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Domain of Constant Excess: Plural Worship at the Munnesvaram Temples in Sri Lanka »

Authors: Rohan Bastin
ISBN-13: 9781571812520, ISBN-10: 1571812520
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Date Published: June 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Rohan Bastin

Book Synopsis

Bastin (anthropology, archaeology, and sociology, James Cook U.) has recast his doctoral dissertation for University College London, which explores how religious meaning and potency acquire force in the production and reproduction of everyday worship. He addresses general issues about Hindu temples and their place in south Indian and Sri Lankan society and history, focusing on a predominantly Hindu cluster of five temples near the northwest coastal town of Chilaw from the middle 1980s to the middle 1990s. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

	List of Figures and Table
	List of Photographs
	Acknowledgements
	Guide to Pronunciation
	Glossary
Ch. 1	Worship, Difference and Marvellous Potentiality	1
Ch. 2	Fluidity and Ambiguity in the History of Munnesvaram	15
Ch. 3	Myths and Marginality	43
Ch. 4	Ritual Practices and Religious Identity	59
Ch. 5	The Saivite Temple as a Monumental Architecture	89
Ch. 6	'The Look and the Thing Seen': Puja and Arccanai	117
Ch. 7	The Presence of Sakti	133
Ch. 8	Guardians, Games and the Formation of Power	145
Ch. 9	The World Inside Out	163
Ch. 10	The Domain of Excess	183
Ch. 11	Divine Kings and Regal Gods: Temples in Society and History	201
	References	213
	Index	227

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