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.

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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.

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The Birth of Orientalism / Urs App

Includes bibliographical references and index.  Introduction -- Voltaire's Veda -- Ziegenbalg's and La Croze's discoveries -- Diderot's Buddhist Brahmins -- De Guignes's Chinese Vedas -- Ramsay's Ur-tradition -- Holwell's religion of paradise -- Anquetil-Duperron's search for the true Vedas -- Volney's revolutions.

Modern Orientalism is not a brainchild of nineteenth-century European imperialists and colonialists, but, as Urs App demonstrates, was born in the eighteenth century after a very long gestation period defined less by economic or political motives than by religious ideology. Based on sources from a dozen languages, many unavailable in English, The Birth of Orientalism presents a completely new picture of this protracted genesis, its underlying dynamics, and the Western discovery of Asian religions from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. App documents the immense influence of Japan and China and describes how the Near Eastern cradle of civilization moved toward mother India. Moreover, he shows that some of India's purportedly oldest texts were products of eighteenth-century European authors. Though Western engagement with non-Abrahamic Asian religions reaches back to antiquity and can without exaggeration be called the largest-scale religiocultural encounter in history, it has so far received surprisingly little attention--which is why some of its major features and their role in the birth of modern Orientalism are described here for the first time. The study of Asian documents had a profound impact on Europe's intellectual makeup. Suddenly the Bible had much older competitors from China and India, Sanskrit threatened to replace Hebrew as the world's oldest language, and Judeo-Christianity appeared as a local phenomenon on a dramatically expanded, worldwide canvas of religions and mythologies. Orientalists were called upon as arbiters in a clash that involved neither gold and spices nor colonialism and imperialism but, rather, such fundamental questions as where we come from and who we are: questions of identity that demanded new answers as biblical authority dramatically waned. --- Publsher's Description 

Tōyō bunkashi hyakkō 東洋文化史百講 / Ishikawa Sanshirō cho 石川三四郎著.
Vol. 1: 1942 printing.
Includes bibliographical references.
Title: Tōyō bunkashi 100-kō 東洋文化史講.
Library has v. 2 only.
Shōwa 昭和 14-17