Religions of the Silk Road : overland trade and cultural exchange from antiquity to the fifteenth century /
Foltz, Richard C., 1961-
Religions of the Silk Road : overland trade and cultural exchange from antiquity to the fifteenth century / Richard C. Foltz - New York : St. Martin's Griffin , c 1999 - viii, 186 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-178) and index
Chinese transliterations -- Maps -- The Silk Road and its travelers -- Religion and trade in ancient Eurasia -- Buddhism and the Silk Road -- A refuge of heretics : Nestorians and Manichaeans on the Silk Road -- The Islamization of the Silk Road -- Ecumenical mischief -- A melting pot no more
"Religions of the Silk Road looks behind the romantic notions of the colonial era and tells the story of how cultural traditions, especially in the form of religious ideas, accompanied merchants and their goods along the overland Asian trade routes in pre-modern times. As early as three thousand years ago Hebraic and Iranian religious ideas and practices traveled eastwards in this way, to be followed centuries later by the great missionary traditions of Buddhism, Christianity, Manichaeism, and Islam. But the Silk Road was more than just a conduit along which these religions hitched rides East; it was a formative and transformative rite of passage, and no religion emerged unchanged at the end of the journey."--Jacket
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98043092
bA0V3939
Culture conflict--History--Asia, Central
Trade routes--History--Asia, Central
Asia, Central--Religion
Silk Road--History
History (form)
BL1050 / .F65 1999
ARCH FRBC 200.95 F671R
Religions of the Silk Road : overland trade and cultural exchange from antiquity to the fifteenth century / Richard C. Foltz - New York : St. Martin's Griffin , c 1999 - viii, 186 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-178) and index
Chinese transliterations -- Maps -- The Silk Road and its travelers -- Religion and trade in ancient Eurasia -- Buddhism and the Silk Road -- A refuge of heretics : Nestorians and Manichaeans on the Silk Road -- The Islamization of the Silk Road -- Ecumenical mischief -- A melting pot no more
"Religions of the Silk Road looks behind the romantic notions of the colonial era and tells the story of how cultural traditions, especially in the form of religious ideas, accompanied merchants and their goods along the overland Asian trade routes in pre-modern times. As early as three thousand years ago Hebraic and Iranian religious ideas and practices traveled eastwards in this way, to be followed centuries later by the great missionary traditions of Buddhism, Christianity, Manichaeism, and Islam. But the Silk Road was more than just a conduit along which these religions hitched rides East; it was a formative and transformative rite of passage, and no religion emerged unchanged at the end of the journey."--Jacket
0312214081 9780312214081 0312233388 9780312233389 0333775279 9780333775271 033394674X 9780333946749
98043092
bA0V3939
Culture conflict--History--Asia, Central
Trade routes--History--Asia, Central
Asia, Central--Religion
Silk Road--History
History (form)
BL1050 / .F65 1999
ARCH FRBC 200.95 F671R