Religions and trade : religious formation, transformation, and cross-cultural exchange between East and West / edited by Peter Wick and Volker Rabens.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Preface; List of Contributors; List of Ilustrations; "Trading Religions": Foundational and Introductory Matters; With the Grain Came the Gods from the Orient to Rome: The Example of Serapis and Some Systematic Reflections; Part One Trade and the Topology of Religious Space; Localizing the Buddha's Presence at Wayside Shrines in Northern Pakistan; When the Greeks Converted the Buddha: Asymmetrical Transfers of Knowledge in Indo-Greek Cultures; The Buddhaksetra of Bodhgaya: Sangha, Exchanges and Trade Networks; Part Two Trade and Religious Symbol Systems.

"Trading Religions" and "Visible Religion "in the Ancient Near EastTrading the Symbols of the Goddess Nanaya; "Trading Religions" from Bronze Age Iran to Bactria; Part Three Trade and Religious Knowledge; From World Religion to World Dominion: Trading, Translation and Institution-building in Tibet; Religious Transformation between East and West: Hanukkah in the Babylonian Talmud and Zoroastrianism; Sharing the Concept of God among Trading Prophets: Reading the Poems Attributed to Umayya b. Abi Salt; Part Four Trade and Religious-Ethical Ways of Life.

Trading Institutions: The Design of Daoist MonasticismPhilo's Attractive Ethics on the "Religious Market" of Ancient Alexandria; Traveling Ethics: The Case of the Household Codes in Ephesians 5:21-6:9 in Cross-Cultural Perspective; Index.

Religions and Trade carves new pathways into the world of religious dynamics. In this array of essays a number of international scholars investigate the ways in which eastern and western religions were formed and transformed from the perspective of "trade."

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