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Religious icons have been a contested terrain across the world.
Their implications and understanding travel further than the
artistic or the aesthetic and inform contemporary
preoccupations.This book traces the lives of religious sculptures
beyond the moment of their creation. It lays bare their purpose and
evolution by contextualising them in their original architectural
or ritual setting while also following their displacement. The work
examines how these images may have moved during different spates of
temple renovation and acquired new identities by being relocated
either within sacred precincts or in private collections and
museums, art markets or even desecrated and lost. The book
highlights contentious issues in Indian archaeology such as
renegotiating identities of religious images, reuse and sharing of
sacred space by adherents of different faiths, rebuilding of
temples and consequent reinvention of these sites. The author also
engages with postcolonial debates surrounding history writing and
knowledge creation in British India and how colonial archaeology,
archival practices, official surveys and institutionalisation of
museums has influenced the current understanding of religion,
sacred space and religious icons. In doing so it bridges the
historiographical divide between the ancient and the modern as well
as socio-religious practices and their institutional memory and
preservation. Drawn from a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary study
of religious sculptures, classical texts, colonial archival
records, British travelogues, official correspondences and
fieldwork, the book will interest scholars and researchers of
history, archaeology, religion, art history, museums studies, South
Asian studies and Buddhist studies.
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.
Religious icons have been a contested terrain across the world.
Their implications and understanding travel further than the
artistic or the aesthetic and inform contemporary
preoccupations.This book traces the lives of religious sculptures
beyond the moment of their creation. It lays bare their purpose and
evolution by contextualising them in their original architectural
or ritual setting while also following their displacement. The work
examines how these images may have moved during different spates of
temple renovation and acquired new identities by being relocated
either within sacred precincts or in private collections and
museums, art markets or even desecrated and lost. The book
highlights contentious issues in Indian archaeology such as
renegotiating identities of religious images, reuse and sharing of
sacred space by adherents of different faiths, rebuilding of
temples and consequent reinvention of these sites. The author also
engages with postcolonial debates surrounding history writing and
knowledge creation in British India and how colonial archaeology,
archival practices, official surveys and institutionalisation of
museums has influenced the current understanding of religion,
sacred space and religious icons. In doing so it bridges the
historiographical divide between the ancient and the modern as well
as socio-religious practices and their institutional memory and
preservation. Drawn from a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary study
of religious sculptures, classical texts, colonial archival
records, British travelogues, official correspondences and
fieldwork, the book will interest scholars and researchers of
history, archaeology, religion, art history, museums studies, South
Asian studies and Buddhist studies.
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