Gods on Earth: The Management of Religious Experience and Identity in a North Indian Pilgrimage CentreBloomsbury Academic, 1988 M02 1 - 328 pages A detailed historical anthropology of Ayodhya, which argues that religious values can reflect political and economic processes. |
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Page 34
... building is in fact a restoration of a temple built by King Vikramaditya , who was able to rediscover the original locations of Ram's life by means of meditation . Finally , the last and most important layer : the building which is seen ...
... building is in fact a restoration of a temple built by King Vikramaditya , who was able to rediscover the original locations of Ram's life by means of meditation . Finally , the last and most important layer : the building which is seen ...
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... building in which Ram lived in the Treta - yuga . The relatively recent building is by this process equated with the building described in the sacred lore which the Hindu has heard from childhood . Time and history are made irrelevant ...
... building in which Ram lived in the Treta - yuga . The relatively recent building is by this process equated with the building described in the sacred lore which the Hindu has heard from childhood . Time and history are made irrelevant ...
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... buildings . Caste associations also started building their own places in the beginning of the twentieth century . Both high status groups , such as merchants and Kayasths ( writers , administrators ) , and low status groups such as ...
... buildings . Caste associations also started building their own places in the beginning of the twentieth century . Both high status groups , such as merchants and Kayasths ( writers , administrators ) , and low status groups such as ...
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Sarayu and the ghats | 9 |
The conjunction of time and place | 28 |
Problems and Perspectives | 44 |
Copyright | |
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