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SUMMARY:Empires of Faith: South Asia as Field of Global Religious Interact
 ion-Hinduism\, Buddhism\, Jainism and Islam from Late Antiquity to the Ear
 ly Middle Ages
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130415
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130417
DTSTAMP:20260416T145539Z
UID:WS_empiresoffaith_de-366@ceres.rub.de
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DESCRIPTION:Flyer\nFrom the global perspective\, South Asia is seen as a s
 ource of Buddhism and\, at a slightly later date\, of Hinduism. Of Jainism
  little is known outside specialist circles despite its considerable influ
 ence on India proper. The approach to all these religions has been essenti
 alist and inward looking: defined a priori as unchanging\, South Asia matt
 ers historically only to the degree that religions have come from there or
 \, inversely\, that Christianity and Islam have managed to take root there
 . Interactions between traditions\, fundamental to the development of dist
 inct identities\, are a subject being in its infancy\, most especially bet
 ween the first century BCE and the eleventh century CE.Although Hinduism\,
  Buddhism and Jainism are certainly distinct\, they developed in synchrony
  and shared doctrinal features such as the doctrine of karma. The coeval c
 odification of canonical literature and the simultaneous emergence of temp
 les\, endowments and image worship across traditions in the fourth and fif
 th centuries CE are also noteworthy. Despite these commonalities\, religio
 us interaction is not well understood\, mainly because the practice of rhe
 toric in early India normally precluded direct polemic attack. Moreover\, 
 the fragmentary nature of the evidence often means that the views of those
  involved in religious debates are only partly known. While many historica
 l difficulties are bound to remain\, problems can be addressed through a c
 ontextual study of literature and inter-textuality\, the use of archaeolog
 ical and epigraphic data\, and the application of landscape archaeology to
  understand how religious dispensations defined and occupied sacred space.
  This workshop is dedicated to an exploration of some of these issues.
LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46
URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/de/veranstaltungen/WS_empiresoffaith_de/
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