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Pilgrims, Patrons, and Place

Localizing Sanctity in Asian Religions

edited by Phyllis Granoff & Koichi Shinohara

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2011
Category
General, General
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774842198
    Publish Date
    Nov 2011
    List Price
    $32.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774810395
    Publish Date
    Jan 2004
    List Price
    $34.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774810388
    Publish Date
    May 2003
    List Price
    $95.00

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Description

This book brings together essays by anthropologists, scholars of religion, and art historians to explore some of the most fundamental challenges that religious groups face as they expand from their homeland or confront the demands of modernity. The chapters span a broad geographical area that includes India, Nepal, Thailand, Indonesia, and China, and address issues from the classical and medieval period to the present. They show how sacred places have a plurality of meanings for all religious communities and how in their construction, secular politics, private religious experience, and sectarian rivalry can all intersect. 

A Buddha Dharma Kyokai Foundation Book on Buddhism and Comparative Literature.

 

About the authors

Contributor Notes

Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinohara are both professors in the Department of Religious Studies at McMaster University. Neil McMullin is the general editor of Buddha Dharma Kyokai Foundation books, and professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Toronto.

Editorial Reviews

Pilgrims, Patrons, and Place: Localizing Sanctity in Asian Religions is an important marker of the growing awareness in Asian Studies of the significance of ‘place’ as a productive analytical category ... This volume will play a useful role in the scholar’s library.

University of Toronto Quarterly, Winter 2004/05

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