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..., and their conception of the relationship between self and society. At one extreme lies fee- for-service religion that caters to asocial individuals, grants any request without regard to morality, and celebrates shady deities through carnivalesque reversals and excesses. Its temples are postmodern celebrations...

.... 1 , translated by Robert Hurley. New York: Zone. Bosco, Joseph, and Puay-peng Ho. 1999 . Temples of the empress of heaven . Hong Kong: Oxford University Press. Bretthauer, Berit. 2001 . Televangelism: Local and global dimensions. In Religions/globalizations: Theories and cases , edited...

... to open her eyes and to simply look at the world across time and space and see how people, in each locality, thought and acted beyond the local.3 Her mentor was the late Burton Stein, a pioneer of the tradition of scholar- ship on South Indian temples. She conducted her fieldwork at the Sri...

... outlawed the institution of dedicating young girls to temple deities and prohibited “dancing by a woman . . . in the precincts of any temple or other religious institution, or in any procession of a Hindu deity, idol or object of worship Equally important was the Madras Temple Entry...

... for India. During this period Muslims invaded the country and estab- lished a tyrannical rule, destroying Hindu temples, devastating the land, oppressing the people, and forcibly imposing their religion. For Hindus it was a tragic time...

... Junes and the Temple ofDuum is constantly being asked by Hollywood producers to play a Red Indian Chief.' Of course, India's favourite villain, who has evil carved into every line of his granite Mount Rushmore face, would make a delightful Red Indian. But the import of an Indian actor all...

..., 1997 . Asante , Molefi Kete , and Abu S. Abarry, eds. African Intellectual Heritage: A Book of Sources . Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996 . Auerback , Jonathan . Male Call: Becoming Jack London . Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1996 . Austerlitz , Paul...

... in Design Studies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Bulosan, Carlos. ReCry and the Dedication. E. San Juan, Jr., ed. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995. . On Becoming Filipino: Selected Writings of Carlos Bulosan. E...

... BOMBAY—When kar seva is replaced by web seva and temple poojas by online aartis, organised religion on the Internet has arrived in India. Chitra Subramanyam reports on the growing trend of computer piety. • RELIGION MEETS INTERNET: www.somnath.org has a Gujarati...

... as the supposed birthplace of a mythological hero, who is also one of the principal deities in the Hindu pan- theon. That a Hindu temple was supposed to have been destroyed here by a gen- eral representing a Muslim king has also been known for more than four and half centuries. Thus, the “natural endowments...

... University press. Levenson , Jon D. 1984 . “The Temple and the World.” Journal of Religion 64 : 275 -98. Lowe , Donald M. 1982 . History of Bourgeois Perception . Chicago: University of Chicago press. Marin , Louis . 1980 . “The Inscription of the King's Memory: On the Metallic...

...: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth Century Ethnography, Literature and Art. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988. COLLINS, JAMES. Anthropology Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA...

.... Burns, Eric. 2004. The Spirits of America: A Social History of Alcohol. Philadel- phia: Temple University Press. Chwe, Michael Suk-Young. 2001. Rational Ritual: Culture, Coordination, and Com- mon Knowledge. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton...

... for Khalistan. In Sikh temples from London to New York, these images are exhibited in rooms adjacent to congregation halls, forming sites of knowledge production and reverence for men known as shahids, martyrs who have met a heroic death...

... form of seeing with, documented by Temple Grandin in her marvelous book Thinking in Pictures.2 Grandin’s autism, which cut her off from most normal forms of communication with other human beings (especially intimate, face...

..., 1550–1900: Colonialism and Agrarian Transformation in Bolivia. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. Lasar, Matthew. 1999. Pacifica Radio: The Rise of an Alternative Network. Philadelphia, Penn.: Temple University Press. Lauck, Joanne Elizabeth. 1998. The Voice of the Infinite in the Small...

.... Frank, Jason. 2010. Constituent Moments: Enacting the People in Postrevolu- tionary America. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. Furness, Zack. 2010. One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Hell, Julia, and Andreas Schonle, eds. 2010...

...- versity Press. Franklin, Cynthia G. 2009. Academic lives: Memoir, cultural theory, and the university today. Athens: University of Georgia Press. Gershenson, Olga, and Barbara Penner. 2009. Ladies and gents: Public toilets and gender. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Golumbia, David. 2009...

... building of the campus, is thus taken from the spatial concept of Javanese architecture. The pagoda-like stacked roofs of the tower cross reference a Hindu- Balinese temple stratified according to the hierarchy of the human head, trunk, 12. Like the extension of the Institute of Technology...

... continue to be used as they have always been. Classical temples can be contrasted as icons of a preceding and now defunct pagan culture. The Parthenon thus, even if restored, could not be put to its original use. This does not explain why nonreligious classical structures are not restored...