Old society, new belief : religious transformation of China and Rome, ca. 1st-6th centuries
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Pu, Muzhou
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
New York :
Oxford University Press,
2017.
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| Umfang/Format: |
368 pages : illustrations. |
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Old society, new belief (Print version) |
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Online available (Ebook Central) |
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- Overview Description Table of Contents Author Information Cover Old Society, New Belief Religious transformation of China and Rome, ca. 1st-6th Centuries Mu-chou Poo, H. A. Drake, and Lisa Raphals Table of Contents Table of Contents Preface Contributors List of Figures and Credits Introduction: Old Society, New Faith (Mu-chou Poo and H.A. Drake) Part One. Initial Encounters and Causes of Resistance Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Christianity and Rome: A Study in Power Relationships (H.A. Drake) Chapter 3 Aesthetics of Enlightenment: Philosophical Continuity and Rhetorical Innovation in the Poetics of Roman Architecture (Mira Seo) Chapter 4 Justin Martyr and Tatian: Christian reactions to encounters with Greco-Roman culture and imperial persecution (Hyun Jin Kim) Chapter 5 When Buddhism Meets the Chen-Wei Prophetic and Apocryphal Discourse: A Religious Encounter in Early Medieval China (Zongli Lu) Chapter 6 Honoring the Dead: The Buddhist Reinvention of Portrait Eulogies in Early Medieval China (Huai-yu Chen) Part Two. Interaction, Influence, and Accommodation Chapter 7 Buddhism Challenged, Adopted, and in Disguise: Daoist and Buddhist Interactions in Medieval China (Gil Raz) Chapter 8 Roman Allotment and the Election of Bishops (Roberta Stewart) Chapter 9 Colonizing the Supernatural: How Daim?n Became Demonized in Late Antiquity (Sze-kar Wan) Chapter 10 The Taming of Ghosts in Early Buddhism (Mu-chou Poo) Chapter 11 A Matter of Life and Death: the Development of Nirvana Images in the Northern Dynasties (Chuan-Ying Yen) Part Three. Synthesis and Assimilation Chapter 12 Pagan Statues, Christian City: Constantinople and the Parastaseis Syntomoi Chronikai (Paroma Chatterjee) Chapter 13 Adaptation and Assimilation of Buddhism in China as reflected in Monastic Architecture (Yin Zhou) Chapter 14 Understanding Retribution in a Changing Religious Landscape: The Case of Yan Zhitui ??? (531-591) (Natasha Heller) Chapter 15 From Superstit
