged: eastern, cultural, asian
Description

This collection offers a challenge to any simple understanding of the role of images by looking at aspects of the reception of image worship that have only begun to be studied, including the many hesitations that Asian religious traditions expressed about image worship. 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.

Buddha Dharma Kyokai Foundation Book on Buddhism and Comparative Religion

About the Authors

Phyllis Granoff


Koichi Shinohara

Contributor Notes

Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinohara are both professors in the Department of Religious Studies at Yale University.

Editorial Review

The 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.

— Studies in Religion, 34/3-4, 2005
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