Environmental complexity of religious interactions in Inner Asian history and ecology
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The paper was dedicated to theoretical issues and case studies of the spread of religions in local environmental and ecological settings in Inner Asia. First case study was commenting conditions of building a Mongolian Buddhist stupa in the Bulgan River Valley in relation to pastoral economy and wider context of the spread of Tibetan Buddhism in Inner Asia. Theoretical part of the paper was then commenting environmental dimensions of the legitimation of power by Inner Asian concept of the will of Heaven in relation to state rituals of Heaven worship. Other comments were related to mutual interconditioning of language with religion. Remaining part of the paper was comparing cases, when changes in larger political alliances were connected to the process of religious conversion on one side with cases when similar geopolitical changes did not caused any demand for religious change on the other side. Focus on these differences in relation to wider environmental issues will be the subject of consecutive research papers. |
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