Beyond the “Spice Routes”: Indic and Sinitic Religions across the Asian Maritime Realm
Résumé
The Special Issue provides a broad platform for comparisons with the transmission of Buddhism, Hinduism, Chinese religions (Confucianism, Daoism), and Indic/Sinitic “folk” religions across Asia, with a special attention to the aspects of circulation and displacement, maritime pilgrimage and migration, cross-cultural exchanges, cross-religious interactions, as well as the influence of the sea on cosmopolitan and local epistemologies. In so doing, this body of work promotes the transcendance of the artificial spatial demarcations of nation-states and macro-regions elaborated within the Area Studies paradigm.
