Material Culture and the Study of Hinduism and Buddhism

This essay surveys the history of material culture in relation to the study of Buddhism and Hinduism. The essay opens by exploring the factors in Reformation and Enlightenment Europe that led to the marginalization of material culture in relation to religion, and how these attitudes towards the use...

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Main Author: Mann, Richard D. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2014
In: Religion compass
Year: 2014, Volume: 8, Issue: 8, Pages: 264-273
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