André Couture Urbanisation and religious innovations in Ancient India Often dismissed as an unwarranted assertion, the Weberian hypothesis that Jainism and Buddhism appeared at the same time as cities and urban kingdoms developed, has once again begun to stir scholarly interest. This paper presents a survey of recent work on the subject, at the same time that it attempts to move the discussion forward. Following brief remarks on "The Socio-Religious Context of Ancient India" and "The Second Urbanization in Northern India", the third section of the paper, entitled "The Urban Context and the Religious Innovations at the End of Vedism", relies largely on the work of R. Thapar and P. Olivelle, as it summarizes the transformations of Brahmanism...
From a historical perspective, cities have served as more than mere locations where religious practi...
The critical role of patronage in defining regional identity and art in northwest India during the K...
The article investigates the history, doctrine, organisation and the annual ritual circle of the Ter...
André Couture Urbanisation and religious innovations in Ancient India Often dismissed as an unwarra...
This paper examines one aspect of a larger international project, Nara to Norwich: Arrivals and Beli...
This volume focuses on Buddhism and Jainism, two religions which, together with Hinduism, constitute...
<p>What is more significant for our thesis, this was the land where both Jainism and Buddhism flouri...
While it is often said that Buddhism is an "urban religion" or a "product of an urban revolution", t...
Urbanism has been a continuous part of the landscape of the Indian subcontinent for thousands of yea...
The speed and scale of urbanisation in India is unprecedented almost anywhere in the world and has t...
The city of Gurugram, the administrative headquarters of a district of the same name, is located in ...
The article compares the early stages of the revivals of Sāṃkhyayoga and Buddhism in modern India. A...
Indian religions according to the Coptic Kephalaia”.1 The most important reference point for the fol...
The article provides a short summary of the institutional history of the new field of 'Jain Studies'...
Early Buddhism flourished because it was able to take up the challenge represented by buoyant econom...
From a historical perspective, cities have served as more than mere locations where religious practi...
The critical role of patronage in defining regional identity and art in northwest India during the K...
The article investigates the history, doctrine, organisation and the annual ritual circle of the Ter...
André Couture Urbanisation and religious innovations in Ancient India Often dismissed as an unwarra...
This paper examines one aspect of a larger international project, Nara to Norwich: Arrivals and Beli...
This volume focuses on Buddhism and Jainism, two religions which, together with Hinduism, constitute...
<p>What is more significant for our thesis, this was the land where both Jainism and Buddhism flouri...
While it is often said that Buddhism is an "urban religion" or a "product of an urban revolution", t...
Urbanism has been a continuous part of the landscape of the Indian subcontinent for thousands of yea...
The speed and scale of urbanisation in India is unprecedented almost anywhere in the world and has t...
The city of Gurugram, the administrative headquarters of a district of the same name, is located in ...
The article compares the early stages of the revivals of Sāṃkhyayoga and Buddhism in modern India. A...
Indian religions according to the Coptic Kephalaia”.1 The most important reference point for the fol...
The article provides a short summary of the institutional history of the new field of 'Jain Studies'...
Early Buddhism flourished because it was able to take up the challenge represented by buoyant econom...
From a historical perspective, cities have served as more than mere locations where religious practi...
The critical role of patronage in defining regional identity and art in northwest India during the K...
The article investigates the history, doctrine, organisation and the annual ritual circle of the Ter...