Images in Asian religions : texts and contexts / edited by Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinohara.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes some text in Chinese and Japanese; some bibliographical references in Chinese and Japanese.

Images and their ritual use in medieval India : hesitations and contradictions / Phyllis Granoff -- Theology as history : divine images, imagination, and rituals in India / Gilles Tarabout -- Of metal and cloths : the location of distinctive features in divine iconography (Indian Himalayas) / Daniela Berti -- At the right side of the teacher : imagination, imagery, and image in Vedic and Śaiva initiation / Hans Bakker -- The competing hermeneutics of image worship in Hinduism (fifth to eleventh century AD) / Gérard Colas -- Stories of miraculous images and paying respect to the three jewels : a discourse on image worship in seventh-century China / Koichi Shinohara -- Icon and incantation : the goddess Zhunti and the role of images in the occult Buddhism of China / Robert M. Gimello -- The Tenjukoju Shūchō Mandara : reconstruction of the iconography and ritual context / Chari Pradel -- Ōbaku Zen portrait painting and its Sino-Japanese heritage / Elizabeth Horton Sharf -- Ritual and image at Angkor Wat / Robert L. Brown.

Local access dig.pdf. [Images in Asian religions.pdf]

Palimpsests of religious encounter in Asia, 1500-1800 / edited by Mia M. Mochizuki, Ines G. Županov.

Intersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture, 1568-1181 ; volume 97 - 2025

"During the "thick globalism" of the early modern world, evidence of religious contact, between conflict and commerce, has been overlooked in national narratives. In Palimpsests of Religious Encounter in Asia, 1500-1800, a cross-disciplinary group of international experts delve into on-site artefacts and archives to consider the geographical imagination, the transfer of knowledge, the politics of interreligious dialogue, the practice of reception, and the cyclical flow of meaning across transcultural things. Illustrations of objects rarely available to the public demonstrate how religious belief can provide a shared methodological platform for the global turn of art history"-- ǂc Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What remains : the transcultural legacy of making / Mia M. Mochizuki -- Eagle-eyed encounter : miraculous or global in Portuguese Asia (1720) / Ines G. Županov -- The hair relics of the Prophet Muhammad in Kashmir : mapping transregional connectivities / Fayaz A. Dar and Zubair Khalid -- India through the Japanese looking glass : cartographic encounters and the Buddhist world picture / D. Max Moerman -- 'Come, let us ascend to the heavens' : the Jantar Mantar at Jaipur and the politics of scientific architecture / Dhruv Raina -- Toyotomi Hideyoshi and St Francis Xavier : kami-making and the impact of the cult of saints in Japan, 1552-1622 / Timon Screech -- The agency of Bezoar and Goa stones in global religious encounter / Edith Llamas Camacho and Guillermo Wilde -- Carlo Dolci's Madonna with the thumb : a dialogue between Giovanni Battista Sidoti and Arai Hakuseki / Kayo Hirakawa -- The Paravur dialogues : religious encounter, a new attribution, and the first modern prose in Malayalam / Emy Merin Joy -- Taming the fascist dragon : Pasquale d'Elia, S.J. and early modern Chinese Christian art / Antonio De Caro -- Visual and Personal Displacements in the Chinese reception of Christian illustrated prints / Nicolas Standaert -- From Rome to Goa : the question of the first Goan church / Sidh Losa Mendiratta -- Material encounters : ivory and metalwork in the earliest Philippine devotional art / René B. Javellana, S.J. -- Syncretic stowaways : Dutch maritime imagery in Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines / Michiko Fukaya -- The mount, the garden, the tree : material images and moral meanings in Constantine Beschi's Tēmpāvani chapters 18-19 / Francis X. Clooney, S.J. -- The incipient devotion to the martyrs of Japan : the 'true images' of the Calvary of Nagasaki / Raphaèle Preisinger.

Link to Brill eBooks via BC Libraries

Contains:

Antonio De Caro. Chapter 10 "Taming the Fascist Dragon: Pasquale d’Elia, S.J. and Early Modern Chinese Christian Art". Pages: 293–321

Nicolas Standaert. Chapter 11: “Visual and Personal Displacements in the Chinese Reception of Christian Illustrated Prints”, pp. 325-360.

Link to Open Access (Standaert article only)

The art of rice : spirit and sustenance in Asia / Roy W. Hamilton with contributions by Aurora Ammayao [and others].

Includes bibliographical references (pages 531-538) and index.

