
Tamil Temples
Traditional and Transcultural. Thirty-Three Sketches.
Harrassowitz Verlag
Published on 11. September 2024
Book
Hardback
XX, 388 pages
978-3-447-12192-7 (ISBN)
Description
Since the middle of the 1990s, Tamil migrants have built Saiva temples. These are based on the pattern of their South Indian and Sri Lankan homelands but with significant modifications, transformations and altered functions resulting from new circumstances and pressures to adapt to the status of an immigrant. Traditionally confined to South Asia, Hinduism is being spread world-wide by modern migration movements .As the world's third largest religious community after Christianity and Islam, Hinduism is currently in the process of developing from a folk religion into a world religion. It is emigrant Hinduism which is primarily responsible for this epochal change. The religious metamorphosis is not taking place in India itself, but overseas. This makes expat-Hinduism an important subject of research for Indologists. The comparison of Hinduism abroad with original Hinduism in India and Sri Lanka enables predictions about possible development opportunities in the home countries.
In their book Konrad and Marion Meisig offer sketches of thirty-three Tamil Saiva temples in India, Sri Lanka, Germany, Canada, Great Britain and Mauritius. These sketches are based on four categories of temples, depending on whether their principal deity is Ga?esa, Muru- gan, a goddess (Devi) or Siva. There are three methods of presentation: text, picture and ground plan. All three are equally important. This combination will convey the comprehensive religious- historical information
In their book Konrad and Marion Meisig offer sketches of thirty-three Tamil Saiva temples in India, Sri Lanka, Germany, Canada, Great Britain and Mauritius. These sketches are based on four categories of temples, depending on whether their principal deity is Ga?esa, Muru- gan, a goddess (Devi) or Siva. There are three methods of presentation: text, picture and ground plan. All three are equally important. This combination will convey the comprehensive religious- historical information
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Language
English
Place of publication
Wiesbaden
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
637 ill., 1 tables
Dimensions
Height: 24 cm
Width: 17 cm
Weight
1180 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-447-12192-7 (9783447121927)
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