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 88
... South Park Street Cemetery , Calcutta 26. Śiva and Pārvatī Panel in the British Museum 166 167 27. East India House , Leadenhall Street 169 28. " The East Offering Its Riches to Britannia " 170 29. The Museum , East India House 30 ...
... south India . For helping me along in my Indian travels , I also thank Vimal Shukla and Adam Zeff . University seminars and conference panels are the arenas in which many of the ideas presented in this book made their first public ...
... proper diacritics . Śiva ( not Shiva ) , Vişņu ( not Vishnu ) , and their divine cohorts are the protagonists of these iconic lives . Abbreviations ARE BhG BhP Annual Reports of South Indian Epigraphy Translation and Transliteration.
Richard H. Davis. Abbreviations ARE BhG BhP Annual Reports of South Indian Epigraphy Bhagavadgītā BrSBh Bhāgavatapurāṇa Brahmasūtrabhāṣya BS Brhatsamhitā CV Culavamsa KA Kāmikāgama KO MĀ MBh Koyil Oluku Mrgendragama Mahābhārata MS ...
... South Asia and the West , as objects of Indian art . Biographies of Indian Images For many centuries , most Hindus have taken it for granted that the religious images they place in temples and home shrines for purposes of worship are ...
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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