Clever Adultress & Other Stories
The stories span almost one thousand years of storytelling in India.
Images in Asian Religions
This collection offers a challenge to any simple understanding ofthe role of images by looking at aspects of the reception of imageworship that have only begun to be studied, including the manyhesitations that Asian religious traditions expressed about imageworship. Written by eminent scholars of anthropology, art history, andreligion with interest …
Pilgrims, Patrons, and Place
This book brings together essays by anthropologists, scholars ofreligion, and art historians to explore some of the most fundamentalchallenges that religious groups face as they expand from theirhomeland or confront the demands of modernity. The chapters span abroad geographical area that includes India, Nepal, Thailand,Indonesia, and China, and ad …