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Author : Xinru Liu
Release : 1998
Genre : Eurasia
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 522/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Silk and Religion by : Xinru Liu
Download or read book Silk and Religion written by Xinru Liu. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the silk trade in Eurasia between the seventh and twelfth centuries and explores how religious ideas and institutions affected economic behavior.
Author : Mark Silk
Release : 1998-01-15
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 426/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Unsecular Media by : Mark Silk
Download or read book Unsecular Media written by Mark Silk. This book was released on 1998-01-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing in the New York Times Magazine, Max Frankel characterized Unsecular Media as a book that "leaves you thinking about the saintly role that religion has acquired in our allegedly irreligious media." Mark Silk's book is the first to offer a comprehensive description and analysis of how American news media cover religion.
Author : Richard Foltz
Release : 1999
Genre : Asia, Central
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Book Rating : 749/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Religions of the Silk Road by : Richard Foltz
Download or read book Religions of the Silk Road written by Richard Foltz. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the latter decades of the 19th century, popular European fascination with the world beyond reached an all-time high. The British and French empires spanned the globe, and their colonial agents sent home exotic goods and stories. The Silk Route dates from this romantic period, in name if not in reality. In the century since its invention as a concept, the Silk Route has captured and captivated the Western imagination. It has given us images of fabled cities and exotic peoples. Religions of the Silk Route tells the story of how religions accompanied merchants and their goods along the overland Asian trade routes of pre-modern times. It is a story of continuous movement, encounters, mutual reactions and responses, adaptation and change. Beginning as early as the 8th century BCE, Israelite and Iranian traditions travelled eastwards in this way, and they were followed centuries later by the great missionary traditions of Buddhism, Christianity, Manichaeism, and Islam.
Author : Mark Silk
Release : 1989-04-15
Genre : Body, Mind & Spirit
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Book Rating : 63X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Spiritual Politics by : Mark Silk
Download or read book Spiritual Politics written by Mark Silk. This book was released on 1989-04-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About religion and politics in the United States after 1945.
Author : Johan Elverskog
Release : 2011-06-06
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 316/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road by : Johan Elverskog
Download or read book Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road written by Johan Elverskog. This book was released on 2011-06-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the contemporary world the meeting of Buddhism and Islam is most often imagined as one of violent confrontation. Indeed, the Taliban's destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001 seemed not only to reenact the infamous Muslim destruction of Nalanda monastery in the thirteenth century but also to reaffirm the stereotypes of Buddhism as a peaceful, rational philosophy and Islam as an inherently violent and irrational religion. But if Buddhist-Muslim history was simply repeated instances of Muslim militants attacking representations of the Buddha, how had the Bamiyan Buddha statues survived thirteen hundred years of Muslim rule? Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road demonstrates that the history of Buddhist-Muslim interaction is much richer and more complex than many assume. This groundbreaking book covers Inner Asia from the eighth century through the Mongol empire and to the end of the Qing dynasty in the late nineteenth century. By exploring the meetings between Buddhists and Muslims along the Silk Road from Iran to China over more than a millennium, Johan Elverskog reveals that this long encounter was actually one of profound cross-cultural exchange in which two religious traditions were not only enriched but transformed in many ways.
