Religions and Trade: Religious Formation

Wick, Peter; Rabens, Volker

ISBN 10: 9004255281 / ISBN 13: 9789004255289

Published by Brill Academic Pub, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Religions and Trade: Religious Formation
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004255281
• ISBN 13: 9789004255289
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

In Religions and Trade a number of international scholars investigate the ways in which eastern and western religions were formed and transformed from the perspective of "trade." Trade changes religions. Religions expand through the help of trade infrastructures, and religions extend and enrich the trade relations with cultural and religious "commodities" which they contribute to the “market place” of human culture and religion. This leads to the inclusion, demarcation and densification as well as the amalgamation of religious traditions.

In an attempt to find new pathways into the world of religious dynamics, this collection of essays focuses on four elements or “commodities” of religious interchange: topologies of religious space, religious symbol systems, religious knowledge, and religious-ethical ways of life.

Contributors include: Christoph Auffarth, Izak Cornelius, Georgios Halkias, Geoffrey Herman, Livia Kohn, Al Makin, Jason Neelis, Volker Rabens, Abhishek Singh Amar, Loren Stuckenbruck, Joan Goodnick Westenholz, Peter Wick, Michael Willis, and Sylvia Winkelmann.

About the Author

Peter Wick, Ph.D. (1993, Basel), is Professor in New Testament Studies and the History of Early Christianity at the University of Bochum (Germany). He has published a number of books and articles, including Die urchristlichen Gottesdienste (Kohlhammer, 2002).
Volker Rabens, Ph.D. (2008, London), is postdoctoral researcher in New Testament Studies at the University of Jena (Germany). He has authored numerous publications relating to Biblical Studies, including The Holy Spirit and Ethics in Paul (Mohr Siebeck, 2010).