Images, miracles, and authority in Asian religious traditions

the long version

In this edited volume, Richard Davis and his colleagues examine how religious images are understood by practitioners in Asia, how the "miracles" associated with these images are to some degree programmed by expectations and responses, and how such religious events interrelate with political and social change and conflict. This important contribution to Asian studies and to the comparative study of religion should interest not only scholars of Asian religious texts but also students of Asian art history, architecture, and archaeology.