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. |
Kirjan sisältä
Tulokset 1 - 5 kokonaismäärästä 69
... Worship of the Śiva Linga 9. The Calukya Door Guardian 10. Udayagiri Bālakṛṣṇa 11. Vitthala Temple , Vijayanagara 12. Rajendra's Great Temple at Gangaikondacolapuram 4 14 14 16 18 20 22 24 52 66 67 77 13. Durga Slaying the Buffalo Demon ...
... Worship 47. Pathur Ruins and Śiva Linga 48. The Ceremony of Return 219 220 224 45. Ramamurti's Pit and Viśvanāthasvāmi Temple Ruins , Pathur 227 229 255 257 49. The Icon Centre , Tiruvarur 50. Visņu Venkatesvara , Tirupati 258 260 ...
... worship had been instituted ( under the mistaken notion that the figure was a Hindu deity ) before the fact of the discovery was brought to the notice of any but the Police , who , however , reported it in due course in the proper ...
... worship are alive . They believe these physical objects , visually or symboli- cally representing particular deities , come to be infused with the presence or life or power of those deities . Hindu priests are able to bring images to ...
... worship . These concerns might have a bearing upon the specific ways in which groups of Hindu worshipers would animate their images , but it would not affect the broader shared view of temple images as ritually consecrated material ...
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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