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Bill M. Mak

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Pages:: 1–16

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004511675_002

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Abstract

This book presents a new, transcultural, and interdisciplinary way to think about the history of cosmology in Asia. Building on the ubiquity of cosmological inquiry across cultures and recent advances in several academic disciplines, the book portrays a dynamic picture of cosmological ideas fluidly mixing and changing across cultural and linguistic boundaries in the premodern world. Even cosmologies that are typically understood as coherent systems of science or religion were neither monolithic nor static but rather subjects of regular negotiation, adaptation, and engagement between diverse individuals and groups. By further demonstrating connections across seemingly disparate approaches from the history of science, cultural history, religious studies, and art history, this book also shows that multiple paradigms, concepts, and practices can co-exist simultaneously in particular times, places, and objects. In other words, cosmologies are not singular and isolated objects in history; rather, they intertwine in complex ways based on any number of factors, including the historical transmission of ideas and objects, changing political or religious ideologies, and the practical needs of scientists, functionaries, artists, and ritualists. This book thus introduces multiple ways of understanding cosmologies and their overlapping in Asian history. Its ten chapters are organized by themes that highlight transmissions of knowledge, agents of interpretation, mathematical techniques, and religious imagery, showing how contributions by historians of culture, science, religion, and art can come together to create a broader picture of the many facets of cosmological thinking and their transformations.

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Overlapping Cosmologies In Asia

Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Approaches

Series: Crossroads - History of Interactions across the Silk Routes, Volume: 4

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004511675

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 11 Feb 2022

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- Asian Studies
  - History
- History
  - History of Science

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