When Faith, Trade, and People Meet: Religious Intersections Along the South Eastern Maritime Silk Route
摘要
The Southeastern Maritime Silk Route played a crucial role in facilitating economic, cultural, and religious interactions among regions like South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia. This maritime network fostered the transmission, adaptation, and localization of religious beliefs and practices through cross-cultural encounters. Spanning from the eighth to the eighteenth centuries, this route served as a key channel for commerce, cultural exchange, and political relations between East Asia, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and the wider Indian Ocean region.