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Author Foltz, Richard, 1961-

Title Religions of the Silk Road : premodern patterns of globalization / Richard Foltz.

Imprint New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

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Location Call No. Status
 CCQ - Lusail Female Library  BL1050 F65 2010    Available
 CCQ - Lusail Male Library  BL1050    Available
Edition 2nd ed.
Description xiii, 190 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-179) and index.
Contents The Silk Road and its travelers -- Religion and trade in ancient Eurasia -- Buddhism and the Silk Road -- A refuge of heretics : Nestorians and Manicheans on the Silk Road -- The Islamization of the Silk Road -- Ecumenical mischief -- A melting
Summary "Traces the spread of religions and cultures along the trans-Eurasian trade routes over a period of more than two millennia. Indian, Iranian, Semitic, and Mediterranean ideas all followed the same trajectory through Central Asia to China and bey
Subject Asia, Central -- Religion.
Silk Road -- History.
ISBN 0230621252 (pbk.)
9780230621251 (pbk.)