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The Routledge Handbook of Hindu Temples

Materiality, Social History and Practice

Gebonden Engels 2022 9780367563158
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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. They are significant sites for the creation of cultural heritage, both in the past and in 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.

Chapters 1, 4 and 5 of this book are available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. They have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

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Introduction: Hindu temples: social histories

Section I: The temple and royalty

1. Introduction to temple and royalty

Salila Kulshreshtha

2. The sacred geography of a medieval capital: Hampi-Vijayanagara – a case study

Anila Verghese

3. Beyond the king–brahmana–temple paradigm: mapping the socio-cultural landscape of Hindu temples in central India (c. 4th–6th century CE)

Ashish Kumar

4. Constructing temple, constructing power: temple reconstruction process in 10th-century Tamil-speaking South with a special emphasis on Govindapputtūr

Valérie Gillet

Section II: Temple rituals

5. Introduction to temple and rituals

Salila Kulshreshtha

6. The stepwell as gift of water: Danadharma

Kirit Mankodi

7. Medieval food as deity worship: the elaboration of food offerings in Chola-era ritual practice

Andrea Gutiérrez

8. Social history of the Western-Himalayan temple: rituals and priests

Mahesh Sharma

Section III: Temple as social space

9. Introduction to temple as social space

Uthara Suvrathan

10. Methods for murals: temple painting in southeastern India

Anna Lise Seastrand

11. Tirthas, temples and the architecture of Hindu pilgrimage

Crispin Branfoot

12. Amour and upahāra in the garbha-gṛha: the temple as social space in the Kathāsaritsāgara

Tara Sheemar Malhan

Section IV: Temple landscapes

13. Introduction to temple landscapes

Uthara Suvrathan

14. Temples of Swat: the Śāhi archaeological landscape of Barikot

Luca M. Oliveri

15. Shared spaces: cultural landscapes and early Hindu temples in peninsular India

Himanshu Prabha Ray

16. Sacred spaces and local places: temples and shrines in the religious landscape of Tekkalakota

C.M. Manohar, V. Ashok Abkari and Namita Sanjay Sugandhi

Section V: The temple and beyond

17. The temple and beyond

Himanshu Prabha Ray

18. Movement across the divine threshold in medieval Tamil Nadu: dynamics and interactions in the space of the temple and beyond

Leslie C. Orr

19. Monasticism and the Hindu Temple

Himanshu Prabha Ray

20. Building belonging: Shaiva temple communities in South and Southeast Asia

Elizabeth A. Cecil

Section VI: The colonial interlude

21. Introduction to the colonial interlude

Himanshu Prabha Ray

22. Symbiotic sacred spaces: an indexical study of premodern Malabar

Percy Arfeen

23. From the forest to the valley: temple architecture, landscape and history in Goa

Pedro Pombo

24. The afterlife of temples: western India

Susan Verma Mishra

25. The remaking of Ramtek Hill under the Yadavas and Bhosles of Nagpur

Cathleen A. Cummings

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