The Rise Of The Temples
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The Rise Of The Temples
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Author : Albert R. Temple
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
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The Rise Of The Temples
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Author : Albert R. Temple
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
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Diaspora Of The Gods
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Author : Joanne Punzo Waghorne
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2004-09-16
Diaspora Of The Gods written by Joanne Punzo Waghorne and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09-16 with Religion categories.
Many Hindus today are urban middle-class people with religious values similar to those of their professional counterparts in America and Europe. Just as modern professionals continue to build new churches, synagogues, and now mosques, Hindus are erecting temples to their gods wherever their work and their lives take them. Despite the perceived exoticism of Hindu worship, the daily life-style of these avid temple patrons differs little from their suburban neighbors. Joanne Waghorne leads her readers on a journey through this new middle-class Hindu diaspora, focusing on their efforts to build and support places of worship. She seeks to trace the changing religious sensibilities of the middle classes as written on their temples and on the faces of their gods. She offers detailed comparisons of temples in Chennai (formerly Madras), London, and Washington, D.C., and interviews temple priests, devotees, and patrons. In the process, she illuminates the interrelationships between ritual worship and religious edifices, the rise of the modern world economy, and the ascendancy of the great middle class. The result is a comprehensive portrait of Hinduism as lived today by so many both in India and throughout the world. Lavishly illustrated with professional photographs by Dick Waghorne, this book will appeal to art historians as well as urban anthropologists, scholars of religion, and those interested in diaspora, transnationalism, and trends in contemporary religion. It should be especially appealing for course use because it introduces the modern Hinduism practiced by the friends and neighbors of students in the U.S. and Britain.
Building Temples In China
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Author : Selina Ching Chan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-11-27
Building Temples In China written by Selina Ching Chan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-27 with Religion categories.
Much has been written on how temples are constructed or reconstructed for reviving local religious and communal life or for recycling tradition after the market reforms in China. The dynamics between the state and society that lie behind the revival of temples and religious practices initiated by the locals have been well-analysed. However, there is a gap in the literature when it comes to understanding religious revivals that were instead led by local governments. This book examines the revival of worship of the Chinese Deity Huang Daxian and the building of many new temples to the god in mainland China over the last 20 years. It analyses the role of local governments in initiating temple construction projects in China, and how development-oriented temple-building activities in Mainland China reveal the forces of transnational ties, capital, markets and identities, as temples were built with the hope of developing tourism, boosting the local economy, and enhancing Chinese identities for Hong Kong worshippers and Taiwanese in response to the reunification of Hong Kong to China. Including chapters on local religious memory awakening, pilgrimage as a form of tourism, women temple managers, entrepreneurialism and the religious economy, and based on extensive fieldwork, Chan and Lang have produced a truly interdisciplinary follow up to The Rise of a Refugee God which will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese religion, Chinese culture, Asian anthropology, cultural heritage and Daoism alike.
The Rise Of The Hung Temple
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Author : Thi Diem Hang Ngo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
The Rise Of The Hung Temple written by Thi Diem Hang Ngo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Ancestor worship categories.
This thesis provides an ethnographic exploration of the Hung Temple in Phu Tho province, Vietnam. As a temple dedicated to the Hung Kings at a location that is promoted as a national heritage site, the Hung Temple provides the setting for different debates about ongoing cultural, political and religious transformations in contemporary Vietnam. I focus on the state-led construction of place and the associated efforts to foster nationalism, popular religiosity and a sense of shared identity amongst the Vietnamese. I especially emphasise the meanings that people produce about the Hung Temple as a historically significant location, an important work place and as a sacred site of national veneration to the ancestors that are now revered as deities. My framing of these issues is sensitive to the state's shifting relationship to religion and to ancestor worship in a period of economic and political transition. I employ practice theory in particular to illuminate the understandings and connections that different facets of society have with the Hung Temple. The use of practice theory is important because it helps me identify how the state has constructed the Hung Temple as well as the potentially unanticipated ways that different people relate to the Hung Kings and the Temple. My approach includes attention to the ambitions of national rulers who construct an official narrative of the nation through their depiction of the Hung Temple's significance. It also includes the relationship that temple priests, administrators, and bureaucrats have with the temple complex and its surrounding landscape. My practice theory approach additionally gives attention to the people who develop their own individual practice of worship to the Hung Kings and who come to see the Hung Kings as potent deities from whom they can receive the blessings and benefits that will help improve their lives. Finally, by focusing on moments of national celebration on the Hung Kings' anniversary, I show how these different facets of society come together under the same purpose, but sometimes to different ends. In particular, I use the anniversary celebrations to underline how dynamic the relationships are that people develop with the Hung Kings and how these relationships are not entirely determined by the state's framing of the Hung Kings. I also show how the people in attendance are not necessarily in harmony despite the state's efforts to foster a codified, communal practice at the Temple. Through these explorations, the thesis highlights the discourses and actions of a number of social actors who participate in place-based practices at the Hung Temple. The text offers a strongly ethnographic and anthropological engagement with a prominent heritage site that adds to our understandings of the relationship between politics and religion, as well as to our understandings of how these domains impact upon the practices and identities of citizens. Ultimately, the thesis uses the case of the Hung Temple, and of the growing embrace of their ritual worship, as a way to add nuance to discussions of what it means to be Vietnamese in contemporary times.
The Fall Of The Southern Shaolin Temple And Rise Of The Ten Tigers Of Canton
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Author : Paul Burkinshaw
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2019-03-15
The Fall Of The Southern Shaolin Temple And Rise Of The Ten Tigers Of Canton written by Paul Burkinshaw and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-15 with History categories.
