Refiguring East Asian Religious Art: Buddhist Devotion and Funerary Practice

Refiguring East Asian Religious Art: Buddhist Devotion and Funerary Practice

Symposium
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Add to Calendar 2014-05-25 00:00:00 2014-05-26 00:00:00 Refiguring East Asian Religious Art: Buddhist Devotion and Funerary Practice May 25-26, 2014   Recent research on the interaction of different religious traditions, textual sources and ritual practices in East Asia is related to the production of religious art. The participants in this symposium attempt to contextualize religious images in social and ritual environments. Buddhist and Daoist beliefs and funerary practices for commemoration of the deceased were frequently interrelated in the production, function and form of many works of art. The papers explore the relationship between religious devotion and cult of the dead on historical, cultural, and theoretical levels to show larger historical patterns in the creation of tombs, temples, images and offerings. The publication of a volume of collected papers is forthcoming. Department of Art History drupal@seastar.uchicago.edu America/Chicago public

May 25-26, 2014

 

Recent research on the interaction of different religious traditions, textual sources and ritual practices in East Asia is related to the production of religious art. The participants in this symposium attempt to contextualize religious images in social and ritual environments. Buddhist and Daoist beliefs and funerary practices for commemoration of the deceased were frequently interrelated in the production, function and form of many works of art. The papers explore the relationship between religious devotion and cult of the dead on historical, cultural, and theoretical levels to show larger historical patterns in the creation of tombs, temples, images and offerings. The publication of a volume of collected papers is forthcoming.