Images, Relics, and Legends: The Formation and Transformation of Buddhist Sacred Sites 0889629099, 9780889629097

Spreading Buddha's Word in East Asia: The Formation and Transformation of the Chinese Buddhist Canon 9780231540193

A monumental work in the history of religion, the history of the book, the study of politics, and bibliographical resear

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Stone Age Sites in the Making: Experiments in the Formation and Transformation of Archaeological Occurrences 9780860544074, 9781407345895

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Sacred Sites and Sacred Stories Across Cultures: Transmission of Oral Tradition, Myth, and Religiosity 9783030565213, 9783030565220

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Indigeneity and the Sacred: Indigenous Revival and the Conservation of Sacred Natural Sites in the Americas 9781785333972

This book presents current research in the political ecology of indigenous revival and its role in nature conservation i

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Festivals and Legends: The Formation of Greek Cities in the Light of Public Ritual 9781442674851, 1442674857

Since ritual is by definition unchanging, public festivals can disclose earlier stages of social organization. Robertson

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The Buddhist Visnu: Religious Transformation, Politics, and Culture 9780231508148

John Holt's groundbreaking study examines the assimilation, transformation, and subordination of the Hindu deity Vi

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Sacred Sites and Holy Places: Exploring the Sacralization of Landscape through Space and Time 2503541003, 9782503541006

In this volume two important veins of interdisciplinary research into the medieval period in Scandinavia and the Baltic

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Becoming Buddhist: Experiences of Socialization and Self-Transformation in Two Australian Buddhist Centres 9781472548856, 9781441161451

What does it mean to be a Western Buddhist? For the predominantly Anglo-Australian affiliates of two Western Buddhist ce

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Images and Relics: Theological Perceptions and Visual Images in Sixteenth-Century Europe (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology) 0195121724, 9780195121728

John Dillenberger has written the first comprehensive account of the relation between the visual arts and theological cu

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Receptacle of the Sacred: Illustrated Manuscripts and the Buddhist Book Cult in South Asia 9780520954885

In considering medieval illustrated Buddhist manuscripts as sacred objects of cultic innovation, Receptacle of the Sacre

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