Religions of the Silk Road: Overland Trade and Cultural Exchange from Antiquity to the Fifteenth Century
- ISBN-10
- 033394674X
- ISBN-13
- 9780333946749
- Category
- Asia, Central
- Pages
- 186
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Author
- Richard Foltz
Description
During the latter decades of the 19th century, popular European fascination with the world beyond reached an all-time high. The British and French empires spanned the globe, and their colonial agents sent home exotic goods and stories. The Silk Route dates from this romantic period, in name if not in reality. In the century since its invention as a concept, the Silk Route has captured and captivated the Western imagination. It has given us images of fabled cities and exotic peoples. Religions of the Silk Route tells the story of how religions accompanied merchants and their goods along the overland Asian trade routes of pre-modern times. It is a story of continuous movement, encounters, mutual reactions and responses, adaptation and change. Beginning as early as the 8th century BCE, Israelite and Iranian traditions travelled eastwards in this way, and they were followed centuries later by the great missionary traditions of Buddhism, Christianity, Manichaeism, and Islam.
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