The Fall of the Southern Shaolin Temple and the Rise of the Ten Tigers of Canton tells the legendary story of the Southern Shaolin Temples in Fukien Provence, China, and of the renowned Shaolin Kung Fu masters who trained there. Events and betrayals led to the destruction of these Southern Shaolin Temples. The survivors fled from the Ch’ing/Qing army and dispersed around Kwangtung/Guangdong Province. Many of these eventually settled in or around the provincial capital city of Canton. They, in turn, taught their kung fu among the general population, which led to the rise of several eminent kung fu masters. The ten best were chosen and from then on would be known as the Ten Tigers of Canton.
Religion Power And The Rise Of Shinto In Early Modern Japan
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Author : Stefan Köck
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-04-08
Religion Power And The Rise Of Shinto In Early Modern Japan written by Stefan Köck and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-08 with Religion categories.
This book sheds new light on the relationship between religion and state in early modern Japan, and demonstrates the growing awareness of Shinto in both the political and the intellectual elite of Tokugawa Japan, even though Buddhism remained the privileged means of stately religious control. The first part analyses how the Tokugawa government aimed to control the populace via Buddhism and at the same time submitted Buddhism to the sacralization of the Tokugawa dynasty. The second part focuses on the religious protests throughout the entire period, with chapters on the suppression of Christians, heterodox Buddhist sects, and unwanted folk practitioners. The third part tackles the question of why early Tokugawa Confucianism was particularly interested in “Shinto” as an alternative to Buddhism and what “Shinto” actually meant from a Confucian stance. The final part of the book explores attempts to curtail the institutional power of Buddhism by reforming Shinto shrines, an important step in the so called “Shintoization of shrines” including the development of a self-contained Shinto clergy.
Temples Rising
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Author : Ujay Nwosu
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2022-09-10
Temples Rising written by Ujay Nwosu and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-10 with categories.
My life is a testimony of God's grace to the maximum, and out of gratitude to Him I rise up as His Temple to ignite all those who bear His name to heed the clarion end-time call. In line with heeding this clarion end-time call, I have put pen to paper, bringing us a new Title that will sure proffer a clearer vision, and of course not without the help of my best Friend, the Holy Spirit. To yet equip us with the much needed tool is the mission of this Title, and in here every believer shall be reminded of our obvious identity as the Habitation of the Holy Spirit on the earth. Now, what is expected of us as the Habitation of the Holy Spirit or as Temples as I designated us herein is to occupy, and harvest souls for our MASTER. I hereby invite you to come with me as we learn a few how-tos with the help of my best Friend.
The Temple Of Mukt Vara At Cau Ad Napura
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Author : Vasundhara Filliozat
language : en
Publisher: Abhinav Publications
Release Date : 1995
The Temple Of Mukt Vara At Cau Ad Napura written by Vasundhara Filliozat and has been published by Abhinav Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Religion categories.
The Northern Part Of Karnataka Is One Of The Richest Areas Of India In Monuments Of Great Artistic Value. It Was Subjected To The Rule Of Several Royal Families, Calukyas Of Kalyana, Kalacuris And Seunas In The 10Th, 11Th, 12Th And 13Th Centuries A.D. Which Has Been A Period Of Great Cultural Refinement. It Was The Time Of The Greatest Expansion Of The Kalamukha-Lakulasaiva Movements, And Of The Rise Of Virasaivism. The Temple Of Muktesvara At Caudadanapura (Dharwar District) Is A Beautiful Representative Of The Style And The High Culture Of That Time. Its History Is Known To Us Thanks To A Set Of Seven Long Inscriptions, Composed In Literary Medieval Kannada, Engraved With Great Care On Large Steles. They Provide Informations On The Local Rulers, Kings Of Guttala Who Claimed A Gupta Ascendancy, On Some Constructions In The Temple Complex, On Diverse Donations To The Deity, And Very Interesting Details On A Few Prominent Religious Leaders. It Introduces To Us Muktajiyar, A Lakulasaiva Saint, And Sivadeva, A Virasaiva Saint, Who Entered The Place On The 19 Th Of August 1225 And Led There A Long Life Of Renunciation, Asceticism And Spiritual Elevation. The Legacy Of This Age Of Intense Saivite Faith Is A Jewel Of Architecture And Sculpture. It Is A Single Cella Temple In What Is Popularly Known As Jakkanacari Style, Sometimes Called Kalyana-Calukyan Style, Which Is Not Appropriate, As Many Temples Of The Same Style Have Also Been Built Under The Patronage Of Kalacuri Or Seuna Dynasties. The Present Study Contains A Historical Introduction, The Complete Edition, Translation And Interpretation Of The Inscriptions, An Architectural Description, With A Graphic Survey, And An Iconographical Analysis.
The Origins Of Greek Temple Architecture
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Author : Alessandro Pierattini
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
The Origins Of Greek Temple Architecture written by Alessandro Pierattini and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with SOCIAL SCIENCE categories.
"In this book, Alessandro Pierattini offers a comprehensive study of the evolution of pre-Archaic Greek temple architecture from the eleventh to the mid-seventh century BC. Demystifying the formative stages of Greek architecture, he traces how temples were transformed from unassuming shrines made of perishable materials into large stone and terracotta monuments. Grounded in archaeological evidence, the volume analyzes the design, function, construction, and aesthetic of the Greek temple. While the book's primary focus is architectural, it also draws on nonarchitectural material culture, ancient cult practice, and social history, which also defined the context that fostered the Greek temple's initial development. In reconstituting this early history, Pierattini also draws attention to new developments as well as legacies from previous eras. Ultimately, he reveals why the temple's pre-Archaic development is not only of interest in itself but also a key to the origins of the Greek monumental architecture of the Archaic period"--