Old society, new belief : religious transformation of China and Rome, ca. 1st-6th Centuries

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..

"In the first century of the Common Era, two new belief systems entered long-established cultures with radically different outlooks and values: missionaries started to spread the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth in Rome and the Buddha in China. Rome and China were not only ancient cultures, but a...

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Main Author: Raphals, Lisa Ann, 1951- (Editor)
Other Authors: Pu, Muzhou, Drake, H. A. (Harold Allen), 1942-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Buddhism > History.
Buddhism > China > History > To 581.
Buddhism > Relations > Christianity.
Christianity and other religions > Buddhism.
Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Church and state > China > History.
Church and state > Rome > History.
Church and state
Rome > Religion > History.
China > Religion > History.
China
Rome (Empire)
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Mu-chou Poo, 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 superstition to heresy : law and divine justice (fourth-fifth centuries CE) / Michele Renee Salzman
  • Conclusion: Comparative perspectives on China and Rome / Lisa Raphals.

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