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SUMMARY:Mathurā: The Archaeology of Inter-Religious Encounters in Ancient
  India
DTSTART:20190725T070000Z
DTEND:20190726T180000Z
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UID:mathura-archaeology-inter-religious-encounters-anc-6044@ceres.rub.de
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DESCRIPTION:The aim of this workshop is to examine the interaction between
  Buddhism\, Jainism\, Hinduism and cults associated to nāgas (snake deiti
 es) and yaksas (nature spirits) at Mathurā (Uttar Pradesh\, India) during
  Antiquity and Late Antiquity (ca. 2nd century BCE-6th century CE). Althou
 gh various sites across the Indian subcontinent have yielded what are cons
 idered the first anthropomorphic depictions of Buddhist\, Jain and Hindu g
 ods\, evidence for the use of the human form to represent and/or embody th
 e main divinities among the three religious traditions at the turn of the 
 Common Era is only combined at Mathurā. This workshop offers to systemati
 cally explore issues related to the interaction between these traditions o
 n the one hand and to the formation of their respective imageries on the o
 ther. In this respect\, the workshop will concentrate on four thematic foc
 i.\n\n\n	The Practical Settings and Modalities of Encounters\n	Visual and 
 Textual Descriptions of the Main Gods\n	Pilgrimage\n	Social Dimension of t
 he Artistic Production\n	 \n\n\nProgramme of the Workshop
LOCATION:CERES-Palais\, Raum "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/de/veranstaltungen/mathura-archaeology-inter-
 religious-encounters-anc/
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