Relics of the Buddha.(Book review) From: The Journal of the American Oriental Society | Date: April 1, 2006| Author: Durt, Hubert | COPYRIGHT 2006 American Oriental Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Relics of the Buddha. By JOHN S. STRONG. Princeton: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2004. Pp. xxii + 290. $39.50.

Relic worship is a form of religiosity that has recently attracted special attention. Several reasons for this may be suggested, among them a reaction against the gradual "Protestantization" of the Roman Catholic Church or, in the Buddhist case, a reaction against the tendency to make Buddhism disincarnate by presenting it exclusively as a philosophy or as a prac...

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