Drawing on the latest research and scholarship, this newly revised and updated edition of Religions of the Silk Road explores the majestically fabled cities and exotic peoples that make up the romantic notions of the colonial era.

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RICHARD C. FOLTZ is an Associate Professor of Religion at Concordia University. He is the author of Animals in Islamic Tradition and Muslim Cultures (2006) and editor of Environmentalism in the Muslim World (2005) and Worldviews, Religion, and the Environment: A Global Anthology (2003).

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The Silk Road and Its Travellers Religion and Trade in Ancient Eurasia Buddhism and the Silk Road A Refuge of Heretics: Nestorians and Manichaeans on the Silk Road The Islamization of the Silk Road Ecumenical Mischief A Melting Pot No More