Palimpsests of religious encounter in Asia, 1500-1800

Abstract

"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" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents

What remains : the transcultural legacy of making / Mia M. Mochizuki -- Part 1. Discursive Geographies -- 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 -- Part 2. Epistemological transfers -- '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 -- Part 3. Dialogic politics -- 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 -- Part 4. Reception Hermeneutics -- 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. -- Part 5. The migration of meaning -- 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.