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- catalog abstract "For many centuries, Hindus have taken it for granted that the religious images they place in temples and home shrines for purposes of worship are alive. Hindu priests bring them to life through a complex ritual "establishment" that invokes the god or goddess into material support. Priests and devotees then maintain the enlivened image as a divine person through ongoing liturgical activity: they must awaken it in the morning, bathe it, dress it, feed it, entertain it, praise it, and eventually put it to bed at night. In this linked series of case studies of Hindu religious objects, Richard Davis argues that in some sense these believers are correct: through ongoing interactions with humans, religious objects are brought to life. Davis draws largely in reader-response literary theory and anthropological approaches to the study of objects in society in order to trace the biographies of Indian religious images over many centuries.".
- catalog contributor b10198297.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "For many centuries, Hindus have taken it for granted that the religious images they place in temples and home shrines for purposes of worship are alive. Hindu priests bring them to life through a complex ritual "establishment" that invokes the god or goddess into material support. Priests and devotees then maintain the enlivened image as a divine person through ongoing liturgical activity: they must awaken it in the morning, bathe it, dress it, feed it, entertain it, praise it, and eventually put it to bed at night. In this linked series of case studies of Hindu religious objects, Richard Davis argues that in some sense these believers are correct: through ongoing interactions with humans, religious objects are brought to life. Davis draws largely in reader-response literary theory and anthropological approaches to the study of objects in society in order to trace the biographies of Indian religious images over many centuries.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-315) and index.".
- catalog description "Living Images -- Trophies of War -- Images Overthrown -- Visnu's Miraculous Returns -- Indian Images Collected -- Reconstructions of Somanatha -- Loss and Recovery of Ritual Self -- Conclusion: Identities and Manifestations.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 331 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0691005206 (pbk.)".
- catalog identifier "069102622X (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,".
- catalog spatial "India.".
- catalog subject "730/.954 20".
- catalog subject "Art and anthropology India.".
- catalog subject "Hindu gods in art.".
- catalog subject "Hindu sculpture.".
- catalog subject "NB1912.H55 D38 1997".
- catalog tableOfContents "Living Images -- Trophies of War -- Images Overthrown -- Visnu's Miraculous Returns -- Indian Images Collected -- Reconstructions of Somanatha -- Loss and Recovery of Ritual Self -- Conclusion: Identities and Manifestations.".
- catalog title "Lives of Indian images / Richard H. Davis.".
- catalog type "text".