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Religions of the Silk Road: Overland Trade and Cultural Exchange from Antiquity to the Fifteenth Century

ع. پاشایی

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Ever since the label was coined in the late 19th century, the idea of the Silk Road has captivated the Western imagination with images of fabled cities and exotic peoples. 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.

Language: English

Pages: 208

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Release: September 02, 2000

ISBN: 0312233388

ISBN 13: 9780312233389

Religions of the Silk Road: Overland Trade and Cultural Exchange from Antiquity to the Fifteenth Century

ع. پاشایی

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Ever since the label was coined in the late 19th century, the idea of the Silk Road has captivated the Western imagination with images of fabled cities and exotic peoples. 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.

Language: English

Pages: 208

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Release: September 02, 2000

ISBN: 0312233388

ISBN 13: 9780312233389

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