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The Mahābodhi Temple at Bodhgayā: Constructing Sacred Placeness, Deconstructing the ‘Great Case’ of 1895

Joshi, Nikhil

Oxford: Routledge 2020

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  • Título:
    The Mahābodhi Temple at Bodhgayā: Constructing Sacred Placeness, Deconstructing the ‘Great Case’ of 1895
  • Autor: Joshi, Nikhil
  • Assuntos: Archaeology ; Bodhgaya temple ; Great Case of 1895 ; Mahabodhi Temple ; Manohar publishers ; places of worship in India ; Religion & Sociology ; sacred architecture ; Sacred space ; Sacred space-Social aspects-India-Buddh Gaya ; South Asian Studies ; temples in India ; UNESCO World Heritage
  • Descrição: I am sure this book will open a new platform for understanding the complex stories at UNESCO’s World Heritage Site. Prof. Rana P.B. Singh, President – Asian Cultural Landscape Association, and Former Professor and Head, Department of Geography, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. The Mahābodhi Temple investigates the historic and ethnographic accounts of the ongoing religious contestations over the status of the Mahābodhi Temple complex in Bodhgayā (a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2002) and its surrounding landscape to critically analyse the working and construction (and re-construction) of sacredness. It endeavours to make a ground-up assessment of ways in which human participants in the past and present respond to and interact with the Mahābodhi Temple and its surroundings. The volume argues that sacredness goes beyond scriptural texts and archaeological remains. The Mahābodhi Temple complex and its surrounding landscape is a ‘living’ heritage, which has been produced socially and constitutes differential densities of human involvement, attachment, and experience. Its significance lies mainly in the active interaction between religious architecture within its dynamic ritual settings. This endless contestation of sacredness and its meaning should not be seen as the ‘death’ of the Mahābodhi Temple; on the contrary, it illustrates the vitality of the ongoing debate on the meaning, understanding, and use of the sacred in the Indian context.
  • Editor: Oxford: Routledge
  • Data de criação/publicação: 2020
  • Formato: 492
  • Idioma: Inglês
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