Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Worship, Difference and Marvellous
Potentiality
Chapter 2. Fluidity and Ambiguity in the History of
Munnesvaram
Chapter 3. Myths and Marginality; Ritual Practices and
Religious Identity
Chapter 4. The Saivite Temple as a Monumental
Architecture
Chapter 5. 'The Look and the Thing Seen': Puja and
Arccanai
Chapter 6. The Presence of Sakti; Guardians, Games and the
Formation of Power
Chapter 7. The World Inside Out
Chapter 8. The Domain of Excess
Chapter 9. Divine Kings and Regal Gods: Temples in Society
and History
Bibliography
Index
Rohan Bastin is Head of the School of Anthropology, Archaeology & Sociology at James Cook University.
"…a successfully ambitious effort, richly informative and insightful in its coverage of the site's religious life and most sophisticated in its use and advancing of theoretical perspectives…Profound insights…abound in this complex and rewarding piece of scholarship..a must read for scholars of south Asian religions." -The Australian Journal of Anthropology
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