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Title

Old society, new belief : religious transformation of China and Rome, ca. 1st-6th centuries / edited by Mu-chou Poo, H.A. Drake, and Lisa Raphals.

Publication

• New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2017]
• ©2017

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Additional Authors

• Pu, Muzhou
• Drake, H. A. (Harold Allen), 1942-
• Raphals, Lisa Ann, 1951-

Description

xiii, 350 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

This book brings together specialists in the history and religion of Rome and China with a twofold aim. First, it aims to illustrate in detail the similarities and differences each religion encountered in the process of merging into a new cultural environment. Second, by juxtaposing the familiar with the foreign, it also aims to capture aspects of this process that could otherwise be overlooked. This approach is based on the general proposition that, when a new religion begins to make contact with a society that already had long honored beliefs, certain areas of contention will inevitably ensue and changes on both sides must take place. This book aims to reassess the nature of each of these religions, not as unique cultural phenomena but as part of the cultural dynamic of human societies.

Subject

• To 600
• Religion and sociology > History
• Buddhism > China > History > To 581
• Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
• Christianity and other religions > Buddhism
• Buddhism > Relations > Christianity
• Buddhism
• Christianity
• Church history > Primitive and early church
• Interfaith relations
• Religion
• Religion and sociology
• Rome > Religion > History
• China
• Rome (Empire)

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-340) and index.

Contents

Introduction / Mu-chou Poo and H.A. Drake -- Part 1. Initial encounters and causes of resistance. "Buddhism enters China" in early medieval China / Robert Ford Campany -- Christianity and Rome : a study in power relationships / H.A. Drake -- Aesthetics of enlightenment : philosophical continuity and rhetorical innovation in the poetics of Roman architecture / J. Mira Seo -- Justin Martyr and Tatian : Christian reactions to encounters with Greco-Roman culture and imperial persecution / Hyun Jin Kim -- When Buddhism meets the Chen-Wei prophetic and apocryphal discourse : a religious encounter in early medieval China / Zongli Lu -- Honoring the dead : the Buddhist reinvention of commemorative literature, ritual, and material culture in early medieval China / Huai-yu Chen -- Part 2. Interaction, influence, and accommodation. Buddhism challenged, adopted, and in disguise : Daoist and Buddhist interactions in medieval China / Gil Raz -- Roman allotment and the selection of bishops / Roberta Stewart -- Colonizing the supernatural : how Daimōn became demonized in late antiquity / Sze-kar Wan -- The taming of ghosts in early Chinese Buddhism / Mu-chou Poo -- Life and death : the development of nirvana images in the northern dynasties / Chuan-Ying Yen -- Part 3. Synthesis and assimilation. Ancient statues, Christian city : Constantinople and the Parastaseis Syntomoi Chronikai / Paroma Chatterjee -- Adaptation and assimilation of Buddhism in China as reflected in monastic architecture / Yin Zhou -- Understanding retribution in a changing religious landscape : the case of Yan Zhitui (531-591 CE) / Natasha Heller -- From superstitio to heresy : law and divine justice (fourth-fifth centuries CE) / Michele Renee Salzman -- Conclusion : comparative perspectives on China and Rome / Lisa Raphals.

Call Number

JFE 17-7766

ISBN

• 9780190278359
• 0190278358

OCLC

988169452

Title

Old society, new belief : religious transformation of China and Rome, ca. 1st-6th centuries / edited by Mu-chou Poo, H.A. Drake, and Lisa Raphals.

Publisher

New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-340) and index.

Chronological Term

To 600

Added Author

Pu, Muzhou, editor.

Drake, H. A. (Harold Allen), 1942- editor.

Raphals, Lisa Ann, 1951- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-7766