Locating Religions : Contact, Diversity, and Translocality.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Terms, Turns and Traps: Some IntroductoryRemarks -- Chapter 1 Geography, History and Prophecy: Mechanisms of Integration in the Islamic Alexander Legend -- Chapter 2 The Portuguese Discovery of Buddhism: Locating Religion in Early Modern Asia -- Chapter 3 From Geographical Migration to Transmigration of Souls: Negotiating Religious Difference between Space among Jews in Early Modern Safed -- Chapter 4 Translocating Religion in the Mediterranean Space: Monastic Confrontation under Muslim Dominion -- Chapter 5 The Mirror and the Palimpsest: The Myth of Buddhist Kingship in Imperial Tibet -- Chapter 6 Prester John, the Ten Tribes, and the Raja Rum: Representing the Distant Ally in Three Pre-Modern Societies -- Chapter 7 Locating Religion, Controlling Territory: Conquest and Legitimation in Late Ninth-Century Vaspurakan and its Interreligious Context -- Chapter 8 The Meeting of Daoist and Buddhist Spatial Imagination: The Construction of the Netherworld in Medieval China -- Chapter 9 Locating the Dialogue: On the Topology of the Setting in Medieval Religious Colloquies -- Chapter 10 Space, Entanglement and Decentralisation: On How to Narrate the Transcultural History of Christianity (550 to 1350 CE) -- Chapter 11 Armlet of the Pinnacle of the Noble Victory Banner: Locating Traces of Imperial Tibet in a Dhāraṇī in the British Museum -- Index of Names and Places.

This collection of articles applies concepts developed in the wake of the so-called "spatial turn" to the field of religious studies.

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