Religious Expansion Routes
May 2025 · Publifye AS
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Religious Expansion Routes examines how religious ideas spread across continents, profoundly influencing societies and shaping world history. It focuses on the pivotal role of trade routes, such as the Silk Road, and military campaigns, like the Islamic conquests, in facilitating this exchange. The book highlights how these pathways not only disseminated religious doctrines but also fostered interactions and adaptations as different belief systems encountered one another. For example, religious artifacts found along trade routes and architectural analyses of religious sites provide unique insights into this global exchange. The book argues that trade and military routes served as vital arteries for the transmission and transformation of religious ideas and beliefs.
The book progresses by first introducing the primary modes of transmission: trade, warfare, and pilgrimage. It then analyzes case studies like Buddhism's spread along the Silk Road and Christianity's expansion within the Roman Empire. Finally, it synthesizes these studies to reveal patterns of religious expansion and their contemporary relevance. This analytical approach offers a comprehensive resource for understanding the historical underpinnings of religious pluralism and interfaith dialogue.
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