...In most of the fourteen sources being considered, following the Portuguese decision to destroy the tooth, the relic is said to have been publicly rendered to fragments in a mortar, burned on a brazier, with the ashes then thrown into the river in Goa. In an attempt to better understand...

... of the city. These were very soon investigated by the local ecclesiastical hierarchy and, before long, enthusiastically accepted as genuine Christian relics by the then archbishop of Granada, Pedro Vaca de Castro y Quiñones. The religious devotion accorded to them flourished not only in Granada itself, where...

..., and temple architecture reflected the Japanese encounter with South and Southeast Asia. The arrival of a portion of the purported relics of Śākyamuni Buddha to Japan, their display, and the creation of the Japan-Siam temple, Nissenji (today Nittaiji, Japan-Thai temple) are discussed as well. Akegarasu Haya...

...This chapter explores the relationship between written charms and sacred relics, based on the medieval belief that contact with the relic--or the efficacious word--could heal the sick. It argues that users assumed that charms, like relics, could act both as earthly medicine and as conduits...

...This book proposes that the climate of neglect that surrounds MuseumAfrica reflects larger ideas about the place of colonial institutions in the postcolonial, and in this case postapartheid, even post-transition, order. Cast as products of discredited worldviews, colonial relics—like museums...

... that inspires his crusade; it also demonstrates a concern with material witnesses, both through physical objects and through the lady’s protest as a witness of true love. This emphasis on the material witness of the idiom parallels the “cultural shift” during this period concerning relics. Finally, the chapter...

...This book examines the tradition of collecting historical relics in the United States over the course of the nineteenth century, focusing on the practices by middle class whites. It looks at the relic as a form of representation as well as its origins in popular collecting. It suggests...

...This book examines the range of things from the past that nineteenth-century Americans called relics—the objects and part objects that were collected solely because they had been associated with a prominent person or event. It argues that, although its premises were in many ways far removed from...

... the size of a relic to praying over Christ’s height. Indeed, measuring was a means of overcoming distance not only between people but also between humans and God. “Cities” thus reflects upon how religion, social order, and public space were grafted atop one another, highlighting the common roots among...

... goes on to discuss the supreme importance of relics in Buddhism. It includes two works, a Japanese painting of the death of the Buddha and an Indian carving of a stūpa. Ānanda cakravartin Great Discourse on the Final Nirvāṇa Mahāparinibbāna Sutta Kuśinagara Cunda Aśoka Droṇa Mahākāśyapa Makuṭa...

... Wutaishan travel translation pilgrimage relics 221 It has long been recognized that Buddhism is a religion that travels. During the long period of his teaching (traditionally said to have lasted forty-five years), the Buddha walked through many of the regions of what is today northeastern India...