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"This book brings together essays by anthropologists, scholars of religion, and art historians on the subject of sacred place and sacred biography in Asia. The chapters span a broad geographical area that includes India, Nepal, Thailand, Indonesia, and China, and explore issues from the classical and medieval period to the present. They show how sacred places have a plurality of meanings for all religious communities and how in their construction, secular politics, private religious experience, and sectarian rivalry can all intersect."Shinohara, Koichi is the author of 'Pilgrims, Patrons, and Place Localizing Sanctity in Asian Religions' with ISBN 9780774810388 and ISBN 0774810386.
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