Rethinking Material Religion in the East: Orientalism and Religious Material Culture in Contemporary Western Academia

This paper reviews the historical development of the modern discourse of “Orientalism” and the emergence of material culture as a self-reflexive theoretical transition in the West. Further, it investigates new types of Orientalism in the study of religious material culture. The traditional Orientali...

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Main Author: Xing Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-02-01
Series:Religions
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/9/2/62