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The Routledge handbook of Hindu temples : materiality, social history and practice

Title
The Routledge handbook of Hindu temples : materiality, social history and practice / edited by Himanshu Prabha Ray, Salila Kulshreshtha and Uthara Suvrathan.
Publication
  • Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.
  • ©2023

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  • Ray, Himanshu Prabha
  • Kulshreshtha, Salila
  • Suvrathan, Uthara
Description
xix, 496 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.
Summary
"This handbook is a comprehensive study of the archaeology, social history, and the cultural landscape of the Hindu temple. Perhaps the most recognizable of the material forms of Hinduism, temples are lived, dynamic spaces that are significant sites of the creation of cultural heritage, both in the past and the present. Drawing on historiographical surveys and in-depth case studies, the volume centres the material form of the Hindu temple as an entry point to study its many adaptations and transformations from the early centuries CE to the 20th century. It highlights the vibrancy and dynamism of the shrine in different locales and studies the active participation of the community for its establishment, maintenance, and survival. The illustrated handbook takes a unique approach by focusing on the social base of the temple rather than its aesthetics or chronological linear development. It fills a significant gap in the study of Hinduism and will be an indispensable resource for scholars of archaeology, Hinduism, Indian history, religious studies, museum studies, South Asian history, and Southeast Asian history"--
Series Statement
Routledge handbooks
Uniform Title
Routledge handbooks.
Subject
Hindu temples
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Introduction: Hindu temples : social histories. The temple and royalty. Introduction to temple and royalty / Salila Kulshreshtha ; The sacred geography of a medieval capital : Hampi-Vijayanagara--a case study / Anila Verghese ; Beyond the king-brahmana-temple paradigm : mapping the socio-cultural landscape of Hindu temples in central India (c. 4th-6th centuries CE) / Ashish Kumar ; Constructing temple, constructing power : temple reconstruction process in 10th-century Tamil-speaking South with special emphasis on Govindapputtur / Valérie Gillet -- Temple rituals. Introduction to temples and rituals / Salila Kulshreshtha ; The stepwell as gift of water : Danadharma / Kirit Mankodi ; Medieval food as deity worship : the elaboration of food offerings in Chola-era ritual practice / Andrea Gutiérrez ; Social history of the western-Himalayan temple : rituals and priests / Mahesh Sharma -- Temple as social space. Introduction to temple as social space / Uthara Suvrathan ; Methods for murals : temple painting in southeastern India / Anna Lise Seastrand ; Tirthas, temples and the architecture of Hindu pilgrimage / Crispin Branfoot ; Amour and upahāra in the garbha-gṛḥa : the temple as social space in the Kathāsaritsāgara / Tara Sheemar Malhan --
  • Temple landscapes. Introduction to temple landscapes / Uthara Suvrathan ; Temples of Swat : the Śāhi archaeological landscape of Barikot / Luca M. Olivieri ; Shared spaces : cultural landscapes and early Hindu temples in peninsular India / Himanshu Prabha Ray ; Sacred spaces and local places : temples and shrines in the religious landscape of Tekkalakota / C.M. Manohar, V. Ashok Abkari and Namita Sanjay Sugandhi -- The temple and beyond. Introduction to the temple and beyond / Himanshu Prabha Ray ; Movement across the divine threshold in medieval Tamil Nadu : dynamics and interactions in the space of the temple and beyond / Leslie C. Orr ; Monasticism and the Hindu temple / Himanshu Prabha Ray ; Building belonging : Shaiva temple communities in south and southeast Asia / Elizabeth A. Cecil -- The colonial interlude. Introduction to the colonial interlude / Himanshu Prabha Ray ; Symbiotic sacred spaces : an indexical study of premodern Malabar / Percy Arfeen ; From the forest to the valley : temple architecture, landscape and history in Goa / Pedro Pombo ; The afterlife of temples : western India / Susan Verma Mishra ; The remaking of Ramtek Hill under the Yadavas and Bhosles of Nagpur / Cathleen A. Cummings.
Call Number
JFF 23-592
ISBN
  • 9780367563158
  • 0367563150
  • 9781032380223
  • 1032380225
  • 9781003097709 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2022025267
OCLC
1344378703
Title
The Routledge handbook of Hindu temples : materiality, social history and practice / edited by Himanshu Prabha Ray, Salila Kulshreshtha and Uthara Suvrathan.
Publisher
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.
Copyright Date
©2023
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Routledge handbooks
Routledge handbooks.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Ray, Himanshu Prabha, editor.
Kulshreshtha, Salila, editor.
Suvrathan, Uthara, editor.
Other Form:
Online version: Routledge handbook of Hindu temples Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2023 9781003097709 (DLC) 2022025268
Research Call Number
JFF 23-592
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