TY - BOOK ID - 77925402 TI - Rediscovering the Hindu temple : the sacred architecture and urbanism of India AU - Bharne, Vinayak AU - Krusche, Krupail PY - 2012 SN - 1443867349 9781443867344 9781443841375 1443841374 PB - Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, DB - UniCat KW - Hindu temples KW - City and town life KW - City life KW - Town life KW - Urban life KW - Sociology, Urban KW - Religious aspects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77925402 AB - 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 ritua... ER -