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...Erica Robles-Anderson Within the past half century a style of worship known as “megachurch” has radically transformed the religious landscape. Characterized by spectacular largesse, megachurches reimagine the material culture of Christianity by blending audio, visual, and communications...

... into the grave after its dead masters and was buried alive. Seventeen corpses and one suicidal dog: the Eighteen Lords. For years soldiers on coastal sentry duty would on occasion worship at the shrine, but not many others. When construction...

... global cul- tures of governmentality. The very term genuflect—literally, to bend the knee— carries a particular history of worship. After all, the knee bent, as well as the hat doffed, was one of the key corporeal sites in which struggles over the disciplinary power of the Roman Catholic Church were...

... are justified in linking stardom in India to divinity (and to reciprocity in worship- puja) then we can take one more step and notice that the heart of worship in Hindu India is darsan- the mutually benificent gaze of worshipper and divinity, the visual force that links...

... and was intimately linked to the growth of the kingdom of both the Madurai Pandya and Nayaka kings. Her 1976 PhD dissertation is a subtle study of the dialectics of worship and endow- ments in South India during the period 1833–1925.4 The analytical...

...Irene Stengs; Hylton White; Caitrin Lynch; Jeffrey A. Zimmermann 2000 Irene Stengs is a graduate student in anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, working on a dissertation entitled “Worshipping the Great Modernizer: King Chulalongkorn, Patron Saint of the Thai Middle Class...

... or for cultivation would be used for common group activities like children’s games, as sites of a puja (worship) or a seasonal fair. But these would not be designated spaces, and they lacked the typical historical marks of modern administration of space...

... popular festival in the city of Calcutta, where I have lived from my birth. It is the annual Durga Puja, which is held in autumn on the occasion of the ritual worship of the goddess Durga (I use the word “worship” for puja, ignoring the difficulties...

... this is because the official tolerance of all reli- gions in America renders none of them true. In order to protect the power of our civil religion, flag worship is forbidden to speak its name. Visually focused and dependably repetitive, television is certainly its ideal medium. Since the war’s...

... left, the heroine sheds her docility. She takes on the characteristics of the goddess-as-destroyer. Kali and Durga are the two goddesses who are worshipped in India for their strength. In fact, Kali, who is the more fearsome of the two, has been grafted onto the Curry Eastern: The Deceivers...

...Žcations. It is our hope that the discursive cacophony that results will speak as powerfully to the force and fate of this event and situate it, without ignoring or worshiping it. —Elizabeth A. Povinelli...

... by the suppression of all other forms of worship. The practice of monotheism is there- fore incompatible with any kind of commerce with other divinities. This radicality is what gives the single god part of his jealous, possessive, wrathful, violent...

... 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...

..., the ambiguity of the revelation is shown (and as a real trickster Rushdie makes use of authentic Islamic tradition to do so). Mahound lives in a town in which three goddesses are worshipped (among them Al-Lat), while he propagates one male god, Al-Lah. The leaders of the town offer a compromise...

... trade ended in 1840.” Many other on-site commentaries are equally pointed, though even-handed. In one room, a succession of video clips depicts worshipers of almost utopian equanimity—“Other creeds have gods, and I’m quite sure theirs...

... is currently completing a book about the twentieth-­century transfor- mation of Protestant worship space into a highly mediated, spec- tacular “megachurch.” She trained as both an experimental psy- chologist and cultural historian and holds a PhD in communication from Stanford University. Lynn Spigel...

... quoted above, who argue that icons are equally misunderstood by those who want to desecrate them and by those who want to worship them as works of art ( Maler 2012 ). 21 Interestingly, to make this point, Maler invokes the notion of the “reverse perspective” elaborated by Soviet semioticians, who were...

...Nicholas B. Dirks Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 References Appadurai , Arjun 1981 . Worship and Conflict under Colonial Rule: A South Indian Cave . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Walter , Benjamin 1968 . “Theses on the Philosophy of History...

..., Taiwan, to Meizhou Island, Fujian Province, July 2000 210 religious pilgrimage.1 In contemporary Taiwan, Mazu is the most popular cult Goddess across the deity: her temples are the most numerous, and it is estimated that 70 to 80 percent Taiwan Strait of Taiwanese worship her...

... is where the God Rama was born on earth. At the same site Muslims had been worshipping at the Babri Masjid, a mosque widely believed to have been built during the reign of the Mughal Emperor Babur (1526-1530). The Ramayana, one of the two preeminent epics of Hindu tradition, tells...