The Religion & Culture Web Forum
December 2003
Commentary Footnotes
"'Religion': Just Another Modern Western Construction?"
by Martin Riesebrodt (University of Chicago)
1 Talal Asad, Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam (Baltimore, London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993).
2 'Ali Tabari, The Book of Religion and Empire, trans. A. Mingana (Lahore: Law Publishing Company, 1970).
3 I. B. Horner, ed., The Book of Discipline (Vinaya-Pitaka), vol. IV (Mahavagga) (London: Luzac & Company, 1951).
4 Kenneth Ch'en, The Chinese Transformation of Buddhism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973).
5 Wm. Theodore de Bary and Irene Bloom, eds., Sources of Chinese Tradition, 2nd ed., Vol. 1 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999). S. 793
6 Jacques Gernet, China and the Christian Impact, transl. by Janet Lloyd (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), 74.
9 Rock edict No. XII quoted after D. C. Sircar, Inscriptions of Asoka (New Delhi: Publication Division, Government of India, 1975), 48-49.
10 Richard C. Foltz, Religions of the Silk Road (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1999), 65.
11 Lactantius, So starben die Tyrannen, trans. Pater Franz Faessler (Luzern: Rex-Verlag, 1946), Lactantius, De Mortibus Persecutorum, trans. J. L. Creed (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984).
12 Edwin O. Reischauer, Ennin's Travels in T'ang China (New York: Ronald Press, 1955), 228.
13 J. Z. Smith, "Religion, Religions, Religious," in Critical Terms For Religious Studies. Edited by Mark C. Taylor (Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1998).
