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The domain of constant excess : plural worship at the Munnesvaram temples in Sri Lanka / Rohan Bastin.
Penn Museum Library BL1243.78.S72 D66 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bastin, Rohan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Munnesvaram Temple (Halāvata, Sri Lanka)--History.
- Munnesvaram Temple (Halāvata, Sri Lanka).
- Hinduism--Relations--Buddhism.
- Hinduism.
- Relations.
- Buddhism.
- Buddhism--Relations--Hinduism.
- History.
- Sri Lanka--Religious life and customs.
- Sri Lanka.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 231 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2002.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Worship, Difference and Marvellous Potentiality 1
- Haskam or Marvellous Potentiality 5
- The Polysemy of the Hindu Sacred in the Conditions of Violence 8
- Plan of the Book 11
- Chapter 2 Fluidity and Ambiguity in the History of Munnesvaram 15
- The Temples and Their Deities 19
- The Social Composition of Worship 26
- Temple Ownership 34
- Chapter 3 Myths and Marginality 43
- Rama Myth 45
- The Myth of the Diseased King 47
- Heritage or History? 51
- Kali's Myth 53
- Chapter 4 Ritual Practices and Religious Identity 59
- Pilgrimage and a Comparison Between Munnesvaram and Kataragama 60
- Worship and Ethnicity 64
- Sacrifice 65
- Sorcery 67
- Trance 69
- Maniyan 70
- Sorcery and Protection at the Munnesvaram Temple 73
- Sinhala Buddhism and Its Radical Temporality 76
- Popular Religion as a Practice of Resistance 81
- Chapter 5 The Saivite Temple as a Monumental Architecture 89
- Potency as Simultaneous Origin and Effect 90
- Monumental Architecture 92
- Essentials: Temples in War and Death 93
- Munnesvaram Temple Design 95
- Binding the Manifestation of Divine Play 101
- The Mixing of Cosmological Concepts 103
- Cosmos, Body and Symbolic Levels 108
- Chapter 6 'The Look and the Thing Seen': Puja and Arccanai 117
- Daily Rites 117
- Puja as Offering 123
- Sinhala Buddhist Statuary 127
- The Logic of Deity Offerings in Sinhala Buddhism 129
- Chapter 7 The Presence of Sakti 133
- The Goddess and Her 'Mountain' 134
- The Identity of Ambal and Kali 141
- Chapter 8 Guardians, Games and the Formation of Power 145
- The Village Guardian 147
- Myths of the Guardian Deities 150
- The Maradankulam Aiyanar Festival 152
- The Theme of Inviolability in the Formation of the Regional Polity 157
- Chapter 9 The World Inside Out 163
- Jokes at the Boundary 164
- The Flag-Hoisting
- Origination 165
- The 'Trust' Meeting 170
- Processions and the Spiral Upward 171
- Morning and Night Processions 173
- Chariots
- The Temple Turns on Itself 175
- Chapter 10 The Domain of Excess 183
- The Cool Fire of Reabsorption 186
- The Danger of Cosmic Excess 189
- The Hunting Festival or The Mango Shoot? 190
- Tirtham
- The Crossing Point 192
- Bhadrakali Temple Festival 195
- Chapter 11 Divine Kings and Regal Gods: Temples in Society and History 201
- Orientalism and Postcolonialism 207.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-225) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1571812520
- OCLC:
- 50028737
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