Lives of Indian ImagesPrinceton University Press, 2.5.1999 - 331 sivua For many centuries, Hindus have taken it for granted that the religious images they place in temples and home shrines for purposes of worship are alive. Hindu priests bring them to life through a complex ritual "establishment" that invokes the god or goddess into material support. Priests and devotees then maintain the enlivened image as a divine person through ongoing liturgical activity: they must awaken it in the morning, bathe it, dress it, feed it, entertain it, praise it, and eventually put it to bed at night. In this linked series of case studies of Hindu religious objects, Richard Davis argues that in some sense these believers are correct: through ongoing interactions with humans, religious objects are brought to life. Davis draws largely on reader-response literary theory and anthropological approaches to the study of objects in society in order to trace the biographies of Indian religious images over many centuries. He shows that Hindu priests and worshipers are not the only ones to enliven images. Bringing with them differing religious assumptions, political agendas, and economic motivations, others may animate the very same objects as icons of sovereignty, as polytheistic "idols," as "devils," as potentially lucrative commodities, as objects of sculptural art, or as symbols for a whole range of new meanings never foreseen by the images' makers or original worshipers. |
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Tulokset 1 - 5 kokonaismäärästä 73
... Somanatha 186 7. Loss and Recovery of Ritual Self 222 Conclusion : Identities and Manifestations 261 Notes Bibliography Bibliographic Appendix Index 265 293 317 319 Illustrations 1. The Didarganj Yakṣī in the Patna Museum 2.
... Somanātha 92 15. Sa'di's Visit to an Indian Temple 101 16. Rajagopuram under Construction , Ranganatha Temple , 1982 17. Śrī Ranganatha , Sri Rangam 124 125 18. The Hedges Vişņu , Ashmolean Museum 144 19. " Tipu's Tiger " 146 20 ...
... Somanātha , 1947 204 208 214 39. The Somnath Trust Consults Plans for the New Somanātha 215 40. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Statue at Somanātha 216 41. The Jam Saheb Acting as Yajamāna 218 42. Somanātha Today 43. Digvijaya Gate , Somanātha ...
... Somanatha . U. C. Chandramouleeswaran , R. Nagaswamy , and K. K. Rajasekharan Nair discussed issues pertaining to the theft of religious icons in south India . For helping me along in my Indian travels , I also thank Vimal Shukla and ...
... Somanatha in Gujarat in 1026. Conservative Indo - Muslim chroniclers of the late medieval period came to portray Maḥmūd's act of iconoclasm as a model for an Islamic con- queror confronting the idols of India . Chapter Four looks at the ...
Sisältö
Living Images | 15 |
Trophies of War | 51 |
Images Overthrown | 88 |
Visnus Miraculous Returns | 113 |
Indian Images Collected | 143 |
Reconstructions of Somanatha | 186 |
Loss and Recovery of Ritual Self | 222 |
Identities and Manifestations | 261 |
Notes | 265 |
Bibliography | 293 |
Bibliographic Appendix | 317 |
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