Title: Archaeology and text : the temple in South Asia /
Authors: Ray, Himanshu Prabha.; Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Hindu temples Social aspects India Congresses.; Hindu architecture Social aspects India Congresses.; Sacred space India Congresses.
Abstract: Contributed articles presented at the Shivdasani Conference 2007, Archaeology and Text: the Temple in South Asia held at Danson Room, Trinity College, Oxford University, 201-21 October, 2007 on socio-cultural aspects of Hindu temples, its architecture and sacred spaces per se predominantly studied in context of Indian temples moderated by Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies.
Contents: Creating religious identity: archaeology of early temples in the Malaprabha Valley / Himanshu Prabha Ray -- The Ambikā Temple at Jagat / Parul Pandya Dhar -- Textual tradition and the temples of Khajuraho / Devangana Desai -- Ambarnath Śiva Temple: sculptured panels illustrating rituals described in temple architecture texts / Kumud Kanitkar -- Absence and presence: worshipping the Jina at Ellora / Lisa N. Owen -- The Kāntānagar Temple: Hindu temples in East Bengal under the Mughals / Sandrine Gill -- Money of the Gods: the religious tokens of India / Sanjay Garg -- Sacred space and the making of monuments in colonial Orissa in the early twentieth century / Indra Sengupta --- The temple in Sanskrit legal literature / Patrick Olivelle -- The changes in Indian ritualism: Yajńa versus Pūjā / Natalia R. Lidova -- Seeing the Bhakti Movement / John Stratton Hawley -- World renouncing monks and world celebrating temples and icons: the ritual culture of temples and icons in Jainism / John E. Cort -- Samnyāsins in a temple context / T.S. Rukmani.