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SUMMARY:Interreligious Relations in Early Southeast Asia: Encountering Bud
 dhists\, Brahmins and Indigenous Religions
DTSTART:20200116T080000Z
DTEND:20200117T170000Z
DTSTAMP:20260523T050147Z
UID:interreligious-relations-early-southeast-asia-enco-6046@ceres.rub.de
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DESCRIPTION:Over the last two or three decades\, scholarship on Southeast 
 Asia has largely contributed to the reappraisal of the process of ‘India
 nisation’ of the region. Though not standardized and having changing mea
 ning according to Indian and Western academic cultures\, this paradigm can
  be broadly understood as the diffusion and adoption of Indian cultural va
 lues to Southeast Asia from the first few centuries following the turn of 
 the Common Era onwards. Critical of this India-centric model\, scholars ha
 ve proposed alternative approaches to the study of interactions between So
 uth and Southeast Asia which have oscillated between two poles: that of ex
 ternalist influence on the one hand and that of the local or autonomous sp
 ecificity on the other hand.\n\nThese reflections are fed by archaeologica
 l discoveries and advances in the knowledge of textual and art historical 
 sources which have highlighted a continuum in exchanges between South and 
 Southeast Asia since at least the 5th century BCE. Furthermore\, archaeolo
 gical findings bear witness to the importance of Southeast Asian agency in
  the diffusion of local models across Asia. In consequence\, in the last d
 ecade\, approaches have encouraged to focus on the circulatory dynamics of
  transfer of cultural\, religious\, diplomatic and economic values through
  maritime trade routes across Asia. Some have even posited a new “Monson
  Asia” or “Maritime Asia” paradigm which conceives South and Southea
 st Asia as part of an integral cultural oikumene with a shared background 
 of human\, intellectual\, and environmental history.\n\nAgainst the framew
 ork of these second-order reflections\, the workshop will investigate diff
 erent levels of relationship between Hindu\, Buddhist and non-Indic religi
 ons during ancient and early medieval times. It will examine issues relate
 d to the multi-directional transfer of mythologies\, belief-systems\, prac
 tices and material culture between the Indian sub-continent and what is co
 mmonly referred to as Southeast Asia. In this respect\, it aims at sheddin
 g further light on the agencies in the spread of religious concepts and ma
 terial objects\, the dialectics between their received and assigned or rei
 nterpreted meaning\, and the modifications brought about by their adoption
  and/or adaptations.\n\nWorkshop programme
LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/interreligious-relations-early-sout
 heast-asia-enco/
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