Releasing Urban Religion beyond the City Wall: The Spatial Capital of Early Buddhist Monasticism in NW South Asia
This paper examines the complexity of the entanglement between rural and urban space in historic South Asia through the lens of urban religion. The article is organized in two stages. First, ancient literature and archaeological evidence are used to rethink the centrality of the agrarian space in th...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2023
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Year: 2023, Volume: 70, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 184-219 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Asia (Nordost)
/ Swat
/ Buddhism
/ Urbanity
/ Monastery
/ Religious geography
/ Social mobility
/ History 300 BC-300
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| RelBib Classification: | AF Geography of religion BL Buddhism KBM Asia KCA Monasticism; religious orders TB Antiquity |
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spatial capital
B Urban Religion B rural-urban B early Buddhist monasticism B Gandhara |
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