Publication

2013 - BRILL

Language

English

Word Count

98,500 words, Guess

Page Count

394 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139789004255302
  • ISBN-109004255303
  • Library of Congress Control Number2013037416
  • OCLC Control Number861674033
  • Better World Books9789004255302
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCBL85.R374 2014eb
  • LCCBL85 .R374 2014

Description

In Religions and Trade a number of international scholars investigate the ways in which eastern and western religions were formed and transformed from the perspective of "trade." Trade changes religions. Religions expand through the help of trade infrastructures, and religions extend and enrich the trade relations with cultural and religious "commodities" which they contribute to the "market place" of human culture and religion. This leads to the inclusion, demarcation and densification as well as the amalgamation of religious traditions. In an attempt to find new pathways into the world of religious dynamics, this collection of essays focuses on four elements or "commodities" of religious interchange: topologies of religious space, religious symbol systems, religious knowledge, and religious-ethical ways of life. -- Publisher's website.

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  • Religions and TradeBRILL2013

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