| Rediscovering the Hindu Temple: The Sacred Architecture and Urbanism of India Contributor(s): Bharne, Vinayak (Author), Krusche, Krupali (Author) |
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ISBN: 1443841374 ISBN-13: 9781443841375 Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing OUR PRICE: $84.10 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Buildings - Religious - Architecture | History - General - Religion | Hinduism - General |
| Dewey: 726.145 |
| LCCN: 2012551620 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 8.1" W x 11.4" (1.80 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Hindu |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 ritualistic settings; and affirming their influential role in the contemporary Indian metropolis. Going beyond stereotypical presentations of Hindu temples dominated by chronological and stylistic themes, this study, addressed to architects, urbanists, and builders, combines historic scholarship, documentation, personal observations and fieldwork to expand the idea of the Hindu temple as a complex and contradictory cultural entity, that is both formal and informal, monumental and modest, historic and modern, and deserving of a far broader and deeper understanding. |