Katholisch-Theologische Fakultät, Max-Weber-Kolleg, Seminar für Religionswissenschaft

Spatialising Buddhist Practices in Urban Spaces: A 'City-Lens' Approach

Date
10. Jun 2024, 4.15 pm - 5.45 pm
Location
Research building "Weltbeziehungen" (C19)
Series
Monday Lectures in Religious, Social and Cultural Studies
Organizer
Max-Weber-Kolleg
Speaker(s)
Dr Elisa Iori
Event type
Lecture
Event Language(s)
English
Audience
Public

Lecture by Dr Elisa Iori (University of Erfurt) on "Spatialising Buddhist Practices in Urban Spaces: A 'City-Lens' Approach" as part of the Monday Lectures in Religious, Social and Cultural Studies.

By moving beyond the walls of monumental religious architecture, this talk adopts a city-lens approach to the investigation of lived Buddhism in the third-century cities of northern Gandhara. Based on the evidence available for the city of Barikot (Swat, N Pakistan), the layered complexity of urban religiosity is approached here through a contextual analysis of the built-up environment and intra-site spatial distribution of religious artefacts.

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