Rediscovering the Hindu temple : the sacred architecture and urbanism of India / by Vinayak Bharne and Krupali Krusche.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bharne, Vinayak, author.

Krusche, Krupail, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hindu temples--India.

Hindu temples.

City and town life--India.

City and town life.

City and town life--Religious aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume examines the multifarious dimensions that constitute the workings of the Hindu temple as an architectural and urban built form. Eleven chapters reflect on Hindu temples from multiple standpoints - tracing their elusive evolution from wayside shrines as well as canonization into classical objects; questioning the role of treatises containing their building rules; analyzing their prescribed proportions and orders; examining their presence in, and as, larger sacred habitats and ritua...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; MAP OF INDIA; HINDU TEMPLES CITED IN THIS STUDY; FOREWORD; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; A NOTE ON AUTHORSHIP; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1 - HINDUISM AND THE HINDU TEMPLE; CHAPTER 2 - THE PLEBEIAN TEMPLE; CHAPTER 3 - CODIFYING THE HINDU TEMPLE; CHAPTER 4 - CONCEPTION OF A HINDU TEMPLE; CHAPTER 5 - THE HINDU TEMPLE AS LANGUAGE AND STYLE; CHAPTER 6 - UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLES OF A CANONIZED TEMPLE; CHAPTER 7 - SYSTEMS OF MEASURE, ORDER AND PROPORTION; CHAPTER 8 - BEYOND THE OBJECT; CHAPTER 9 - RITUAL; CHAPTER 10 - CIRCUITS, CARTOGRAPHIES, AND CONTRADICTIONS

CHAPTER 11 - EVOLVING IDENTITIESEPILOGUE; ENDNOTES; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; APPENDIX; PROPORTION STUDIES ON INDIAN PILLARS; INDIAN ARCHITECTURAL GLOSSARY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4438-6734-9

OCLC:

891082245