Drawing out the iconic in the aniconic: worship of neem trees and Govardhan stones in Northern India
Natural entities such as rivers, trees, and mountains have long been worshiped in Hindu India as embodied forms of divinity. This essay examines the devotional tendency to anthropomorphize such aniconic objects as a way of bringing out their personality - in other words, to draw the iconic out of th...
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
[2017]
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Religion
Year: 2017, Volume: 47, Issue: 3, Pages: 483-502 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
India (Nord)
/ Hinduism
/ Azadirachta indica
/ Govardhana (Mountain)
/ Cult
/ Iconic element
/ Anthropomorphism
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| IxTheo Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism KBM Asia |
| Further subjects: | B
aniconic
B Hinduism B Iconic B neem B Anthropomorphism B Mount Govardhan B Personhood |
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