The Aura of Buddhist Material Objects in the Age of Mass-Production

The article discusses material religion in a commercial setting and sets off this discussion with Walter Benjamin’s The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936). Benjamin argues that mechanical reproduction emancipated works of art from religious rituals and evaporated the aura o...

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Main Author: Brox, Trine (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] 2019
In: Journal of global buddhism
Year: 2019, Volume: 20, Pages: 105-125
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Benjamin, Walter 1892-1940, Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit / China / Buddhism / Cultic object / Mass production / Holiness
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AG Religious life; material religion
BL Buddhism
KBM Asia
ZA Social sciences
Further subjects:B Tibetan Buddhism
B Sacralization
B Buddhist material objects
B Walter Benjamin
B Aura
B mass-production
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