Religions and Trade: Religious Formation, Transformation and Cross-Cultural Exchange between East and West

394 Pages·2013·5.498 MB·English

by  Peter Wick, Volker Rabens (eds)

Religions and Trade
Dynamics in the History
of Religions
Editors-in-Chief
Volkhard Krech
Marion Steinicke
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Advisory Board
Jan Assmann – Christopher Beckwith – Rémi Brague
José Casanova – Angelos Chaniotis – Peter Skilling
Guy Stroumsa – Boudewijn Walraven
VOLUME 5
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Religions and Trade
Religious Formation, Transformation and
Cross-Cultural Exchange between East and West
Edited by
Peter Wick and Volker Rabens
LEiDEn • BOSTOn
2014
Cover illustration: Petroglyph of Chilas ii. Source: Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften,
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Religions and trade : religious formation, transformation, and cross-cultural exchange between
East and West / edited by Peter Wick and Volker Rabens.
  pages cm. — (Dynamics in the history of religions, 1878–8106 ; VOLUME 5)
 includes index.
 iSBn 978-90-04-25528-9 (hardback : alk. paper) — iSBn 978-90-04-25530-2 (e-book) 1. Religions.
2. Religions—Relations. 3. Globalization—Religious aspects. 4. Commerce. 5. Business—
Religious aspects. i. Wick, Peter, editor of compilation.
 BL85.R374 2013
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COnTEnTS
Preface  ................................................................................................................ xi
List of Contributors  ........................................................................................ xiii
List of illustrations  .......................................................................................... xvii
“Trading Religions”: Foundational and introductory Matters  ........... 1
Peter Wick and Volker Rabens
PROGRAMMATiC ESSAy
With the Grain Came the Gods from the Orient to Rome:
The Example of Serapis and Some Systematic Reflections  .......... 19
Christoph Auffarth
PART OnE
TRADE AnD THE TOPOLOGy OF RELiGiOUS SPACE
Localizing the Buddha’s Presence at Wayside Shrines in northern
Pakistan  ......................................................................................................... 45
Jason Neelis
When the Greeks Converted the Buddha: Asymmetrical Transfers
of Knowledge in indo-Greek Cultures  ................................................. 65
Georgios T. Halkias
The Buddhakṣetra of Bodhgaya: Saṅgha, Exchanges and
Trade networks  .......................................................................................... 117
Abhishek Singh Amar
viii contents
PART TWO
TRADE AnD RELiGiOUS SyMBOL SySTEMS
“Trading Religions” and “Visible Religion” in the Ancient
near East ....................................................................................................... 141
Izak Cornelius
Trading the Symbols of the Goddess nanaya  ........................................ 167
Joan Goodnick Westenholz
“Trading Religions” from Bronze Age iran to Bactria  .......................... 199
Sylvia Winkelmann
PART THREE
TRADE AnD RELiGiOUS KnOWLEDGE
From World Religion to World Dominion: Trading, Translation
and institution-building in Tibet  .......................................................... 233
Michael Willis
Religious Transformation between East and West: Hanukkah in
the Babylonian Talmud and Zoroastrianism  .................................... 261
Geoffrey Herman
Sharing the Concept of God among Trading Prophets: Reading the
Poems Attributed to Umayya b. Abī Ṣalt  ........................................... 283
Al Makin
contents ix
PART FOUR
TRADE AnD RELiGiOUS-ETHiCAL WAyS OF LiFE
Trading institutions: The Design of Daoist Monasticism  ................... 309
Livia Kohn
Philo’s Attractive Ethics on the “Religious Market” of
Ancient Alexandria  ................................................................................... 333
Volker Rabens
Traveling Ethics: The Case of the Household Codes in
Ephesians 5:21–6:9 in Cross-Cultural Perspective  ............................ 357
Loren T. Stuckenbruck
index  ................................................................................................................... 367