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Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-06-13 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 222
Pages: 222
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: White Wolf Publishing
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Language: en
Pages: 347
Pages: 347
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-07 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Nineteenth-century philologist and Biblical critic William Robertson Smith famously concluded that the sacred status of holy places derives not from their intri
Language: en
Pages: 316
Pages: 316
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-06-05 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
Buddhism is popularly seen as a religion stressing the truth of impermanence. How, then, to account for the long-standing veneration, in Asian Buddhist communit
Language: en
Pages: 318
Pages: 318
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Penn State Press
"A study of reliquaries as a form of representation in medieval art. Explores how reliquaries stage the importance and meaning of relics using a wide range of a