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SUMMARY:Formative Exchanges in Western and Central Asia: Zoroastrianism\, 
 Manichaeism\, and Buddhism in Contact
DTSTART:20180627T070000Z
DTEND:20180628T160000Z
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UID:formative-exchanges-western-and-central-asia-zoroa-5054@ceres.rub.de
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DESCRIPTION:The two-day workshop on “Formative Exchanges in Central Asia
 : Zoroastrianism\, Manichaeism\, and Buddhism in Contact” invites schola
 rs to discuss issues of religious interactions between Zoroastrianism\, Ma
 nichaeism\, and Buddhism in the Iranian plateau\, the Indian subcontinent\
 , and Central Asia to the end of the first millennium CE. The proposed 201
 8 workshop will build on the research presented at the similar 2017 worksh
 op on “Formative Exchanges between the Sasanian Empire and Late Antique 
 Rome.” The 2017 meeting explored the cognitive\, ritual\, and material s
 cope of religions represented as “minorities” within larger ethnic and
  ideological landscapes\, such as Christians and Manichaeans in the Persia
 n Empire\, or Manichaeans in the Roman Empire. The 2018 workshop will shif
 t its focus eastward.\n\nThe invited scholars will investigate formative d
 ynamics of contacts\, interactions\, and exchanges that took place between
  Zoroastrianism\, Manichaeism\, and Buddhism at multiple levels: knowledge
 \, ritual\, material\, and experiential. The 2018 meeting will still consi
 der the literary and social negotiations Manichaeism and\, to a limited de
 gree\, Christianity\, carried with Zoroastrianism\, as an imperially-manda
 ted religion\, in the Sasanian Empire\, between the third and the seventh 
 centuries. To this\, the 2018 meeting will add the perspective of religiou
 s interactions across central Asia and into China\, to the end of the firs
 t millennium CE as the new inquiry focus.\n\nProgramm of the workshop
LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/en/events/formative-exchanges-western-and-central
 -asia-zoroa/
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