Research on the "iconology" of Religious Symbols in the Grottoes: a Sociological Interpretation of Religion in the Yungang Grottoes
by Xu Ting
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This book takes the Buddhist symbols of the Yungang Grottoes as the research object, uses symbol analysis as the basic method, adopts social stratification, text analysis, structuralism and other methods. Based on the existing results of Buddhist history, social history and grotto art research, it makes a new attempt at the sociological study of grotto sculptures by interpreting the social significance of the "Image Religion" of the Northern Wei Dynasty. From the perspective of the sociology of religion, "image religion" is a way of religious dissemination, education and belief that uses images as a carrier. "Image" is born from "teaching", "teaching" is manifested by "image", and "image" plays a certain social function and reacts on "teaching".
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