Religious goods store

Religious goods store
Religious goods store
	Malaysian Chinese religious goods shop
Chinese name
Chinese	神料商店
Literal meaning	god/spirit material shop/store
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Shénliào Shāngdiàn
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	san1 liu2 seung1 dim3
Jyutping	san1 liu2 soeng1 dim3
Malay name
Malay	Kedai Alat-alat Sembahyang; (prayer instrument store)

A religious goods store, also known as a religious bookstore, religious gifts store or religious supplies shop, is a store specializing in supplying materials used in the practice of a particular religious tradition, such as Buddhism, Taoism, Chinese folk religion, Christianity and Islam among other religions.^[1]^[2]

These shops are abundant across the Greater Chinese region as well as Overseas Chinese communities around the world.^[3]

In Iran, religious goods stores are usually visited to buy the Quran, Al Mafatih-Al Jinan, goods like the tasbīḥ, and many other things. One of the services related to this is to add a page to Mafatih al-Jinan book for a deceased loved one.

In Christendom, religious goods stores are often visited to purchase Christian art, books and devotional material for the home, as well as gifts such as a Bible, daily devotional or cross necklace for occasions such as Baptism, Confirmation and Holy Matrimony.^[4]^[5]

Items for sale

Buddhism

In Buddhist bookshops, a variety of Buddhist books and chanting CDs are usually available for sales. There is also wide range of other products which includes Buddha statues, Buddhist pendants, incense, candles, chanting beads, instruments, Buddhist monastics' robes, meditation cushions and other Buddhist accessories.^[6]

Christianity

In Christendom, "religious goods stores", also known as "Christian bookstores", have Family Bibles, Christian art, daily devotional books, breviaries, catechisms, cross necklaces, Christian music albums, holy cards, home altars, prie-dieus, and prayer beads (such as the Dominican Rosary of Catholicism, the Wreath of Christ of Lutheranism, the Anglican Rosary of Anglicanism, and the Chotki of Eastern Orthodoxy), among other sacramentals.^[7]^[5]

Chinese folk religion and Taoism

Statues representing Chinese deities, also include Bodhisattva images like Guanyin or Di Zang Wang
Tong Sheng (通勝), Chinese divination guide and almanac
all form of Chinese incenses, kemenyan and candles
incense papers, underworld bank notes and various forms of paper offerings
tablets dedicated to Tian Gong (天公), Tu Di Gong (土地公), Zao Jun (灶君) and ancestral tablets
unconsecrated religious devotional objects like Pa-Kua, Qian Kun Tai Ji Tu and Shang Hai Zheng
incense urns or incense holders
Chinese teapots, tea cups and Chinese tea leaves
incense paper burners
incense sticks

Gallery

Malaysian Chinese and Indian Prayer Material Shop in Penang's Market Street (Little India district).
Statues of Maitreya on sale in a Prayer Material Shop in Penang.
The exterior of a Family Christian religious goods store in the United States

References

^ 南昌市志 – Volume 7 – Page 16 南昌市地方志编纂委员会 – 1997 "纸扎业旧时,南昌总镇坡有一条纸扎街, 10 多家纸扎店生意兴隆,除了扎灯笼外,最多的是扎纸人、纸马、纸箱、纸屋、纸车、纸轿等,办丧事的人家都要购买这些纸扎品去焚烧。随着丧事简办的推行,南昌市内只有几家出售花圏的商店。"
^ 臺港澳大辭典 – Page 737 《臺港澳大辭典》編委會 – 1992 ".纸扎冥品业纸扎行业在澳门是一门古老的行业,其间的发展一直受到科学进步、思想文明的冲击而日渐衰落. ... 全澳售卖纸扎冥品及中国拜场,只有 5 家,这类工场的陈少伟见[朝阳日报]条,神用品的纸料店现有 50 多家,其中纸扎品的扎作工 ..."
^ Frommer's Vancouver and Victoria 2010 Donald Olson – 2010 "Buddha Supply Centre Want money to burn? At Chinese funerals, people burn joss—paper replicas of earthly belongings—to help make the afterlife for the deceased more comfortable. This shop has more than 500 combustible products to "
^ Bowman, Peg (16 April 2013). At Home with the Sacraments: Baptism. Twenty-Third Publications. p. 30. ISBN 978-1-58595-903-7.
^ ^a ^b 1963 Census of Business. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 10. Religious goods stores (Part of SIC 5999)—Establishments primarily selling primarily selling religious goods, such as Bibles, prayer books, hymnals, church and Sunday school supplies, communion supplies, rosaries, and religious statues, medals, jewelry, and pictures. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
^ Evergreen Buddhist Culture Service
^ Wrzaszczak, Chester Francis (1988). Boomerang and Other Easter Stories. Resource Publications. p. 27. ISBN 978-0-89390-131-8.

[1] 南昌市志 – Volume 7 – Page 16 南昌市地方志编纂委员会 – 1997 "纸扎业旧时,南昌总镇坡有一条纸扎街, 10 多家纸扎店生意兴隆,除了扎灯笼外,最多的是扎纸人、纸马、纸箱、纸屋、纸车、纸轿等,办丧事的人家都要购买这些纸扎品去焚烧。随着丧事简办的推行,南昌市内只有几家出售花圏的商店。"

[2] 臺港澳大辭典 – Page 737 《臺港澳大辭典》編委會 – 1992 ".纸扎冥品业纸扎行业在澳门是一门古老的行业,其间的发展一直受到科学进步、思想文明的冲击而日渐衰落. ... 全澳售卖纸扎冥品及中国拜场,只有 5 家,这类工场的陈少伟见[朝阳日报]条,神用品的纸料店现有 50 多家,其中纸扎品的扎作工 ..."

[3] Frommer's Vancouver and Victoria 2010 Donald Olson – 2010 "Buddha Supply Centre Want money to burn? At Chinese funerals, people burn joss—paper replicas of earthly belongings—to help make the afterlife for the deceased more comfortable. This shop has more than 500 combustible products to "

[4] Bowman, Peg (16 April 2013). At Home with the Sacraments: Baptism. Twenty-Third Publications. p. 30. ISBN 978-1-58595-903-7.

[Census1988-5] 1963 Census of Business. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 10. Religious goods stores (Part of SIC 5999)—Establishments primarily selling primarily selling religious goods, such as Bibles, prayer books, hymnals, church and Sunday school supplies, communion supplies, rosaries, and religious statues, medals, jewelry, and pictures. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

[6] Evergreen Buddhist Culture Service

[Wrzaszczak1988-7] Wrzaszczak, Chester Francis (1988). Boomerang and Other Easter Stories. Resource Publications. p. 27. ISBN 978-0-89390-131-8.

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