Introduction /  Roy W. Hamilton --  PART 1: LABOR, RITUAL, AND THE CYCLE OF TIME --  Labor, ritual, and the cycle of time /  Roy W. Hamilton --  Rice festivals in Northeast Thailand /  Suriya Smutkupt,  Pattana Kitiarsa --  Body art and cyclic time: rice dancing among the Tharu of Nepal /  Gisèle Krauskopff --  Rice culture in Manipur, India /  Mutua Bahadur --  The purification of rice fields in Java with an apotropaic plank /  Stephen C. Headley -- Rice harvest rituals in two highland Tai communities in Vietnam /  Vi Văn An,  Eric Crystal -- PART 2: THE GRANARY: A HOME FOR THE RICE SPIRITS --  The granary: a home for the rice spirits /  Roy W. Hamilton -- The granary of the Tharu of Nepal / Kurt W. Meyer, Pamela Deuel --  PART 3: RICE FESTIVALS: COMMUNITY AND CELEBRATION --  Rice festivals: community and celebration ;  The Pahiyas Festival of Lucban, Philippines /  Roy W. Hamilton --  The gods walk on rice in Selat, Bali /  David J. Stuart-Fox --  Offering the new rice to the Buddha in Mae Chaem, Northern Thailand /  Roy W. Hamilton,  Thitipol Kanteewong --  The Ghost Festival of Dan Sai, Loei Province, Thailand /  Ruth Gerson --  The Ma'Bua' Pare Ceremony of the Sa'dan Toraja of Sulawesi, Indonesia /  Eric Crystal --  Trò Trám Festival and the veneration of Ngô Thị Thanh in a Vietnamese village /  Vũ Hông Thuât,  Roy W. Hamilton --  Of mites and men: the Shōrei Festival at Mount Haguro, Japan /  Toshiyuki Sano, Roy W. Hamilton -- PART 4: THE GODDESS OF RICE --  The Goddess of Rice / Roy W. Hamilton -- Ponniyamman, a Tamil rice goddess from South India /  Nanditha Krishna -- Sri and Sedana at Pura Besakih, Bali /  David J. Stuart-Fox --  PART 5: SACRED FOOD -- Sacred food /  Roy W. Hamilton --  Lakshmi of the house: rituals, realities, and representations of womanhood in modern Bengal /  Sohini Ray --  The art of rice in Balinese offerings /  Francine Brinkgreve -- Sake in Japanese art and culture / Mariko Fujita --  PART 6: STRAW MATTERS --  Straw matters /  Roy W. Hamilton --  PART 7: RICE, SELF, AND STATE -- Rice, self, and state / Roy W. Hamilton --  Rice in the human life cycle: traditions from Tamil Nadu, India /  Nanditha Krishna --  Wrapping the body with images of rice: kimono patterns from the Edo Period /  Toshiyuki Sano --  Images of rice in imperial Chinese culture / Francesca Bray --  PART 8: THE FUTURE OF RICE --  The future of rice /  Roy W. Hamilton --  Let's hope the bile is good / Aurora Ammayao,  Gene Hettel -- Mbok Sri dethroned: changing rice rituals in rural East Java / Rens Heringa -- The descent of good fortune and material wealth: a contemporary Javanese shadow puppet play / Roy W. Hamilton with Kik Soleh Adi Pramono -- Social and agricultural change in Korea's rice farming communities / Kwang-Kyu Lee -- Rice in South Korean life: the transformation of agricultural icons / Michael Reinschmidt.

The discourse on the Marxist study of religion in the new era in the PRC: an outsider’s perspective / Katja Wengenmayr

Religions 16 (2025)

 Local access dig.pdf.[Wengenmayr-The discourse on the Marxist study.pdf]

Abstract: This paper contributes to the intercultural understanding of religious studies in East Asia by examining their discursive framework within the Chinese context. It analyzes the academic discourse on religious studies in the PRC, particularly debates on atheism and the Marxist study of religion. In 2021, President Xi Jinping emphasized the impor‑ tance of aligning religious studies with Marxist principles, sparking renewed debate on the field’s orientation. This paper examines the responses of religious studies scholars to state directives. It illustrates how the reframing of the discipline and reinterpretations of the Marxist view on religion serve as strategies employed by scholars to answer “the call” of the official discourse. The significant representation of scholars promoting atheism in the political sphere further aligns religious studies with official discourse, narrowing the discursive space for other theoretical approaches toward religion.

The Tao of Love / Cheng Deng. Translated by Arthur Denner

Translated from French ; Tao de l'amour