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Lives of Indian Images

Af: Richard H. Davis Engelsk Paperback

Lives of Indian Images

Af: Richard H. Davis Engelsk Paperback
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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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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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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 352
ISBN-13: 9780691005201
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0691005206
Kategori: Tilbedelse, ritualer og ceremonier
Udg. Dato: 2 maj 1999
Længde: 0mm
Bredde: 152mm
Højde: 235mm
Forlag: Princeton University Press
Oplagsdato: 2 maj 1999
Forfatter(e): Richard H. Davis
Forfatter(e) Richard H. Davis

Kategori Tilbedelse, ritualer og ceremonier

ISBN-13 9780691005201

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 352

Udgave

Længde 0mm

Bredde 152mm

Højde 235mm

Udg. Dato 2 maj 1999

Oplagsdato 2 maj 1999

Forlag Princeton University Press

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